{"nrhp_refnum":"98000554","name":"Randel, Culver House and Mill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"65 Randall St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Florida","county":"Orange County","state":"NY","lat":41.34141072500006,"lon":-74.35259340399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-05-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A house (ca.1850) and a four-story timber-frame mill (ca.1830) on a 3.28-acre parcel at 65 Randall Street, straddling the boundary of the village of Florida and the town of Goshen, Orange County, New York. The two buildings are divided by Quaker Creek and were associated with the Randel family and their piano manufacturing.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the house is an outstanding regional example of Picturesque-influenced Italianate architecture, with fine scroll-sawn woodwork. The surviving mill is described as a unique example of a manufacturing facility in Orange County and as representative of rural Hudson Valley vernacular design. Together with hydropower remnants and the rural setting, the property is called one of the region's most significant industrial sites.","narrative":"Along Quaker Creek, where the village of Florida meets the town of Goshen, a ca.1850 frame house and a ca.1830 four-story mill share a small wooded valley. Culver Randel, born in Florida in 1806, trained as a piano maker in New York City and returned in 1841 to start a pianoforte company. The mill site had been used by his family since at least 1790, and over the following century the area known as Randelville held mills for flour, lumber, wool and furniture. Randel built the house, a two-story Italianate dwelling with a low hipped roof, bracketed eaves, tall first-floor windows and a bracketed porch with scroll-sawn details. The heavy timber mill, with its stone foundation and clapboard walls, is the surviving central part of a larger factory complex. Remnants of a brick chimney and hydropower features remain. The property was listed for its architecture and its record of industry, and both buildings were restored in the 1990s.","period_of_significance":"ca.1830-ca.1888","architect_builder":"Culver Randel (identified as builder of the house)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian/Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Both buildings underwent restoration in the 1990s; the house is in use as a single dwelling and the mill has a specialty store use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.0208-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/98000554.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000554/0542b4d777-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000554/0542b4d777-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Culver_Randel_Mill.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:Culver_Randel_Mill.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320730","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culver_Randel_House_and_Mill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4165495"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orange-county/randel-culver-house-and-mill-98000554/"}