{"nrhp_refnum":"72000816","name":"Quackenbush House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"683 Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Albany","county":"Albany County","state":"NY","lat":42.65284723900004,"lon":-73.74896490599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-06-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story brick house at 683 Broadway, at the corner of Broadway and Quackenbush Street in downtown Albany, New York. It dates from the eighteenth century and shows Dutch influences.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the earliest known remaining example of an urban architecture once characteristic of Albany. Its Dutch-style gable-end roofline and layout recall the Dutch settlement of colonial Albany. Its second-story framing clearly dates from the eighteenth century, and it was reputedly used as a headquarters in the French and Indian War.","narrative":"Standing at the corner of Broadway and Quackenbush Street in downtown Albany, this two-and-a-half-story brick house is described as the earliest known remaining example of an urban building type once common in the city. Its gable end faces the main street in the Dutch manner, and the second story retains eighteenth-century floor boards, hand-wrought nails and half-timbered walls filled with brick. The exact construction date is unknown, but a house that appears to be this one shows on a 1740s engraved view of Albany, and building could date from about 1736, when Wouter Quackenbush left the property to his family. The family ran brick kilns nearby, and the house sat just outside the town stockade. The first floor was later remodeled as a store, a tavern and a bakery, and the family sold the house in 1868. Demolition of the surrounding blocks for an elevated road has left the old house standing alone once again, in deteriorated condition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Dutch-influenced colonial urban architecture","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as deteriorated and the building as unoccupied; it stands alone after surrounding nineteenth-century buildings were demolished for an elevated access road.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.58134-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/72000816.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000816/8c6bb9ed72-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000816/8c6bb9ed72-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"This image or media was taken or created by Matt H. Wade. To see his entire portfolio, click here.@thatmattwade This image is protected by copyright! If you would like to use it, please read this first.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quackenbush_House_2011_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">This image or media was taken or created by Matt H. Wade. To see his entire portfolio, click here.@thatmattwade This image is protected by copyright! If you would like to use it, please read this first.</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:Quackenbush_House_2011_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316313","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quackenbush_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7268241"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/albany-county/quackenbush-house-72000816/"}