{"nrhp_refnum":"95001024","name":"Lindesay Patent Rural Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["See Also:Cherry Valley Village Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by US 20, NY 166, Fields Rd., O'Neil Rd., Co. Rd. 33 and Shipway Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cherry Valley","county":"Otsego County","state":"NY","lat":42.961196786000045,"lon":-74.78601184466888,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-08-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural historic district covering the 9,200-acre Lindesay Patent in the southwestern part of the Town of Cherry Valley, Otsego County, New York. It is a land grant of 1738, surveyed in 1739, and includes the village of Cherry Valley and surrounding farmsteads.","why_significant":"The district is significant because the original grid of roughly 100-acre lots still organizes property lines, field divisions, and roads. Farmsteads and a nuclear village have kept an essentially nineteenth-century agricultural appearance. The village has served the surrounding farms since the late eighteenth century, and little new building has occurred since the early twentieth century.","narrative":"Covering 9,200 acres in southwestern Cherry Valley, Otsego County, New York, this rural district follows the boundaries of the Lindesay Patent, granted in 1738 and surveyed in 1739 into ninety-two lots of about 100 acres each. That grid still shapes property lines, field divisions, stone walls, hedgerows and the road network, and about a quarter of the patent keeps boundaries close to the original survey. The district contains the village of Cherry Valley, which serves as the service center for surrounding farmsteads, along with working dairy farms and mostly timber buildings in Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne and other styles. It counts 563 contributing resources, including 554 buildings, and 219 non-contributing buildings, mainly sheds, garages and post-war farm structures. Because little new construction has occurred since the early twentieth century, the landscape keeps a nineteenth-century character of a compact village surrounded by open farmland. The relationship of village to farms is the main reason for its recognition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"Retains working dairy farms and an active village; 563 contributing and 219 non-contributing resources are counted.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.498817-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/95001024.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320952","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/otsego-county/lindesay-patent-rural-historic-district-boundary-increase-95001024/"}