{"nrhp_refnum":"98001393","name":"Mamakating Park Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly along Park Rd, Columbian Rd., and Mamakating Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wurtsboro","county":"Sullivan County","state":"NY","lat":41.61248523650005,"lon":-74.53622429156394,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-11-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small enclave of late Victorian resort cottages and former hotel grounds on a 1700-foot ridge near Wurtsboro, Sullivan County, New York, developed from 1891 to about 1940. The 40-acre district has 46 contributing and 3 noncontributing resources.","why_significant":"The district is significant for its association with recreation and seasonal resort use in the Catskills, and for its well-preserved collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth century resort buildings. It is the surviving core of a much larger planned resort scheme that collapsed after the Depression of 1897. The cottages and landscape retain the original layout around the former hotel site and reflect the community's changing character over nearly a century.","narrative":"Mamakating Park is a small summer cottage colony on a wooded ridge top about five miles northwest of Wurtsboro, in Sullivan County, New York. It was the only developed part of an 1890s scheme to build a vast resort of more than two thousand lots on over four thousand acres around a large hotel. The Depression of 1897 ended that plan, leaving the hotel and about twenty cottages built by 1903. The hotel operated for decades before a fire in the 1970s, but its horseshoe-shaped site still anchors the street grid. The surviving cottages, dating from 1891 to 1903, are rambling gable-roofed frame buildings with wide verandas, varied siding, large fireplaces and beaded-board interiors. A ruined stone chapel, a casino, a barber shop and tennis courts also remain. By the late 1940s an owners association of families from New York City held most cottages. The district is notable for its role in Catskills recreation and its intact resort architecture and landscape.","period_of_significance":"c1891-c1940","architect_builder":"various","architectural_style":"Late Victorian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The hotel was destroyed by fire in the 1970s; twenty historic cottages survive. The chapel and tennis courts are being restored, and the casino is now used as a gymnasium.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.120498-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/98001393.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001393/be57537be3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001393/be57537be3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_in_Mamakating_Park,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"http://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:House_in_Mamakating_Park,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322391","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamakating_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1888122"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/sullivan-county/mamakating-park-historic-district-98001393/"}