{"nrhp_refnum":"85002464","name":"Sacket, General, House","other_names":["Bldg. #20"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4407 James St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cape Vincent","county":"Jefferson County","state":"NY","lat":44.12179817700007,"lon":-76.33070802599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A twenty-five room Second Empire style residence at 4407 James Street in the village of Cape Vincent, Jefferson County, New York, built 1872-1875 for Brigadier General Delos Bennett Sacket, with an original carriage house.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an intact, high-style example of Second Empire architecture and the most refined of its type in Cape Vincent. It is also tied to its original owner, General Delos Bennett Sacket, a Cape Vincent native and Army officer. The property reflects his wealth and the influence of Victorian styles in the town.","narrative":"Built between 1872 and 1875 on James Street in Cape Vincent, this twenty-five room mansion was the summer home of Brigadier General Delos Bennett Sacket, a village native and West Point graduate who served in the Mexican War and the Civil War and later as an Inspector General. The three-story main block has a mansard roof of fish-scale slate, round-headed dormers, molded cornices with paired brackets, and pedimented window hoods. A rear wing is an earlier nineteenth-century house that Sacket incorporated as a service wing. Inside, an ornately carved oak staircase, plaster ceiling medallions, Greek-pattern cornices and marble fireplaces survive. The original two-story carriage house stands south of the house. Sacket hired Fred A. Johnson as estate manager, and greenhouses once supplied flowers for urns along Broadway. The house is described as the largest and most elaborate residence of its time in Cape Vincent, and as the town's finest high-style Second Empire example.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; builder Fred A. Johnson (Estate Manager)","architectural_style":"Second Empire","criteria":[],"status_note":"Residential use, both originally and at the time of the form; condition described as good. Most iron cresting was removed and porch posts replaced in 1980, and vinyl siding was added in 1980.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.495172-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002464.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002464/0a843d3862-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002464/0a843d3862-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Stephen Schweitzer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:General_Sacket_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Schweitzer</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:General_Sacket_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313242","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Sacket_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5532165"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/jefferson-county/sacket-general-house-85002464/"}