{"nrhp_refnum":"12000832","name":"Cornell-Manchester Farmstead","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"292 Lower Pine Valley Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hoosick Falls","county":"Rensselaer County","state":"NY","lat":42.87767677550005,"lon":-73.43182028488846,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-10-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 141-acre farmstead on Lower Pine Valley Road in the Town of Pittstown (Hoosick Falls address), Rensselaer County, New York. It has two groups of buildings centered on 19th-century houses, with outbuildings from about 1800 to the 21st century.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the farm as a long-running family farmstead. Generations of the Manchester family and then the Cornell family worked it, and the surviving houses and outbuildings document changing agricultural practice from the early 1800s through the mid-20th century. The Cornells' post-1940 poultry, hay and corn buildings add to this record. The farm is part of the Pittstown Farmsteads group.","narrative":"Along Lower Pine Valley Road in eastern Pittstown, this 141-acre farmstead includes two groups of buildings, each centered on a 19th-century frame house. The eastern house began as a wing built around 1820-40, gained a second wing before 1850, and was remodeled about 1900 into a two-family dwelling with Queen Anne porches. Nearby stand a hewn-frame tool barn and grain house, a pig house, a blacksmith's shop, a brick smokehouse and an oat barn, all built by the Manchester family. A western house dates to about 1860. After Ira Cornell bought the farm in 1940, his family added hen houses, hay sheds, corn cribs and garages. Of 25 resources, 18 are counted as contributing. About 40 percent of the land remains open for tillage, hay and grazing. The property is listed because its buildings and land show how one farm evolved across several generations of two families, from the early 1800s into the later twentieth century.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century","criteria":[],"status_note":"The farm is still worked by the Cornell family. About 40% of the land remains open, tilled, hayed or grazed, and the east house is a family home. The blacksmith's shop is deteriorated.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:47.933374-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/12000832.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314484","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell%E2%80%93Manchester_Farmstead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23091479"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/rensselaer-county/cornell-manchester-farmstead-12000832/"}