{"nrhp_refnum":"01000850","name":"Davis Town Meeting House","other_names":["Davis, Lester H., House","Davis, Goldsmith, House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Jct. of Middle Country Rd. and Coram-Mt. Sinai Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Coram","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.88177237300005,"lon":-72.98327876799993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-08-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Politics/Government","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A wood-framed house in Coram, in the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, Long Island, built around 1750 and expanded around 1860 and 1891. It sits on a 0.68-acre corner lot with a garage, pump house and the former colonial roadbed.","why_significant":"It is a rare surviving rural 18th- and 19th-century property along a heavily developed commercial corridor. It served as residence, farm, tavern and inn, and hosted Brookhaven's annual town meeting from about 1800 to 1885. Its additions show changing architectural tastes, and its details reflect both English and Dutch building traditions.","narrative":"Built around 1750 in Coram, on Long Island, this wood-framed house began as a two-story, five-bay dwelling with a central chimney and twelve-post frame. It was later enlarged in stages: a Greek Revival wing with a slate roof and a full-width porch around 1860, rear wings in the late nineteenth century, and a small office addition around 1891 for a town clerk. The Davis family farmed the land and ran a tavern and inn here, which became a temperance house in the 1830s. From about 1800 to 1885 the house hosted Brookhaven's annual town meeting. Interior features include a paneled parlor wall, corner cupboards, strap hinges and wide-plank floors, with some Dutch-influenced details alongside English construction. Surrounded by shopping centers and modern development, it is the only intact historic house left from those once lining Middle Country Road. It was listed for its architecture and for its role in settlement and local government.","period_of_significance":"c1750-c1930","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial: Postmedieval English, Georgian; Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival; Late Victorian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant; the Davis family last occupied the house in 1984.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.390179-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/01000850.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000850/ef57f96e4f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000850/ef57f96e4f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"DanTD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Davis_Town_Meeting_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">DanTD</a>, <a href=\"https://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:Davis_Town_Meeting_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322086","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Town_Meeting_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5241975"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/davis-town-meeting-house-01000850/"}