{"nrhp_refnum":"99000869","name":"Peck House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NY 203","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chatham","county":"Columbia County","state":"NY","lat":42.47521973600004,"lon":-73.63289820999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-07-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story Greek Revival frame house on a 1.9-acre lot at the northern edge of the hamlet of North Chatham, Chatham, Columbia County, New York, rebuilt c. 1848 by the Peck family, with a brick smokehouse and a modern garage.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be a distinctive example of Greek Revival residential architecture in the town of Chatham, meeting Criterion C. It displays the style's hallmarks, including corner pilasters, a Doric porch with triglyphs and metopes, a deep entablature and classical interior woodwork. It also reflects the prosperity of its physician owner and of North Chatham in the 19th century.","narrative":"Standing at a crossroads on the northern edge of North Chatham in Columbia County, New York, this two-story, five-bay frame house was rebuilt about 1848 in the Greek Revival style. It likely reused the foundation and first-story frame of a late-18th-century dwelling. The Peck family, early settlers of the area, acquired the property in the early nineteenth century, and the rebuilding is tied to the marriage of Dr. Oliver J. Peck in 1848. Features include corner pilasters, a deep boxed cornice, six-over-six windows and a front porch with four Doric columns and a triglyph-and-metope frieze. Inside, the center hall, heavy moldings and six-panel doors survive, along with a Federal mantel that may come from the earlier house. A small brick smokehouse marked 1785 also contributes to the property. The house is recognized as a distinctive local example of Greek Revival architecture and as evidence of the Peck family's standing in a prosperous rural hamlet.","period_of_significance":"c. 1848","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Currently used as a single dwelling; the exterior is almost completely intact from the c. 1848 reconstruction, apart from changes to the rear wing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.437063-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/99000869.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000869/cb3370af34-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000869/cb3370af34-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"UtsukushiHikariNY","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peck_House_in_North_Chatham_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">UtsukushiHikariNY</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:Peck_House_in_North_Chatham_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317049","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peck_House_(Chatham,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7158716"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/columbia-county/peck-house-99000869/"}