{"nrhp_refnum":"95000880","name":"Hunter-Oliphant Block","other_names":["Browne-Davis Furniture Store"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"215--219 W. First St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oswego","county":"Oswego County","state":"NY","lat":43.45563819600005,"lon":-76.51042188199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-07-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A pair of adjacent brick Italianate commercial buildings at 215-219 West First Street in downtown Oswego, New York: the Oliphant Building (1880, with a fourth story added in the 1890s) and the Hunter Building (1882).","why_significant":"The block is argued to be a distinctive and largely intact example of late nineteenth-century Italianate commercial architecture in Oswego. It retains its cast iron storefronts, hooded windows, brick corbelling and cornices, along with much of its interior. Fires, remodelings and urban renewal have removed most comparable buildings, making it a rare survivor of the 1880s business district.","narrative":"Two linked brick buildings at the northeast corner of West First and West Oneida streets in downtown Oswego make up this commercial block. The Oliphant Building went up in 1880 for a printing company, and the Hunter Building followed in 1882 for a furniture company. A fourth story was later added to the Oliphant Building and used for printing railroad tickets. Both share Italianate west facades with cast iron storefronts made by the Kingsford Foundry of Oswego, panelled brick walls, corbelling, and round and segmentally arched windows with molded hoods. Modified Palladian windows mark the center of the West First Street fronts. The architect is unknown. Furniture companies have operated both buildings together since 1909, and the interiors keep wood floors, fluted iron columns and period office trim. Fires, remodelings and urban renewal have removed much of Oswego's late nineteenth-century commercial architecture, so few buildings of comparable scale and integrity remain to recall the 1880s.","period_of_significance":"1880 - 1909","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in commercial use as a furniture store, described as well maintained with few irreversible alterations.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.305003-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/95000880.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"13001114","name":"Kingsford Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/kingsford-historic-district-13001114/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320835","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-Oliphant_Block","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5944180"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/oswego-county/hunter-oliphant-block-95000880/"}