{"nrhp_refnum":"00000048","name":"Ravina","other_names":["Lambert, Ida Lord, Residence"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bouchouxville","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lordville","county":"Delaware County","state":"NY","lat":41.871265926000035,"lon":-75.20751653999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-02-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small rural estate on Bouchouxville Road about half a mile east of Lordville, Delaware County, New York, built in 1926-27 for Ida Batsford Lambert. It includes a main house, guest bungalow, garage, caretaker's house, wood shed and designed landscape features.","why_significant":"The estate is significant under Criterion C as a distinctive expression of Arts and Crafts architecture and landscape design. Its customized pre-cut Sears buildings and cobblestone landscape features form a unified ensemble built within two years. It is described as unique in the Upper Delaware Valley, where few Craftsman buildings or pre-cut houses of the period are documented.","narrative":"Ravina is a small country estate above the Delaware River, half a mile east of Lordville, New York. Built in 1926 and 1927 for Ida Batsford Lambert, it comprises a two-story main house, a guest bungalow, a three-bay garage, a caretaker's house and a wood shed. Lambert chose the buildings from a Sears catalog and had them shipped by rail, then customized them. A local mason, A. L. Snyder, built the fireplace, porch stonework and a long cobblestone wall along the road. The grounds include a stone-lined stream and pond, a fountain, walkways, footbridges and a rock garden. The informal grouping of buildings recalls Adirondack camps. The estate was listed for its architecture, as a unified example of Arts and Crafts design that retains strong integrity. It is described as unusual in a valley where few Craftsman or pre-cut buildings from the period have been documented. The property is still used as a single dwelling.","period_of_significance":"1926-1927","architect_builder":"Whitaker & Sons, Binghamton, NY, general contractor; A.L. Snyder, stone mason","architectural_style":"Bungalow / Craftsman","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Historic and current function are both single dwelling; the form says all features except the relocated wood shed appear much as they did in 1927, though some landscape features were neglected over time.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.698417-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/00000048.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312445","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravina_(Lordville,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7296705"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/delaware-county/ravina-00000048/"}