{"nrhp_refnum":"73001267","name":"Stockade Historic District","other_names":["See Also:Stockade Historic District (Boundary Increase)"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Mohawk River, RR tracks, and Union St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Schenectady","county":"Schenectady County","state":"NY","lat":42.818725975000035,"lon":-73.94608609268457,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-04-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A wedge-shaped historic district of about 57 acres in downtown Schenectady, New York, bounded by the Mohawk River, railroad tracks, Union Street and the Binne Kill. It grew from a Dutch village first established in 1664 and contains buildings from the 1700s through the 1920s.","why_significant":"The district has been continuously inhabited for over three hundred years and shows every phase of that history in its street patterns, dense building stock and range of architectural styles. It was the early Dutch village and a transshipment point on the westward route to the Mohawk. In 1962 it became the subject of the first historic district zoning ordinance in New York State, and private renovation kept it from decay and demolition.","narrative":"Schenectady's Stockade district is a village within a city: a wedge of downtown land between the Mohawk River, the Binne Kill and the railroad tracks. Settled by the Dutch in 1664 and burned by the French in 1690, it later served as the port where goods and travellers from Albany shifted to boats heading up the Mohawk. A fire in 1819 and the opening of the Erie Canal moved merchants to State Street, which helped save the older buildings. Today the district holds Dutch colonial houses, Federal and Greek Revival brick dwellings, Victorian-era alterations, 1890s railroad flats, churches, an old court house and 1920s Colonial Revival buildings, along with the stone abutment of Theodore Burr's bridge. Union College began here in 1795. In the 1950s residents began renovating decayed properties, and in 1962 the city adopted the first historic district zoning law in New York State.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Samuel Fuller, \"master builder of the Mohawk\" (built several pre-1800 buildings); Theodore Burr (designer of the wooden suspension bridge); Phillip Hooker (Union College architect)","architectural_style":"Wide mix: Dutch colonial, Georgian-influenced British style, Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Romanesque, Gothic Revival and Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked excellent and good; partly altered, partly unaltered. Occupied, with mixed residential, commercial, religious, educational and government uses. Protected by a 1962 historic zoning ordinance.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.765359-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/73001267.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001267/ac1b5f3635-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001267/ac1b5f3635-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lawrence_the_Indian_statue,_Schenectady,_NY.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:Lawrence_the_Indian_statue,_Schenectady,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321703","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockade_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7617933"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/schenectady-county/stockade-historic-district-73001267/"}