{"nrhp_refnum":"88001025","name":"North Main Street Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Hook Windmill"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"N. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"East Hampton","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.96600807600004,"lon":-72.18368126011781,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-07-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of 12 houses, a church, a cemetery and a windmill at the Y-shaped junction of North Main Street and Pantigo Road, at the northern edge of the village of East Hampton, Suffolk County, New York. Its contributing resources date from 1770 to 1901.","why_significant":"The district is significant for architecture and industry in East Hampton between 1770 and about 1910. It brings together an 1770 cemetery with fine funerary art, the 1806 Hook Windmill, houses showing a progression of nineteenth-century styles, and an 1901 Gothic-influenced shingled church. Its arrangement around a former triangular common sets it apart from other historic areas in the multiple resource area.","narrative":"Clustered around the Y-shaped junction of North Main Street and Pantigo Road at the northern edge of East Hampton village, this district contains 20 contributing buildings, two structures and one site, all frame-built and dating from 1770 to 1901. Its center is open space holding the North End Cemetery, established in 1770 and noted for finely carved headstones, and the Hook Windmill, a sixty-foot smock mill built in 1806 by millwright Nathaniel Dominy V that milled grain until 1910. Around them stand houses tracing nineteenth-century taste, from the Federal-style Abraham Huntting House of about 1835 to the Greek Revival William Bennett House of 1849, Italianate and Queen Anne examples, and the 1895 Shingle-style Bell House. The 1901 United Methodist Church, with its tower and spire, anchors one end. Similar scale, materials, shade trees and picket fences unify the group, and its historic layout around a former common distinguishes it from other neighborhoods in the village.","period_of_significance":"1770-c. 1910","architect_builder":"Nathaniel Dominy V (millwright, Hook Windmill)","architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Shingle style, Gothic details","criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.966015-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88001025.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001025/f442ef4900-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001025/f442ef4900-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Americasroof (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eh-north-burial.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Americasroof (talk)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eh-north-burial.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314773","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Main_Street_Historic_District_(East_Hampton,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7056023"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/north-main-street-historic-district-88001025/"}