{"nrhp_refnum":"76001224","name":"Paddock Arcade","other_names":["The Arcade"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Washington St. between Arsenal and Store Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Watertown","county":"Jefferson County","state":"NY","lat":43.974578346000044,"lon":-75.91099328799999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-06-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story brick commercial building on Washington Street at the west end of Public Square in Watertown, New York, built 1850-51 for Loveland Paddock. It contains a 174-foot vaulted shopping gallery running back to Arcade Street.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it a rare example of a nineteenth-century shopping arcade that has remained an important commercial and social center for 125 years. Its Gothic facade is one of the few remnants of Watertown's mid-nineteenth-century Gothic Public Square. Despite major alterations in 1922-23, the character of the enclosed, shop-lined promenade has been preserved.","narrative":"Paddock Arcade is a four-story brick commercial building at the west end of Watertown's Public Square. From the street it resembles a typical mid-nineteenth-century block, with a Gothic cornice and window hoods, but behind the facade runs a 174-foot vaulted gallery lined with shops. Merchant and banker Loveland Paddock had it built after a fire destroyed his earlier block in 1849; Chicago architect Otis Wheelock designed it, and it opened in 1851. Early tenants included the post office, a cafe, a newspaper office, telegraph and telephone offices, photographers, and various professionals. The building was sold in 1876 to Emma Keep Schley and later passed to the Henry Keep Home Association, which carried out major renovations in 1922-23. Half of the original building was demolished around 1916. Its sheltered promenade suits the region's snowy winters. It is valued as a rare surviving shopping arcade and a continuing downtown commercial and social hub.","period_of_significance":"1850-1899","architect_builder":"Otis L. Wheelock","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival with Italianate elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in good condition; still houses shops and offices on the first and second floors, while the third floor is no longer occupied.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.905033-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/76001224.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001224/1de7ef4489-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001224/1de7ef4489-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Rja141 at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PaddockArcade.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Rja141 at en.wikipedia</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PaddockArcade.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"84002409","name":"Public Square Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/public-square-historic-district-84002409/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318262","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddock_Arcade","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7123361"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/jefferson-county/paddock-arcade-76001224/"}