{"nrhp_refnum":"84003089","name":"Buffington, Calvin A., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Depot St. and Railroad Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Berkshire","county":"Tioga County","state":"NY","lat":42.30429478700006,"lon":-76.18436778399996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-07-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture","Invention"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame house built in 1909 on the north side of Depot Street at Railroad Avenue in the Town of Berkshire, Tioga County, New York, with a contemporary frame garage. Architect and builder are unknown.","why_significant":"The house is described as the only significant twentieth-century residence found in the town's comprehensive survey and its only intact pattern book house, with picturesque massing and stock millwork. It is also tied to Calvin A. Buffington, a prominent local inventor and manufacturer.","narrative":"Built in 1909 on Depot Street in Berkshire, Tioga County, this two-story frame house has irregular massing, a clapboard exterior and simple one-over-one double-hung windows. A front porch has stock Tuscan Doric columns, the gables carry diagonal siding, and a projecting oriel on the side encloses part of an interior stair landing. A contemporary frame garage with novelty siding is part of the property. The survey of Berkshire identified it as the town's only significant twentieth-century residence and its only intact pattern book house, a type common in early suburbs and villages of the early 1900s. The house is also linked to Calvin A. Buffington, born in Pennsylvania in 1859, who settled in Berkshire at about age 20 and opened a blacksmith shop. He made buggies and buckboards, invented several improvements for them, and later patented a folding chair that he manufactured in Berkshire until 1926. He died in 1941. Later changes include reroofing, a covered foundation and a concrete block chimney.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Pattern book house with picturesque massing, stock Tuscan Doric porch columns and stock millwork","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as a private residence, both originally and at the time of the 1980 inventory; condition rated good, with no known threats.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.775736-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84003089.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003089/1a797174f5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003089/1a797174f5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Maddmonkey","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calvin_A._Buffington_House,_Berkshire,_New_York.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Maddmonkey</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calvin_A._Buffington_House,_Berkshire,_New_York.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315130","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_A._Buffington_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5024310"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/tioga-county/buffington-calvin-a-house-84003089/"}