New Rochelle Historic Site is a designation of the Historical and Landmarks Review Board (HLRB), for buildings, structures, monuments and other historically significant properties in the city of New Rochelle in Westchester County, New York. Significant sites are chosen after meeting a combination of criteria, including historical, economic, architectural, artistic, cultural, and social values.

Settled by French refugees in the 1680s, New Rochelle grew from a farming community to a resort town to a suburban community before being incorporated as a city in 1899 and is now the seventh largest city in the state.

In 1998 a consultant for the Historical and Landmarks Review Board was commissioned to prepare a Reconnaissance Level Cultural Resources Survey, an analysis of the most significant historic sites and structures in New Rochelle. The project inventoried one historic district and 78 individual properties that fall within a broad spectrum of land use categories. The principal goal of the survey was to identify the City’s most treasured historic and architectural resources which are documented on New York State inventory forms. Each individual resource was evaluated with respect to its eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. The report follows the format established by SHPO, including the methodology for the survey, criteria for the selection of resources to be inventoried, a historical overview of the project area, a summary of cultural themes identified in the survey, an examination of the stylistic development of historic architecture in New Rochelle, and a narrative description of the existing conditions of the project area.Reconnaissance Level Cultural Resources Survey

Listings

Below is the list of New Rochelle Historic Sites, including names, dates of construction, location details and additional background information if available.

Numbers represent an ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmark sites and National Register of Historic Places Districts from other historic buildings, structures, sites or objects. Properties not associated with the National Register of Historical Places are in brown Name Image Date Location Description 1 Thomas Paine Cottage 20 Sicard Avenue (Huguenot & New Rochelle Historical Association); Local-designation; National Landmark & NRHP designation 2 Davenport House 157 Davenport Avenue designed by architect Alexander Jackson Davis; NRHP designated 3 Pioneer Building 14 Lawton Street #83004217 NRHP designation 4 Lispenard-Rodman-Davenport House 180 Davenport Avenue #86002637 NRHP designated 5 Rochelle Park-Rochelle Heights Historic District Downtown NRHP & local level "Historic District" designation (East side of North Avenue: southern edge abuts I-95/New Haven Railroad corridor; northern boundary of Fifth Avenue, and easterly boundary of rear lot lines of properties on east side of Rockland Place and west side of Potter Avenue) 6 New Rochelle Post Office 225 North Avenue NRHP designated 7 New Rochelle Train Station Depot Plaza NRHP designated 8 Knickerbocker Press Complex & American White Cross Building 50–52 Webster Avenue NRHP designated 9 Leland Castle 29 Castle Place NRHP designated; Part of the College of New Rochelle’s main campus 10 Trinity-St. Paul’s Episcopal Church and Parish House 311 Huguenot Street NRHP designated 11 First Presbyterian Church & Lewis Pintard House 50 Pintard Avenue NRHP designated 12 Wildcliff 42 Wildcliff Road NRHP designated - 2002 13 Huguenot & Allaire Family Burial Grounds (Cemetery) 38 Centre Avenue 1750: earliest known tombstone; 1955: re-interment 14 Daniel Webster School 95 Glenmore Drive Heritage Award Property 15 Israel Seacord House 1337 North Avenue Heritage Award Property 16 St. John's Wilmot Church 11 Wilmot Road Heritage Award Property 17 Zion Baptist Church 50 Lockwood Avenue Heritage Award Property 18 Coutant Cemetery Eastchester Road and Webster Avenue Private cemetery; Westchester County Historical Site 19 M.E. Church – Upper New Rochelle 1228 North Avenue Heritage Award Property 20 Thanhouser Studios 310-316 Main Street 21 Henry Barnard School 129 Barnard Road 22 Thomas Paine Memorial Museum and Library 983 North Avenue Thomas Paine National Historical Association 23 Norman Rockwell House & Studio 24 Lord Kitchener Road 24 New Rochelle Armory 250 Main Street 25 Carrie Chapman Catt House 120 Paine Avenue 26 Brookside 260 Wilmot Road Joshua Soulice House; Francis T. Hunter House 27 517 – 519 Main Street 517 - 519 Main Street 28 John Stephenson House 148 Main Street "Clifford"; Now part of Salesian High School 29 Mahlstedt House 794 North Avenue Heritage Award Property: Present day Huguenot Children's Library 30 Leonard Seacord House 1074 North Avenue Heritage Award Property 31 New Rochelle High School 265 Clove Road 32 Quaker Ridge Station, NYW&B Railroad Kewanee Road State-determined eligible for NRHP 33 Parcot - Drake House 188 Clove Road Oldest existing single family residence 34 Blue Anchor 1 Byworth Road Heritage Award Property; former Claire Briggs residence 35 St.Gabriel's Catholic Church 120 Division Street 36 Standard Star Building 251 North Avenue 37 Fort Slocum; Davids Island Historic and Archeology District David Island in Long Island Sound, off New Rochelle State-determined Eligible for National Register designation 38 Masonic Temple Building 451-453 Main Street Heritage Award Property 39 North Avenue Presbyterian Church 471 North Avenue 40 Pell-Bayley-Kemball House 145 Pelham Road 41 Huguenot Yacht Club Harbor Lane Heritage Award Property; former residence of film actress Lillian Gish 42 Isaac E. Young Middle School 270 Centre Avenue Heritage Award Property 43 Terrytoons 38 Centre Avenue State determined eligible for National Register designation 44 New Rochelle Fire Station No.1 12 Church Street Heritage Award Property 45 Fire Station No. 2 170 Webster Avenue Heritage Award Property 46 New Rochelle Fire Station No. 3 756 North Avenue Heritage Award Property 47 Fire Station No. 4 155 Drake Avenue Heritage Award Property 48 Anshe Sholom Synagogue 13 Bonnefoy Place Westchester Vineyard Fellowship 49 National City Bank of New Rochelle 491 Main Street 50 Clarke-Berrian House 1120 North Avenue 51 City Hall 515 North Avenue Formerly New Rochelle High School and Albert Leonard Jr. High School 52 Clovelly Building 358-364 North Avenue Norman Rockwell studio 53 Lambden Building 530 Main Street Heritage Award Property 54 Palace Building 518 Main Street 55 Loew’s Theater Building 585-599 Main Street 56 Keith Albee-Proctor’s Theatre RKO Theatre Building 574-590 Main Street Former RKO Movie Theater, now the site of "The Hallen School" and a school supply store. 57 573-579 Main Street Main Street 58 Sophia Brewster Schoolhouse 20 Sicard Avenue Huguenot and New Rochelle Historical Association 59 Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church Centre Avenue at Shea Place 60 Union Baptist Church 428 Main Street Westchester County Inventory of Historic Places 61 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church 280 Washington Avenue 62 Oaksmere School 590 Davenport Avenue 63Leonard Seacord House 1074 North Avenue 64 Dickerman Barns Ward Acres, Quaker Ridge Road 65 Joseph E. Leyendecker House 48 Mount Tom Road Former estate and studio of famed illustrator Joseph E. Leyendecker 66 New Rochelle Rowing Club Hudson Park Heritage Award Property 67 New Rochelle Carnegie Library 662 Main Street (Hagedorn Building) 68 Jefferson School 131–155 Weyman Avenue Heritage Award property 69 Lou Gehrig House 9 Meadow Lane Private home located in Residence Park 70 Starin’s Glen Island Glen Island Access Road off of Pelham Road County-owned Park and Private Catering Hall; State-determined Eligible for National Register (bridge and castle) 71 New Rochelle Trust Building 542 Main Street 72 Ware's Department Store (New York) 550 Main Street 73 Hudson Park Hudson Park Road 74 Davenport Park Davenport Avenue

See also National Register of Historic Places listings in New Rochelle, New York

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