{"nrhp_refnum":"01001396","name":"Schoonmaker House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"283 Beaver Dam Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Selkirk","county":"Albany County","state":"NY","lat":42.54461746900006,"lon":-73.79598349699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-12-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Italianate farmhouse at 283 Beaver Dam Road in Selkirk, in the town of Bethlehem, Albany County, New York, built in the 1860s on a 4-acre lot. A non-contributing twentieth-century frame garage stands behind it.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is architecturally significant as a distinguished example of Italianate farmhouse architecture in Bethlehem. It is a transitional interpretation that mixes Greek Revival and Italianate elements, and it retains a high degree of integrity in form, plan, interior finishes and rural setting.","narrative":"Set on a four-acre lot along Beaver Dam Road in Selkirk, this brick farmhouse dates from the 1860s and is one of the few survivors of a once-extensive farmstead. The two-story square main block has a two-story east wing, a low hipped roof, a rubble foundation, stone sills and lintels, and six-over-six windows. The focal point is a pair of round-arched Italianate doors with iron grillwork and an etched glass toplight. Inside, molded woodwork, a marble mantelpiece and plaster cornice moldings with a pierced medallion in the parlor remain intact. Its design blends the fading Greek Revival with the Italianate, including the side-hall plan with a side wing. The house was listed for its architecture, as a well-preserved example of a house type built across rural New York in the later nineteenth century. Mature trees and shrubs shield it from the road and preserve a sense of its agricultural past in Bethlehem.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1860","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a single-family dwelling; a modern kitchen wing was added at the rear and the original shutters have been replaced.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.778055-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/01001396.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001396/7c965aee2f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001396/7c965aee2f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"TrudiJ","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schoonmaker_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">TrudiJ</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:Schoonmaker_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316327","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoonmaker_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7432750"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/albany-county/schoonmaker-house-01001396/"}