{"nrhp_refnum":"85002451","name":"Anthony, Levi, Building","other_names":["Building #22"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cape Vincent","county":"Jefferson County","state":"NY","lat":44.12973611700005,"lon":-76.32938682699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick Italianate commercial building on the south side of Broadway at Lee Street in the village of Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, New York, built in 1884 for Levi Anthony.","why_significant":"It is a substantially intact, representative example of an Italianate commercial building reflecting the village's late nineteenth-century prosperity. It is one of two surviving three-story Italianate multi-use commercial buildings from the period, distinguished by masonry construction and pressed or cast metal details. It originally housed a general store, the U.S. Customs Office and upstairs residences tied to the international port.","narrative":"Built in 1884 on Broadway in Cape Vincent, this three-story brick building was constructed for Levi Anthony, who had served as village president in 1870. It first held the Burdick and Armstrong general store, the U.S. Customs Office and residential space on the upper floor. The customs office served the port, where Canadian goods bound for Europe were loaded onto trains for the east coast. The five-bay front carries an elaborate projecting metal cornice with large bracketed finials and a central pediment inscribed with Anthony's name and the date. Elongated second-story windows have pedimented metal crowns, while the third story has shorter round-arched windows. Ghost signs reading Montes and Blum survive on the side walls. The storefront windows were replaced in 1981 and a cinder-block chimney was added, yet the upper stories remain largely intact. The building is valued as a representative Italianate commercial block that reflects the port and retail prosperity of the period, and it is still used as apartments.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Remains in use as apartments; condition marked deteriorated on the inventory form, though the upper stories retain remarkable exterior integrity. Storefront windows were altered in 1981.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.155313-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002451.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313212","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Anthony_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6535353"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/jefferson-county/anthony-levi-building-85002451/"}