{"nrhp_refnum":"84003196","name":"Eatons Corners Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Eatons Corners Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Duanesburg","county":"Schenectady County","state":"NY","lat":42.80596821600005,"lon":-74.24682445199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-10-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 5-acre historic district of three early nineteenth-century frame houses and eight contributing outbuildings on Eatons Corners Road in the northwest corner of Duanesburg, Schenectady County, New York. The houses date from about 1800 to the 1840s.","why_significant":"The three properties are the only intact surviving remains of the early nineteenth-century crossroads hamlet of Eatons Corners, the only small, family-controlled hamlet in Duanesburg to keep its integrity of design, setting, feeling and association. The houses are distinctive examples of Federal and Greek Revival architecture. The Eaton Homestead is a particularly fashionable and refined Federal style house.","narrative":"Eatons Corners Historic District preserves the core of a small crossroads hamlet in the northwest corner of Duanesburg, Schenectady County. Three two-story frame houses, with eight contributing outbuildings, line Eatons Corners Road near Bowman Creek. The Eaton Homestead, built about 1800, is a refined Federal style house with pilasters joined by a blind arcade, elliptical blind oculi in the gables and delicate entrance detailing. Its early owners included James Eaton, who leased the land in 1785, and later Benjamin Cummings and Lewis Eaton, for whom the hamlet was probably named. The Barlow Tavern, from the 1820s, is a plainer vernacular Federal building. The Brumley Homestead, from the 1840s, is a Greek Revival house with gable-front form, exaggerated cornice returns and broad corner pilasters. Other nearby hamlets such as Bramans Corners and Green Corners lost their historical integrity, while these three properties remain as a reminder of an early nineteenth-century rural settlement.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal and Greek Revival","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 02:50:43.207513-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84003196.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314578","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eatons_Corners_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5331408"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/schenectady-county/eatons-corners-historic-district-84003196/"}