{"nrhp_refnum":"91001727","name":"Lebanon Springs Union Free School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NY 22 E of jct. with Cemetery Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New Lebanon","county":"Columbia County","state":"NY","lat":42.47400309500006,"lon":-73.38234752499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-11-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, hipped-roof brick school building sheathed in stucco, on the north side of Route 22 in New Lebanon (Lebanon Springs), Columbia County, New York, built in 1913 on a 7.6-acre parcel that also holds a railroad trestle remnant and an altered storage building.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is a highly intact example of early twentieth-century public school architecture in the Arts and Crafts style, designed by the Albany firm of Fuller and Robinson. It reflects school district consolidation and the move from one-room schools to graded central schools. The trestle recalls the rail transport that made centralization possible.","narrative":"Built in 1913 on Route 22 in the Lebanon Springs hamlet of New Lebanon, this two-story brick school, finished in stucco under a slate hipped roof, was created for the newly merged New Lebanon and Lebanon Springs school districts. The Albany firm of Fuller and Robinson designed it, and a local builder named Mattoon completed it for $10,000. Its foundation is faced with finely tooled stone from the Mount Lebanon Shakers. Four large classrooms, pressed-metal ceilings, slate blackboards and an octagonal belfry survive, and the plain Arts and Crafts styling remains largely intact. The building marks the shift from sixteen one-room schoolhouses to a central graded school. Concrete buttresses of a 1922 railroad trestle on the property recall the Rutland Railroad, which carried pupils to the school from 1913 until 1953. The school has been unused since 1970 and its interior has deteriorated somewhat, though the original floor plan remains.","period_of_significance":"1913-1922","architect_builder":"Fuller and Robinson","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements: Arts and Crafts","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacant and not in use; the school has not been used since 1970 and its interior shows modest dilapidation.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.210535-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/91001727.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001727/61c2352414-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001727/61c2352414-1600.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:Lebanon_Springs_Union_Free_School_Dec_11.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:Lebanon_Springs_Union_Free_School_Dec_11.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317026","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon_Springs_Union_Free_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6511126"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/columbia-county/lebanon-springs-union-free-school-91001727/"}