{"nrhp_refnum":"11000450","name":"Van Wie Farmstead","other_names":["Valley View Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"269 Brower Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"McKinley","county":"Montgomery County","state":"NY","lat":42.90276630000005,"lon":-74.52527909999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-07-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 150-acre farmstead on Brower Road in McKinley, Montgomery County, New York, with six contributing buildings: an 1873 Italianate farmhouse with a possibly earlier ell, a carriage barn, a barn complex begun in 1874, a hop barn of about 1884, a grain bin and a pole barn.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farmhouse is a finely crafted vernacular Italianate house, one of a small group of similar houses built by local craftsmen in a rural area. The farmstead also shows dairy and hop-farming history through its barns, including a rare surviving hop barn with its slatted drying floor. It is marked significant in architecture, social history and agriculture.","narrative":"Valley View Farm, historically the Van Wie Farmstead, covers about 150 acres along Brower Road, a rural road on a ridge above the Mohawk River Valley in McKinley, Montgomery County. Six buildings are counted: a two-story frame farmhouse built in 1873 with a rear ell that may date to about 1850, a carriage barn, a large multi-block barn complex begun in 1874, a hop barn of about 1884, a grain bin and a pole barn from about 1950. The house is a vernacular Italianate design with bracketed overhangs, hooded windows, a decorated porch and a curving stair with grained woodwork and cherry floors. The barn complex kept early twentieth-century milking stalls. Across the road, the hop barn retains a rare slatted drying-room floor. The nomination links the house to a local tradition of skilled builders interpreting fashionable styles. It was listed for architecture, social history and agriculture, covering 1873 to 1960. Dwelling and farm uses continue today.","period_of_significance":"1873-1960","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a dwelling and for agriculture (barn, agricultural fields); the current owner is slowly restoring the house.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.262237-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/11000450.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319057","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Wie_Farmstead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23092141"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/montgomery-county/van-wie-farmstead-11000450/"}