{"nrhp_refnum":"86002726","name":"Southampton Village Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Breese, James L., House"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Hill and Main Sts., Old Town Rd., Atlantic Ocean, Coopers Neck and Halsey Neck Lns.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Southampton","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.875723676000064,"lon":-72.39985419603418,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-04-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large historic district in the village of Southampton, Suffolk County, New York, covering part of the central business district, surrounding year-round neighborhoods and the summer colony of large estates near the Atlantic Ocean and Lake Agawam. Buildings date from about 1660 to 1930.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant for its large concentration of domestic architecture reflecting seventeenth-century settlement, agrarian growth in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and rapid development as a fashionable resort around 1900. It contains the 1662 Thomas Halsey Homestead, described as the oldest English frame dwelling still standing on Long Island, and works by leading New York architectural firms.","narrative":"Southampton Village Historic District takes in much of the village on eastern Long Island's south fork, from the Main Street and Jobs Lane business district to the oceanfront estates of the summer colony. It holds 374 contributing buildings and six contributing sites. The village was settled in the mid-seventeenth century, and the district keeps twelve dwellings built before 1770, including the Thomas Halsey Homestead of 1662, described as the oldest English frame house still standing on Long Island. Later houses show Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival and Italianate styles. After the railroad arrived in 1870, wealthy New Yorkers built large summer houses in Queen Anne, Shingle and later Colonial Revival and other styles, many designed by prominent firms such as McKim, Mead and White. Mature trees, tall privet hedges, Lake Agawam and the ocean give the area a cohesive, picturesque setting. The district traces the village's change from a farming community to a stylish resort by about 1930.","period_of_significance":"circa 1660-1930","architect_builder":"Works by McKim, Mead and White, Robert H. Robertson, Bruce Price, John Russell Pope, Grosvenor Atterbury, and Carrere and Hastings are among those named for individual buildings.","architectural_style":"Varied: settlement-period vernacular, Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Shingle, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival, French Provincial","criteria":[],"status_note":"Largely residential and still in use as a village with a commercial center, though the form notes some storefront alteration and threats from developers.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.639989-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/86002726.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002726/b8db4ae247-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002726/b8db4ae247-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Americasroof (talk)","credit_html":"Americasroof (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Agwam-park.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315007","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton_Village_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7569177"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/southampton-village-historic-district-86002726/"}