{"nrhp_refnum":"05001533","name":"Belmont Grange #1243","other_names":["McNett, Andrew, Residence","Andrew McNutt Clubhouse"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"32 Willets Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Belmont","county":"Allegany County","state":"NY","lat":42.22509837300004,"lon":-78.03987442199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-01-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Military","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood-frame building at 32 Willets Avenue (NY 19) in the Village of Belmont, Allegany County, New York. It was built c. 1860 as an Italianate residence for Andrew McNett, updated c. 1890, and later converted to a meeting hall.","why_significant":"The nomination argues local significance for the building's ties to the social history of Belmont and to Andrew J. McNett, a lawyer, Civil War officer and the village's first mayor. It was later used by the Odd Fellows and then the Grange, and it continues as a community meeting place.","narrative":"Built around 1860 as a home for Andrew J. McNett, this two-story wood-frame building at 32 Willets Avenue in Belmont, New York, later became a meeting hall. McNett was an attorney, a Civil War officer who lost his right arm near Atlanta in 1864, and the village's first mayor, elected in 1871. His family updated the house around 1890, adding two-story bay windows, an intersecting gable and Eastlake-style ornament to the original Italianate form. After McNett's death in 1895 and his wife's in 1907, ownership passed in 1921 outside the family, and the Odd Fellows acquired the property in 1923. The Odd Fellows gave up their charter in 1964, and the Grange later used the building. The second floor was converted into a large meeting room, and the rear wing holds a kitchen for social events. The building remains in use as a community gathering place and is recognized for its local social history and its association with McNett.","period_of_significance":"c. 1860-c. 1954","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Italianate, Queen Anne, Eastlake","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":"Still used by the local grange chapter as a meeting place for social activities, though membership has dwindled over the past half-century.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.953134-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/05001533.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001533/f6dd439359-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001533/f6dd439359-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"eyesofibad","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belmont_Grange_No-_1243_2012-09-29_21-49-07.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">eyesofibad</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:Belmont_Grange_No-_1243_2012-09-29_21-49-07.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316397","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmont_Grange_No._1243","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4884356"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/allegany-county/belmont-grange-1243-05001533/"}