{"nrhp_refnum":"83001711","name":"Van Alstyne House","other_names":["Fort Rensselaer Club"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Moyer St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Canajoharie","county":"Montgomery County","state":"NY","lat":42.903371366000044,"lon":-74.57233521399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-09-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An eighteenth-century Dutch Colonial stone house with a gambrel roof on Moyer Street in Canajoharie, Montgomery County, New York, with a large rear addition built in 1915. It is used as the Fort Rensselaer Club.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a rare surviving eighteenth-century Dutch Colonial house in the Mohawk Valley, and likely the only gambrel-roofed one west of Schenectady. It is linked to the Van Alstyne family, early settlers and traders. Its 1880s restoration by the Mohawk Valley Historical Society was an early preservation project, and the 1915 addition is notable for its sensitivity to the original fabric.","narrative":"Set on a sloping lot above Canajoharie Creek, this long, low stone house with a steep gambrel roof is one of the few surviving Dutch Colonial buildings in the Mohawk Valley. Family tradition dates it to 1730 or 1749, though no firm documentation exists. It was associated with the Van Alstyne family, early settlers and traders. By the 1880s it had decayed into a tenant house and was threatened with demolition. A local group, the Mohawk Valley Historical Society, took ownership in 1888 and restored it, an early preservation effort. Since 1902 it has housed the Fort Rensselaer Club, supported by the Beech Nut Packing Company. In 1915 architect Bryant Fleming of Buffalo designed a rear addition that doubled the building's size, using matching stone and simple beamed interiors to echo the old house. Original features include coursed fieldstone walls, brick end chimneys, wainscoting and overmantels. The house also remains a community landmark.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799, 1800-1899, 1900- (specific dates 1749, 1888, 1915)","architect_builder":"1915 addition: Bryant Fleming","architectural_style":"Dutch Colonial","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as a private social club (Fort Rensselaer Club); condition marked good and altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.904578-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001711.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001711/6068da7870-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001711/6068da7870-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Historic American Buildings","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Alstyne_Homestead,_Canajoharie_(Montgomery_County,_New_York).png\" rel=\"noopener\">Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Historic American Buildings</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Alstyne_Homestead,_Canajoharie_(Montgomery_County,_New_York).png"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"15000233","name":"Canajoharie Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/canajoharie-historic-district-15000233/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319055","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Alstyne_Homestead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7913114"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/montgomery-county/van-alstyne-house-83001711/"}