{"nrhp_refnum":"88001827","name":"Downtown Ossining Historic District","other_names":["See Also:First Baptist Church of Ossining","Old Croton Dam, Si"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly along US 9, Main St., and Croton Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ossining","county":"Westchester County","state":"NY","lat":41.16166008600004,"lon":-73.86165445099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-08-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about 29 acres at the civic, religious and commercial center of the village of Ossining, Westchester County, New York, on a bluff above the Hudson River. It centers on the intersection of Highland Avenue (Route 9) and Main Street, with buildings dating from 1840 to 1933.","why_significant":"The district is described as a primarily intact grouping of commercial, religious and civic buildings that shows the physical development of the village. It holds the village's most complete collection of architectural styles popular from the mid-nineteenth century into the early twentieth century. The criteria and Section 8 text are not included in the available excerpt.","narrative":"Downtown Ossining Historic District covers roughly 29 acres at the center of the village, on a bluff above the Hudson River in northern Westchester County. Shaped like an upside-down Y, it follows Highland Avenue and Main Street and takes in 37 contributing resources, including 27 commercial buildings, four church properties, a municipal building, a post office, a high school and a portion of the Croton Aqueduct. Buildings date from 1840 to 1933 and show Greek Revival, Italianate, High Victorian Gothic, Renaissance Revival, Beaux Arts, Collegiate Gothic, Art Deco and Neoclassical styles. Notable examples include the 1908 Beaux-Arts bank, the 1930 Art Deco First National Bank, Trinity Episcopal Church with two Tiffany windows, and the Crescent and Barlow Block commercial rows. Although some buildings were heavily altered and a 1983 highway project changed parts of Highland Avenue, the district is considered the village's most complete record of its nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture.","period_of_significance":"1840-1933","architect_builder":"Multiple, including Donn Barber (Municipal Building), Hoggson Bros. (First National Bank), Robert W. Gibson (Trinity Episcopal Church), James Gamble Rogers (high school), L. C. Holden (1908 bank), I. G. Perry (First Presbyterian Church), J. Walsh (First Baptist Church), Arthur Ware (Post Office), and E. L. Roberts and Laurence P. Valk (Methodist Church)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Renaissance Revival; Late Victorian/Italianate; Mid-Nineteenth Century/Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Mostly in continued use as commercial, religious, school, government and post office buildings; fourteen non-contributing buildings and four non-contributing structures are heavily altered.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.740812-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88001827.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001827/02e8f4aede-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88001827/02e8f4aede-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Downtown_Ossining,_NY_(2).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr</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:Downtown_Ossining,_NY_(2).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323005","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Ossining_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5303534"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/westchester-county/downtown-ossining-historic-district-88001827/"}