{"nrhp_refnum":"80002623","name":"Archer, William, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"112 Washington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brownville","county":"Jefferson County","state":"NY","lat":44.00307019100006,"lon":-75.98177965199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-11-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story limestone dwelling on Washington Street in the hamlet of Brownville, Jefferson County, New York, built around 1811. It is one of five stone buildings in the Stone Houses of Brownville thematic group.","why_significant":"The house is presented as an excellent surviving example of the modest dwellings typical of the St. Lawrence region in the early nineteenth century. Together with the neighboring Walrath House it is one of the few substantially unaltered limestone structures left in the village. The two houses also temporarily held prisoners during the War of 1812.","narrative":"Built around 1811 on Washington Street in Brownville, the William Archer House is a rectangular two-story limestone dwelling with a gabled roof. Its five-bay front has masonry walls laid in coursed ashlar and rubble, with stone lintels over the double-hung sash windows and door openings. An interior chimney rises through the south elevation, and ells were added in the mid-nineteenth century. The house sits among lawns, shade trees and spacious yards beside the similar Arthur Walrath House, which was built at the same time for the same purpose. During the War of 1812 the two neighboring buildings temporarily housed prisoners. The house is one of five limestone structures in Brownville that survive substantially unaltered. It is regarded as a good example of the modest vernacular homes typical of the St. Lawrence region in the early nineteenth century, built from local Trenton limestone quarried at the building site.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular, five-bay, two-story limestone dwelling with random ashlar loadbearing walls","criteria":[],"status_note":"Privately owned; surrounded by lawns, shade trees and spacious yards. The form marks its condition as deteriorated or fair, and the form's checkmarks are hard to read.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.493939-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/80002623.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002623/e4d2fc41e6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002623/e4d2fc41e6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WILLIAM_ARCHER_HOUSE.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ MD</a>, <a href=\"https://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:WILLIAM_ARCHER_HOUSE.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313294","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Archer_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8004517"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/jefferson-county/archer-william-house-80002623/"}