{"nrhp_refnum":"82001074","name":"McNiven Farm Complex","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4178 Altamont Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Guilderland","county":"Albany County","state":"NY","lat":42.70558147200006,"lon":-74.00224699999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-11-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm complex at 4178 Altamont Road in Guilderland, Albany County, New York, made up of a two-story farmhouse and a barn complex on about 1.9 acres. The main house dates to about 1860, with an earlier small house from the 1790s at the rear.","why_significant":"The house is described as a largely unaltered, excellent example of a restrained 19th-century rural farmhouse. It reflects Guilderland's heritage as a rural, agrarian community of the 18th and 19th centuries. The barn complex has a notable vernacular design, and the buildings keep a high degree of integrity amid modern suburban development.","narrative":"This farm complex on Altamont Road in Guilderland centers on a two-story, five-bay farmhouse with a center entrance and gable roof, built about 1860. A one-story porch runs across the front and extends east to form a porte-cochere, and a two-story ell extends from the rear. The interior remains largely unaltered. Behind the present house, evidence survives of a small Dutch house from the 1790s, which was the original dwelling before the farm grew and the larger addition was built in the 1860s. A barn complex of notable vernacular design stands to the east. The property sits far back from the road and keeps its original farm setting, even as suburban development has grown around it. It was recognized as an excellent example of a restrained rural farmhouse and as a reminder of Guilderland's agrarian character in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The architect and builder are unknown.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a farmhouse; the form lists no known threats and describes the farm as retaining its original setting, set far back from the road.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.108926-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82001074.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001074/be65f6866a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001074/be65f6866a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"GG789H","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Farmhouse_in_complex.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">GG789H</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:Farmhouse_in_complex.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312049","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNiven_Farm_Complex","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6802558"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/albany-county/mcniven-farm-complex-82001074/"}