{"nrhp_refnum":"84003255","name":"Cowles, W.T., House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"43-47 William St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Glens Falls","county":"Warren County","state":"NY","lat":43.31757168200005,"lon":-73.64428009599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-09-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2½-story frame Queen Anne style residence at 43-47 William Street in Glens Falls, Warren County, New York, built about 1897 for banker W.T. Cowles and designed by architect Ephraim B. Potter.","why_significant":"The house is presented as an intact, representative example of the transitional Queen Anne/Colonial Revival residential designs of Glens Falls architect Ephraim B. Potter. It shows his maturing style through restrained, symmetrical forms, contrasting shingle and clapboard textures, and a raised, pedimented porch. It is one of only five intact documented examples of his transitional residential work in the city, and one of eighteen documented Potter works that remain intact there.","narrative":"Built around 1897 for banker W.T. Cowles, this house at 43-47 William Street in Glens Falls is a 2½-story frame residence in a vernacular Queen Anne style. It rests on a rock-faced random ashlar foundation. The first story is clad in narrow clapboards and the upper story in wood shingles. A raised, covered porch with turned columns and a bracketed pediment spans the north front, and a slate-covered hipped roof is broken by gable and jerkin head dormers. The interior has since been divided into apartments. The house was designed by Ephraim B. Potter (1855-1925), one of the most prolific architects in Glens Falls during its period of greatest wealth and expansion. It reflects his transitional work, blending Queen Anne and Colonial Revival motifs within restrained, symmetrical forms. It is one of only five intact documented examples of that work in the city, and one of eighteen documented Potter buildings that survive there.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Ephraim B. Potter, architect","architectural_style":"Vernacular Queen Anne (transitional Queen Anne/Colonial Revival)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as fair; originally a single-family residence, now converted to multi-family apartments, with the porch balustrade replaced at an unknown date.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.860424-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84003255.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003255/e1e1c100c4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003255/e1e1c100c4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:45_William_Street,_Glens_Falls_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:45_William_Street,_Glens_Falls_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315338","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._T._Cowles_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7946005"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/warren-county/cowles-w-t-house-84003255/"}