{"nrhp_refnum":"85002752","name":"Verdoy School","other_names":["Component No. 27"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"957 Troy-Schenectady Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Colonie","county":"Albany County","state":"NY","lat":42.763418493000074,"lon":-73.79807299199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-10-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-room schoolhouse at 957 Troy-Schenectady Road in the hamlet of Verdoy, Town of Colonie, Albany County, New York, built in 1910.","why_significant":"It is a distinctive example of early twentieth century one-room schoolhouse architecture and an unusually late example of a simple, traditional rural school. It has turn-of-the-century features such as a slate-covered hipped roof, a massive central chimney, six-over-one sash and a side bell tower. It is the only intact surviving one-room schoolhouse in the Colonie Multiple Resource Area.","narrative":"Built in 1910 for the residents of the hamlet of Verdoy, this one-room schoolhouse sits on its original parcel of less than an acre along the busy Troy-Schenectady Road in the Town of Colonie. The wood-frame building is clad in clapboard and is asymmetrical in design. It has a slate-covered hipped roof, a massive chimney set in the middle of the front roof surface, double entrance doors and six-over-one sash windows. A small tower at the southeast corner carries its own hipped roof topped by a small belfry. The school is notable as a late example of a simple, traditional rural schoolhouse that still shows distinctive turn-of-the-century architectural features. It is also the only intact surviving one-room school in the town's Multiple Resource Area. The local school district still owns it and uses it for storage rather than for classes. Its condition is recorded as excellent, and no threats to the building are known.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the school district and used for storage rather than classes; described as in excellent condition on its original site, with no known threats.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.632095-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002752.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002752/cb0255a845-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002752/cb0255a845-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Upstate New York","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verdoy_Schoolhouse_Nov_10.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Upstate New York</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verdoy_Schoolhouse_Nov_10.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312077","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdoy_Schoolhouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7921144"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/albany-county/verdoy-school-85002752/"}