{"nrhp_refnum":"10000105","name":"Oswego Yacht Club","other_names":["New York State Naval Militia Building","McCrobie Civic Center"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"41 Lake St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oswego","county":"Oswego County","state":"NY","lat":43.46429457000005,"lon":-76.52103436499993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-03-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History","Military"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A waterfront clubhouse at 41 Lake Street in Oswego, New York, on the shore of Lake Ontario. Its center section was built 1914-1919 as the Oswego Yacht Club, and two wings were added in 1949-50 for the New York State Naval Militia; it is now the McCrobie Civic Center.","why_significant":"It is significant under Criterion A for its link to organized yachting on Lake Ontario and for its 20th-century use as a Naval Militia armory and U.S. Naval Reserve training center. Under Criterion C, the original section is associated with Rochester architect Claude Bragdon and is an Arts and Crafts building with Colonial Revival features. The added wings complement it and make a rare mid-century naval building.","narrative":"Overlooking Lake Ontario at 41 Lake Street in Oswego, this shingled clubhouse began as the home of the Oswego Yacht Club, which was organized in 1881 and chartered in 1883. The center section was started in 1914 and opened in 1919, with a ballroom, fireplace and sunroom. Rochester architect Claude Bragdon, who spent his teenage years in Oswego, prepared the preliminary plans, and local contractor Peter Raby built the foundation. Declining membership during the Depression led the club to sell the property to New York State in 1935 for use as a Naval Militia armory. In 1949-50 two matching two-story wings were added with U.S. Navy funding, and the building was dedicated as an armory and Naval Reserve Training Center in 1950. The naval units left in 1976, and the city bought it in 1978 for municipal and recreational use. It is valued both for yachting history and as a rare naval training building.","period_of_significance":"1914-1958","architect_builder":"Claude Bragdon, Peter Raby, architects","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival (Arts and Crafts center section with Colonial Revival features)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Now used as the McCrobie Civic Center, a municipal and recreational facility owned by the city of Oswego since 1978.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.590285-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/10000105.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000105/b2d576c498-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10000105/b2d576c498-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Electro22","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oswego_Yacht_Club.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Electro22</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:Oswego_Yacht_Club.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314327","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswego_Yacht_Club","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7108245"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/oswego-county/oswego-yacht-club-10000105/"}