Cambridge Historic District

Cambridge is a village of about 1,800 people in lower Washington County, New York, laid out along the Owl Kill creek where three crossroads hamlets merged. Its historic district holds roughly 240 primary buildings, mostly frame houses on generous, shaded lots, with a commercial core of late 19th-century stores along Main Street. About twenty homes show Federal period character, including the Dorr-Randall house, and about sixty display Greek Revival pedimented gables and pilasters. Later styles appear in the Italianate Cambridge Hotel, the Second Empire house at 12 Broad Street, the Queen Anne house at 44 West Main, the Stick-style St. Luke's Church and the Classical Revival Rice Mansion. Other features include the railroad station, the Old Opera House, a print shop, a mill with a covered footbridge and a small cemetery. The architectural details of most buildings remain intact. Sixteen modern buildings are counted as intrusions, and 28 buildings are noted as possible individual nominations.