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This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Peekskill, New York.The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in an online map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates".
The Peekskill Downtown Historic District is a historic district located in the downtown section of Peekskill in the U.S. state of New York.It includes the 40 acres (160,000 m 2) along Main, Division, South, Park, Bank, Brown, First and Esther streets, and Central and Union avenues, near where those streets intersect.
The cities of New Rochelle, Peekskill, and Yonkers are the locations of 13, 14, and 28 of these properties and districts respectively, including two National Historic Landmarks (one in New Rochelle and one in Yonkers). This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 17, 2025. [2]
These Peekskill Riots were subsequently well-publicized in news reports and folk songs and formed a major event in E.L. Doctorow's historical fiction novel The Book of Daniel. Peekskill was the landing point of a fragment of the Peekskill Meteorite, just before midnight on October 9, 1992.
To its north is a vacated section of the former West Street, the only fragment of Peekskill's once yellow-brick paved streets remaining in the city. [ 1 ] The Standard House is a three-story painted brick building, four bays by three, with a shallow- pitched pyramidal roof covered in bitumen roll topped by a central cupola with a flagpole on top.
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Allegany County, New York.The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
The Lincoln Depot Museum is located at 41 South Water Street in Peekskill, New York inside the Peekskill Freight Depot. The Museum is managed by the Lincoln Depot Foundation, whose mission is to preserve the history of the connection between Abraham Lincoln and Peekskill. It opened to the public on October 18, 2014.
The Peekskill Freight Depot, sometimes called the Lincoln Depot, is located at 41 South Water Street in Peekskill, New York. It is a brick building erected in the late 19th century. Abraham Lincoln gave a speech at this site during his train ride to Washington after being elected, his only public appearance in Westchester County.