{"nrhp_refnum":"89002091","name":"Bates-Englehardt Mansion","other_names":["St. Johnsville Community House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"19 Washington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"St. Johnsville","county":"Montgomery County","state":"NY","lat":42.999798027000054,"lon":-74.67668795499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-12-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick Italianate mansion at 19 Washington Street in St. Johnsville, Montgomery County, New York, built in 1869 for cheese merchant James Bates. It later served as the St. Johnsville Community House and town hall.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a distinctive, intact example of a large late Victorian village residence in the Mohawk Valley. It keeps Italianate features and later decorative changes from 1909 to 1934 that show shifting taste and local prosperity. Its owners, from a cheese merchant to a piano manufacturer, reflect the village's economic history.","narrative":"Built in 1869 for James Bates, a wealthy cheese merchant, this three-story brick mansion at 19 Washington Street in St. Johnsville, New York, began as an Italianate house with a flat roof, cupola and elaborately carved brackets. Later owners changed it with the fashions of their day. William Peck took it over after Bates lost his fortune in 1875. Frederick Englehardt, a piano factory president, bought it in 1897 and added a Colonial Revival porch, a hipped tile roof, a third-floor ballroom, oak paneling and a shortened central hall. The Reaney family gave the house to the village in 1933 for use as a community house, and an auditorium was created in 1934. A police station was added in 1978, and the building now holds municipal offices. The house is recognized as a largely intact example of a large late Victorian village residence, with changes that record local prosperity from cheese and piano making between 1869 and 1934.","period_of_significance":"1869-1934","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate/Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used as municipal offices (town hall), with a police station in the 1978 addition, an auditorium, and rooms furnished by a local DAR chapter.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.837702-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/89002091.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002091/2145fb5ed5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002091/2145fb5ed5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Upstate New York","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bates-Englehardt_Mansion_Aug_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:Bates-Englehardt_Mansion_Aug_10.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100003628","name":"St. Johnsville Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/st-johnsville-historic-district-100003628/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318987","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates-Englehardt_Mansion","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4868783"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/montgomery-county/bates-englehardt-mansion-89002091/"}