Main Street Historic District

Along the northern end of Main Street in Roxbury, a hamlet in the upper Catskills, a group of 49 properties forms a well-preserved nineteenth and early twentieth century streetscape. The district holds 86 contributing buildings, mostly frame houses on large lots with deep setbacks, set along a wide street with a uniform tree line, granite curbstones and bluestone sidewalks. Greek Revival and Italianate houses predominate, many later given Classical Revival porches and cornices. The ends of the district are anchored by a rural cemetery, the 1826 Frisbee house, an 1858 Greek Revival Methodist church, the English Gothic Gould Memorial Church with Tiffany windows, and a 1939 Tudor Revival school. Growth followed the 1872 arrival of the Ulster and Delaware Railroad, which moved commerce to the crossroads south of the district and left Main Street largely residential. Residents have kept the historic landscape, including the curbstones when the state highway was resurfaced.