{"nrhp_refnum":"88000111","name":"Main Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Roxbury","county":"Delaware County","state":"NY","lat":42.28919095850006,"lon":-74.56215946664187,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-02-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district along the north end of Main Street in the hamlet of Roxbury, Delaware County, New York, in the upper Catskills. It has 49 properties with mostly 19th and early 20th century houses, churches, a school and a cemetery.","why_significant":"The district keeps an intact streetscape of Greek Revival, Italianate and later revival houses, with prominent civic and religious buildings such as the Gould Memorial Church and a Tudor Revival school. Its tree-lined street, granite curbs and bluestone sidewalks preserve a 19th and early 20th century setting. Its history is tied to the 1872 arrival of the Ulster and Delaware Railroad, which spurred growth and made the area residential.","narrative":"Along the northern end of Main Street in Roxbury, a hamlet in the upper Catskills, a group of 49 properties forms a well-preserved nineteenth and early twentieth century streetscape. The district holds 86 contributing buildings, mostly frame houses on large lots with deep setbacks, set along a wide street with a uniform tree line, granite curbstones and bluestone sidewalks. Greek Revival and Italianate houses predominate, many later given Classical Revival porches and cornices. The ends of the district are anchored by a rural cemetery, the 1826 Frisbee house, an 1858 Greek Revival Methodist church, the English Gothic Gould Memorial Church with Tiffany windows, and a 1939 Tudor Revival school. Growth followed the 1872 arrival of the Ulster and Delaware Railroad, which moved commerce to the crossroads south of the district and left Main Street largely residential. Residents have kept the historic landscape, including the curbstones when the state highway was resurfaced.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Stick, Gothic, Tudor Revival and Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as retaining most of its original appearance, with most alterations dating from within the period of significance; the properties are occupied.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:46.21578-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88000111.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000111/b0e8f44e64-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000111/b0e8f44e64-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Upstate New York","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roxbury_Central_School_and_Methodist_Church_Feb_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Upstate New York</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roxbury_Central_School_and_Methodist_Church_Feb_09.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"03000852","name":"Roxbury Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/roxbury-historic-district-03000852/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317241","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Street_Historic_District_(Roxbury,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14706875"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/delaware-county/main-street-historic-district-88000111/"}