{"nrhp_refnum":"05001486","name":"DAY PECKINPAUGH, (canal motorship)","other_names":["Richard J. Barnes","Ili-101"],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"NYS Barge Canal","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lockport","county":"Niagara County","state":"NY","lat":43.164984824000044,"lon":-78.70326777999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-12-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Engineering"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A steel canal motorship, 254 feet long, built in 1921 by the McDougall-Duluth Shipyard in Duluth, Minnesota. It was designed to carry bulk cargo across the Great Lakes and through the New York State Barge Canal, and is now documented at Lockport, Niagara County, New York.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the vessel is the sole surviving canal motorship built for the Great Lakes and the New York State Barge Canal. It represents the culmination of commercial canal transportation, which moved from towed barges to independently powered ships. Its hybrid design allowed bulk cargo to travel between the Great Lakes and New York without transferring loads.","narrative":"Launched in 1921 as the ILI-101, this steel motorship was built in Duluth, Minnesota for the Interwaterways Line. It measures 254 feet long and 36 feet wide, with a low, box-like form shaped by canal lock and bridge clearances. Its 1,650-ton capacity let it carry grain and other bulk cargo between the Great Lakes and the Port of New York without transferring loads to smaller boats. It was the first of five identical sister ships and was among the early diesel-powered vessels of its kind. Later named Richard J. Barnes, it served as a collier in World War II and had its cargo hull replaced in 1946 at Todd Shipyard in Brooklyn. Renamed Day Peckinpaugh in 1958, it was converted in 1961 to carry bulk cement, a trade it kept for three decades. It is listed as the only surviving canal motorship of its type, a vessel that shows how commercial shipping on the Barge Canal developed.","period_of_significance":"1921-1958","architect_builder":"McDougall-Duluth Shipyard, Duluth MN., builder; Todd Shipyard, Brooklyn, NY, 1946 rebuild.","architectural_style":"OTHER: canal motorship","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"The vessel returned to Erie, Pennsylvania after its last canal transit in September 1994 and remained unused for more than a decade.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.610295-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/05001486.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001486/12ec202a24-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001486/12ec202a24-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"New York State Museum","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inalbany.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">New York State Museum</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inalbany.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320092","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_Peckinpaugh","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5242863"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/niagara-county/day-peckinpaugh-canal-motorship-05001486/"}