{"nrhp_refnum":"01001497","name":"Levitz Family Farm","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"395 Beaver Dam Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Grahamsville","county":"Sullivan County","state":"NY","lat":41.79772870650004,"lon":-74.53270880533024,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-01-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 112-acre farm district on Beaver Dam Road (NY 42) near Grahamsville, in the town of Neversink, Sullivan County, New York. It combines two former sixty-acre farms and includes a 1913 farmhouse, a 1932 dairy barn, milk houses, chicken coops, a brooder house and farm fields.","why_significant":"The farm is presented as a rare, intact early twentieth-century farm reflecting the settlement, economic and social history of Sullivan County's Jewish population. It also documents changing land-use patterns from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The same family has farmed it for more than ninety years, shifting from subsistence to commercial dairy and poultry production in the 1930s.","narrative":"Along Beaver Dam Road near Grahamsville, this 112-acre farm in the town of Neversink was assembled from two sixty-acre parcels bought by Levitz family members in the early twentieth century. Harry Levitz, a New York City house painter, purchased the first lot in 1910 from a Christian farmer, and the second parcel was added in the early 1940s. The surviving buildings include a 1913 farmhouse built as a duplex for two families, a 1932 dairy barn from Sears Roebuck plans, milk houses, chicken coops and a brooder house. Stone walls, tree lines and field divisions still mark the earlier farm landscape. The farm matters because it shows how Jewish settlers in Sullivan County bought worn nineteenth-century farms and moved from subsistence farming to commercial dairy and poultry production, a pattern central to the county's economy. It has remained in agricultural use by one family for over ninety years.","period_of_significance":"1910-1951","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Still in agricultural use by the same family, with a dairy and farm fields; the brooder house is now used as a loafing barn for cattle and the large chicken coop for storage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.752395-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/01001497.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322383","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitz_Family_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6535736"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/sullivan-county/levitz-family-farm-01001497/"}