{"nrhp_refnum":"12000245","name":"Mohawk Valley Grange Hall","other_names":["Union Hall","Moser Hall"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"274 Sugar Hill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Grooms Corners","county":"Saratoga County","state":"NY","lat":42.835374760000036,"lon":-73.84309020799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-04-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half-story timber frame hall at 274 Sugar Hill Road in the hamlet of Grooms Corners, Town of Clifton Park, Saratoga County, New York. It was built in 1896 as Union Hall, with a shed-roofed kitchen and dining addition built in 1934.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the hall is locally significant for its link to the social and agricultural history of Clifton Park. It served as a community gathering place and, from 1931, as the home of Mohawk Valley Grange No. 1495 until the Grange deeded it to the town in 2004. It also shows the typical features of a Grange hall, including a stage, a large open meeting space and a kitchen and dining room.","narrative":"Built in 1896 as Union Hall on land sold by Gidley Palmer, this timber frame building in Grooms Corners, Clifton Park, began as a community meeting place. Its deed barred immoral uses and the sale of intoxicating drinks. The Mohawk Valley Grange, organized in 1924, first leased the hall and bought it in 1931. In 1934 builder Charles Jump added a kitchen and dining room. The hall has a steeply pitched metal roof, wooden clapboards, a stone foundation and a stage inside. For decades it hosted Grange meetings, square dances, plays, flower shows, Boy Scout and board meetings, and an annual oyster supper held from 1927 to 1984. As suburban growth after the 1960s replaced farms, Grange membership dropped, and the Grange deeded the hall to the Town of Clifton Park in 2004. The nomination presents the building as one of the few remaining links to the town's farming past and as a typical, though modest, example of a Grange hall.","period_of_significance":"1896-1960","architect_builder":"Unknown; Charles Jump (1934 add)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Owned by the Town of Clifton Park since 2004. The Grange was allowed to keep meeting there, and the current function is listed as theater (recreation and culture). Some addition ceiling panels were damaged by a roof leak, and the north windows are covered with painted plywood.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.336354-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/12000245.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000245/f45fde03f5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000245/f45fde03f5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Vijay Nayak","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mohawk_Valley_Grange_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Vijay Nayak</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:Mohawk_Valley_Grange_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321596","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk_Valley_Grange_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23091943"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/saratoga-county/mohawk-valley-grange-hall-12000245/"}