{"nrhp_refnum":"06001146","name":"Conklin Town Hall","other_names":["Alpheus Corby Residence","The Castle"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1271 Conklin Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Conklin","county":"Broome County","state":"NY","lat":42.04944271100004,"lon":-75.80577414099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-12-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story concrete block building at 1271 Conklin Road in Conklin, Broome County, New York, built c1908 as the Alpheus Corby residence and used as the town hall since 1944. It is locally known as \"the Castle\".","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a representative example of early twentieth century concrete block domestic architecture in Broome County and the only known example of its type and style in the town. It is also significant as the seat of Conklin's town government and a community meeting place for more than sixty years.","narrative":"Known locally as \"the Castle,\" this concrete block building at 1271 Conklin Road was built around 1908 as the home of Alpheus Corby and his wife, Anna, on the site of his family's old farm. It has an irregular plan with three-story, two-story and one-story sections, crenellated parapets, a square tower and block faces painted to resemble stone. Corby, a former mechanic and builder, apparently designed the house and made the blocks himself, though accounts of its origins differ. The house reflects the early twentieth century enthusiasm for do-it-yourself cast-concrete block construction, and it is the only known example of its type and style in the town. Donated to the town in 1944, it has housed town offices and served as a community meeting place since. A large one-story addition built in 2002 at the rear replaced a carriage house. The original floor plan remains largely intact, and the building is a well-known local landmark.","period_of_significance":"1908-c1956","architect_builder":"Alpheus Corby","architectural_style":"Late Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"In use as the Conklin town hall; a rear addition was built in 2002 and the town is planning restoration of the removed upper porch.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.107061-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/06001146.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001146/d2f695d844-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001146/d2f695d844-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Ammodramus","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conklin_Town_Hall_from_SW_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ammodramus</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conklin_Town_Hall_from_SW_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316557","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conklin_Town_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5161221"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/broome-county/conklin-town-hall-06001146/"}