{"nrhp_refnum":"04001344","name":"National Hotel","other_names":["National Exchange"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2927 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cuylerville","county":"Livingston County","state":"NY","lat":42.77781447800004,"lon":-77.87125773499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-12-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame tavern and inn at 2927 Main Street in the hamlet of Cuylerville, Livingston County, New York, built in 1841 by Charles Phinney as the National Exchange, later called the National Hotel.","why_significant":"It is a rare, largely intact example of a large highway and canal-related hostelry of the 1840s. It is also the only surviving canal-era commercial building from Cuylerville's boom as a port on the Genesee Valley Canal. It was the site of several later local events, including the 1916 founding of an Italian-American political association.","narrative":"Built in 1841 beside the Big Tree Road and the newly opened Genesee Valley Canal, this two-story frame building in Cuylerville began as the National Exchange, a tavern and inn. Its transitional Federal and Greek Revival design includes clapboard siding, a broad cornice with gable returns, a curved interior staircase and a second-floor ballroom. The canal and a holding basin lay less than fifty yards away, and the inn served both highway and canal travelers. After the canal closed, the hamlet declined, but the building adapted. It became a gathering place and boarding house for Italian immigrant salt mine workers after 1906, and the Italian-American Citizen Political Awakening Association formed there in 1916. Local tradition holds it operated as a speakeasy during Prohibition. It housed engineers working on the Mount Morris dam from 1948 to 1951, then reopened in the early 1950s as a restaurant for tourists. It is the only surviving canal-era commercial building in Cuylerville and a rare example of a large 1840s hostelry.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1841-1954","architect_builder":"Charles Phinney (builder)","architectural_style":"Federal; Greek Revival (transitional Federal/Greek Revival)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in operation as a restaurant; the form notes the hotel continues in operation today, with some interior alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.422238-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/04001344.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001344/076288e1b4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001344/076288e1b4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NATIONAL_HOTEL,_CUYLERVILLE,_LIVINGSTON_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:NATIONAL_HOTEL,_CUYLERVILLE,_LIVINGSTON_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318678","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Hotel_(Cuylerville,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6973413"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/livingston-county/national-hotel-04001344/"}