{"nrhp_refnum":"00000345","name":"Brotherhood Winery","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Brotherhood Plaza","address_restricted":false,"city":"Washingtonville","county":"Orange County","state":"NY","lat":41.43227337350007,"lon":-74.16231335035542,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-04-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture","Commerce","Industry"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 16-acre winery complex on Toleman Road in the northwest corner of the village of Washingtonville, Orange County, New York, with buildings, cellars and structures dating from 1834-1839 through the early twentieth century.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the winery is a rare early nineteenth century example, established in 1839 and described as the oldest continually operating winery in the United States. Its main cellar, dug and built between 1835 and 1839, is a rare surviving early large-scale commercial wine facility. The complex retains a high degree of integrity and is significant in the nation's agricultural history.","narrative":"Brotherhood Winery occupies 16 acres on Toleman Road in Washingtonville, Orange County, New York. The complex includes nine contributing resources: the original brick wine cellar built between 1834 and 1839, a champagne cellar completed in 1902, a three-story processing building, a 1907 stone wash building, a 1906 steam engine chimney, and a relocated Methodist church from about 1870. John Jaques planted vines in 1835 and bottled his first vintage in 1839. The business later passed to his sons and, in 1886, to Jesse Emerson's Brotherhood Wine Company, which expanded the site in the early 1900s. Sacramental wine production kept the winery operating through Prohibition. The property is described as the oldest continually operating winery in the United States, and its large cellars are a rare surviving example of early commercial wine production. Fire in 1999 destroyed the roofs and interiors of two buildings.","period_of_significance":"1834-1949","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in operation as a winery; the roofs and interiors of the 1902 Processing Building and the 1907 Wash Building were destroyed by fire in 1999.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.417826-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/00000345.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000345/be219ea98c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000345/be219ea98c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brotherhood_Winery_sign.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brotherhood_Winery_sign.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320588","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_Winery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4975601"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orange-county/brotherhood-winery-00000345/"}