Warwick Village Historic District

Warwick Village Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Shops along Main Street, 2008
Location	Warwick, NY
Nearest city	Middletown
Area	130 acres (42 ha)
Built	1750s-1930
Architectural style	Federal, late Victorian and various 19th- and 20th-cenutry revival styles
NRHP reference No.	84002886
Added to NRHP	1984

The Warwick Village Historic District is located in the center of that community in the U.S. state of New York. It takes up an irregularly-shaped 130 acres (42 ha) of residential and commercial neighborhoods centered around Main Street (NY 94/17A).

Buildings within the district reflect Warwick's growth over almost two centuries, from its origins as a rural settlement in colonial times through its mid-19th century industrialization as a rail hub to its development as a weekend summer resort town in the early 20th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Geography

The district begins at the intersection of Main Street and Galloway Avenue, where the two state highways begin their concurrency. Here the neighborhoods are almost all residential, except along Main where older houses have become restaurants and bed and breakfasts. On the west side it remains along Main Street until Campbell Road, where it starts to take in the houses on the west of Main. The Galloway Avenue boundary continues to Clinton Avenue, including all properties on the street to South Street but then excluding most of Belmar Court before returning to South.

At the railroad tracks the district narrows again to include just Main Street, here lined with stores and multistory buildings, culminating in the village hall and Albert T. Wisner Library. The eastern boundary expands again at the Church Street junction to take in all properties (mainly on half that street, then follows Forester Avenue to Colonial Avenue (Orange County Route 13) in the residential neighborhoods there. All property on the north side to the village's northeastern boundary is included in the district.

West of the intersection, at Pine Island Turnpike (Orange County 1B), the district takes in the properties associated with St. Anthony's Hospital, Cherry Street and Van Duzer Place. It meets the northern boundary again at Robin Brae.