{"nrhp_refnum":"96001432","name":"Clark, A. J., Store","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"286 Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cornwall","county":"Orange County","state":"NY","lat":41.435586629000056,"lon":-74.03396482399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-12-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, three-bay brick commercial building at 286 Main Street in Cornwall, Orange County, New York, built around 1875 by Archer Clark in the Italianate style.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is an intact example of a late-nineteenth-century brick commercial building with Italianate detailing. It keeps its original form, windows, doors, decorative trim and interior features, and it shows how small-town stores were built in the period. It is also a distinctive resource within Cornwall's multiple property group.","narrative":"Built around 1875 by Archer Clark, this two-story brick store sits at 286 Main Street in the center of Cornwall's business district. It has a flat roof with a low parapet, a widely projecting bracketed cornice with carved wood scroll brackets, and a two-story porch on the north side. The ground floor has a recessed entrance flanked by display windows, with living space above. An earlier building on the site burned in 1870, and several prominent local merchants had kept stores there before Clark. The Clark family has owned the building continuously, running a butcher shop for over a century before a descendant opened a sandwich shop. Inside, a pressed metal ceiling, hardwood floors, an original display case and a period staircase survive. The building was recognized for its architecture. It is a well-preserved example of the brick, Italianate-detailed commercial buildings that replaced earlier wood-frame stores during Cornwall's years as a summer resort.","period_of_significance":"ca.1875","architect_builder":"Archer Clark (constructed the building ca. 1875)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used as a butcher shop for over a hundred years and later converted by a Clark descendant into a sandwich shop; still in commercial use at the time of nomination.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.259136-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/96001432.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001432/bc005d1e7e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96001432/bc005d1e7e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AJ_Clark_Store.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:AJ_Clark_Store.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314167","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._J._Clark_Store","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4647904"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orange-county/clark-a-j-store-96001432/"}