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North Main Street Historic District (East Hampton, New York)

listed on the NRHP in Suffolk County

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ7056023 ↗
Source-derived summary

North Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located at East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York. The district includes 20 contributing buildings, two contributing structures, and two contributing sites. It includes 12 residential properties, one church, one cemetery, and one windmill.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “North Main Street Historic District (East Hampton, New York)” as listed on the NRHP in Suffolk County. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around North, Main and Street.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with North, Main and Street providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “North Main Street Historic District (East Hampton, New York)”, the useful work is to connect “listed on the NRHP in Suffolk County” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7056023. Authority coordinates are 40.965, -72.184. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “North Main Street Historic District (East Hampton, New York)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow North Main Street Historic District (East Hampton, New York) primary sources, North Main Street Historic District (East Hampton, New York) archive and North research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “North Main Street Historic District (East Hampton, New York)”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “North Main Street Historic District (East Hampton, New York)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.