{"nrhp_refnum":"97000937","name":"Cooperstown Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["Fenimore Farm Stone Agricultural Buildings"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Lake Rd., 1 mi. N of jct. of NY 80 and NY 28","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cooperstown","county":"Otsego County","state":"NY","lat":42.71266400850004,"lon":-74.92889336757221,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-08-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A boundary expansion of the Cooperstown Historic District on the west side of Lake Road (NY 28), just north of Cooperstown village in Otsego County, New York. It adds about four acres with three stone agricultural buildings (a barn, a creamery and a herder's cottage) and a stone wall from the Fenimore Farm, built in 1918.","why_significant":"The three buildings were the core of Edward Severin Clark's model dairy farm at Fenimore Farm and were designed by New York architect Frank Whiting in the Colonial Revival taste. They are distinctive examples of early twentieth-century stone farm buildings, in a region where masonry barns were unusual. They also reflect modern dairy practice of the period and have strong visual and historical ties to Fenimore House across the road.","narrative":"Across Lake Road from Fenimore House, north of Cooperstown, three stone farm buildings and a long stone wall form the core of what was once a model dairy farm. Edward Severin Clark, who owned Fenimore Farm from 1883 to 1933, hired New York architect Frank Whiting to design a barn, a creamery and a herder's cottage, built in 1918. Whiting chose local stone and gambrel roofs, a Colonial Revival approach that departed from the gable-roofed wooden barns common around Otsego Lake. The barn features two round stone silos and a rounded wooden portico on wrought-iron brackets, a detail borrowed from a stone store in Toddsville. It was also built to current dairy standards, with an above-ground stock area, concrete floors and good ventilation. The buildings now serve a museum, yet they keep their original layouts and appearance. They were added to the Cooperstown Historic District to include an agricultural group closely tied to the estate across the road.","period_of_significance":"1918","architect_builder":"Frank Whiting","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The buildings now function as part of a museum (the Farmers' Museum), with the herder's cottage adapted as a gift shop, snack bar and offices; the barn and creamery retain a high degree of integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.820686-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/97000937.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000937/d311b0c17e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000937/d311b0c17e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Wknight94 talk","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inn_at_Cooperstown,_New_York.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Wknight94 talk</a>, <a href=\"https://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:Inn_at_Cooperstown,_New_York.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"99001136","name":"Glimmerglass Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/glimmerglass-historic-district-99001136/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320921","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperstown_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5167957"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/otsego-county/cooperstown-historic-district-boundary-increase-97000937/"}