Bedford Village Historic District

The Bedford Village Historic District is a national historic district in Bedford, Westchester County, New York. The district contains 80 contributing buildings and one contributing site. It encompasses most of the original 1680 hamlet and is laid out in a typical village green plan. Notable buildings include the court house (1787), library (1807), school house (1829), post office (c. 1838), and Presbyterian Church (1872). The buildings are good examples of the Greek Revival and Gothic Revival styles. Two of the buildings are now museums.

Between 1788 and 1870, Bedford served as one of the two seats of Westchester County government, alternating sessions with White Plains. This political status drove the development of its historic core. It was the largest community in northern Westchester for much of its first 200 years. This status attracted wealth, leading to the construction of the stately homes that still line the village green. Because Bedford was bypassed by the railroad that thrust its way through central Westchester in the 1840s, it avoided the rapid industrialization and 19th-century "modernization" that destroyed historic buildings in many other Westchester localities.