{"nrhp_refnum":"84003331","name":"Fredella, Joseph J., House and Garage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"15-17 Mohican St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Glens Falls","county":"Warren County","state":"NY","lat":43.30666170500007,"lon":-73.64304298599995,"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 two-story concrete house and an adjacent concrete block garage at 15-17 Mohican Street, Glens Falls, Warren County, New York, built in 1912 by local builder Joseph J. Fredella.","why_significant":"It is the earliest of ten Glens Falls buildings showing Fredella's early use of cast molded concrete block, and served as his residence and office. It is the largest and most detailed house in the Fredella concrete block group. It shows how cast concrete served as a cheap imitation of dressed stone in the early twentieth century.","narrative":"Built in 1912 at 15-17 Mohican Street in Glens Falls, this square, two-story house is made of cast concrete block and topped with a hipped slate roof. A two-story gallery porch with fluted Ionic columns crosses the front, and the walls are rusticated, with rock-faced quoins and molded sills and lintels cast to imitate stone voussoirs. A matching two-story concrete block garage stands just north; it originally had three bays, and one was enclosed for an apartment in the 1940s. Local builder Joseph J. Fredella constructed the property as his own home and office. It is the earliest of ten Glens Falls buildings reflecting his early use of molded concrete block, preceding the eight similar houses on Fredella Avenue by two years. Up to thirty cast iron templates and an early block-making machine produced the components. The house is the largest and most detailed of the group and showed local builders and residents that concrete block could imitate dressed stone practically and cheaply.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Fredella Co. (Joseph J. Fredella), builders","architectural_style":"Square \"foursquare\" form with classical detailing (Ionic columns, rusticated concrete block imitating dressed stone)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as multi-family residential; condition listed as deteriorated on the 1980 inventory form; garage partly altered in the 1940s to include an apartment.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.95128-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84003331.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315397","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_J._Fredella_House_and_Garage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6284221"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/warren-county/fredella-joseph-j-house-and-garage-84003331/"}