{"nrhp_refnum":"92000447","name":"Monument Circle Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, E. Court St. from N. Main St. to Park St. and adjacent parts of Main and Park","address_restricted":false,"city":"Warsaw","county":"Wyoming County","state":"NY","lat":42.743118814500065,"lon":-78.13234217388896,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-05-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Education","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly eighteen-acre historic district in the village of Warsaw, Wyoming County, New York, covering the civic and religious complex at Main and Court Streets (Monument Circle) plus houses along East Court and Park Streets. It holds 26 contributing resources dating from about 1849 to the 1940s.","why_significant":"The district is argued to hold Warsaw's finest concentration of late 19th and early 20th century civic, religious and domestic architecture. It reflects the village's heyday as the Wyoming County seat and as a salt-mining center after railroad arrival in 1850 and the 1880 discovery of salt. It is nominated under Criterion A at the local level.","narrative":"Warsaw's civic and residential core, centered on Monument Circle at Main and Court Streets, forms an historic district of about eighteen acres. The circle holds the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, a fluted granite column topped by a bronze Union soldier, displayed at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition before returning to Warsaw in 1877. Around it stand the Wyoming County Courthouse, the Sheriff's Office and Jail, a Carnegie-funded public library from 1904-05, and the Methodist Church of 1901-02. Along East Court and Park Streets are tree-lined blocks of houses in Italian Villa, Italianate, Queen Anne, Shingle and Colonial Revival styles, including the Augustus Frank House of about 1849-51. The district matters because it reflects Warsaw's prosperity as county seat after 1841, its growth after the Erie Railroad arrived in 1850, and the boom that followed the discovery of salt in 1880. Together the buildings show high-quality materials, design and craftsmanship from about 1849 into the 1940s.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1849 - ca. 1940s","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th century Gothic Revival/Italian Villa; Late Victorian Italianate, Queen Anne, Stick, Shingle; early 20th century Neo-Classical Revival and Colonial Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Civic, religious, domestic, cultural and educational uses continue; the building list reports no non-contributing properties, and the buildings retain a high degree of integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.700202-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92000447.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000447/b2d8c53b99-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92000447/b2d8c53b99-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kenneth C. Zirkel","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monument_Circle,_historic_district,_Warsaw_NY_2013.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenneth C. Zirkel</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:Monument_Circle,_historic_district,_Warsaw_NY_2013.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323348","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Circle_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14706993"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/wyoming-county/monument-circle-historic-district-92000447/"}