{"nrhp_refnum":"12000598","name":"White House, The","other_names":["James Butterfield House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"108 White House Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hartwick","county":"Otsego County","state":"NY","lat":42.69077863500004,"lon":-75.05874201218387,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-09-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, L-plan frame house built about 1792 for James Butterfield on rising land above the Otego Creek valley, in the Town of Hartwick, Otsego County, New York. The nominated 19-acre parcel also holds a barn, a corn crib, a brick library/bookstore and a modern tool shed.","why_significant":"The house is an early frontier-era dwelling in Otsego County, built in at least two phases and reusing an earlier house's chimney foundation. It was remodeled in the late 1930s and 1940s in Colonial Revival style, and it retains much original framing and fabric. The form treats it as locally significant, linked to the Butterfield family and the settlement of the area by New Englanders.","narrative":"Built about 1792 for James Butterfield, this white clapboard house sits on a rise overlooking the Otego Creek valley in Hartwick, Otsego County. It has a two-story, five-bay south front and an L-shaped plan with a roof that is gabled at the ends and hipped over the southeast corner. Inside, the frame shows at least two early building phases, with hewn and adzed timbers, numbered rafters, wrought nails and wide pine paneling reused from the original house. A restoration begun in the late 1930s, based on 1937 plans, gave it Colonial Revival details. The 19-acre property also has a barn from about 1870 enlarged in the late 1940s, a corn crib, and a brick library/bookstore built in 1948-1949. Its significance rests on its survival as an early dwelling of the frontier settlement era, when New England families came to newly created Otsego County, and on its long single-family ownership and later restoration.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Library/bookstore: Katz Waisman Blumenkranz Stein Weber Architecture Associates; 1937 house remodeling plans by Edgarton and Edgarton","architectural_style":"Federal: Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Historic and current use is a single dwelling. The current functions also include a specialty store.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:47.920273-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/12000598.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321008","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_House_(Hartwick,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23092165"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/otsego-county/white-house-the-12000598/"}