{"nrhp_refnum":"09000573","name":"Dick House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"641 Co. Rte. 8","address_restricted":false,"city":"Germantown","county":"Columbia County","state":"NY","lat":42.12862896900003,"lon":-73.85511143799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-07-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame Italianate house at 641 County Route 8 in Germantown, Columbia County, New York, built about 1860, with flat-roofed south and west wings. Two small, deteriorated farm structures on the lot are noncontributing.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a locally significant, largely intact example of restrained Italianate domestic design from the period just after the Greek Revival. It also has associations with the Dick family, who were steamboat engineers on the Hudson River and fruit growers in Germantown, notably Peter H. Dick and his son Alfred H. Dick.","narrative":"Built around 1860 east of the hamlet of Germantown in Columbia County, New York, this frame house shows how the Italianate style arrived in a rural farming area. Its five-bay, gable-ended main block has a center hall plan, clapboard siding, a decorated front porch and two-over-two windows, with flat-roofed kitchen and rear wings added to the south and west. The design is restrained, and the interior finishes largely survive from the original building campaign, including plaster walls, pine floors, paneled doors and a slate mantel. Only minor changes around 1900 are noted. The house is also tied to the Dick family, who settled the region in the 18th century. Peter H. Dick and his son Alfred H. Dick both worked on Hudson River steamboats before returning to run the family fruit farm, which shipped pears and apples to New York City and Europe. The house survives as a reminder of that agricultural and river-trade history.","period_of_significance":"c. 1860- c.1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used as a single dwelling, historically and currently; two small farm structures on the property are in advanced deterioration.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.475056-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/09000573.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316984","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14706240"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/columbia-county/dick-house-09000573/"}