{"nrhp_refnum":"94000258","name":"West Side Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Franklin Square Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, along Church, Van Dam, State and Washington Sts., Woodlawn and Grand Aves. and Franklin Sq.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saratoga Springs","county":"Saratoga County","state":"NY","lat":43.08705817400005,"lon":-73.78498623227921,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-04-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large residential historic district on the west side of Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, New York, west of Broadway and centred on Franklin Square, made up of about 500 mostly wood-frame houses and outbuildings built from the mid-1800s into the early 1900s.","why_significant":"The district is significant as the home community of Saratoga Springs' permanent residents, as distinct from the East Side, which housed wealthy summer visitors. Its irregular street plan follows early land divisions and the railroad, and its consistent gable-front house forms show nineteenth-century vernacular architecture in a small city. The documented form lists the building types and plan as the key evidence for contributing status.","narrative":"West of Broadway in Saratoga Springs lies a neighborhood of roughly 500 buildings that served as the home of the city's year-round residents while wealthy tourists stayed on the East Side. Its irregular street pattern comes from two street alignments, Church Street and Van Dam Street, and from early land divisions among the Walton, Putnam and Waterbury holdings. The railroad, opened in the 1830s, made Franklin Square a focal point. Most buildings are houses on lots with 50 to 60 feet of frontage, typically one to two stories, with the gable end facing the street, a side-passage plan, rear ells and a full-width front porch. Outbuildings such as stables and garages follow the same form. Later houses grew larger, and bungalows appeared in the 1930s, but the basic form lasted into the twentieth century. Siding has mostly been replaced, so form, plan, porches, wings and window patterns determine which buildings contribute. The district includes 87 resources already listed in the Franklin Square Historic District.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century, Late Victorian, and No Style (mostly vernacular front-gable frame houses)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Houses are still in use as single and multiple dwellings, with some stores; one former school has been converted to housing. Original siding has mostly been replaced with newer materials.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.215413-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/94000258.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000258/47fd91cddf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000258/47fd91cddf-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houses_on_Washington_Street,_Saratoga_Springs,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</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:Houses_on_Washington_Street,_Saratoga_Springs,_NY.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"79001627","name":"Broadway Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/broadway-historic-district-79001627/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321655","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Historic_District_(Saratoga_Springs,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7986511"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/saratoga-county/west-side-historic-district-94000258/"}