{"nrhp_refnum":"66000057","name":"Fort Stanwix National Monument","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Bounded by Dominick, Spring, Liberty, and James Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rome","county":"Oneida County","state":"NY","lat":43.210878295500066,"lon":-75.45525689121887,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1962-11-23","areas_of_significance":["Military"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Fort Stanwix National Monument is a 16.2-acre park at 112 E. Park Street in Rome, Oneida County, New York, holding a 1976-1978 reconstruction of an earlier fort built on the same site in 1758. The nomination treats the site of the original fort as the historic resource.","why_significant":"Old Fort Stanwix stood at the Oneida Carrying Place and controlled one of two water routes from Canada to New York. It hosted the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix, in which the Iroquois ceded a vast territory east of the Ohio River. Its 1777 defense by a 700-man American garrison repulsed the western prong of the British invasion and helped lead to Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga.","narrative":"Fort Stanwix National Monument occupies 16.2 acres in downtown Rome, New York, where a British fort was built in 1758. The present fort is a full reconstruction finished in 1976, with a second phase in 1978. It has a square layout measuring 220 feet on a side, pentagonal corner bastions, a berm, ditch, parapet and glacis, and five log structures on the parade ground. Because the fort is modern, the nomination treats the site of the original fort as the significant resource. Old Fort Stanwix guarded the Oneida Carrying Place, a key route between Canada and New York, and was the setting for the 1768 treaty in which the Iroquois ceded land east of the Ohio River. Its greatest importance came in August 1777, when a 700-man Continental garrison held out against the western prong of the British invasion, a factor in Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga. Excavations before reconstruction recovered about ten thousand 18th-century artifacts.","period_of_significance":"1758-1781 (original fort); reconstruction 1976-1978","architect_builder":"National Park Service","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition; a total reconstruction completed in 1976 (Phase 2 in 1978) with selected archeological features preserved. A modern maintenance building is excluded as non-contributing.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.210294-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/66000057.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000057/6184c35ba9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000057/6184c35ba9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"M Colangelo Sr","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Entrance_Bridge_to_Fort_Stanwix.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">M Colangelo Sr</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:The_Entrance_Bridge_to_Fort_Stanwix.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320203","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Stanwix_National_Monument","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5472096"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/oneida-county/fort-stanwix-national-monument-66000057/"}