Southampton Village Historic District (Boundary Increase)

This expansion extends Southampton Village's historic district to take in the Lewis Street neighborhood and nearby streets, including parts of Rogers Avenue, Meeting House Lane and Little Plains Road. It adds 56 contributing and 12 non-contributing buildings, bringing the district total to 430 contributing buildings. The houses are light-frame, one and one-half to two and one-half stories, and mostly sheathed in unpainted wood shingles. They reflect Colonial Revival, Shingle Style, Tudor Revival, Bungalow, American Four-Square and Queen Anne influences. Closely spaced lots, even setbacks, mature landscaping and rows of curbside trees give the streetscape a cohesive character. Development began with Lewis Street in 1900 and continued with the Rogers subdivision in 1911, making this the earliest twentieth-century neighborhood in the area. A 1909 Colonial Revival house at 227 Meeting House Lane served as the original Southampton Hospital. The area was surveyed by a local neighborhood association in 1990-91 and is significant for its architecture, with a period of significance from about 1900 to 1935.