{"nrhp_refnum":"90001334","name":"George Brothers Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Mill St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chaumont","county":"Jefferson County","state":"NY","lat":44.06553641700003,"lon":-76.12940517599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-09-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood-frame storage warehouse built in 1899 on the east side of Mill Street in the village of Chaumont, town of Lyme, Jefferson County, New York, for the hardware merchants John and Henry George.","why_significant":"It is a distinctive and highly intact example of late nineteenth century metal cladding, with stamped galvanized sheets imitating rusticated masonry and ornate wood trim. The treatment is of a quality comparable to major stamped-metal manufacturers and is unusual on a utilitarian rural building. It was also meant to give some fire protection after a disastrous 1897 local fire.","narrative":"Built in 1899 on Mill Street in Chaumont, this two-story warehouse was erected by brothers John and Henry George, who ran a stove and hardware business. After sparks from a nearby train yard set off a fire in 1897 that destroyed their store along with the town hall and a church, they built new storage space they hoped would resist fire. The wood frame is covered in galvanized metal sheets stamped to look like rusticated stone blocks and decorative wood trim, with a cornice, a stringcourse of honeysuckle motifs and a gablet inscribed \"George Bros 1899.\" The design follows common Italianate commercial features such as a low shed roof, bracketed cornice and tall windows. It was one of three buildings in turn-of-the-century Chaumont clad this way. The metal surfaces survive in near-perfect condition, and a local hardware store still uses the building for storage, which gives it unusual integrity.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate commercial features with stamped metal cladding (metal clad)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used for storage by a local hardware store; in good condition, sensitively maintained and virtually as built.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.661985-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/90001334.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001334/9b8749bd86-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/90001334/9b8749bd86-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Stephen Schweitzer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Brothers_Building02.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Schweitzer</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:George_Brothers_Building02.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313194","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Brothers_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5537293"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/jefferson-county/george-brothers-building-90001334/"}