{"nrhp_refnum":"11000542","name":"Greenman, William J., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"27 N. Church St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cortland","county":"Cortland County","state":"NY","lat":42.60606101800005,"lon":-76.17735405699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-08-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half-story Queen Anne style house at 27 North Church Street in Cortland, New York, built in 1896 for William J. Greenman by builder John Ireland from a published George F. Barber design.","why_significant":"It is significant under Criterion C as a substantially intact example of a Queen Anne house based on George Franklin Barber's House No. 1 from his 1895 American Homes. The Cortland house copies Barber's second floor plan exactly, with virtually no changes. It is one of at least three known examples of this design in the United States and illustrates the early mail-order house trade.","narrative":"Built in 1896 at 27 North Church Street in Cortland, this Queen Anne style house was constructed for William J. Greenman, president of the Cortland Door & Window Screen Company. It follows House No. 1 from George Franklin Barber's 1895 magazine American Homes, and its floor plan matches Barber's published plan with virtually no changes. Barber ran a large mail-order architecture office in Knoxville, Tennessee, and this is one of at least three known examples of the design, the others being in Alabama and Illinois. Local builder John Ireland carried out the construction. The clapboard house sits on a rusticated stone foundation and has wraparound porches with turned woodwork, half-timbered gables, a multi-sided attic tower and a decorated south elevation. Inside, extensive woodwork, mantels, pocket doors and inlaid floors survive. Converted to apartments in the mid-twentieth century, it now serves as an office building and has been carefully maintained.","period_of_significance":"1896","architect_builder":"George Franklin Barber, Architect; John Ireland, Builder","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Currently used as an office building; it was converted to apartments in the mid-twentieth century, which changed some of the floor plan, but its historic character is described as not compromised and the plan could be restored.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:47.873062-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/11000542.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000542/fbaa6f597c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000542/fbaa6f597c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WILLIAM_J._GREENMAN_HOUSE,_CORTLAND_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WILLIAM_J._GREENMAN_HOUSE,_CORTLAND_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317147","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Greenman_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23091702"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/cortland-county/greenman-william-j-house-11000542/"}