{"nrhp_refnum":"12000261","name":"Stewart House and Howard-Stewart Family Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"583 NY 10","address_restricted":false,"city":"South Jefferson","county":"Schoharie County","state":"NY","lat":42.44690356600006,"lon":-74.58169773599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-05-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A mid-19th-century Greek Revival farmhouse at 583 State Route 10 in South Jefferson, Schoharie County, New York, probably built in the 1850s for Elijah Stewart, together with a small family cemetery across the road.","why_significant":"The house is a locally important, highly intact example of a gable-front, upright-and-wing farmhouse with Greek Revival detailing, and its construction reflects farmers gaining free title to their land after decades of tenancy. The cemetery is an intact private family burial ground tied to the earliest European settlement of the property and holds genealogical information not found elsewhere.","narrative":"Set on Blenheim Hill in the town of Jefferson, this nominated property combines a farmhouse with a family cemetery located across State Route 10. The house is a two-story, timber-framed, front-gable building with a side wing, clad in clapboards and resting on a cut limestone foundation. Classical details include Doric corner pilasters, a full pediment and a detailed entrance surround. It was probably built in the 1850s for Elijah Stewart, who settled on the farm in 1842. Its construction reflects a period when local farmers finally gained title to their land after years of paying rent to landlords, which made lasting investment in buildings safe. The Howard-Stewart cemetery, enclosed by a dry-laid stone wall with an iron gate, holds thirteen known burials from 1828 to 1881. It is associated with the earliest European settlement of the property and with the Howard and Stewart families, and it survives with high integrity despite some overgrowth.","period_of_significance":"1828-1881","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Both the house and the cemetery are in historic use as a single dwelling and a cemetery. The cemetery shows overgrowth and some toppled stones from deferred maintenance. No outbuildings survive.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.505805-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/12000261.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321780","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_House_and_Howard%E2%80%93Stewart_Family_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23073926"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/schoharie-county/stewart-house-and-howard-stewart-family-cemetery-12000261/"}