{"nrhp_refnum":"100008321","name":"Fort Plain Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Portions of Abbott, Canal, Hancock, Beck, Clyde, Douglas, Edwards, Erie, Garfield, Hancock, Henry, Herkimer, High, Main, Reid, River, Roof, State, Wagner, Webster, Willett, and Witter Sts., Clark, Clinton, Gilbert, Silk, and Waddell Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Plain","county":"Montgomery County","state":"NY","lat":42.93083333,"lon":-74.62277778,"geom_source":"wikidata"},"listed_date":"2022-10-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district covering most of the Village of Fort Plain, Town of Minden, Montgomery County, New York, a canal-era village developed largely by about 1920. It contains 539 contributing resources, mainly buildings, along with a few sites, a structure and objects.","why_significant":"The district preserves a largely intact Erie Canal village with warehouses and storefronts on Canal Street, mills, churches, civic buildings and housing in styles from Federal to Queen Anne. The streetscapes keep the massing and density they had by the late 1800s. The village shows the social and economic range of a prosperous nineteenth-century canal community.","narrative":"Fort Plain Historic District takes in most of the Montgomery County village that grew up beside the Erie Canal and the Mohawk River, at the mouth of Otsquago Creek. Its street plan was laid out in anticipation of the canal and still follows an early grid, superimposed on older, narrow river-front farm lots. The district holds 539 contributing resources, mostly buildings. Canal Street keeps a row of three-story warehouses and storefronts, while Main Street and Willett Street preserve evidence of water-powered and steam-powered industry, including the Red Mill and a brick axle and spring works. Churches from the 1870s to about 1900, an Italianate village hall, a 1915 Beaux-Arts high school and a hilltop cemetery add to the mix. Houses range from the 1786 Isaac Paris house to Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate and Queen Anne examples, including a Queen Anne neighborhood on Prospect Street. Local limestone appears in foundations and in surviving canal fragments. The former canal route is now State Street.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Various (Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Beaux-Arts and others)","criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:47.735663-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/12000510.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/100008321/8401b347db-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/100008321/8401b347db-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_Plain_VIllage_Hall_Fort_Plain_Historic_District_Apr_10.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_Plain_VIllage_Hall_Fort_Plain_Historic_District_Apr_10.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319009","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Plain_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23091580"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/montgomery-county/fort-plain-historic-district-boundary-increase-100008321/"}