{"nrhp_refnum":"83001681","name":"Irwin Brothers Store","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NY 180","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stone Mills","county":"Jefferson County","state":"NY","lat":44.112778476000074,"lon":-75.97585581999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, nine-bay blue limestone store and tavern building on Route 180 at Woodward Road in the hamlet of Stone Mills, Jefferson County, New York, built in phases from 1823 to about 1850. The 1.75-acre site also includes a late nineteenth-century wooden carriage barn.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the store is an early and distinctive example of limestone masonry construction in the Stone Mills area and one of the earliest surviving stone buildings there. It also played a prominent role in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century development of the hamlet as a store, tavern, meeting place, post office and information center. It retains integrity of design, materials and craftsmanship.","narrative":"Built in stages between 1823 and about 1850 from locally quarried blue limestone, this nine-bay, two-story building sits at the corner of Route 180 and Woodward Road in Stone Mills. The original three-bay core has a north-south gable roof, flanked by a west wing of about 1837 and an east wing of about 1850. A wooden carriage barn from the 1880s sits to the southwest. The building began as a store and tavern, served as a stagecoach halfway house, and later housed a Masonic lodge on the second floor from 1851 to 1867 and the community post office. William B. Irwin bought it in 1875, and the Irwin family ran the general store until 1954. Over time it also served as a telegraph office, telephone office and gas station. Original moldings, doors, hardware and three fireplaces survive inside, though the porches were removed after 1948. A local historical society bought it in 1978 to convert it into a rural museum.","period_of_significance":"1823-1850","architect_builder":"unknown (carriage barn built by George and Bert Pratt for William Irwin)","architectural_style":"Vernacular Federal (original section) and vernacular Greek Revival (west and east wings)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Marked unoccupied and vacant at the time of nomination; owned by the Northern New York Agricultural Historical Society and being renovated for use as a rural museum. Condition rated fair.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.237895-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001681.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318247","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_Brothers_Store","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6074999"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/jefferson-county/irwin-brothers-store-83001681/"}