{"nrhp_refnum":"91001626","name":"Chandler, Peter, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5897 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mexico","county":"Oswego County","state":"NY","lat":43.45973536900004,"lon":-76.22868730599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-11-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Greek Revival residence of grey sandstone at 5897 Main Street in Mexico village, Oswego County, New York, built in 1838 for merchant Peter Chandler.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a sophisticated and highly intact example of Greek Revival architecture in Mexico village, with extremely fine stone craftsmanship. It is the most imposing residence of its period in the village, with a full five-bay symmetrical design. Possible links to abolitionist activity under a later occupant are unproven, so only the architectural significance is claimed.","narrative":"Built in 1838 for Peter Chandler, a prosperous village merchant and philanthropist, this five-bay stone house at 5897 Main Street in Mexico, New York, is a formal example of Greek Revival design. Its walls are grey sandstone quarried in nearby Arthur, laid in even rectangular blocks above a cut-stone foundation. A hip roof with a wide overhang, a deep molded frieze, four end-wall chimneys, and a flat-roofed porch with square columns and a sidelighted doorway define its character. Inside, a center hall with two rooms on each side retains original woodwork, brass hardware, interior shutters, and six stone fireplaces. A frame wing on the west side was removed in the early twentieth century. Later occupant Leonard Ames, Jr., was an abolitionist, and tradition links the house to the Underground Railway, but no evidence supports this. The house is valued as the most imposing residence of its period in Mexico and as a record of the village's mid-nineteenth-century prosperity.","period_of_significance":"1838","architect_builder":"Unknown (built by a local builder)","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as a single-family dwelling; the form says it survives with a high degree of integrity inside and out.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.658912-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/91001626.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001626/c951f04af3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001626/c951f04af3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Chandler_House_Nov_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States</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:Peter_Chandler_House_Nov_09.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314279","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Chandler_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7173230"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/oswego-county/chandler-peter-house-91001626/"}