Pine Hill Historic District

Pine Hill is a small, dense and walkable hamlet in the Catskill Mountains, at about 1,512 feet above sea level in the Town of Shandaken. The historic district covers its core as it grew between 1800 and 1962, and excludes the area east of the four-lane NY Route 28 built in 1960. Early growth followed a plank turnpike and the tanneries that used local hemlock bark. The greatest change came in 1871, when the Ulster & Delaware Railroad reached the hamlet and a tourist boom began. Hotels, boarding houses and summer homes were built in Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Stick and Queen Anne styles. Most are two or three stories of wood-frame construction. Main Street holds the commercial buildings, including the Italianate Colonial Inn, once called Glen Hall, while Academy Street and other side streets are lined with Gothic Revival houses. The district was listed for the way these buildings together show the character of a late 19th-century Catskill resort village.