Warsaw Downtown Historic District

Warsaw's downtown is a compact commercial district along North and South Main Street, with extensions onto East and West Buffalo Streets in Wyoming County, New York. It holds 41 buildings, 36 of them contributing, built between the 1840s and 1940s. Most are two- and three-story brick commercial blocks put up after a major Main Street fire in 1867, and again after an 1887 fire destroyed an earlier group on the east side of North Main Street. The styles run from vernacular Italianate to the more exuberant Richardsonian Romanesque, Eastlake and Queen Anne buildings of the Salt Boom era, followed by Classical Revival banks and Streamline Moderne buildings of the 1940s. Churches by Rochester architects and the 1846 cobblestone Warsaw Academy add variety on South Main Street. Many storefronts have been altered, but upper floors and cornices largely survive. The district is significant for its commerce and architecture during the village's growth as county seat.