{"nrhp_refnum":"71000535","name":"Clermont","other_names":["Livingston Lower Manor"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Clermont State Park","address_restricted":false,"city":"Germantown","county":"Columbia County","state":"NY","lat":42.08348394300006,"lon":-73.91861560374217,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-02-18","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1972-11-28","areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Clermont, also called the Livingston Lower Manor House, is a three-story stuccoed brick mansion in Clermont State Park, Germantown, Columbia County, New York. The present house was built soon after the British burned an earlier house on the site in 1777.","why_significant":"The nomination ties the house to Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), a revolutionary leader, Continental Congress delegate, first Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Louisiana Purchase negotiator. He also backed Robert Fulton's steamboat ventures, and Fulton's first successful ship was named The Clermont. The house also holds a large collection of Federal and Empire furniture, some original to it.","narrative":"Clermont is a three-story mansion in Clermont State Park at Germantown, Columbia County, New York. Its brick walls are covered with white-painted stucco scored to look like stone blocks, and its hipped slate roof has alternating bands of square and fish-scale shingles. The site was part of a vast Livingston family estate, and about 1730 a house known as the Lower Manor House was built here. British forces burned it in 1777, and the present building went up soon afterward, incorporating walls of the older structure. Robert R. Livingston, who lived here, was a revolutionary leader, a delegate to the Continental Congress, the first Secretary of Foreign Affairs and a negotiator of the Louisiana Purchase. He also supported Robert Fulton's steamboat work, and Fulton's first successful vessel carried the name Clermont. Livingston family members lived in the house into the early twentieth century and altered it, most notably by adding a third floor and hipped roof. It now operates as a museum furnished with Federal and Empire pieces.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Operated as a museum open to the public during specified hours; condition listed as good, altered, and on its original site; owned by the State of New York.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.766558-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/71000535.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000535/c2d2c39368-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000535/c2d2c39368-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hudson_view_from_Clermont_Manor.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Hudson_view_from_Clermont_Manor.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"90002219","name":"Hudson River Heritage Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/hudson-river-heritage-historic-district-90002219/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316966","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clermont_State_Historic_Site","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5131930"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/columbia-county/clermont-71000535/"}