Grahamsville Historic District

Along Route 55 at the eastern edge of Grahamsville, six properties form a small district that records the brief prosperity of a remote Catskills hamlet. Three large houses stand on the north side: the Greek Revival Marenius Dayton House of the 1820s, once an inn and stagecoach stop; a Gothic Revival cottage built in 1857 by tanner Judge Stoddard Hammond; and an Italianate house built by the Southwick family in the 1880s. Across the road are the former Tannery Store, a modest Greek Revival commercial building now a dwelling, the terraced Grahamsville Rural Cemetery laid out after 1874 in a picturesque style, and the white clapboard Reformed Church of 1882 with its 1935 Memorial Hall. Lumbering and tanning financed much of this building. Modern housing, a reservoir, and a declining village center now surround the group, yet the district remains a cohesive survival of nineteenth-century design.