{"nrhp_refnum":"90000817","name":"Swart-Wilcox House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of Wilcox Ave. and Henry St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oneonta","county":"Otsego County","state":"NY","lat":42.44369097100005,"lon":-75.06981036269599,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-05-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small one-and-a-half-story wood frame house with an attached shed, built about 1807 on Wilcox Avenue on the south side of Oneonta, Otsego County, New York. It sits on 14.4 acres that are the remaining intact part of the original Swart farm.","why_significant":"The house is one of the last surviving settlement-period resources near Oneonta and the most intact of them. It is also a rare local example of an ethnic German vernacular house type, with hand-hewn heavy timber post-and-beam framing, clear-span bents, a two-room plan and a gable-end entrance. Later nineteenth-century interior changes under the Wilcox family show how the property was adapted over time.","narrative":"Built around 1807 on the south side of Oneonta, this small wood frame house with a gable roof, clapboard siding and an original shed addition belonged to Lawrence Swart, a Revolutionary War veteran born in Schoharie who bought farmland here in 1795. Its hand-hewn timber frame, clear-span bents, two-room plan and gable-end entrance follow a German vernacular tradition more common in the Hudson, Mohawk and Schoharie valleys, and it is unusual for being built so late. It is considered one of the last and most intact survivors of Oneonta's settlement period. Henry Wilcox took over the property in 1867 and remodeled it with Victorian-era finishes, and the house changed little after 1900. The 14.4-acre parcel keeps fields, woods, orchards, a row of maples and the remains of two outbuildings, though a highway and school complex have altered its original setting. The house is now vacant, with restoration planned as a local history teaching site.","period_of_significance":"c1807-c1890","architect_builder":"Lawrence Swart (believed builder; not certain whether he built it himself or commissioned a local builder)","architectural_style":"No style (ethnic German vernacular house type)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Vacant and boarded up; stabilization work was done in the 1970s, and the house is expected to be restored as the centerpiece of a fourth grade local history curriculum.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.556362-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/90000817.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000817/94c7234960-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90000817/94c7234960-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"ErixS","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Swart-Wilcox_House_R0023878.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">ErixS</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Swart-Wilcox_House_R0023878.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320990","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swart-Wilcox_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7653924"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/otsego-county/swart-wilcox-house-90000817/"}