{"nrhp_refnum":"97000532","name":"Church Street Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Church, Sylvan, Gould, and Warren Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richfield Springs","county":"Otsego County","state":"NY","lat":42.856235459500056,"lon":-74.9832637104721,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-06-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Architecture","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A middle-class residential historic district of about 90 resources near the center of Richfield Springs, Otsego County, New York, covering Church and Sylvan Streets and a few buildings on Gould, Warren and Dow Streets. It developed between c1822 and c1940.","why_significant":"The district documents the village's growth as a summer resort and spa town, especially in the 1870s and 80s, through its houses, two churches, a cemetery, a former hotel and bath house, and a shop. It also reflects ties to the McCormick family and to a Jewish congregation and resort hotel, and it illustrates popular 19th and early 20th century architectural styles.","narrative":"Church Street Historic District is a residential neighborhood just north of the center of Richfield Springs, in Otsego County, New York. Built up between about 1822 and 1940, it consists mostly of two-story wood-frame houses in styles ranging from Greek Revival and Italianate to Queen Anne and Colonial Revival, many with their original carriage barns. The district also holds two churches, a cemetery, a former hotel and bath house, and a machine shop. Most houses date from the 1870s and 80s, when the village flourished as a summer resort around its sulphur springs, and were homes to middle-class professionals and business owners. Some buildings were part of the resort itself, including a boarding house and the Terrace Hotel. The Presbyterian church was linked to the McCormick family, whose summer estate lay just outside the district. The cemetery, dating to 1822, holds thirteen Revolutionary War soldiers. The Universalist church later served as a synagogue from 1929 to 1971.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Conrad Chase (c1900 alteration of 26 Church Street); Totten and Rogers, Washington D.C. (Waiontha Cottage); L.S. Chase and L. Edwards (local builders of individual houses)","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century; Late Victorian; Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals (Greek Revival, Gothic, Italianate, Stick, Queen Anne, Craftsman, Colonial Revival)","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Current functions remain domestic (single dwellings) and religious; the district contains 78 contributing and 12 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 02:51:50.748943-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/97000532.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320917","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Street_Historic_District_(Richfield_Springs,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5116706"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/otsego-county/church-street-historic-district-97000532/"}