{"nrhp_refnum":"73001231","name":"Whitestown Town Hall","other_names":["Courthouse"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"8 Park Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Whitesboro","county":"Oneida County","state":"NY","lat":43.12108828000004,"lon":-75.29131189899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-11-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick building on the Village Green at 8 Park Avenue in Whitesboro, Town of Whitestown, Oneida County, New York, completed in 1807 as the Oneida County Court House and now used as town and village offices.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is significant for its neo-Classical architectural qualities and for its association with Hugh White, an early and important settler of Central New York after the Revolutionary War. White deeded the land for the courthouse site in 1801. The building served as a court house for fifty years and then continued as a center of local government.","narrative":"Whitestown Town Hall is a two-story brick building on the Village Green in Whitesboro, New York. Completed in 1807 as the Oneida County Court House, it has a five-bay facade with four two-story pilasters, a triangular pediment joining a hipped roof, and an octagonal cupola with a shallow dome. The design is simple and bold, and the nomination likens it to works by Robert Mills. The interior has been altered, including subdivided second-floor courtrooms, and an enclosed stair was added at the rear. Its importance also rests on Hugh White, who settled the area in 1784, gave the town its name, served as a county judge, and deeded the site to Oneida County in 1801. The land later returned to his heirs, and his grandson Philo White donated it to the community again in 1860. After courts moved to Utica, the building continued as a center of local government and still houses town and village offices.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date 1807)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Neo-Classical, with similarity to Georgian public buildings; affinity to designs by Robert Mills","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked good and altered; the interior has been subdivided and changed. It is occupied and houses the village and town offices.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.168205-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/73001231.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001231/a25a3fd8e4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001231/a25a3fd8e4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whitestown_Town_Hall_Jan_12.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whitestown_Town_Hall_Jan_12.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320287","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitestown_Town_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7996287"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/oneida-county/whitestown-town-hall-73001231/"}