{"nrhp_refnum":"96000829","name":"Fine Town Hall","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"91 NY 58","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fine","county":"St. Lawrence County","state":"NY","lat":44.24763663600004,"lon":-75.13893301199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-08-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame town hall built about 1884 at 91 State Highway 58 in the hamlet of Fine, St. Lawrence County, New York, in the Adirondack foothills. Local carpenters built it, and the builder is not named.","why_significant":"It is a largely intact example of Victorian-period vernacular civic architecture in the North Country, with the typical rural meeting or grange hall plan and a second-floor auditorium with stage. It is also tied to the town's social history as the only building large enough for community gatherings and the only surviving historic building still used for its original purpose.","narrative":"Fine Town Hall is a two-story frame building at the center of the hamlet of Fine, in St. Lawrence County, New York. Built about 1884 on land donated by Nehemiah Rice and Edward Pickard, it went up when a tannery had brought prosperity to the town. Local carpenters built it. It has a stone foundation, narrow clapboard siding, a corrugated metal roof, and a false-front parapet with a heavily bracketed cornice. The first floor holds a voting room and a large meeting room. The second-floor auditorium keeps its stage, maple floors and tongue-and-groove walls, and the basement still has two jail cells. Its significance rests on its architecture, a typical rural meeting or grange hall, and on its role in local life. Voters have cast ballots there since 1884, the town board meets there, and residents use it for receptions, reunions and meals after funerals. It is the oldest intact historic building in the hamlet still serving its original purpose.","period_of_significance":"c.1884 - 1946","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Late Victorian Period (vernacular civic architecture)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as the town hall, polling place and community building; the exterior is largely as built, and the first-floor interior has been modernized.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.089551-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/96000829.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321882","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_Town_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5450101"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/st-lawrence-county/fine-town-hall-96000829/"}