{"nrhp_refnum":"96001423","name":"Craver Farmstead","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"115 Craver Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"East Greenbush","county":"Rensselaer County","state":"NY","lat":42.62371247400006,"lon":-73.64294491672032,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-12-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 40-acre farmstead at 115 Craver Road in East Greenbush, Rensselaer County, New York, with a late eighteenth-century Federal style farmhouse and a nineteenth-century English style bank barn.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farmhouse is an intact, representative vernacular example of Federal architecture, one of the oldest and best preserved in Rensselaer County. It is also significant for agriculture, as a landmark of the county's agrarian past tied to the Van Rensselaer patroon leasehold system and the long Craver family farming tenure.","narrative":"Craver Farmstead is a 40-acre property on Craver Road in East Greenbush, Rensselaer County, centered on a late eighteenth-century farmhouse and a large heavy timber frame barn. The farmhouse is a five-bay, two-story, side-gabled building of post and beam construction with clapboard siding, twelve-over-twelve windows and a carved Federal mantel. A rear ell and garage were added in 1942. The land was once part of a 225-acre farm leased from patroon Stephen Van Rensselaer in 1790, and the farmhouse appears to predate that lease. John W. Craver lived there his whole life, and his family held the farm longer than any other owners. An 1875 record shows him raising grains, potatoes, livestock and hundreds of apple and pear trees. The property was listed as an intact vernacular example of Federal architecture and as a reminder of the county's farming past and the patroon leasehold system.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1790-1888","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic/Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Remains a single-family dwelling, with a farmhouse, barn, orchard, pond and woodlands on 40 acres; the farmhouse retains a high level of integrity despite 1942 additions.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.875685-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/96001423.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001423/893bb26c44-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001423/893bb26c44-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Forefronts","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Craver_farmstead_2014.png\" rel=\"noopener\">Forefronts</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Craver_farmstead_2014.png"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321204","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craver_Farmstead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5182765"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/rensselaer-county/craver-farmstead-96001423/"}