{"nrhp_refnum":"02001662","name":"Hoster, William, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3832 NY 414","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fayette","county":"Seneca County","state":"NY","lat":42.839562921000066,"lon":-76.81194008555651,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-12-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, four-bay brick farmhouse at 3832 NY 414 in the rural town of Fayette, Seneca County, New York, believed built in the 1830s and remodeled in the 1850s/60s, with a late nineteenth century corncrib on 135 acres of farmland.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an outstanding local example of rural domestic architecture, combining a late Federal core with Italianate remodeling features such as a cupola and bracketed eaves. It is also significant under Criterion A for its association with agriculture, since the farm and surrounding setting remain actively farmed.","narrative":"This brick farmhouse on NY 414 in Fayette, Seneca County, sits on a ridge above a 135-acre farm that is still cultivated. The two-story, four-bay main block was probably built in the 1830s in the Federal style, with stone lintels, sills and an off-center entrance with a segmentally arched stone surround. During the 1850s and 1860s William Hoster remodeled it in the Italianate manner, adding a low hipped roof with bracketed eaves, an octagonal cupola, floor-length first-floor windows and a front porch, since lost. A frame rear wing was added later in the nineteenth century. A corncrib is the only surviving outbuilding of a larger farm complex. The house has been largely unoccupied since 1960 and has suffered neglect and vandalism, yet much original fabric survives. It was listed for its architecture, as a locally representative blend of Federal and Italianate design, and for its link to the agricultural history of the area.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1830s - ca. 1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early 19th Century: Federal; Mid-19th Century: Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The house is vacant and moderately deteriorated after vandalism, though described as structurally sound; the farmland is leased and cultivated.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.636341-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/02001662.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001662/b393d81751-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001662/b393d81751-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Doncram","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Hoster_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doncram</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:William_Hoster_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321830","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hoster_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14707784"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/seneca-county/hoster-william-house-02001662/"}