Prattsville Commercial Building is a historic commercial building located at Prattsville

Prattsville, New York

Prattsville is a town in Greene County, New York, United States. The Town of Prattsville is in the northwest part of the county. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 700.- History :...

 in Greene County, New York

Greene County, New York

Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. Its name is in honor of the American Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. Its county seat is Catskill...

. It was built about 1824 and is a -story building constructed of massive hemlock

Tsuga

Tsuga is a genus of conifers in the family Pinaceae. The common name hemlock is derived from a perceived similarity in the smell of its crushed foliage to that of the unrelated plant poison hemlock....

 timber frame on a dry laid fieldstone

Fieldstone

Fieldstone is a building construction material. Strictly speaking, it is stone collected from the surface of fields where it occurs naturally...

 foundation. It is built into the side of the east bank of Schoharie Creek

Schoharie Creek

Schoharie Creek in New York, USA flows north from the foot of Indian Head Mountain in the Catskill Mountains through the Schoharie Valley to the Mohawk River. It is twice impounded north of Prattsville to create New York City's Schoharie Reservoir and the Blenheim-Gilboa Power Project.Two notable...

. It was built by Zadock Pratt

Zadock Pratt

Zadock Pratt Jr. was a tanner, banker, soldier, and member of the United States House of Representatives...

 (1790–1871), founder of Prattsville.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1996.