{"nrhp_refnum":"79001652","name":"Yates County Courthouse Park District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Main, Court and Liberty Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Penn Yan","county":"Yates County","state":"NY","lat":42.66513254900008,"lon":-77.05744505699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-acre historic district in the village of Penn Yan, Yates County, New York, centered on Courthouse Park and four brick buildings: the 1835 Courthouse, the 1889 County Office Building, the 1904 Old County Jail and the First Baptist Church.","why_significant":"The district keeps the nineteenth-century park plan that grew from Abraham Wagener's 1823 land donation for the county seat. Its four buildings show Greek Revival, Romanesque Revival and Georgian Revival styles and represent the civic architecture of rural Yates County. All remain in continuous or adaptive use.","narrative":"Courthouse Park in Penn Yan, New York, is the only downtown open space in the village and anchors a small district of four brick buildings on about two acres. The land comes from Abraham Wagener's 1823 gift of a two-acre plot to the new Yates County for its seat. The Greek Revival courthouse of 1835 replaced an earlier building lost to fire in 1834. Beside it stands the Romanesque Revival County Office Building of 1889, built on the site of the former clerk's office. The Georgian Revival Old County Jail of 1904, designed by William Beardsley of Poughkeepsie, anchors the west side. The First Baptist Church, dedicated in 1871, is a Romanesque Revival building whose tower was rebuilt in 1899. A Civil War monument of 1883 and later memorials stand in the shaded park. The district was listed for keeping its nineteenth-century character and for representing the civic architecture of rural Yates County. Later rear additions are not conspicuous from the park.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"William Beardsley of Poughkeepsie (Old County Jail, 1904); others various, see inventory forms","architectural_style":"Greek Revival (Courthouse), Romanesque Revival (County Office Building, First Baptist Church), Georgian Revival (Old County Jail)","criteria":[],"status_note":"All buildings are in continuous use or adaptive reuse; the old jail's front section became county offices (County Building Annex) in 1978, and the condition is rated good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.563991-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/79001652.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001652/ada750ed0a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001652/ada750ed0a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Shuvaev","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yates_County_Courthouse,_Penn_Yan_NY_01.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Shuvaev</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yates_County_Courthouse,_Penn_Yan_NY_01.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"85000591","name":"Penn Yan Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/penn-yan-historic-district-85000591/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323380","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yates_County_Courthouse_Park_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8050206"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/yates-county/yates-county-courthouse-park-district-79001652/"}