{"nrhp_refnum":"00001408","name":"Tarbell Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2 Cortland St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Marathon","county":"Cortland County","state":"NY","lat":42.442096365000054,"lon":-76.03243139399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-11-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick commercial building at 2 Cortland Street, at the corner of Cortland and Main Streets in the village of Marathon, Cortland County, New York, built in 1885 for Gage Tarbell.","why_significant":"It is significant under Criterion C as a distinctive and largely intact example of Queen Anne commercial architecture in Cortland County. The nomination calls it the finest commercial building in Marathon, with an urban form and elaborate facade unusual in a small, rural village. The architect is unidentified, though the design suggests an experienced hand from a nearby city.","narrative":"Built in 1885 at the corner of Cortland and Main Streets in Marathon, this three-story brick block was commissioned by Gage Tarbell, a lawyer turned insurance executive, who placed his father-in-law's dry goods store on the ground floor. The Cortland Street facade has two cast-iron storefronts below identical three-bay upper sections. Brick pilasters, stone string courses, a terra cotta cornice, colored glass window surrounds, mosaic tympanums and encaustic tile create a richly textured Queen Anne design, topped by a bracketed cornice and a pediment carrying the 1885 inscription. Painted advertising for Swift & Co. survives on the south wall. The building is regarded as the finest commercial architecture in the village, and its urban form was unusual in a small community dominated by frame, detached buildings. Its architect is unidentified. Over time it housed a restaurant, a corset manufacturer, and a transport company, and it now holds retail space and apartments.","period_of_significance":"1885","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Retail space and an auto parts store on the first floor; the third floor has been rehabilitated for three apartments and the second floor is largely unfinished, with upper floors being rehabilitated as apartments.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.15971-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/00001408.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001408/b39b7be4cf-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001408/b39b7be4cf-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TARBELL_BUILDING,_MARATHON,_COURTLAND_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TARBELL_BUILDING,_MARATHON,_COURTLAND_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317163","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarbell_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7685647"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/cortland-county/tarbell-building-00001408/"}