{"nrhp_refnum":"00001156","name":"Goodrich School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Fiddlers Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Colonie","county":"Albany County","state":"NY","lat":42.72828729050005,"lon":-73.74580270816992,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-09-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Goodrich School is a one-story brick public schoolhouse at Fiddlers Lane and Alva Drive in Colonie, Albany County, New York. The first section was built about 1922, with a wing added about 1926.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is an intact, representative example of a small early twentieth-century schoolhouse that reflects the standardization of school design. It also shows Colonial Revival design features. The site is historically tied to local education as the location of an earlier one-room school from the 1820s.","narrative":"Goodrich School is a small brick schoolhouse on the corner of Fiddlers Lane and Alva Drive in Colonie, New York. Its first section, a one-story gabled block with two classrooms, was completed in 1922, and a hipped-roof wing followed in 1926. Colonial Revival details include a portico with six fluted Doric columns, a fanlight over twin entry doors, glazed lunettes in the gable ends, and an octagonal copper-roofed cupola that served as a ventilation vent. Both original classrooms keep period cabinets and blackboards. The school replaced a one-room wooden district schoolhouse from the 1820s that burned in 1920. Its one-story brick and concrete construction, symmetrical plan, east and west window bands, and ventilation reflect early twentieth-century efforts to standardize school design for safety, light, and efficiency. Additions from the 1950s are attached but do not alter the 1920s character. The school remains in use as a school.","period_of_significance":"1922-1926","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Georgian Revival (described in the text as Colonial Revival)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a school; later 1950s additions are non-historic but do not affect the 1920s character.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.778097-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/00001156.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001156/bebc9b8c44-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001156/bebc9b8c44-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Collin Manley","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goodrich_School_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Collin Manley</a>, <a href=\"https://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:Goodrich_School_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316233","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodrich_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5583580"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/albany-county/goodrich-school-00001156/"}