{"nrhp_refnum":"06001004","name":"Fly Creek Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NY 28, NY 80, cty Rd. 26, Cemetery Rd., Goose St. Allison Rd., Bissell Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fly Creek","county":"Otsego County","state":"NY","lat":42.72133144950007,"lon":-74.97507593774256,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-11-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Communications","Industry","Social History","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district in the town of Otsego, Otsego County, New York, made up of three hamlet clusters (Pail Shop Corners, the unincorporated village of Fly Creek, and Marvin's Mills) in the Oaks Creek valley, with about 150 properties and adjoining farms.","why_significant":"The district holds the largest concentration of intact resources showing how the Fly Creek hamlet grew around its mill sites from the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century. It keeps houses, commercial, industrial, social, religious and trolley-related buildings, farms and three cemeteries. The sections provided do not include the full Section 8 statement, so the argument is inferred mainly from the description.","narrative":"Fly Creek is a historic district in the town of Otsego, Otsego County, New York, covering three hamlet clusters in the Oaks Creek valley: Pail Shop Corners, the turnpike hamlet known as the village of Fly Creek, and Marvin's Mills. Each cluster grew around a mill site on a stream crossing, and residents have called them collectively Fly Creek since the early twentieth century. The district includes about 150 properties, most of them frame houses in vernacular Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate and Queen Anne styles. Stores, a grange hall, schools, churches, trolley-related buildings, three graveyards and several adjoining dairy farms round out the community. Two resources, the Fly Creek Grange No. 844 and the Fly Creek Methodist Church, were already listed. The district was drawn to capture the densest group of intact resources showing how the hamlet developed, and infill is minimal. Possible archaeological remains at the mill sites have not yet been investigated.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Various; vernacular Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne and Georgian Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Largely intact and still in use as homes, shops, churches, meeting halls and cemeteries; no one farms within the district now, and some buildings are deteriorated.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:54.055204-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/06001004.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314343","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_Creek_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5463148"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/otsego-county/fly-creek-historic-district-06001004/"}