{"nrhp_refnum":"96000154","name":"Hand, Walter, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"520 Angola Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cornwall","county":"Orange County","state":"NY","lat":41.40573207400007,"lon":-74.06406572799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-03-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half-story frame farmhouse at 520 Angola Road in Cornwall, Orange County, New York, built about 1870 with Gothic Revival detailing, on a five-acre remnant of the Hand farm with six other outbuildings.","why_significant":"The house is significant as a representative example of Victorian dwellings and of residences tied to Cornwall's summer boarding industry, 1850-1900. It retains a high degree of exterior and interior integrity and its farm setting, reflecting both the area's agricultural development and its popularity as a summer resort.","narrative":"Set on a knoll along Angola Road in Cornwall, New York, this five-bay frame farmhouse was built about 1870 on land owned by Walter Hand, a farmer descended from one of the town's earliest families. The clapboard house has Gothic Revival touches, including a pointed-arch attic window with hood molding, a cross gable and a raised porch with bracketed cornices and cut-out railings. Inside, the center-hall plan keeps its original staircase, wood mantels, wide floorboards and large first-floor rooms. The Hands ran a working farm with a productive orchard and also took in vacationers from New York City, who were housed in a finished attic and fed in spacious common rooms. Six other buildings survive on the five-acre parcel: two barns, a summer kitchen, a carriage house and two sheds. The property was listed for its architecture and as a rare intact farmhouse from Cornwall's summer resort era.","period_of_significance":"ca.1870","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Gothic Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single-family dwelling; the summer kitchen has been converted into a residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.35881-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/96000154.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000154/2c1100684a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000154/2c1100684a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walter_Hand_House,_Cornwall,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walter_Hand_House,_Cornwall,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314147","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Hand_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1433592"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orange-county/hand-walter-house-96000154/"}