Tannersville Main Street Historic District

Main Street in Tannersville, a village in the Catskill Mountains of Greene County, New York, forms a historic district of roughly four blocks. It holds 70 contributing and 7 noncontributing resources, mostly buildings dating from about 1870 to the mid-twentieth century. The village began as a tanning settlement, and the closing of the tanneries by 1867 was followed by growth in tourism. The arrival of the railroad in 1882 spurred rapid commercial development, and by the 1920s nearly all parcels between the Four Corners and Spring Street were built up. The district includes Queen Anne houses, former boarding houses, converted dwellings, storefronts with raised parapets, a Methodist church, the 1936 Art Deco Hunter-Tannersville Public School, and the Orpheum Theater of about 1920. Storefront additions with decorative woodwork reflect merchants' efforts to attract customers. Despite lost buildings and later alterations, the district keeps its density and shows the range of services available during Tannersville's resort era.