{"nrhp_refnum":"08000516","name":"Town-Hollister Farm","other_names":["Salem Town House--Hollister Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NY 22","address_restricted":false,"city":"North Granville","county":"Washington County","state":"NY","lat":43.437894975000034,"lon":-73.34866833719525,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-06-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm on the south side of New York Route 22 in the hamlet of North Granville, Washington County, New York, centered on a Federal-style farmhouse built about 1810 with a group of 19th and early 20th century farm buildings and structures on about 275 acres.","why_significant":"The nomination cites the farm's architecture, a well-preserved early plank-construction Federal house with later Victorian changes, and its collection of agricultural buildings showing vernacular timber framing. It also notes direct ties to Salem Town, a Freemason and educator who built and lived in the house, and to the Hollister family, who farmed the land through the 19th and 20th centuries.","narrative":"This farm sits on the south side of Route 22 in North Granville, in Washington County, New York. Its centerpiece is a two-story Federal-style house built around 1810 using plank construction, in which vertical planking replaces studs. Original features include a modillioned wood cornice, a Palladian window, twelve-over-twelve sash, a fluted-pilaster entrance and an open-stringer stair. A full-length porch was added about 1890, and twentieth-century changes included picture windows and a porte-cochere. Behind the house stand a two-part timber barn, a cow barn, corn crib, silo, machinery shed, horse barn and hog house, along with an early turnpike marker reading \"5 M to Comstocks.\" Salem Town, a Freemason and educator, developed the property and lived there early in the 1800s. He sold it in 1833 to Captain Isaac Hollister, a farmer and joiner. The land has belonged to only two families, and the Hollisters expanded it to roughly 275 acres, farming it and adding cottage industries such as tinsmithing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal; Late Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still a working farm and single dwelling, owned by descendants of the Hollister family; one barn cluster is used for a carpentry business.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.829069-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/08000516.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322876","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town%E2%80%93Hollister_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7829872"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/washington-county/town-hollister-farm-08000516/"}