{"nrhp_refnum":"03000595","name":"Fuller, James and Lydia Canning, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W. Genesee St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Skaneateles","county":"Onondaga County","state":"NY","lat":42.94471935400003,"lon":-76.43922212799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-07-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, L-shaped Federal-style frame house on West Genesee Street in the Village of Skaneateles, Onondaga County, New York, built in two stages: the rear wing about 1815 and the front block about 1824.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant for its association with James and Lydia Canning Fuller, abolitionists who used it as a way-station on the Freedom Trail. It is also presented as an intact example of vernacular Federal-style domestic architecture. Statewide significance is claimed because of the house's role in early abolitionist activity.","narrative":"This L-shaped, two-story house on West Genesee Street in Skaneateles combines two five-bay center-hall houses. The rear wing dates to about 1815, and a front block was added around 1824 by local carpenters Peter Thompson and John Billing. Heavy timber frames rest on Onondaga limestone foundations, with clapboard walls, a fan-lighted entrance, and a two-story east portico with composite-capital columns. Inside, period mantels, reeded trim and six-paneled doors survive. James Canning Fuller, a British-born Quaker, bought the house and 156 acres in 1834 and lived there with his wife Lydia until her death in 1857. Both were active abolitionists. Fuller served as secretary of the Skaneateles Anti-Slavery Society in 1838. In 1841 he traveled to Kentucky and brought back a family of seven who had been enslaved. The house is recognized as a documented way-station on the Freedom Trail and as a well-preserved Federal-style dwelling.","period_of_significance":"c. 1815-1857","architect_builder":"Peter Thompson and John Billing, builders, 1824 house","architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Used as a single dwelling; the text says the current owners are restoring it to its historic period, and some non-historic twentieth-century changes exist.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.337419-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/03000595.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000595/461768b996-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000595/461768b996-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Crazyale","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fuller_house2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Crazyale</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fuller_house2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314075","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_and_Lydia_Canning_Fuller_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6146011"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/onondaga-county/fuller-james-and-lydia-canning-house-03000595/"}