{"nrhp_refnum":"94000541","name":"Sharon Springs Historic District","other_names":["See Also:American Hotel"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of NY 10 and US 20","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sharon Springs","county":"Schoharie County","state":"NY","lat":42.79524039650005,"lon":-74.61741147545119,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-06-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district covering the northeast part of the village of Sharon Springs, Schoharie County, New York. It preserves the mineral water spa community of hotels, bathhouses, spring pavilions, boardinghouses, estates and homes, mostly dating from about 1825 to 1941.","why_significant":"The district holds what remains of a historic mineral water spa and a rare collection of spring houses and bathhouses built for \"taking the waters.\" Its hotels, boardinghouses and residences show how the resort shaped the village. Later development followed Route 20 and bypassed the spa area, which helped preserve it. The state certified it as locally significant.","narrative":"Sharon Springs Historic District occupies the northeast portion of a rural village in Schoharie County, New York, where faults in a limestone bed yielded the mineral springs that gave the community its name. The district preserves the surviving core of a spa resort active from about 1825 to 1941. Its centerpiece is a group of four spring houses and four bathhouses, including the cast iron Magnesia Temple of 1863 and the nineteenth-century Lower and Inhalation Bath Houses. Around them stand large frame hotels such as the 1928 Mission style Adler and the Greek Revival American Hotel, along with about twenty boardinghouses, commercial blocks, churches, a 1904 synagogue and family estates. Roughly half the buildings are private residences, many of which once took in paying guests. Because automobile-era growth followed Route 20 instead, the spa area was left largely intact. The district is significant locally for this concentration of resort architecture.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1825-1941","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Beaux Arts, Colonial Revival, Mission","criteria":[],"status_note":"Many buildings remain in use as hotels, boardinghouses and dwellings. Some are deteriorated, and vacant lots mark the sites of former hotels. The count is 177 contributing and 17 noncontributing resources.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.078498-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/94000541.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000541/5d129e1b7e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000541/5d129e1b7e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Upstate New York","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lower_Bath_House_and_White_Sulphur_Temple_Nov_08.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Upstate New York</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:Lower_Bath_House_and_White_Sulphur_Temple_Nov_08.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321768","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Springs_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7490212"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/schoharie-county/sharon-springs-historic-district-94000541/"}