{"nrhp_refnum":"03001399","name":"Carner, John Jr., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1310 Best Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"East Greenbush","county":"Rensselaer County","state":"NY","lat":42.630744134000054,"lon":-73.66562351099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-01-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Federal-style farmhouse with six contributing buildings on a ten-acre property at 1310 Best Road, East Greenbush, Rensselaer County, New York. It was built around 1800 for John Carner Jr., a local farmer, and expanded shortly after and again in the 1930s.","why_significant":"The house is significant in architecture as an intact and distinctive example of a Federal period residence in Rensselaer County. It shows the style's hallmarks, including a five-bay symmetrical form, a medium-pitched gable roof, inside end chimneys, and a central entrance with pilasters and sidelights. It belongs to a small group of more sophisticated houses in a county where one-and-one-half story homes were more common. It also reflects the prosperity of the Carner family.","narrative":"Built around 1800 on Best Road in East Greenbush, this two-story timber-frame house is a Federal period residence set on ten acres that once belonged to a much larger farm. It has clapboard siding, a five-bay symmetrical front, a central nine-panel door with pilasters and sidelights, and a Venetian window above the porch. A kitchen wing is believed to be an earlier structure absorbed into the house soon after it was built. The interior keeps its center hall plan, wide-board floors, woodwork and fireplaces. Five historic outbuildings remain, including an English style barn. John Carner Jr. built the house on land his father John Carner leased from the Rensselaerwyck patroonship, and the family included early potters. The house is significant as a distinctive and intact Federal dwelling in Rensselaer County, and its size and detail reflect the relative prosperity of the Carner family. Later additions date to the 1930s.","period_of_significance":"c. 1800 - c. 1930","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used as a single-family residence with a hayfield and timber lot; the owners have restored the house to its c. 1800 Federal design, and reconstruction of a well house is in progress.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.614575-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/03001399.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001399/b77eaec998-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03001399/b77eaec998-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"GregRogMedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carner.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">GregRogMedia</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:Carner.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321190","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carner_Jr._House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6225234"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/rensselaer-county/carner-john-jr-house-03001399/"}