{"nrhp_refnum":"90000689","name":"Tappan Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Main St./Kings Hwy., Andre Ave. and New York Central RR","address_restricted":false,"city":"Tappan","county":"Rockland County","state":"NY","lat":41.02238552400004,"lon":-73.94913519693134,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-04-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in the hamlet of Tappan, Orangetown, Rockland County, New York, covering the old commercial and residential core along Main Street and Kings Highway. It contains 38 contributing resources and 8 noncontributing ones, including houses, shops, a church, a manse and cemeteries.","why_significant":"The district preserves the development of a small rural village from the early 18th century to the early 20th century, with buildings from each building phase. It includes eighteenth-century sandstone buildings tied to Dutch colonial settlement in the Hudson Valley. The '76 House is associated with the confinement of British Major John Andre in 1780. The district keeps a high level of integrity and a village feeling.","narrative":"Tappan Historic District is the old center of the Rockland County hamlet of Tappan, New York, clustered along Main Street and Kings Highway near the Sparkill. Thirty-five contributing buildings and three sites, including two cemeteries and the Village Green, show how the village grew from about 1730 to 1920. Five eighteenth-century buildings survive, among them the sandstone '76 House and the Tappan Reformed Church Manse, along with Federal houses, a cluster of Greek Revival buildings from a 1830s building boom, Gothic Revival and Victorian residences, and early twentieth-century Colonial Revival structures. The '76 House gained wartime importance as the place where British Major John Andre was held before his trial and execution in 1780. The district also reflects Dutch colonial settlement patterns in the Hudson Valley. Surrounding areas have been heavily developed, but the district keeps the compact, rural feel of a small village with few intrusions.","period_of_significance":"1730-1920","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial/Dutch Colonial; Early Republic/Federal; Mid-19th Century/Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Buildings and sites are described as retaining a high level of integrity. Historic and current functions include residential, commercial, religious and cemetery uses.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.804072-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/90000689.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000689/ac7feffbcf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000689/ac7feffbcf-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rolf Müller (User:Rolfmueller)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old76House_2007_02.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolf Müller (User:Rolfmueller)</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Old76House_2007_02.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321518","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tappan_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7684755"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/rockland-county/tappan-historic-district-90000689/"}