{"nrhp_refnum":"11000326","name":"Schoolhouse No. 5","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5942 Dunk Hill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hamden","county":"Delaware County","state":"NY","lat":42.26996416600008,"lon":-75.08512216999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-06-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small one-room, wood-frame rural schoolhouse at 5942 Dunk Hill Road in the far northwest corner of Hamden, Delaware County, New York, built in 1858 with a nearby woodshed and an enclosed schoolyard.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a representative, intact example of a mid-nineteenth-century one-room schoolhouse in Hamden, embodying local building traditions with modest Greek Revival details. Its stone-walled schoolyard, Arbor Day trees and woodshed add to its integrity. It served the town's children from 1858 to 1954, documenting a century of local education.","narrative":"Built in the winter of 1857-1858, this one-room schoolhouse sits on Dunk Hill Road in the far northwest corner of Hamden, close to the Walton and Franklin town lines. It is a small rectangular wood-frame building with clapboard siding, a fieldstone foundation, a broad gable roof and a heavy timber frame. It first served Joint District 20, drawing students from Hamden, Franklin and Walton, and became Hamden District School No. 5 in 1868. A vestibule was added and the original nine-over-six windows were replaced with two-over-two sash between 1900 and 1937. Inside, later wall finishes cover original plaster, and a cast-iron stove still heats the room. The property includes a nineteenth-century woodshed and a schoolyard bounded by a low dry-laid fieldstone wall, with maples and a spruce likely planted by students for Arbor Day. The school operated until 1954 and is regarded as a representative record of rural education in the town over a century. It is currently vacant.","period_of_significance":"1858-1954","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No style (extremely modest Greek Revival details noted in the narrative)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as currently vacant; the interior has temporary partitions marking living spaces that are being removed, and the window sash is in poor condition.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.846722-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/11000326.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000326/555895326f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000326/555895326f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Vonsky87","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schoolhouse_No._5_Hamden,_NY.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Vonsky87</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:Schoolhouse_No._5_Hamden,_NY.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317261","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolhouse_No._5","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15275700"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/delaware-county/schoolhouse-no-5-11000326/"}