North Main Street Historic District

North Main Street in Southampton village, together with the nearby Railroad Plaza, forms a compact historic district of twenty-four contributing buildings. The wood-framed houses along the street range from the 1740 Bishop house, the oldest building in the district, to dwellings of about 1910. Most date from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and are modest in size, mixing traditional two-story forms with Italianate, Stick style, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival details. Six houses were built by branches of the Jagger family, and builder George Elliston constructed two cottages, including his own home at 338. At the southern end, a cobblestone and oyster shell railroad station anchors a small commercial enclave that includes a gambrel-roofed brick warehouse. The district matters because it preserves, in one place, the village's agricultural beginnings and the working-class neighborhood that grew beside the railroad during Southampton's rise as a fashionable summer resort.