{"nrhp_refnum":"01000672","name":"Java School No. 1","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NY 78","address_restricted":false,"city":"Java Village","county":"Wyoming County","state":"NY","lat":42.67400785400008,"lon":-78.43623864799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-06-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame schoolhouse on the east side of New York Route 78 at the northern edge of Java Village, Town of Java, Wyoming County, New York, built about 1850 in a vernacular Italianate style.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a largely intact mid-19th-century two-room schoolhouse. Its form reflects New York State educational reforms of the late 1840s and 1850s, with spacious classrooms, large windows, teachers' daises and extensive blackboards. It was a model for rural school facilities of its time and recalls Java's nineteenth-century prosperity.","narrative":"Java School No. 1 is a two-story wood-frame schoolhouse on Route 78 at the northern edge of Java Village in Wyoming County, New York. Built about 1850 on the site of an 1818 school, it is roughly cubic, with clapboard siding, a shallow hipped roof, a small louvered cupola, heavy drip moulds over the windows and a porch with chamfered posts. Inside, each floor has one large room, with a stair hall across the front, original blackboards and, upstairs, a raised teacher's dais. The design, with two classrooms instead of one, reflects school reforms passed by the New York State Legislature in the late 1840s and 1850s, which called for better lit, healthier and more orderly buildings. It is notable as a largely intact example of that type. Children were taught here until the local district vacated it in 1967. The Grange then took it over, and it now also serves as the Java Historical Society's museum and headquarters.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1850-ca 1930","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century/Italian Villa (vernacular Italianate)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Houses the Java Historical Society Museum and headquarters as well as the local Grange; vacated by the school district in 1967 and taken over by the Grange in 1969.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.314595-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/01000672.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323342","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_School_No._1","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6165019"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/wyoming-county/java-school-no-1-01000672/"}