{"nrhp_refnum":"12000007","name":"Slingerlands Historic District (Additional Documentation)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"New Slingerlands & Mullens Rds., Bridge St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Slingerlands","county":"Albany County","state":"NY","lat":42.63198933100006,"lon":-73.86278264634169,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-02-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-mile linear hamlet historic district along New Scotland Road, with parts of Bridge Street and Mullens Road, in Slingerlands, Town of Bethlehem, Albany County, New York. It contains 102 contributing buildings, mostly houses dating from about 1790 to the 1940s.","why_significant":"The district shows three phases of development: early farmhouses, a Victorian-era expansion after the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad arrived by 1869, and early automobile-era housing. Victorian villas in Italianate, Queen Anne and Stick styles make up nearly half the buildings. The influential Slingerland family shaped much of the hamlet.","narrative":"Slingerlands is a linear hamlet strung along about a mile of New Scotland Road in the Town of Bethlehem, Albany County, with short stretches of Bridge Street and Mullens Road. Its 102 contributing buildings include large houses on generous lots, a Gothic Revival Methodist church built in 1871, a converted school, and a former industrial building turned residential. The oldest building began around 1790, and several Greek Revival farmhouses date from the early settlement period. Development accelerated after the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad, routed through Slingerland family lands, was completed here by 1869. Victorian villas followed from the 1870s, many with three-sided bay windows under prominent gables, colorful slate roofs and towers in Italianate, Queen Anne and Stick styles. A later phase brought bungalows, Colonial Revival houses, and Cape Cods, often built on subdivided lots. The Tollgate Ice Cream building of 1949 is closely tied to the hamlet's identity.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate; Commercial Style; Colonial Revival; Federal; Greek Revival; Queen Anne; Stick; Bungalow","criteria":[],"status_note":"Mostly in residential use, with a few small commercial buildings, a church, and a historic school converted to housing. The railroad freight house has been demolished.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:47.834479-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/12000007.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000007/8a0fbed1fb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000007/8a0fbed1fb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Slingerlands_United_Methodist_Church_Feb_11.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:Slingerlands_United_Methodist_Church_Feb_11.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316334","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingerlands_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7540690"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/albany-county/slingerlands-historic-district-additional-documentation-12000007/"}