{"nrhp_refnum":"74001297","name":"Muitzes Kill Historic District","other_names":["Muitzeskill"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"An irregular pattern on both sides of Schodack Landing Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Schodack","county":"Rensselaer County","state":"NY","lat":42.47769737950006,"lon":-73.72499322811686,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-07-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural crossroads hamlet in the Town of Schodack, Rensselaer County, New York, at the junction of Muitzes Kill Road and Schodack Landing Road, covering about 270 acres of houses, barns, a church and former trade buildings.","why_significant":"The hamlet began as an early Dutch farming community and grew into a small milling and trading village serving about fifty families. Railroads built in 1840 and 1851 bypassed it, and building largely stopped by the 1870s. As a result it keeps the spatial relationships and character of a mid-19th century village.","narrative":"Muitzes Kill is a small crossroads hamlet in Schodack, Rensselaer County, New York, centered on the meeting of Muitzes Kill Road and Schodack Landing Road. The district covers roughly 270 acres and includes farmhouses, barns, a church, and converted trade buildings. The Reformed Church, built in 1876 on the foundations of an earlier Federal style meeting house, sits at the four corners. Nearby are a Dutch house linked to Nicholas Kittle, a Greek Revival farmhouse built between 1833 and 1840, and a brick house from the mid-1800s with a former carriage shop barn. Ten or so Dutch families had settled the area by the 1750s, and by the 1820s water-powered mills and local tradesmen served the surrounding farms. Railroads built in 1840 and 1851 bypassed the hamlet, ending its growth by the 1870s. The result is a village that keeps its mid-19th century layout and character, with only archeological traces of the mills remaining.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival and mid-19th century vernacular, with Dutch houses and a Victorian-influenced church","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked excellent, good and fair; the district is a mix of occupied private residences, farms and a church, with some former trade buildings converted to apartments or homes. Mills are gone except for archeological traces.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.75364-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/74001297.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001297/f97e285c83-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001297/f97e285c83-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muitzes_Kill_Historic_District-Reformed_Church_Jul_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States</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:Muitzes_Kill_Historic_District-Reformed_Church_Jul_09.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321260","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muitzes_Kill_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6933285"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/rensselaer-county/muitzes-kill-historic-district-74001297/"}