{"nrhp_refnum":"84002220","name":"Franklin Village Historic District","other_names":["See Also:New Stone Hall"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Wakeman and Institute Aves., Main, Center, Maple, Water, 2nd, 3rd, and West Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Franklin","county":"Delaware County","state":"NY","lat":42.33871664700004,"lon":-75.16714124255685,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-09-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic village district in Franklin, Delaware County, New York, in the Ouleout Creek Valley. It has 169 properties and 248 contributing buildings and features, mostly houses from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.","why_significant":"The district is described as perhaps the most intact historic village in the western Catskill Mountains. Its character comes from common scale, materials and building traditions, uniform setbacks, shade trees and bluestone sidewalks. It includes educational buildings of the Delaware Literary Institute, a row of Italianate stores, churches and cemeteries.","narrative":"Franklin is a small village in the narrow Ouleout Creek Valley of Delaware County, New York, and its historic district takes in 169 properties with 248 contributing buildings and features. Most are frame houses in Federal, Greek Revival and Italianate styles, with modest Victorian and early twentieth century examples. Three churches include an 1865 board and batten Gothic Revival church attributed to Richard and Richard M. Upjohn. Two three-story buildings from the Delaware Literary Institute, a colonnaded dormitory of 1854 and the stone New Stone Hall of 1856, anchor the educational group, joined by a Neoclassical school of 1932. A row of six intact Italianate stores forms the business district. Carriage barns and other outbuildings, four cemeteries and a monument add to the setting. Common scale, regular setbacks, maple shade trees and bluestone sidewalks give the village an unusually consistent appearance, which is why it is described as perhaps the most intact historic village in the western Catskills.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Church of 1865 attributed to Richard and Richard M. Upjohn","architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, and Neoclassical","criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.269199-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84002220.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002220/d0910fad5a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002220/d0910fad5a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Upstate New York","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houses_at_Franklin_NY_Mar_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Upstate New York</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houses_at_Franklin_NY_Mar_09.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317213","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Village_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5492078"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/delaware-county/franklin-village-historic-district-84002220/"}