{"nrhp_refnum":"05001123","name":"Bragdon-Lipe House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"17 Otsego St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Canajoharie","county":"Montgomery County","state":"NY","lat":42.90407140700006,"lon":-74.57411883399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-10-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story timber frame Italianate house at 17 Otsego Street in the village of Canajoharie, Montgomery County, New York, built circa 1860 by H. S. Bragdon, with a circa 1870 carriage barn behind it.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a distinguished and largely unaltered example of early Italianate residential architecture in Canajoharie, based on pattern book design. It also shows transitional features that blend Gothic-influenced Picturesque details with emerging Italianate forms. It has a secondary link to Ephraim Lipe, who developed a ham-curing process while living there in the 1880s, which led to the Beech Nut name.","narrative":"Built around 1860 by H. S. Bragdon at 17 Otsego Street in Canajoharie, this two-story timber frame house is an early and little-altered example of Italianate design drawn from pattern book sources. It has a flat roof, a bracketed cornice, a rooftop belvedere, tall arched windows with molded hoods, a polygonal side bay with carved trim and a raised basement of dressed limestone. Inside, heavy molded door and window frames recall Gothic forms, while round arches signal the emerging Italianate style. A rear wing was raised to two stories about 1870, when a matching carriage barn was also built. Bragdon apparently built the house as a rental venture. During the 1880s Ephraim Lipe lived there and developed a ham-curing process that his son Walter adopted for the Imperial Packing Company, whose Beech Nut trademark became the name of the village's best-known industry. The property was listed for its architecture and high integrity.","period_of_significance":"circa 1860-1890","architect_builder":"H. S. Bragdon (builder)","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century/Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Remains a single-family residence; the rear servants' wing was converted to an apartment in the late twentieth century.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.830923-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/05001123.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001123/48297f6c92-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001123/48297f6c92-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bragdon-Lipe_House_Apr_10.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bragdon-Lipe_House_Apr_10.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"15000233","name":"Canajoharie Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/canajoharie-historic-district-15000233/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318989","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bragdon-Lipe_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4955386"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/montgomery-county/bragdon-lipe-house-05001123/"}