{"nrhp_refnum":"80002600","name":"New Stone Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Center St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Franklin","county":"Delaware County","state":"NY","lat":42.33897565900003,"lon":-75.16786014699994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-05-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story rectangular rubble stone school building with a slate hipped roof and octagonal cupola, on Center Street in Franklin, Delaware County, New York. It was built in 1855-56 to replace Old Stone Hall, which burned in 1856.","why_significant":"It is a fine example of vernacular Greek Revival design, built about thirty years after the style first became fashionable, and is the largest and most imposing stone building in the area. It also matters for its role in Franklin's educational and cultural life, first as the main academic building of the Delaware Literary Institute, then as classrooms for the Union Free School and the Franklin Central School.","narrative":"New Stone Hall is a three-story, eight-bay building of coursed rubble stone with a low slate hipped roof and a large octagonal cupola, on Center Street in Franklin, New York. It was built in 1855-56 for the Delaware Literary Institute after fire destroyed the earlier Old Stone Hall. Its simple Greek Revival design was somewhat old-fashioned for its date, and it remains the largest stone building in the area. The Institute, chartered in 1835, drew hundreds of students and sent graduates to colleges such as Harvard and Yale. After the school leased its buildings in 1902, the hall served the Union Free School and later the Franklin Central School. The first and basement floors were modernized in 1948 and remain in use. The upper floors have been vacant for decades and retain polychrome paint and nineteenth-century wallpaper. Its significance rests on its Greek Revival design and its long place in the educational and cultural life of the village.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899 (specific dates 1855-56)","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival (vernacular)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Partially abandoned; the upper floor has been unused since 1932, and only the first and basement floors, modernized in 1948, are in use. Condition is listed as fair, with alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.032984-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/80002600.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002600/83473e7e42-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002600/83473e7e42-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Upstate New York","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Stone_Hall_Mar_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Upstate New York</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Stone_Hall_Mar_09.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"84002220","name":"Franklin Village Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/franklin-village-historic-district-84002220/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317249","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Stone_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7011957"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/delaware-county/new-stone-hall-80002600/"}