Thursday, 03/18/2010
Updated: City of Troy, Rensselaer County, New York

• Central Troy Historic District
• Washington Park Historic District
• Grand Street Historic District

Tuesday, 03/16/2010
The Main Street Historic District, located in the southern portion of the hamlet of Stone Ridge (Marbletown Town, Ulster County, New York, is a rural hamlet that developed from the 18th through the early 20th century in one of New York State's earliest settlement areas. Main Street, the principal axis of the community, follows the same track that has led through the town for the past three hundred years.

Monday, 03/15/2010
Kripplebush Historic District is a complete and unusually well-preserved agricultural/industrial hamlet, representative of rural development in Ulster County between ca. 1772 and ca. 1922. Located at the base of the Catskill Mountains, the somewhat isolated agricultural settlement in the Town of Marbletown evolved into a small but self-contained center to a rural and woodland hinterland that fed both agricultural and wood-driven economies.

High Falls Historic District — between 1825 and 1880, High Falls emerged from somewhat isolated agricultural settlement in the Town of Marbletown into a full-blown manufacturing and transportation center.

Sunday, 03/14/2010
The Chestnut Street Historic District contains a significant concentration of intact, fashionable residences which reflect the prosperity and taste both middle-class and upper-class residents of 19th and early 20th century Rondout and Kingston. [Ulster County NY]

The Rondout-West Strand Historic District is significant as a record of the development of Kingston and in its pre-eminence as the major nineteenth century Hudson River port between Albany and New York City. In the early 1800's, it was only a small cluster of buildings. However, after the 1828 completion of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, it burgeoned and continued to thrive until the turn of the 20th century, when the canal closed and local industries did not invest in modernization.

Updated: Map of Greater Philadelphia Active Adult Communities.

Updated: Neighborhoods in Bucks County, PA

• Brookside, Newtown, PA, Subdivision of detached singles and townhomes.
• Brookstone, Yardley, PA, Subdivision of townhomes and apartment-style condominiums built by Realen Homes ca. 1993.
• Delavue Manor, Yardley, PA, Neighborhood of detached, single family homes ca. 1860‑1980.
• Makefield Estates, Yardley, PA, Subdivision of detached, single family homes ca. 1983.
• Pine Brook Farms, Yardley, PA, Neighborhood of detached, single family homes built ca. 1927‑1990.

Saturday, 03/13/2010
Updates:
Vischer Ferry Historic District — The Erie Canal, which passed through this quiet village in the 1820s, gave it new life. This period was the heyday of the village. With the enlargement of the canal in the 1840s came a frenzy of building activity. Two dry docks located in the village after 1845 brought many boat builders and ship carpenters to the village. The Greek Revival houses, the major type in the historic district, were built by these men between 1840 and 1860. A number of the houses in the hamlet today resemble Greek temples complete with pillared porticoes. Between 1840 and 1870 when the canal was essential to the nation's growth, Visher Ferry was a thriving and bustling community. A well-preserved stretch of the canal and lock number 19 are reminders of this vital period. [Saratoga County, NY]

Center Bridge Historic District — the village first became prominent in the eighteenth century as the site of a Delaware River ferry crossing and a much used inn. Until well into the nineteenth century Center Bridge served both travelers and traders going between Philadelphia and New York City. Later, in the early twentieth century, the village became a part of the famous New Hope Art Colony. [Solebury Township, Bucks County, PA]

Friday 03/12/2010
Hurley Historic District — along a single street in the sleepy little village of Hurley, New York, lies a most unusual concentration of early Hudson Valley Dutch style stone houses. Despite the usual alterations wrought by the years since their construction, these stone houses preserve to an exceptional degree the flavor of an early Dutch street in New York State.

The Dutch Stone Houses of Hurley Village and Vicinity National Historic Landmark reflect the influence of early Dutch settlement in the Hudson Valley.

Town of Hurley • Ulster County • New York

Thursday 03/11/2010
The Hillhouse Avenue Historic District encompasses the most complete and best-preserved contiguous array of high-style 19th and early 20th-century suburban villa architecture surviving in the City of New Haven, Connecticut.

The Quinnipiac River Historic District is a rare surviving example of an intact and cohesive nineteenth century maritime community. It gained prominence in the mid-nineteenth century as a major oyster port, with ancillary industries of ship building and shipping.

Wednesday 03/10/2010
Delaware Avenue is a distinctive neighborood of 19th and early 20th century homes overlooking Delaware River. [Delanco Township, Burlington County, NJ]

Binnewater Historic District represents the close historical association with the development of the nationally recognized cement industry in the Rosendale region. For over two centuries the region's cement industry provided a base to the regional economy. [Town of Rosendale, Ulster County, NY]

Byrdcliffe Historic District — Byrdcliffe, founded in 1902-1903 as an arts and crafts colony with social reform overtones, originally covered about twelve hundred acres. The colony is an excellent surviving example of the physical setting in which an important movement in American life flourished during the early years of the 20th century. [Town of Woodstock]

Newly-added Neighborhoods in Burlington Counties, NJ

• Olde Yorke Station
• Tiffany Trace
• Van Estates

Tuesday 03/09/2010
The Huguenot Street Historic District, encompassing approximately three blocks, contains perhaps the most intact concentration of late 17th and early 18th century stone houses in the United States. [Village of New Paltz, Ulster County, NY]

Residential Neighborhoods Mercer & Burlington Counties, NJ

• Briarwood, Trenton, NJ, Subdivision of townhomes and detached singles ca. 1986.
• Colonial Manor, Trenton, NJ, Easrly 20th century residential neighborhood.
• Highlands, Trenton, NJ, Subdivision of detached singles ca. 1996.
• Lakeside, Trenton, NJ, Neighborhood of detached singles, ca. 1950s through 1990s.
• Langtree, Hamilton, NJ, Residential neighborhood ca. 1960s.
• Pebble Creek, , NJ, Townhome subdivision ca. 1985.
• Ravenscroft, Trenton, NJ, Subdivision of detached singles ca. 1986.
• Rolling Acres, Trenton, NJ, Neighborhood of detached, single family homes ca. 1950s through 1970s.
• Sharps Farm, Trenton, NJ, Subdivision of detached singles ca. 1997.
• Sunnybrae Village, Trenton, NJ, 1950s and 1960s subdivision of detached singles.
• White Horse, Trenton, NJ, Residential neighborhood of detached singles ca. 1927.
• Arbor Walk, Trenton, NJ, Subdivision of detached singles ca. 1993.
• Hidden Acres, Trenton, NJ, Subdivision of detached, single family homes ca. 1999.
• Tree Streets, Bordentown, NJ, 1950s residential neighborhood.
• Wellington Woods, Bordentown, NJ, Subdivision of detached singles ca. 1997.

Monday 03/08/2010
New/Updated Active Adult Communities Mercer & Burlington Counties, NJ

• Locust Hill
• Montage at Hamilton
• Woodlands at Hamilton
• Evergreen at Hamilton
• Traditions at Hamilton Crossing
• Enchantment at Hamilton
• Village Grande

Sunday 03/07/2010
Wolcott Green Historic District — with its characteristic village church and pristine white houses laid out around the Green, the district today seems to embody the colonial ideal, "the city on a hill," an impression reinforced by its elevated site. [Town of Wolcott]

The Birmingham Green Historic District is an example of successful 19th century private urban planning that created a new neighborhood and religious, cultural, and civic center in a town that was already well-established. [City of Derby]

New Haven County  •  Connecticut

Saturday 03/06/2010
The Beaver Hills Historic District is architecturally significant as one of New Haven's finest extant groupings of early twentieth-century suburban residences. Many of the district's houses also represent the work of locally prominent architects and builders of the era.

The Dwight Street Historic District has a full range of 19th and early 20th century architectural styles, including notable examples of the Colonial, Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival modes. Many dwellings appear in pairs or rows of three or four, a feature which contributes essentially to the historical character and scale of the neighborhood.

City of New Haven

Thursday 03/04/2010
The Tioga County Courthouse occupies a prominent position in the Village of Owego (Front Street). Miles F. Howe, an Owego resident and architect of several other buildings in Tioga County, designed the "New Court House." According to his plans, the building was erected between 1871-1872.

The Berkshire Village Historic District is a significant and cohesive concentration of buildings which reflect the historic settlement patterns, the architectural taste of the community, and the economic development of the hamlet and the surrounding township between 1820 and 1932. [Town of Berkshire]

The Old Town Hall Historic District (centered around Nassau Road and Main Street) is architecturally and historically significant as a small compact concentration of buildings and sites that reflect the growth and development of the unincorporated village of Huntington from its mid-seventeenth century settlement to the early twentieth century. [Town of Huntington, Suffolk County, NY]

By the time the Borough of Naugatuck was incorporated in 1844 with a population of 1730, the Naugatuck River was dammmed and more than 25 water-powered commercial mills were producing textiles and agricultural tools along its banks. [New Haven County, CT]

Wednesday 03/03/2010
Town of Oxford, New Haven County, Connecticut

The Village at Oxford Greens is an Active Adult (55-plus) subdivision of detached, single family homes by Del Webb ca. 2007.

The Quaker Farms Historic District lies west of the north-south ridge that divides the Housatonic River and Little River. The 12 properties of the district front on Quaker Farms Road (State Highway Route 188).

Tuesday 03/02/2010   Newly added and/or updated neighborhoods.

• Cobblers Cove, Sicklerville, NJ, Subdivision of semi-attached (twins) built ca. 1992.
• Mango Court, Sicklerville, NJ, Subdivision of detached singles ca. 1976.
• Mayfair Woods, Sicklerville, NJ, Subdivision of detached singles ca. 1991
• Peach Glen, Sicklerville, NJ, Subdivision of detached singles ca. 1979.
• Sherry Lyn Woods, Berlin, NJ, Subdivision of detached, single family homes ca. 1980.
• The Fields, Sicklerville, NJ, Subdivision of semi-attached (twins) built ca. 1984.
• Woods Edge, Sicklerville, NJ, Subdivision of detached singles ca. 1998.
• Avandale West, Sicklerville, NJ, Subdivision of detached, single family homes ca. 1988.
• Barley Sheaf, Coatesville, PA, Townhome subdivision built ca. 1980.
• Coventry Green, Bensalem, PA, Townhome subdivision built ca. 1983.
• Hills at Northampton, Southampton, PA, Subdivision of detached, single family homes by Orleans ca. 1999.
• Holland Manor, Southampton, PA, Subdivision of detached, single family homes built ca. 1959.
• Mountain View, Jamison, PA, Subdivision of detached singles by Katz Swerdloff ca. 1987.
• Parkland, Langhorne, PA, Subdivision of detached, single family homes built ca. 1951.
• Strawberry Fields, Telford, PA, Subdivision of twins and townhomes by Sal Lapio ca. 1995.

Monday 03/01/2010   Some Sullivan County, NY, Historic Districts
The Grahamsville Historic District is a cohesive grouping of structures and landscaping that reflects the short-lived prosperity which came to this remote region of the Catskills in the mid-19th century. [Town of Neversink]

The Liberty Village Historic District developed largely during the last two-thirds of the nineteenth century and has remained essentially unaltered for the last century. [Village of Liberty]

The Parsonage Road Historic District is a rare and unusually intact rural residential enclave characteristic of housing development in the small hamlets of the Upper Delaware Valley during the 19th century. [Town of Cochecton]

Sunday 02/28/2010
Legacy at Meadowcroft is an Active Adult (Over 55) subdivision of detached, single family residences by Ryan Homes ca. 2010. [Florence Township, Burlington County, NJ]

See also: Neighborhoods in Burlington County, NJ

Saturday 02/27/2010 — Some Jersey Shore Towns
Atlantic City, the most famous of the speculative New Jersey resorts, conceived in the 1850s, was the first resort created in conglomeration with the railroad industry and signaled the opening of the shore to extensive growth.

The City of Absecon is representative of the early eighteenth century bay fishing villages which grew up along Shore Road, the main transportation artery prior to the railroad. [Atlantic County]

Sea Bright Borough — twenty years prior to the establishment of the flourishing summer society of Sea Bright (Monmouth County, NJ), the area was a fishing village called Nauvoo, a Sephardic Hebrew word meaning "beautiful or pleasant place."

Friday 02/26/2010
Over 55 (Active Adult) Communities in Montgomery County, PA

2 Historic Districts in Southampton Village, Suffolk County, NY

The Beach Road Historic District is a small, cohesive, and distinguished collection of conspicuous early 20th century oceanfront estates. The construction coincided with the opening of Southampton's Barrier Beach to residential development during the 1920's and 1930's.

The North Main Street Historic District is largely intact concentration of residences and commercial buildings which reflect Southampton's early settlement and extensive turn-of-the-century development from 1740 up to 1910.

The Borough of Longport, incorporated in 1898, belongs to that category of seaside resort towns that were established by developers during the late 19th century, after the areas were opened up by the railroads. [Atlantic County, NJ]

Thursday 02/25/2010
5 Historic Districts in East Hampton Village, Suffolk County, NY

The Briar Patch Road Historic District is architecturally and historically significant as an enclave of late nineteenth and early twentieth century houses and studios initially developed by members of the village art community between 1897 and 1932.

The Buell's Lane Historic District is a cohesive residential neighborhood composed primarily of small, late Victorian period houses and a church which retain integrity of design materials and setting.

The Egypt Lane Historic District is a grouping of distinctive 18th and early 19th century vernacular houses which were relocated to Egypt Lane and renovated during the early twentieth century.

The Jericho Historic District is a rare collection of modest early 19th century houses exhibiting outstanding Federal style detailing and craftsmanship.

The Jones Road Historic District represents an enclave of 10 historic residential properties which document historic land use patterns and architecture in the village ca. 1750-1921.

Wednesday 02/24/2010
Southold Historic District — the buildings, objects, sites and landscape elements within the district reflect all major phases in the evolution of the hamlet, including the settlement period (c.1640-1780), the prosperous post-revolutionary period (1780-1845), and the period of rail and other forms of commercial transportation (1845-1920). [Town of Southold, Suffok County, NY]

Tuesday 02/23/2010
Montauk Association Historic District — Established as an exclusive resort community by a group of wealthy New Yorkers in 1881, this is a site of profound significance in the development of American landscape architecture, community planning, and architectural design. Occupying a ridge east of Ditch Plains (Town of East Hampton, Suffolk County, NY) seven cottages comprised the original dwellings of this summer colony. The houses were designed between 1881 and 1883 by the noted architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White, and were situated according to the site plan prepared by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1891. (Map)

Monday 02/22/2010
Active Adult Rent-to-Own
We noticed some advertisements today for two Over-55 neighborhoods (Granor-Price Builders) with Rent-to-Own programs. One of the developments (Villas at Broadacres) is partially completed and the entire development is being offered for sale by the builder. We're unable to claim whether this is a positive or a negative for potential buyers. If interested, you should consult a real estate professional, the builder, and, perhaps, an attorney as well.

  • Villas at Broadacres in Gloucester Township, Camden County, NJ (Map)
  • Villas at Chancellors Glen, in Bensalem Township, Bucks County, PA (Map)

Map of Greater Philadelphia Over-55 Communities

Also in Gloucester Township, see ca. 2005 Over 55 resale development by K. Hovnaian, Four Seasons at Forest Meadows (Map)

Friday 02/19/2010
Town of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York

The Goose Hill Road Historic District is a largely intact collection of residences which recall the historic agricultural development of Cold Spring Harbor.

The Main Street Historic District comprises the intact historic village core of the community of Cold Spring Harbor. Its collection of historic resources illustrate the community's development as a major seaport/whaling center in the early 19th century, a fashionable summer resort in the late 19th century, and an affluent residential neighborhood at the turn of the 20th century.

The Harbor Road Historic District contains a potential archeological site and fourteen dwellings dating from 1791 to 1869 with the majority depicting the town's settlement period architecture.

The Shore Road Historic District contains properties that are fine examples of Victorian-period picturesque styles. "Wawapek," the DeForest Estate, is particularly important for its associations with the "Gold Coast" estate development along Long Island's north shore.

Thursday 02/18/2010
HEALTHIEST COUNTIES
County Health Rankings (a program of the Robert Wood Johns Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Public Health Institute) has published their 2010 Health Outcomes defined as mortality (how long people live) and morbidity (how healthy people feel while living). According to the program the top 10 healthiest counties in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey are:

Pennsylvania: 1) Chester, 2) Centre, 3) Union, 4) Snyder, 5) Montgomery, 6) Pike, 7) Bucks, 8) Lancaster, 9) Cumberland, 10) Franklin.

New York: 1) Nassau, 2) Tompkins, 3) Putnam, 4) Westchester, 5) Rockland, 6) Saratoga, 7) Schuyler, 8) Queens, 9) Tioga, 10) Hamilton.

New Jersey: 1) Hunterdon, 2) Morris, 3) Somerset, 4) Bergen, 5) Sussex, 6) Monmouth, 7) Middlesex, 8) Burlington, 9) Warren, 10) Ocean.

Source: www.countyhealthrankings.org, accessed February 2010.

Wednesday 02/17/2010
The Greenport Village Historic District encompasses most of the older commercial and residential core of Greenport and contains a large, dense collection of largely unchanged structures which date from circa 1750 to the 1930's. Included within the District are remnants of Greenport's [Suffolk County, NY] early rural settlement, the most intact section of the village's waterfront business district, and the large residential areas which spread out around Main Street. (Map)

The Village of the Branch Historic District is architecturally significant as a rare surviving, largely intact Long Island village of the 18th and 19th centuries that recalls the architectural development and settlement pattern of the village from ca.1700 until 1935. The District includes several settlement-era residences of early and prominent local settlers. (Map)
[Village of the Branch]

Sunday 02/14/2010
Town of Huntington  •  Suffolk County  •  New York

The West Neck Road Historic District is a relatively intact residential enclave that recalls the growth and development of the unincorporated village of Huntington from a small rural, agrarian community in the mid-18th century to a prosperous, well-established village in the late 19th century. The 23 contributing properties date from c.1750 to c.1910. (Map)

The East Shore Road Historic District is one of the few surviving, largely intact, late-19th century working-class residential enclaves which reflects Halesite's and Huntington Harbor's settlement and 19th-century growth. Most of the 16 contributing properties were built from 1860 to 1900 and represent a cohesive collection of intact, Victorian-era working-class residential architecture. (Map)

The Old Town Green Historic District is architecturally and historically significant as a relatively intact remnant of Huntington's initial mid-17th century settlement which includes early dwellings and the original village green. Dating from c.1653 to 1881, The twelve contributing resources date from ca. 1653 to 1881. (Map)

Saturday 02/13/2010
Huntington Bay Village  •  Suffolk County  •  New York

The Bay Crest Historic District is an enclave of distinguished examples of late Victorian period residential architecture dating from c.1890 to 1905. It illustrates the growth and development of Huntington's north shore as an exclusive residential community at the turn of the twentieth century. (Map)

The Beaux Arts Park Historic District is a small, residential enclave composed of distinctive Tudor and Spanish Revival style dwellings associated with the development of Huntington's north shore as an exclusive residential community at the turn of the twentieth century (c.1905-1915). (Map)

Friday 02/12/2010
Waterside is a residential subdivision of 13 detached, single family homes built ca. 2009-2010 in the historic resort community of Island Heights Borough. Homes back to Dillon Creek (Map). [Ocean County, New Jersey]

Thursday 02/11/2010
The Village Park Historic District is a well-preserved late 19th century architectural enclave. Churches with their adjacent parsonages, shops, public buildings and other residences form this park-centered district. [Village of Canton, St Lawrence County, New York]

Wednesday 02/10/2010
The Waddington Historic District is historically and architecturally significant as a highly intact and cohesive collection of residential, civic and religious architecture which chronicles one hundred years (1816-1919) of development within this small village along the St. Lawrence Seaway. [Waddington Village, St Lawrence County, NY]

The Library Park Historic District is architecturally and historically significant as an intact collection of late 19th century buildings, many of which have been homes to some of Ogdensburg's most prominent citizens. The District is considered a cultural and recreational center because it contains the public library, the Remington Art Museum and a park. [City of Ogdensburg]

Updated:
Avenrowe — for 2009, the median resale price for homes in this Active Adult (over 55) subdivision was approximately $210,000.

Tuesday 02/09/2010
The Market Street Historic District is among the finest and most intact commercial districts in northern New York. It combines examples of the most important commercial architectural styles of the nineteenth century including Federal, Italianate, and Romanesque. [Potsdam Village, St Lawrence County, NY]

The West Stockholm Historic District — established as Bicknellville in 1811, West Stockholm is historically significant as a typical north country crossroads community of the nineteenth century which has survived largely intact at a falls on the St. Regis River. [Town of Stockholm]

Monday 02/08/2010
Blueberry Ridge is an Active-Adult (over 55) subdivision of detached, single family homes built ca. 2006. [Town of Hammonton, Atlantic County, NJ]

Four Seasons at Forest Meadows is an Active-Adult (over 55) subdivision of detached, single family homes by K. Hovnaian ca. 2005. [Gloucester Township, Camden County, NJ]

Brittany Hills is an Active-Adult (55-plus) subdivision of detached, single family homes built ca. 2003. [New of Garden Township, Chester County, PA]

Sunday 02/07/2010
City of Woodbury, Gloucester County, NJ — the original name of Woodbury is derived from the Wood family from Bury, England, who first settled at the mouth of Woodbury Creek. As members of the Wood family and the Quaker community began to move east along the Delaware River to higher ground, they named their newly formed town after the creek and called it Woodbury Creek. Today, Woodbury is home to 5 recognized districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places:
  • Broad Street Historic District
  • Delaware Street Historic District
  • Glover Historic District
  • Green Era District
  • Newton Historic District

Saturday 02/06/2010
The Borough of Deal is representative of the northern New Jersey shore development resulting from the coming of the railroad. During the 1860s, the completion of the Raritan and Delaware railroad lines to New York, and the Long Branch and Seashore lines along the beaches, signaled the opening of the shore to extensive growth. Deal rapidly gained a reputation for excess, and by the 1930s, its architecture was considered avant-garde as wealthy residents hired architects eager to experiment in a variety of styles. [The Monmouth County]

Somers Point City is named for John Somers, who purchased 3,000 acres when he settled here in 1683. He was a Quaker as were many of the early residents of the area. [Atlantic County]

Friday 02/05/2010
The Jersey Shore Boroughs of Brielle, Sea Girt, and Manasquan blend into each other with little differentiation. Unlike neighboring Spring Lake, with its boundaries of water and wide, manicured lawns, these communities are less obviously contained; their individual commercial districts have expanded along Route 71 to a continuous artery. [Monmouth County, New Jersey]

Thursday 02/04/2010
Beach Haven Borough has been fortunate in retaining its identity amid the post-war construction boom that has drastically changed other parts of the Jersey shore. Its Victorian heritage, nearly intact, is present in the blocks of unified streetscapes within the Beach Haven Historic District, and the sense of the town's history is kept alive by the Long Beach Island Historical Association, which has as its headquarters the outstanding former Holy Innocents Church. [Ocean County, New Jersey]

Wednesday 02/03/2010
The Montour Falls Historic District is a good illustration of community planning and architectural craftsmanship in the small communities which were developing in the rural southern tier in the middle of the nineteenth century. The architectural and historical focal element in the district is a fine complex of public buildings designed in the Greek Revival style. [Village of Montour Falls, Schuyler County, NY]

The Schuyler County Courthouse Complex is the main apex of a traditional three building governmental complex. Centrally located in its parcel and graciously set back from the road it is flanked by the Clerk's office on the north and by the Sheriff's residence and jail on the south. [Village of Watkins Glen]

Tuesday 02/02/2010
MAP: Greater Philadelphia Active Adult (Over 55) Communities

The East Side Historic District includes approximately 400 structures, the vast majority of which contribute to the historic significance of the area. It represents a significant collection of nineteenth-century residential architecture ranging from Federal and Greek Revival styles through a full range of Victorian residential designs (including Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, and Queen Anne styles), to the Colonial Revival, Tudor, and Bungalow styles of the early 20th century. [City of Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, NY]

The Village of Antwerp Historic District is an outstanding example of a rural/industrial village which retains its historic associations as well as its architectural and spatial characteristics which illustrate settlement, family, and community life patterns in northern Jefferson County, [Village of Antwerp] from the early 19th to the early 20th centuries.

Saturday 01/30/2010
Five Active Adult (55-plus) communities in Gloucester Twp., Camden County, NJ
    Four Seasons at Forest Meadows (detached singles, ca. 2005)
    Highland Estates (mobile homes ca. 1991)
    Shenandoah Village (apartment-style condos ca. 2007)
Browse More than 150 Active Adult (55-plus) Communities.

Friday 01/29/2010
Updated: The Dyerstown Historic District is a well preserved eastern Pennsylvania nineteenth century rural village with good examples of vernacular Georgian and Federal style residences. [Plumstead Township, Bucks County]

Thursday 01/28/2010
The Roseboom Historic District is significant in the areas of community development and architecture as a highly intact example of a typical upstate New York rural hamlet developed primarily during the period 1800 to 1940. Located in northeastern Otsego County, New York in the Town of Roseboom, the hamlet is about two miles south of the larger and older commercial Village of Cherry Valley.

Wednesday 01/27/2010
Updated:
      Active Adult (55-plus) Neighborhoods
      Orleans Homebuilders Neighborhoods/Subdivisions
      Toll Brothers Neighborhoods/Subdivisions

Thursday 01/21/2010
When Levitt and Sons planned their 11,000 home subdivision in Burlington County, New Jersey, the name of the township was changed from Willingboro to Levittown Township. After a few years a closely-contested referendum resulted in changing the name back to Willingboro Township. In retaliation, Levitt ceased his former practice of donating land for a school for each of the sub-neighborhoods as they were planned-out. The current Levittown neighborhoods include: Buckingham Park, Country Club Ridge, Garfield East, Garfield North, Garfield Park, Hawthorne Park, Millbrook Park, Pennypacker Park, Somerset Park, Twin Hill Park, and Windsor Park.

Wednesday 01/20/2010
The Village of Monroe Historic District (also known as Smith's Mill Historic District) encompasses 36 residential, industrial, and religious properties in the historic core of the incorporated Village of Monroe, Orange County, New York.

The Arbors at Providence [Zip: 19426] is a residential subdivision of detached singles. The neighborhood is located in Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It was built by Ryan Homes ca. 1999. Median resale price over the past year for homes in the Arbors of Providence neighborhood was approximately $380,000.

Monday 01/18/2010
Browse Neighborhoods by Zip Code: 08088–Vincentown, NJ

The South Main Street Historic District runs on a summit of high ground along the west bank of Seneca Lake. The mile-long District encompasses 140 structures as well as Pultney Park and the original quadrangle of the Hobart College campus.
[City of Geneva, Ontario County, New York]

Sunday 01/17/2010
New: Browse neighborhoods built by Bob Meyer
Updated: Browse neighborhoods built by Orleans

Saturday 01/16/2010
The Gilbertsville Historic District comprises the entire central portion of Village of Gilbertsville, an unspoiled residential village. Sixty-nine buildings, two parks, three bridges, and one monument are included within the district. Almost without exception the structures date from the 19th century predominating.

The South Worcester Historic District is historically and architecturally significant as a complete and unusually well-preserved farming hamlet, representative of rural development in central New York between 1810 and 1942. Located in the rugged foothills of the Catskill Mountain region, the development of the hamlet is representative of the growth of many small farming communities which thrived in central New York in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
[Town of Worcester, Otsego County, New York]

Friday 01/15/2010
Orleans County Courthouse Historic District — endowed with public, ecclesiastical, and residential structures, this district represents the prominence of the Village of Albion as the seat of government for Orleans County, New York.

Saturday 01/09/2010
The Genesee Park Historic District in the City of Geneva, Ontario County, New York, consists of Genesee Park and the surrounding buildings on Genesee Street, Genesee Park Place, and Lewis Street. Included in the District are the former North Presbyterian Church, the St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Genesee Park, and eleven dwellings.

The Canandaigua Historic District contains a significant collection of residential, commercial, religious and civic properties which together reflect the development of the historic core of the county seat [Canandaigua City] of Ontario County. Dating from the 1810s to the 1930s the architecturally and/or historically significant structures represent a broad range of architectural styles, types and methods of construction.

North Main Street Historic District in Canandaigua covers approximately nine-tenths of a mile from the railroad tracks to the Buffalo-Chapel Street intersection. Within the District is an excellently distributed and well-preserved representation of 19th and early 20th century architectural styles.

Friday 01/08/2010
The Grove Place Historic District is an enclave of substantially intact, small-scale (1850-1895) nineteenth-century residences which were built, owned and occupied for over 100 years by a complex extended family.
[City of Rochester, Monroe County, New York]

Thursday 01/07/2010
The Murray Street Historic District is architecturally significant as an intact, middle-class, residential neighborhood illustrating the development of the village of Mount Morris during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The South Main Street Historic District was laid out during the first half of the nineteenth century. It quickly became one of the village's most prestigious residential enclaves, rivaled only by nearby State Street to the northwest.

The State and Eagle Streets Historic District is an architecturally and historically significant concentration of 19th to early-20th century residential and religious buildings in Mount Morris. It is the village's oldest and most distinguished residential enclave.
[Mount Morris Village, Livingston County, New York]

Wednesday 01/06/2010
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      08055, Medford, NJ, Medford Township, Burlington County, New Jersey.

Monday 01/04/2010
The Clinton Village Historic District is a concentration of high-style structures including designs from architects including Horatio Nelson White, Jacob Agne, Henry Dudley and William P. Ginther. [Village of Clinton]

The Waterville Triangle Historic District embraces the heart of the Village of Waterville and includes a variety of historic buildings spanning the period from 1820 to 1900. [Oneida County, New York]

Sunday 01/03/2010
The Boonville Historic District comprises the original nucleus of the community founded in 1795 by Gerrit Boon, agent for the Holland Land Company. In order to attract settlers to the 43,000 acres of wilderness purchased on speculation by the Holland Land Company (a federation of six Dutch banking houses), Boon and his assistant Andrew Edmunds selected a site on Mill Creek and invested the bankers' capital in a saw mill, grist mill, store, tavern and several frame dwellings. Edmunds built a home and is regarded as Boonville's first settler while Gerrit Boon returned to his native Holland in 1799. [Village of Boonville, Oneida County, New York]

Saturday 01/02/2010
New:
    246 Condominium Developments
Updated:
    698 Townhome Neighborhoods & Subdivisions
    156 Active Adult (55-plus) Subdivisions
    2,746 Detached, Single-Family Subdivisions
    1,124 Historic Districts & Residential Neighborhoods
    4,743 Combined Neighborhoods / Subdivisions / Historic Districts
    965 National Register of Historic Places Districts & Properties

Friday 01/01/2010
The Broadway Historic District is the only distinct enclave of historic resources in Cape Vincent Village and includes the largest and most imposing residences in the village. They are significant for their architectural quality and as a record of the wealth, position and stylistic concerns of the French founders of the community. [Jefferson County, New York]