{"nrhp_refnum":"71000515","name":"Albany Academy","other_names":["Joseph Henry House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Academy Park","address_restricted":false,"city":"Albany","county":"Albany County","state":"NY","lat":42.653092370000024,"lon":-73.75493800199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-02-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Science","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brownstone building with a high basement at Academy Park in Albany, New York, designed as the Albany Academy by architect Philip Hooker and erected between 1815 and 1817. It is now called the Joseph Henry Memorial.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of Philip Hooker's finest buildings, noting its Classical Revival details such as Ionic pilasters and a finely detailed cupola. It and the First Reformed Church on North Pearl Street are the only surviving Hooker works in Albany. It is also named for Joseph Henry, who taught there from 1826 and conducted experiments leading to important discoveries in electro-magnetics.","narrative":"Built between 1815 and 1817 as the Albany Academy, this brownstone building in Albany's Academy Park was designed by architect Philip Hooker. It has two stories over a high basement, a five-bay central block with three-bay wings, a hipped roof with a balustraded parapet, and a domed cupola with arched openings between pairs of Corinthian columns. Ionic pilasters separate the bays, and the rusticated brownstone basement and wing first stories add texture. A double flight of stairs leads to the main entrance on the north facade. The nomination regards it as one of Hooker's finest works and, with the First Reformed Church on North Pearl Street, one of only two of his buildings surviving in Albany. It now carries the name Joseph Henry Memorial, honoring Joseph Henry, appointed in 1826 to the Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at the Academy, where his experiments led to important discoveries in electro-magnetics. The building was restored in 1935.","period_of_significance":"1815-1817","architect_builder":"Philip Hooker","architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good; restored in 1935; altered; on original site; occupied and in educational and government use; owned by the City of Albany.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.520137-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/71000515.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000515/d727a45233-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000515/d727a45233-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Albany_Academy_Building_2015.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</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:Old_Albany_Academy_Building_2015.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"78001837","name":"Lafayette Park Historic","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/lafayette-park-historic-78001837/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316148","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Albany_Academy_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13444376"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/albany-county/albany-academy-71000515/"}