{"nrhp_refnum":"95001282","name":"East Main Street Historic District","other_names":["See Also:US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943 TR","Sun"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, E. Main St. from Church St. to the Richfield Springs reservoirs","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richfield Springs","county":"Otsego County","state":"NY","lat":42.85131246900005,"lon":-74.9750562366738,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-11-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential and civic historic district along East Main Street (U.S. Route 20) in the village of Richfield Springs, Otsego County, New York. It contains 19th-century houses, a church, a theatre, a post office, a park and the village waterworks, dating from 1836 to the early 1940s.","why_significant":"The district is nominated under Criterion A for social history, as a surviving part of the resort community that grew around the mineral springs in the 19th century. Its houses show Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Shingle, Stick and Chalet styles. The park, waterworks and post office record the village's public improvements and its later decline as a resort.","narrative":"East Main Street in Richfield Springs, New York, forms a tree-lined corridor of 19th-century houses, civic buildings and parkland east of the village center. The district has 67 contributing and 25 noncontributing resources, including 31 historic residences, two boarding houses, a church, a theatre, a post office and the village waterworks. The houses date from 1836 to about 1910 and show Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Shingle, Stick and Chalet designs. Bella Vista, built in 1886 and designed by W. Niver of Fultonville, is the best Shingle style example. Richfield Springs grew as a resort around its mineral springs. Spring Park occupies the site of the Spring House Hotel, which burned in 1897, and holds a rustic bandstand of 1904. The waterworks, begun in 1879, reflect the public works needed for a large summer population. The 1941-1942 post office, built with Public Works Administration funds, is the most recent historic building in the district.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"W. Niver of Fultonville (Bella Vista); William B. Ward; Guy Kinne; Louis Simon (post office); Melvin Shaul (theatre)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival, Italian Villa, Italianate, Queen Anne, Shingle, Stick, Chalet, Colonial Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"The theatre building is described as currently deteriorated; many houses remain in residential use and the former Methodist church is occupied by another congregation.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.76931-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/95001282.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001282/17799ff2ab-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001282/17799ff2ab-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States","credit_html":"Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spring_Park_Post_Clock_Richfield_Springs_NY_Oct_09.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320925","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Main_Street_Historic_District_(Richfield_Springs,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5328918"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/otsego-county/east-main-street-historic-district-95001282/"}