{"nrhp_refnum":"82003352","name":"Van Rensselaer, Jacob Rutsen, House and Mill Complex","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NY 23","address_restricted":false,"city":"Claverack","county":"Columbia County","state":"NY","lat":42.22192511200004,"lon":-73.71153117995688,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-09-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 27.5-acre complex of fourteen interrelated buildings on Route 23 at the eastern edge of Claverack, Columbia County, New York, centered on a ca. 1805 Federal brick house and an adjacent mill dating from the late eighteenth century.","why_significant":"The complex shows how a prominent landowner-entrepreneur's residence, farm and business were laid out and how they changed under later nineteenth and twentieth century owners. The main house is an early, dramatic introduction of fashionable European-influenced design into a rural area. The mill is an important example of pre-industrial revolution construction.","narrative":"Fourteen buildings on 27.5 acres at the eastern edge of Claverack make up a farm, mill and residential complex beside Claverack Creek. The centerpiece is a two-story brick house built about 1805 by Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, an attorney, state assembly speaker and Secretary of State. Its plan features paired octagonal rooms at the southwest end, an unusual and fashionable design for a rural setting. Nearby stands a mill begun in the late eighteenth century and enlarged in the 1840s, with surviving turbines and a 1914 diesel engine. Other structures include a store later used as a cooperage, barns, an office, millworker housing, and an Italianate mill owner's house with a carriage house and ice house built after 1884. The property left Van Rensselaer hands in 1829, and its buildings record changes in agriculture, technology and style through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Together they show the difference between mill management and labor housing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal period main house with Greek Revival alterations and a Colonial Revival addition; Italianate dwelling (Building 10)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied; used as private residences, commercial and agricultural space. The main house was divided into apartments in the 1960s and its current owner is restoring it. The mill operated until the mid-1950s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.777032-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82003352.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317111","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Rutsen_Van_Rensselaer_House_and_Mill_Complex","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6119208"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/columbia-county/van-rensselaer-jacob-rutsen-house-and-mill-complex-82003352/"}