Main Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

“The Main Street Historic District is one of two such districts in the village of Roslyn, New York. It is, as its name suggests, located along Main Street between North Hempstead Turnpike and East Broadway, incorporating Tower Street and portions of Glen Avenue and Paper Mill Road.”
Wikipedia article Main Street Historic District (Roslyn, New York), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 156 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1974 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Main St. from N. Hempstead Tpke. to E. Broadway, including Tower St. and portions of Glen Ave. and Paper Mill Rd., Roslyn, 11576
When was it listed? January 1974
Category. district
Town. North Hempstead town
National Register reference number. 74001266 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

839 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 839 fires within 5 miles of Main Street Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 357 acres in total. 52 started naturally. 54 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	492
Smoking	107
Arson/incendiarism	54
Natural	52
Equipment and vehicle use	38
Power generation/transmission/distribution	37
Debris and open burning	25
Recreation and ceremony	25
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
8 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
7 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 September 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Main Street Historic District: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tungsten. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
L I Tungsten Corp/ Glen Cove, N.Y.	Tungsten	Unknown
Mccormack Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Port Washington Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Port Washington Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Port Washington Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this property

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roslyn, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Roslyn	$10,000	Numerous trees reported down around town.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Roslyn	$10,000	Numerous trees reported down around town.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Roslyn	$7,500	A quarter mile stretch of Northern Boulevard (State Route 25A) had multiple trees and large limbs down between West Road and Cedar Swamp Road (State Route 107).
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Roslyn	$3,000	A one and one half to two foot diameter tree was reported down, blocking the intersection of Glen Cove and Simonson Roads.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Roslyn	$3,000	Multiple trees were reported down at Northern Boulevard and Whitney Lane.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Roslyn	$3,000	A large tree and wires were downed.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Roslyn	$1,000	Downed tree on NY 25A both directions at Chestnut Drive in North Hempstead. All lanes closed.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Roslyn	-	Flash flooding caused closure of the Long Island Expressway at Exit 39.
June 2004	Flash Flood	Roslyn	-	Several roadways in Roslyn experienced significant street flooding.
October 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Roslyn	-	A squall line moving through the area generated thunderstorms strong enough to down numerous trees and power lines. Heavy rains also accompanied these storms.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Roslyn	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nassau County

Maps showing this location

13 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1897 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Oyster Bay quadrangle1:62500 - 15 printings
1947 USGS Sea Cliff quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Sea Cliff quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1968 USGS Sea Cliff quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Roslyn Village Historic District	under 500 feet	1987
Roslyn Grist Mill	0.2 miles	1986
Hicks Lumber Company Store	0.2 miles	1986
Roslyn National Bank and Trust Company Building	0.3 miles	1986
Roslyn Savings Bank Building	0.3 miles	1986
Samuel Adams Warner House	0.4 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001266 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nassau County	All 156 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.