Lower Main Street Ossining / Ossining de la Calle Lower Main

, Lower Main Street Ossining , From the mid-1800s to the early 1900s Downtown Ossining was one of the most important merchant and shipping towns on the Hudson River, supplying Westchester County and New York City with produce and manufactured goods. The buildings of historic Ossining are a testament to the commercial development and prosperity of the Village in that period. Many factors shaped the Ossining we know today. Notably the fire of 1872 destroyed most of the wood buildings in the area between Main, Spring, and Brandreth Streets and gave way to late Victorian brick buildings, such as the Barlow Block, the Leander building at 141-145 Main Street, and the Olive Opera House on Central Avenue, which are still in existence. The Kipps building on the southwest corner of Spring and Main, the Foshay Brothers building across Spring Street from it, and the Ossining Hotel, where the current post office stands, were demolished in the 1970s as part of plans for urban renewal. The entire south side of Main and Church from State Street to North Highland, and most of Spring Street to St Paul's Street looked very similar to what you see on the Crescent. The Village had several milliners, shoemakers, lawyers, doctors, general stores, dry goods stores, furniture and rug stores, restaurants and hotels. In 1885 you would be taking the horse and buggy to Ossining to shop for everything a household needed, from pots and pans to socks and candles.,