Johnson City Historic District

Johnson City's historic district covers roughly eighty acres and twenty blocks on the north side of the Susquehanna River in Broome County. Its core is the parcel the Lester Brothers Boot and Shoe Company platted in 1888, which later grew into the Endicott-Johnson Corporation. The district holds six former factory buildings, a company firehouse, a medical building, a recreation hall, the first Endicott-Johnson retail shoe store and churches built or endowed by the Johnson family. Main Street forms the commercial center, with two- and three-story brick blocks from the late nineteenth century beside one-story storefronts rebuilt after fires and during the 1950s and 1960s. Industrial buildings on Corliss Avenue include the 1916 Pioneer Annex, a reinforced concrete factory, and the 1926 Jigger Factory. The oldest building is a mid-nineteenth century farmhouse at 107 Main Street. The district was listed because it keeps the intact industrial, commercial, civic and residential character of a company-shaped village.