{"nrhp_refnum":"90001337","name":"Chaumont Grange Hall and Dairymen's League Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chaumont","county":"Jefferson County","state":"NY","lat":44.06527502000006,"lon":-76.12852615699995,"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 and one-half story, gable-front wood-frame building clad in galvanized metal siding, on Main Street in the village of Chaumont, town of Lyme, Jefferson County, New York. Built about 1898, it combined a ground-floor dairy marketing space with an upstairs grange meeting hall.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an intact, representative example of grange hall and meeting hall plan and design in the town of Lyme, with a large open ground floor and a second-floor hall with stage. It is unusual as a dual-purpose building shared by the Dairymen's League and the Chaumont Grange. Its hand-painted stage backdrop and stamped metal siding, one of three metal-clad buildings built after Chaumont's 1897 fire, add distinction.","narrative":"Built around 1898 on Main Street in Chaumont, this two and one-half story building served two purposes at once. The ground floor was a marketing point for milk, butter and cheese from a farm run by the local Dairymen's League, while the upper floor was a meeting hall leased to Chaumont Grange No. 855. A light wood frame is sheathed in galvanized metal siding stamped to look like clapboards, a material used on three buildings erected after the 1897 fire. Inside, the second-floor hall keeps matchstick board paneling, a raised stage, a hand-painted agricultural backdrop, a wood stove and a gaslight fixture. A 1935 flood damaged the stone foundation, and the building was moved about 40 feet east. The league disbanded in 1922 and the grange bought the building; the grange closed after World War II. The hall stood empty until a 1987 purchase for rehabilitation as a museum. It is valued as a well-preserved local example of grange hall design.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect and builder unknown","architectural_style":"Grange hall / meeting hall (traditional rural grange hall plan)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition rated good. The building stood vacant and unused until 1987, when it was purchased for rehabilitation as a museum. It was moved about 40 feet on the same lot in 1935 after a flood.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.819412-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/90001337.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313198","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaumont_Grange_Hall_and_Dairymen%27s_League_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5088187"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/jefferson-county/chaumont-grange-hall-and-dairymens-league-building-90001337/"}