{"nrhp_refnum":"06000255","name":"Sanders, James, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"546 Garden St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Little Falls","county":"Herkimer County","state":"NY","lat":43.04532476000003,"lon":-74.85727670299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-04-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Federal-style house at 546 Garden Street in Little Falls, Herkimer County, New York, built in 1827 as the residence of local builder/contractor James Sanders. The nominated parcel also holds a carriage barn and a garage/equipment barn.","why_significant":"The nomination finds it significant under Criterion C as a notable and substantially intact example of brick Federal period residential architecture in Little Falls. It retains integrity of design and materials reflecting building practice in this Erie Canal community in the early nineteenth century. Its segmental-arched Federal entrance is called a notable surviving example of its type and period in the area.","narrative":"Built in 1827, this two-story brick house on Garden Street in Little Falls was the home of James Sanders, a local building contractor who arrived during the building boom that followed the Erie Canal's opening through the town. Sanders is known to have worked on the canal in 1823 and erected mills, residences and civic buildings, including the original Little Falls Academy. The house has five bays, a center-hall plan, a limestone foundation, and a basement kitchen where the cooking hearth survives. Its segmental-arched entrance with sidelights and transom, mutule-accented cornice and delicate Federal interior trim reflect the influence of New England craftsmen in the Mohawk Valley. A rear wing, a mid-nineteenth-century carriage barn and a 1930s agricultural equipment barn complete the parcel. The house was listed for its architecture, as a well-preserved reminder of the town's early canal-era development. It remains a private single-family residence today.","period_of_significance":"1827-circa 1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic/Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single-family dwelling, as in its historic function; the rear wing holds a modern kitchen, bathrooms and bedrooms.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.268099-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/06000255.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000255/63e23ae29b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000255/63e23ae29b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Upstate New York","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Sanders_House_Jun_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Upstate New York</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:James_Sanders_House_Jun_09.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318194","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Sanders_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14706620"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/herkimer-county/sanders-james-house-06000255/"}