{"nrhp_refnum":"03000044","name":"Jackson-Aitken Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3240 Fall Clove Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Andes","county":"Delaware County","state":"NY","lat":42.157404806000045,"lon":-74.86792307525539,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-02-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 39-acre farm on Fall Clove Road in the Fall Clove Valley near Andes, Delaware County, New York, with a c1853 Greek Revival farmhouse, an 1896 dairy barn, and cultivated fields.","why_significant":"The farm is tied to the settlement of the Fall Clove Valley by Scottish immigrants and to the agricultural history of Andes. It shows the shift from a mixed subsistence farm to a large-scale dairy operation by the late nineteenth century. The farmhouse is a typical mid-nineteenth century Delaware County dwelling, and the bank barn is the most common dairy barn type of its era in the county.","narrative":"This farm on Fall Clove Road, near Andes in the western Catskills, preserves 39 acres of a 150-acre holding developed by Scottish immigrants John and Isabelle Jackson in the 1850s. It includes a one-and-one-half story Greek Revival farmhouse built about 1853, a large 1896 dairy barn, and fields of hay and corn. The house has a five-bay, center-hall plan and a large trabeated entrance with sidelights. Its stone basement was apparently used to store butter. The Aitken family built the three-story barn, which has a banked entrance that let wagons reach the upper hay bins directly, and an open framing system that maximized hay storage. The 1855 agricultural census shows a mixed subsistence operation with some butter produced for sale, and later owners moved fully into dairying. Although the farm was subdivided after 1954, the remaining parcel is still cultivated and sits within a valley that keeps its nineteenth-century farming landscape.","period_of_significance":"c1853-c1896","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"The farm remains in active cultivation and is still used as a single dwelling with agricultural outbuildings and fields.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.951808-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/03000044.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000044/ec8d1e8834-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000044/ec8d1e8834-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Vonsky87","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jackson-Aitken_Farm,_Andes,_NY.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Vonsky87</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jackson-Aitken_Farm,_Andes,_NY.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317235","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson-Aitken_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6116917"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/delaware-county/jackson-aitken-farm-03000044/"}