{"nrhp_refnum":"75001225","name":"Round Lake Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"U.S. 9","address_restricted":false,"city":"Round Lake and","county":"Saratoga County","state":"NY","lat":42.936766936000026,"lon":-73.79385159099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-04-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture","Religion","Philosophy"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential village district on a flat-topped knoll on the west side of Round Lake in the town of Malta, Saratoga County, New York, laid out as a Methodist camp meeting ground and built mainly in the late 19th century.","why_significant":"The village is a remarkably homogeneous collection of late 19th century wooden cottages with Gothic-inspired \"gingerbread\" trim, built within a short span around a central auditorium. It also has historical importance as a major Methodist camp meeting site that hosted large gatherings, a visit by President Grant in 1874, and temperance meetings. Its auditorium houses a historic Ferris organ.","narrative":"Round Lake is a village of closely spaced wooden cottages on a knoll beside Round Lake in Malta, Saratoga County. It began as a Methodist camp meeting ground, laid out on a wheel plan by Troy civil engineer H. Drube, with streets radiating from a central hub. At that hub stands a 2,000-seat auditorium built in 1884 on the site of the tabernacle tent, with a Stick Style bell tower. Its annex holds a Ferris organ, built about 1847-48 and moved from a New York City church in 1888. Most houses are modest cottages with gingerbread trim, ornate porches and bargeboards. Sixteen camp meetings took place between 1869 and 1877, including a national meeting that drew nearly 20,000 people, and President Grant visited in 1874. Temperance gatherings followed in 1878 and 1880. Later the camp became a summer cultural center, then a year-round community, incorporated as a village in 1968. Tall trees and open parks remain.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th century picturesque Gothic cottages with \"gingerbread\" trim; Stick Style bell tower on the auditorium","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked excellent, good, fair and deteriorated, and the district is occupied. Most cottages were converted to year-round use. Some unsympathetic alterations are noted, and the future of the large auditorium is a concern.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.906489-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/75001225.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001225/8e1ab83b71-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75001225/8e1ab83b71-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Round_Lake_Village_Inn_Round_Lake_Historic_District_Round_Lake_NY_Apr_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, 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:Round_Lake_Village_Inn_Round_Lake_Historic_District_Round_Lake_NY_Apr_09.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321616","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115951180"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/saratoga-county/round-lake-historic-district-75001225/"}