{"nrhp_refnum":"84002222","name":"Gardiner Place Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Gardiner Place","address_restricted":false,"city":"Walton","county":"Delaware County","state":"NY","lat":42.16895386400006,"lon":-75.12830448499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-05-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small civic historic district of three public buildings (a library, a village hall and a post office) on Gardiner Place in Walton, Delaware County, New York, built between 1896 and 1937 on about 1.5 acres.","why_significant":"The three buildings are distinctive examples of Richardsonian Romanesque/Chicago School, Neoclassical and Depression-era federal architecture, designed by regionally prominent firms. They sit on a site long used for public purposes and form the civic core of Walton. The library is also tied to William B. Ogden, a nineteenth-century Chicago industrialist and political figure.","narrative":"Three public buildings on Gardiner Place in Walton, New York, form a compact civic group built over four decades. The William B. Ogden Free Library, finished in 1897, is a one-and-one-half-story bluestone building that blends Richardsonian Romanesque massing with progressive Chicago School features such as bands of reading room windows. It was funded through a bequest from Ogden, a Walton native who became Chicago's first mayor, and designed by New York architects Charles Morris and Richard Amerman Walker. The brick village hall, built from 1912 to 1914 after a fire destroyed its predecessor, is Walton's finest Neoclassical building and holds offices, an auditorium and a fire station. The post office, dedicated in 1937, is a simplified classical brick and limestone building typical of Depression-era federal construction. Together they illustrate changing American styles and mark the site long used for schools, meeting halls and village government, surrounded by modest private homes and shade trees.","period_of_significance":"1896-1937","architect_builder":"Library: Charles Morris and Richard Amerman Walker (architects), Alexander B. Carman (builder); Village hall: William Towner (architect), E.A. Fuller (builder); Post office: Louis A. Simon (supervising architect) with W.G. Noll (acting architect)","architectural_style":"Richardsonian Romanesque/Chicago School (library); Neoclassical (village hall); simplified classical Depression-era style (post office)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Form marks the district as occupied, with public and private ownership; the post office is described as virtually unaltered and the library has had no major alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.836593-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84002222.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002222/fca3f63dcd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002222/fca3f63dcd-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:Ogden_Free_Library_Apr_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:Ogden_Free_Library_Apr_09.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317221","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardiner_Place_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5522537"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/delaware-county/gardiner-place-historic-district-84002222/"}