National Register of Historic Places
Hartwick Historic District
Hartwick, Otsego County, New York
The record
- Listed
- August 20, 2013
- Type
- Historic district
- Address
- Roughly NY 205, Cty Rd. 11 & Weeks Rd., Hartwick
- County
- Otsego
- State
- New York
- Contributing resources
- 149 buildings, 1 site
- Coordinates
- 42.66289, -75.05110
- Reference number
- 13000610
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The story
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The Hartwick Historic District is a historic district along NY 205, Cty Rd. 11 and Weeks Rd. in Hartwick, Otsego County, New York. It covers about 179 acres and includes 149 contributing buildings, with architecture ranging from Greek Revival to Craftsman styles.
Why it's listed
It was listed in the National Register in 2013 under criteria A and C, with local significance in exploration and settlement, industry, transportation and architecture. Its period of significance runs from about 1800 to 1963, tied to an 1839 building, with a secondary period of 1901 to 1940 spanning the interurban trolley years.
Physical character
Most buildings are wood frame, with brick, stone or vinyl siding, on stone foundations under metal or mineral shingle roofs. Houses show hipped roofs with deep eaves, gabled or pedimented dormers, porches, decorative eaveboards, Greek Revival friezes and Queen Anne parlor windows. The Christian Church congregation built a church on Main Street in 1853, gaining a tower, spire and larger sanctuary in 1879.
Historical context
Goldsborough Banyer helped John Christopher Hartwick acquire the land in 1761, and William Cooper arrived in 1791 as Hartwick's agent, issuing 32 leases totaling 13,000 acres. The hamlet grew east of the creek in the 1880s, gained the Kinne Bush & Company bank in 1908, an interurban trolley from 1901 to 1941, and the Hartwick Reporter, 1915 to 1941. Three historic buildings were razed in 1960 for the Peter Pumpkin market.