{"nrhp_refnum":"84003282","name":"Ferguson, Dr. James, Office","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5 Culvert St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Glens Falls","county":"Warren County","state":"NY","lat":43.31042405000005,"lon":-73.62631283499996,"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 small one-and-a-half-story brick office building at 5 Culvert Street in Glens Falls, Warren County, New York, built around 1870 for physician Dr. James Ferguson. Architect and builder are unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it an intact, representative example of a small mid-nineteenth-century professional office with Second Empire decorative features, and the only structure of its type and period remaining in Glens Falls. It was built for a prominent local physician and designed to complement his now-demolished residence. It is also a local, vernacular adaptation of a popular post-Civil War residential style.","narrative":"Dr. James Ferguson's office at 5 Culvert Street in Glens Falls is a small, square, one-and-a-half-story brick building put up around 1870 for a prominent local physician. Ferguson practiced there until shortly before 1900. Its design is Second Empire, with a slate mansard roof and a single center dormer, a limestone foundation, and tall, narrow, round-arched windows with stone sills. A scalloped, round-arched hood on consoles shelters the center entrance, and an ornamental frieze with paired scroll brackets marks the roofline. The office was designed to complement Ferguson's house, which stood at Culvert and Warren Streets and no longer exists. The nomination treats the building as a local, vernacular adaptation of a popular post-Civil War residential style, and as the only surviving example of a small professional office of its type and period in the city. It was moved after 1905 and renovated around 1975. It is still used as a private residence.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Second Empire","criteria":[],"status_note":"Remains in use as a private residence; condition described as good, with much of its architectural integrity retained.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.789826-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84003282.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003282/f224d43401-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84003282/f224d43401-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Kenneth C. Zirkel","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._James_Ferguson_Office_Glens_Falls_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenneth C. Zirkel</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:Dr._James_Ferguson_Office_Glens_Falls_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315377","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._James_Ferguson_Office","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5304170"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/warren-county/ferguson-dr-james-office-84003282/"}