{"nrhp_refnum":"03000243","name":"Oak Street School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"205 Oak St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fulton","county":"Oswego County","state":"NY","lat":43.312136493000025,"lon":-76.41821116999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-07-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story red brick elementary school with cast stone trim on a high brick basement, at 205 Oak Street in Fulton, Oswego County, New York. It was built in 1913-14 to designs by Rochester architect J. Mills Platt.","why_significant":"It is significant under Criterion C as a distinctive, intact example of an early-20th-century small city school. It is significant under Criterion A in Education because its form, plan and orientation reflect New York State Education Department standards for school buildings introduced after 1904. It retains most of its original plan and fabric inside and out.","narrative":"Oak Street School in Fulton, New York, is a two-story red brick elementary school trimmed with cast stone and set on a high brick basement. Built in 1913-14 from designs by Rochester architect J. Mills Platt, it replaced an earlier frame school on the site. Fulton's Board of Education chose Platt in 1912, and an identical-in-massing school, the Erie Street School, went up elsewhere in the city at the same time. The plan follows state rules adopted after 1904: large windows lighting classrooms, clearly defined rooms, and a symmetrical layout around a central hallway with stairs at each end. It served grades 1 through 6 and operated as a neighborhood school until 1991. Windows and doors were replaced in the 1970s, yet the original openings, plaster walls, chestnut woodwork, tin ceilings and hot-air heating system largely survive. The building has been vacant since the early 1990s, and conversion into apartments was planned at the time of listing.","period_of_significance":"1913-1952","architect_builder":"J. Mills Platt, Architect","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revival: Tudor","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The school closed in 1991 and has been vacant since the early 1990s; it was owned by the City of Fulton and about to be redeveloped as apartments.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.958768-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/03000243.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320849","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Street_School_(Fulton,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7073733"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/oswego-county/oak-street-school-03000243/"}