{"nrhp_refnum":"72000893","name":"Root, Elihu, House","other_names":["Grant House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"101 College Hill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Clinton","county":"Oneida County","state":"NY","lat":43.04861440400006,"lon":-75.404649416976,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-11-28","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1972-11-28","areas_of_significance":["Military","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rambling two-story clapboard house at 101 College Hill Road in Clinton, Oneida County, New York, across from the Hamilton College campus. The main part was built in 1817 for Theodore Strong, the college's first Professor of Mathematics, and later became the home of Elihu Root.","why_significant":"It was the permanent home of Elihu Root, who bought it in 1893 and is called \"the father of the modern American army.\" Root was Secretary of War and Secretary of State under Roosevelt, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912, and was a leading conservative voice. The house sits near his birthplace and boyhood home, and it keeps furnishings from his lifetime.","narrative":"This yellow clapboard house on College Hill Road in Clinton, New York, faces the entrance to Hamilton College. Its core was built in 1817 for Theodore Strong, the college's first Professor of Mathematics, and it later served as a boardinghouse, gaining a rear dormitory wing. Elihu Root, born nearby in 1845, bought it in 1893 with four acres and made it his permanent home. In the early 1900s he removed Victorian porches in favor of ones suited to the house's Federal simplicity, and he added a large living room, a pedimented portico and servants' quarters. Root served as Secretary of War and Secretary of State under Theodore Roosevelt, reorganized the army, helped create the Army War College, and received the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize. He retired to Clinton and died there in 1937. The house still holds much of his furniture and remains in excellent condition, near the Root Glen gardens.","period_of_significance":"1893-1937","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition and unaltered, on its original site, and maintained as a part-time private residence by Root's descendants.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.588739-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/72000893_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000893/2fea95e195-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000893/2fea95e195-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"lvklock","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ElihuRootHouse1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">lvklock</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ElihuRootHouse1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315995","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elihu_Root_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5360860"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/oneida-county/root-elihu-house-72000893/"}