{"nrhp_refnum":"76001275","name":"Langmuir, Irving, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1176 Stratford Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Schenectady","county":"Schenectady County","state":"NY","lat":42.81527112750007,"lon":-73.91963591235876,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-01-07","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1976-01-07","areas_of_significance":["Science"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2½-story brick house at 1176 Stratford Road in Schenectady, New York, built around 1900 in a vernacular Colonial Revival style. Nobel Prize-winning chemist Irving Langmuir lived there from about 1919 until his death in 1957.","why_significant":"The house is tied to Irving Langmuir, a General Electric Research Laboratory scientist who won the 1932 Nobel Prize in chemistry. He made major discoveries in surface chemistry, atomic hydrogen and plasma, and held 63 patents. The form presents him as an archetype of the industrial research scientist, and the house is unchanged from his time there.","narrative":"This brick house on Stratford Road in Schenectady, New York, was built around 1900 in a vernacular Colonial Revival style. It has two and a half stories, a truncated hip roof with two dormers, a nearly symmetrical facade, a carport with a side entrance, and a columned front porch with a Palladian-style door. Inside, a central hall plan organizes the rooms. The nomination describes it as a large, pleasant house of no particular architectural importance. Its significance rests on Irving Langmuir, who lived here from about 1919 until his death in 1957. A General Electric Research Laboratory scientist from 1909 to 1950, he won the 1932 Nobel Prize in chemistry, published more than 200 papers and held 63 patents, including the gas-filled incandescent lamp. He also coined the term plasma. The exterior and interior remain as they were during his residence, and the house was designated a national historic landmark.","period_of_significance":"1919-1957","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is stated as excellent and unaltered, on its original site, and in use as a private residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.931375-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/76001275_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001275/fa282e2e3e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001275/fa282e2e3e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Irving_Langmuir_House_2008.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"http://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:Irving_Langmuir_House_2008.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"80002763","name":"General Electric Realty Plot","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/general-electric-realty-plot-80002763/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316061","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Langmuir_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14706560"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/schenectady-county/langmuir-irving-house-76001275/"}