Greenport Village Historic District

Greenport's historic district covers the heart of a Long Island north fork harbor village, roughly a hundred miles east of New York City. Its 264 buildings, mostly wood-frame homes and shops, fan out from the Main Street waterfront business area. The oldest houses, on Sterling Street, date from the mid-eighteenth century, while lower Main Street holds densely packed commercial buildings from the rapid growth of the mid-to-late nineteenth century, some with Italianate detailing. Middle and upper Main Street, Carpenter Street and First Street hold residences in Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate and Second Empire styles. Queen Anne and Colonial Revival houses and early bungalows mark the turn of the twentieth century, along with modest working-class duplexes built by local builder Jesse Reeve. The district was drawn around the largest and least altered group of historic buildings in the village, after a 1978 survey of structures over fifty years old. Areas to the west were left out because of extensive alteration.