{"nrhp_refnum":"78001900","name":"Chatham Street Row","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Chatham St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Nassau","county":"Rensselaer County","state":"NY","lat":42.51486553250004,"lon":-73.61069471588472,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-12-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A row of five adjacent 19th-century buildings (Nos. 14-22) on the west side of Chatham Street in the village of Nassau, Town of Nassau, Rensselaer County, New York, built between 1812 and about 1880.","why_significant":"The five buildings form an intact period streetscape that looks much like 1895 photographs, in contrast to the altered village center and later Chatham Street cottages. The group illustrates Nassau's steady nineteenth-century prosperity as a stage-route village, with Federal, Eastlake and commercial architecture.","narrative":"Five neighboring buildings on the west side of Chatham Street in Nassau, New York, make up this row, dating from 1812 to about 1880. They include the brick Federal-style Philip Cook House of about 1812, the 1839 former Dutch Reformed Church parsonage with an attic fanlight and slender corner pilasters, a small frame store built in 1864 that later housed a watchmaker, a carriage factory and a confectioner, and two 1870s houses with Eastlake detailing. One of these, a rural villa with a veranda across its facade, lost its tower to fire. Nassau grew as a stop on the Albany to Boston stage route and was incorporated in 1819. Much of its center has since been altered or demolished, and later houses on Chatham Street have been resided. This group was recognized because its exteriors remain largely intact, its appearance resembles 1895 photographs, and it preserves the look of the village's nineteenth-century growth.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Smith Van Valkenburg (built the 1864 store at No. 14)","architectural_style":"Federal; Eastlake/rural villa; Queen Anne additions","criteria":[],"status_note":"Exteriors are described as quite intact with no intrusions; the buildings are occupied private residences.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.781272-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/78001900.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321196","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Street_Row","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5087692"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/rensselaer-county/chatham-street-row-78001900/"}