{"nrhp_refnum":"78001898","name":"Staats, Joachim, House and Gerrit Staats Ruin","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"N of Castleton-on-Hudson","address_restricted":false,"city":"Castleton-on-Hudson","county":"Rensselaer County","state":"NY","lat":42.570806197500076,"lon":-73.74890023169947,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-12-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Prehistoric","Historic - Aboriginal","Other","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district on Papscanee Island, north of Castleton-on-Hudson in Rensselaer County, New York, containing the c. 1700 stone Joachim Staats House, the ruin of the 1758 Gerrit Staats House, a family cemetery, a former sloop landing and archaeological areas.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is significant for its historical context and its archaeological potential. The Joachim Staats House preserves a rare architectural record of a Dutch family from before 1700 through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century changes, including early Dutch framing, wattle and daub, and a cone-shaped chimney. A test trench also showed prehistoric and historic remains that could document Indian occupations and the family's commercial activities.","narrative":"On Papscanee Island, a flat stretch of farmland along the Hudson River south of Albany, stands a cluster of resources tied to the Staats family. The centerpiece is the Joachim Staats House, a two-story fieldstone building dating to about 1700, with a brick addition of about 1790 and a wood addition of about 1880. Inside, it retains hand-planed floor joists, a wattle and daub wall, an early cone-shaped chimney and early eighteenth-century stairs. Nearby are a family cemetery on a knoll, the remains of a sloop landing and the brick ruin of the Gerrit Staats House, built in 1758 and gutted by fire in 1973. Joachim Staats, a trader and sloop owner, received the farm in 1696. A small trench dug for an electrical conduit turned up Indian and colonial-era artifacts, suggesting the grounds could yield further information about early occupation and the family's trade.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799, 1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Dutch","criteria":[],"status_note":"The Joachim Staats House has been continuously occupied since before 1700. The Gerrit Staats House is a standing brick ruin after a 1973 fire, with a house trailer beside it.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.645733-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/78001898.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321305","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Staats_House_and_Gerrit_Staats_Ruin","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14706655"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/rensselaer-county/staats-joachim-house-and-gerrit-staats-ruin-78001898/"}