{"nrhp_refnum":"89001389","name":"Sweet, Samuel, Canal Store","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"65 Bridge St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Amsterdam","county":"Montgomery County","state":"NY","lat":42.93441174700007,"lon":-74.19783548199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-09-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story limestone and brick canal store at 65 Bridge Street in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York, built between 1847 and 1852 in the former village of Port Jackson beside the Erie Canal.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a representative example of a distinctive building type, the canal store, and is tied to the Erie Canal and Port Jackson's prosperity as a canal port. It is also presented as an excellent example of the local limestone building tradition and one of the few surviving canal-era utilitarian buildings in the Amsterdam area.","narrative":"Built between 1847 and 1852 at 65 Bridge Street in Amsterdam, New York, this rectangular canal store once faced the Erie Canal and a boat basin in the village of Port Jackson. Its walls are rough-cut pale grey limestone with dressed quoins, sills and lintels, and the east upper stories are red brick. Inside, pegged heavy timber framing and unfinished stone walls remain. The land was bought by Waterman Sweet in 1847 and passed to his son Samuel two years later. The building served canal trade as storage and as a local shop, and later housed a lumberyard and other businesses. Alterations include a raised ground level after the canal was filled, display windows added in 1930, and a tin roof from about 1974. It is described as one of the few remaining buildings in Amsterdam directly tied to Erie Canal commerce, and as a fine example of local limestone construction.","period_of_significance":"circa 1847","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant/not in use as its current function; the text also says it is presently used as a storehouse and the third floor is not in use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.762473-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/89001389.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001389/f3acac1c4e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001389/f3acac1c4e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Sweet_Canal_Store,_Amsterdam.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond My Ken</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:Samuel_Sweet_Canal_Store,_Amsterdam.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319049","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Sweet_Canal_Store","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7412725"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/montgomery-county/sweet-samuel-canal-store-89001389/"}