{"nrhp_refnum":"07001035","name":"Parker Training Academy Dutch Barn","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"527 Turkey Hill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Red Hook","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":42.02028545600007,"lon":-73.81716373699999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-10-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-bay heavy timber-frame New World Dutch barn on the grounds of the Parker Training Academy, off Turkey Hill Road in Red Hook, Dutchess County, New York, built in two campaigns around 1790 and 1810.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the barn is a representative, though relatively late, example of Dutch timber-frame construction using the bent framing system typical of the Hudson Valley. It documents how the building type evolved in its final years and is a rare reminder of the region's grain-based agricultural economy and Dutch and German building traditions.","narrative":"Set on the grounds of a state-operated facility off Turkey Hill Road in Red Hook, this heavy timber-frame barn is a surviving example of the New World Dutch barn type. Its four southern bents date to about 1790, and a fourth bay was added around 1810, likely using timbers reused from another barn. The hand-hewn, pegged frame has a central threshing floor with side aisles, and the broad gable ends, flush eaves and traces of a pentice and dove cote are typical of the type. Early twentieth-century changes include the wagon doors, a small concrete-walled excavation and an interior trough. The barn is regarded as a relatively late example, built as the Dutch barn was losing popularity in the Hudson Valley. Little is known about the farm it served. It is valued as a tangible, increasingly rare record of the grain-farming economy and carpentry traditions of the region's Dutch and German settlers. It is now vacant and used for storage, with some deterioration along the west side.","period_of_significance":"C. 1790-1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular (New World Dutch barn)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Listed current function is vacant/storage; the frame is mostly sound, but the west sill is rotting and the siding fails to enclose the building properly, allowing vermin in.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.339762-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/07001035.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001035/d81e632082-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001035/d81e632082-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parker_Training_Academy_Dutch_Barn,_Red_Hook,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</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:Parker_Training_Academy_Dutch_Barn,_Red_Hook,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317429","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Training_Academy_Dutch_Barn","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7138385"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/parker-training-academy-dutch-barn-07001035/"}