{"nrhp_refnum":"16000742","name":"County Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"N. Bank of Mohawk R","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fonda","county":"Montgomery County","state":"NY","lat":42.89917944450005,"lon":-74.48969401831565,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-08-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Archeology","Architecture","Politics/Government","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 352-acre county farm on the north bank of the Mohawk River near Fonda, Montgomery County, New York, with a complex of about twenty buildings centered on an early Federal-style brick Schenck homestead. It has been the county's welfare site since 1899.","why_significant":"The farm is significant for its association with county welfare programs since 1899 and with early Mohawk Valley settlement and prominent families such as the Schenck family. It has archaeological potential, including a documented but unexcavated Native American site. Its farm buildings show vernacular building methods and landscape design, notably the Federal Schenck homestead and the Dutch barn.","narrative":"Set on 352 acres along the north bank of the Mohawk River, this county farm is bisected by Canagara (Knauderack) Creek and bounded by wooded escarpments that shelter broad cropland. About twenty buildings cluster near the center. The main building is the Schenck homestead, a two-story, five-bay Federal brick house later given Victorian dormers, a Colonial Revival porch and rear wings. Two identical hip-roofed four-square residences from the turn of the century flank it, with sheds, garages and barns to the north, including a large hay barn with an octagonal silo. West of the creek stands a deteriorating Dutch-type barn altered with a Victorian cupola. The county bought the land in 1899 and 1937, and it has hosted welfare programs since 1899. The farm is valued for its ties to early Mohawk Valley settlement, its vernacular buildings and landscape, and a reported early seventeenth-century Mohawk village site that has never been excavated.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal (Schenck homestead); New World Dutch-type barn; vernacular farm buildings","criteria":["A","C","D"],"status_note":"The large Dutch-type barn is described as deteriorating; the property is a county farm with an associated county home complex.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.515807-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/16000742.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313674","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/montgomery-county/county-farm-16000742/"}