Roxbury Historic District

Roxbury is a Catskill hamlet on the East Branch of the Delaware River, and its historic district takes in nearly the whole village as it developed from the early 1800s to the mid-1900s. The district counts 244 contributing resources, mostly houses, shops, churches, civic buildings and outbuildings in Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles. It also includes the Ulster and Delaware railroad depot and right-of-way, which arrived in 1872 and spurred rapid growth, along with farms absorbed into the hamlet. Roxbury was the birthplace of financier Jay Gould, and his daughter Helen Gould Shepard summered there. Her patronage left unusual buildings and landscapes, including the stone Jay Gould Memorial Church (1894), the Tudor Revival Roxbury Central School (1939), Kirkside Park and the Shepard Hills Golf Course. The district updates and expands an earlier Main Street Historic District listed in 1988.