{"nrhp_refnum":"84003119","name":"Clarke, Luther, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"39 W. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dryden","county":"Tompkins County","state":"NY","lat":42.49026888000003,"lon":-76.30042868599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-06-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, wood frame Federal style house at 39 West Main Street in the village of Dryden, Tompkins County, New York, built circa 1820-1830 by an unknown builder.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the most representative example of a Federal style wooden residence in the village, with fine proportions, original twelve-over-twelve windows and a Neoclassical entrance. As one of Dryden's earliest substantial houses, it reflects the shift from early settlement to a prosperous community. It also retains a high level of integrity and has ties to prominent local citizens.","narrative":"Built between about 1820 and 1830, this two-story wood frame house on West Main Street in Dryden village is a five-bay, two-bay-deep Federal style residence with a one-and-one-half story rear wing. It has a low-pitched gable roof with a wide cornice entablature, narrow clapboards, triangular gable openings and plank frame construction. The central entrance has a transom, sidelights, pilasters and a simple entablature, and the front windows were originally twelve-over-twelve. The nomination describes it as the most representative wooden Federal house in the village, with a slightly off-center entrance and plank construction marking it as a rural vernacular example. Deed research traced the land to a military grant of the 1780s. Reverend Luther Clarke of the Methodist Church acquired the house in 1835 and may have built the front section. Later owners included Colonel Lewis Barton, a village president, and the hardware merchant Cyrus French, whose family held it until 1918. It remains a private home.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Reported in good condition, still in use as a private home, with no known threats. It has been reroofed and some windows altered, and the Bakers restored it after 1962.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.497897-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84003119.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003119/1df8ba6ec9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003119/1df8ba6ec9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luther_Clarke_House_Dryden_NY_Jan_10.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States</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:Luther_Clarke_House_Dryden_NY_Jan_10.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315144","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Clarke_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6705527"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/tompkins-county/clarke-luther-house-84003119/"}