{"nrhp_refnum":"03000251","name":"Hallock-Bilunas Farmstead","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"733 Herricks Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jamesport","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.978520299000024,"lon":-72.59127960599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-04-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small farmstead at 733 Herricks Lane near Jamesport in the Town of Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York, with a ca. 1880 farmhouse and six agricultural outbuildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farmstead is architecturally significant as a modest late-19th century farmhouse with a grouping of farm buildings typical of small-scale Riverhead farms from the late 19th to mid-20th century. It also retains the setting and functional layout of the town's dominant agricultural economy, including potato farming. It is described as an increasingly rare view of Riverhead's agricultural past.","narrative":"Seven buildings make up this small farmstead on Herricks Lane, north of Jamesport in the Town of Riverhead. The centerpiece is a two-story, five-bay farmhouse built around 1880, clad in wood shingles and wrapped by an open porch. Behind and beside it stand barns, sheds and workshops from the late 19th or early 20th century, including a large barn last used to store potatoes. The house is vernacular, with no recognized architectural style, and the outbuildings reflect practical, make-do construction typical of a modest farm. The property descends from Hallock family lands settled in the 17th century; Lemuel Beecher Hallock developed the farm in the late 19th century, and it was sold in 1940 to John Bilunas, who grew potatoes with his son. The grouping was listed for its intact record of small-scale farming, when potatoes dominated local agriculture, in an area where farmland is giving way to housing, vineyards and nurseries.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1880","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"No Style (vernacular)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The farmhouse was renovated recently, with new windows, porch posts and shingle siding matching the original look. The outbuildings show little alteration. The surrounding fields are in separate ownership but still in agricultural use.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.71303-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/03000251.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000251/7e9287ac1a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000251/7e9287ac1a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Americasroof","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hallock-Bilunas-Farmstead.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Americasroof</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hallock-Bilunas-Farmstead.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322138","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallock-Bilunas_Farmstead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5643051"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/hallock-bilunas-farmstead-03000251/"}