{"nrhp_refnum":"99001490","name":"Pratt, John Wells, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"177 S. 1st St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fulton","county":"Oswego County","state":"NY","lat":43.31842266100006,"lon":-76.41449739499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-12-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick Italianate house at 177 South First Street in Fulton, Oswego County, New York, built in 1863 for John Wells Pratt and updated around 1880. It has a rear service wing and sits on a one-third acre lot.","why_significant":"The house is significant for its architecture as a well-preserved example of Fulton's nineteenth-century residential building and perhaps the most intact Italianate house in the city. Queen Anne porch, bay window and window details added around 1880 show the owner keeping up with changing fashions. The house also reflects the prosperity of the Pratt family, prominent in the city's shipping, milling and banking.","narrative":"Built in 1863 at 177 South First Street in Fulton, this two-story brick house was the home of John Wells Pratt and his wife Harriet. Pratt, a canal shipper, boatbuilder, banker and later coal dealer, came from a family among the earliest settlers at the Oswego River falls. The house has a hipped-roof main block with a cupola, paired round-arched windows, and a paneled, bracketed cornice, and a gabled service wing extends to the rear. Around 1880 a Queen Anne porch, a bay window and window finials were added. Inside, a center hall, a staircase with turned balusters and two carved marble fireplaces survive. It is regarded as perhaps the most intact Italianate house in the city and reflects Fulton's mill-town prosperity. The family occupied it until 1978, when a restaurant company bought it and razed the carriage barn. Civic leaders then helped preserve the house, and the Historical Society of Fulton now operates it as a museum.","period_of_significance":"1863-ca. 1880","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Used as a local history museum by the Historical Society of Fulton; the carriage barn was razed and replaced by a fast food restaurant on the eastern part of the original lot.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.579068-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/99001490.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320867","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wells_Pratt_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6263457"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/oswego-county/pratt-john-wells-house-99001490/"}