New Concord Historic District

New Concord is a small hamlet in the Town of Chatham, in north-central Columbia County, New York, about ten miles west of the Massachusetts border. Its historic district follows County Route 9 north and south of a small green and holds 40 contributing and 13 noncontributing resources, mostly frame houses with barns and other outbuildings, plus a church and a cemetery. Most buildings date from the early to mid-19th century, though a few 18th-century houses survive in altered form. The district reflects the settlement of the area from the mid-1700s and the later spread of Federal and Greek Revival styles through rural carpentry. The Anson Pratt House, built about 1812, is the best-known building, with an upright-and-flanker form, Palladian window, urns and fluted pilasters. The Sylvester Van Valkenburgh House shows a stylized Federal frieze. The 1838 church has a Greek Revival entrance and a bell tower. Three buildings were documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey.