Bedford Road Historic District

Bedford Road in Armonk was the first focus of the hamlet's subdivision and building, and its north side still preserves a row of mid-nineteenth-century buildings. The district contains St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (1842), a wooden Greek Revival temple with a recessed porch and fluted Doric columns in antis, along with a cemetery of about 450 graves and six houses. Most houses date from about 1850 and range from the large former rectory at No. 40 to modest village dwellings; one house was moved and converted from a shoemaker's shop in 1888, and another was built about 1880. The church was the hamlet's first building, and church lands were subdivided under vestry control, shaping later growth. Together the buildings show how Federal and Greek Revival forms lasted in local vernacular architecture. Four houses have modern siding, but form, spacing and setback remain clear, in contrast to heavily altered buildings elsewhere in the hamlet.