{"nrhp_refnum":"87001869","name":"Meadows Farm Complex","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Rippleton Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cazenovia","county":"Madison County","state":"NY","lat":42.91631884550006,"lon":-75.86098200898039,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-11-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 96.26-acre working dairy farm on Rippleton Road (Route 13) in Cazenovia, Madison County, New York, with two farmhouses (ca. 1810s and ca. 1900), a large dairy barn complex and several smaller farm buildings and structures.","why_significant":"The complex is argued to be a distinctive, remarkably intact collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century rural farm architecture, built over about a century from ca. 1810. It recalls Cazenovia's prominence as a prosperous agricultural community and documents rural vernacular building traditions in central New York. The dairy barn is described as a rare, architecturally sophisticated example of its kind.","narrative":"Meadows Farm Complex is a working dairy farm of 96.26 acres on Rippleton Road, just south of the village of Cazenovia, New York. Its buildings span roughly a century. The earliest is a one-and-one-half-story Federal-style farmhouse, thought to date from the 1810s, with a central chimney and a five-bay front. Nearby stands a ca. 1900 farmhouse with restrained Queen Anne details such as sunburst woodwork and scallop shingles. Between them sits a large L-shaped dairy barn built from two mid- to late nineteenth century barns joined in the early twentieth century. Smaller structures include a brick and fieldstone smokehouse, a former slaughterhouse, a machine shed, two sheds and a fieldstone well. Until about 1884 the farm was a dependency of the Ledyard family's Meadows estate. The complex was listed because it preserves an unusually intact set of farm buildings and a rural setting that reflect Cazenovia's agricultural prosperity.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal (vernacular) guesthouse, ca. 1810s; Queen Anne / Picturesque farmhouse, ca. 1900","criteria":[],"status_note":"Working dairy farm; both farmhouses are in residential use. Condition is listed as fair, 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 02:50:45.850663-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/87001869.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313503","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadows_Farm_Complex","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6803426"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/madison-county/meadows-farm-complex-87001869/"}