{"nrhp_refnum":"04000097","name":"Fly Creek Grange No. 844","other_names":["Fly Creek Historical Society and Museum"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"208 Cemetery Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fly Creek","county":"Otsego County","state":"NY","lat":42.71685423000008,"lon":-74.98335847099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-02-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two and one-half story wood-frame grange hall at 208 Cemetery Road in the hamlet of Fly Creek, Otsego County, New York, built in 1899 by local builder Charles Allen.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the hall is significant for its association with agricultural and social history in the town of Otsego. It is also an exceptionally intact example of a grange hall, a common rural New York building type. It served as a social hub for farm families and the wider hamlet.","narrative":"Fly Creek Grange No. 844 is a large wood-frame hall on Cemetery Road in the Otsego County hamlet of Fly Creek. The grange was established in 1895, and members donated time and labor to build the hall, which Charles Allen of Pierstown framed in 1899. The building is rectangular, clad in clapboard, and rests on a stone foundation. Inside, a dining room and kitchen occupy the first floor, and a second-floor auditorium has a stage with a painted canvas curtain of an Otsego County scene. The hall hosted meetings, farmer education programs, dinners, dances, theatrical shows, and political rallies, and it distributed cooperatively purchased seeds and goods. It also served as a polling place. By 1998 farming had declined and the grange met once a year, so the building was sold to the Fly Creek Historical Society. The hall remains largely unchanged from its construction, apart from a small restroom addition, and is valued as an intact rural grange hall and community center.","period_of_significance":"1899","architect_builder":"Charles Allen, builder","architectural_style":"no style","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Sold to the Fly Creek Historical Society for use as a meeting place and archival center; the form describes it as retaining an outstanding level of integrity, with a small addition for restrooms.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:54.108684-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/04000097.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000097/a035a58ae9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000097/a035a58ae9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Agreen54","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fly_Creek_Grange.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Agreen54</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:Fly_Creek_Grange.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"06001004","name":"Fly Creek Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/fly-creek-historic-district-06001004/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320931","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_Creek_Grange_No._844","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5463149"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/otsego-county/fly-creek-grange-no-844-04000097/"}