{"nrhp_refnum":"98000705","name":"Clifton Park Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Old NY 146 and US 9","address_restricted":false,"city":"Clifton Park and Halfmoon","county":"Saratoga County","state":"NY","lat":42.86582028400005,"lon":-73.77035648199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-06-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story wood-frame hotel and tavern at the intersection of old New York Route 146 and U.S. Route 9, straddling the Clifton Park and Halfmoon town line in Saratoga County, New York. It was first erected in the 1820s and expanded in stages afterward.","why_significant":"The hotel is significant as a rare, substantially intact stagecoach-era tavern tied to the turnpike-era development of southern Saratoga County. It later served as a community gathering place and as an early automobile-era roadhouse. It is also a surviving example of vernacular Greek Revival commercial architecture, notably for its massive two-story portico added about 1840.","narrative":"Sitting at a crossroads on the line between the towns of Clifton Park and Halfmoon, this two-story clapboard hotel began in the 1820s as a tavern stand on the Waterford turnpike. Ephraim Stevens, the first elected supervisor of Clifton Park, is named as its founder, and the hamlet around it became known as Stevens's Corners. The building grew in stages, probably from several earlier structures, and gained its defining feature around 1840: a massive two-story portico with Tuscan columns in the Greek Revival manner. Later in the century it served as a courthouse, jail, meeting hall and polling place, and a dance hall was added in the late 1890s. In the early automobile era it operated as a roadhouse with a restaurant, bar and dance hall until it closed in the late 1970s. Left vacant, it deteriorated, and the collapsed rear wings were removed in 1998. It retains much of its historic character and is regarded as a rare local example of its type.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1821-1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century/Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacant and deteriorated; the commercial use ended in the late 1970s, and the collapsed rear dance hall wing was removed in 1998.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.063169-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/98000705.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000705/78edad6756-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000705/78edad6756-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Peter Flass","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clifton_Park_Hotel.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Flass</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clifton_Park_Hotel.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321562","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_Park_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5133290"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/saratoga-county/clifton-park-hotel-98000705/"}