{"nrhp_refnum":"02001452","name":"Bellport Academy","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"24 Academy Lane","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bellport","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.75409827100003,"lon":-72.93746771299993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-07-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":[],"significance_levels":[],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A former school building at 24 Academy Lane in Bellport, Suffolk County, New York, built in 1833 by local residents and now a single-family house. It sits just west of the village historic district.","why_significant":"It was the first school in Bellport, offering co-educational high school courses that drew students from well beyond the village. It also housed the village's first place of worship. It is a widely recognized local landmark tied to Bellport's settlement and growth.","narrative":"Built by local residents in 1833, the Bellport Academy at 24 Academy Lane was the village's first school. It offered co-educational high school courses and drew students from far beyond the small community. The building also served as Bellport's first place of worship. After a new school opened in 1901, the Academy closed. It was moved across Academy Lane and used as a carpenter shop, then moved back in 1919 and converted into a private house under the supervision of local architect W. Granville Smith. His remodeling added a two-story addition along with Colonial Revival entrances and a portico. The building keeps its original three-bay, two-story gable-roofed form, its window arrangement and its bell tower. It stands on a flat, landscaped lot in a twentieth-century residential neighborhood just west of the historic district. Still a well-preserved single-family home, it is a widely recognized local landmark that figures prominently in the village's settlement and later growth.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"W. Granville Smith, local architect (supervised the remodeling and conversion in the 1910s)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival entrances and portico added in a remodeling of the original gable-roofed, three-bay, two-story building","criteria":[],"status_note":"Remains a well-preserved single-family residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.866022-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/02001452.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001452/6187565b5b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001452/6187565b5b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Springfulutopia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bellport_Academy.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Springfulutopia</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:Bellport_Academy.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314751","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellport_Academy","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4884137"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/bellport-academy-02001452/"}