North Broad Street Historic District

North Broad Street Historic District covers three blocks of Route 12 in Norwich, New York, lined with tall trees and wide lawns that screen forty-one detached houses. Most are two or three stories and built of wood, with a few of stone or brick. The earliest, in the Greek Revival style, stand on Cortland and Rexford Streets and the lower end of North Broad Street; 110 North Broad Street was designed by Archibald Clark. Farther north are Victorian houses in the Second Empire, Stick, Queen Anne, Eastlake and Italianate modes, including an elaborate Italian villa with a bracketed cupola at 116. The street began as farmland along a major turnpike. After the Chenango Canal opened in the 1840s, the county grew rapidly and new housing appeared here, with thirty-four houses standing by 1853. Over time it became the address of Norwich's wealthier residents, and some late nineteenth-century homes included grand ballrooms. Despite minor alterations and some conversions to other uses, the district remains well maintained and largely intact.