{"nrhp_refnum":"02001660","name":"Stratton, Walter, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"New Kingston Mountain Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Roxbury","county":"Delaware County","state":"NY","lat":42.25586587200007,"lon":-74.61627984699999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-12-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small one-and-one-half story vernacular stone house on New Kingston Mountain Road in the Roxbury vicinity, Delaware County, New York, built in 1828 by Walter Stratton, with a late nineteenth century garage across the road.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a rare surviving vernacular stone house in the town of Roxbury, one of only six extant stone houses and one of three of its one or one-and-one-half story form. It uses a variation of the hall and parlor plan and retains a high level of integrity. Its alterations also document how the occupants adapted the house over time.","narrative":"Set atop a small hillock on New Kingston Mountain Road in the Catskill foothills of Roxbury, this one-and-one-half story stone house was built in 1828 by farmer Walter Stratton, whose initials and the date appear on a stone over the west entrance. Its walls are random ashlar masonry on a fieldstone basement, under a gable roof, with a later wood-frame shed wing at the west end. Inside, a variation of the hall and parlor plan survives, with a large main living room and a smaller eastern section. The house is one of only six surviving stone houses in the town and one of three of its modest size, which makes it a rare local example of vernacular building. For most of the nineteenth century it belonged to a hundred-acre farm, until the half-acre lot was separated in 1891. Fieldstone walls still mark the lot. Later changes, including a new chimney, an enclosed stair and room divisions, show how occupants adapted the house while keeping its informal layout.","period_of_significance":"1828-c1900","architect_builder":"Walter Stratton (builder); architect listed as unknown","architectural_style":"no style (vernacular; hall and parlor plan)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as vacant; the house was sold in 2000 to the Manhattan Country School.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.909054-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/02001660.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317275","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Stratton_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7966212"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/delaware-county/stratton-walter-house-02001660/"}