{"nrhp_refnum":"03000593","name":"Wombough, William, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"145 E. Front St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Addison","county":"Steuben County","state":"NY","lat":42.114677940000036,"lon":-77.21825130699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-07-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half-story wood-frame farmhouse at 145 East Front Street in the village of Addison, Steuben County, New York, built around 1830 and known as the Cowley Hill Farm House. It sits on about 58 acres of the original farm.","why_significant":"The house is significant under Criterion A for its link to the early settlement of Addison, having been built for a leading landowner, developer and early industrialist. It is significant under Criterion C as a rare surviving example of the simple late Federal to early Greek Revival style in the Southern Tier. Alterations made around 1910 kept much nineteenth-century fabric while reflecting changing tastes of a farming family.","narrative":"Built around 1830 on East Front Street in Addison, New York, this clapboard farmhouse sits on roughly 58 acres of its original farmland. It is two and one-half stories, five bays wide, with fluted pilasters, a full-width porch and a rear salt-box extension that holds the kitchen and dining area. It was built for William Wombough, who set up a sawmill in 1805 and a gristmill in 1806, received rights in 1816 to build a dam on the Canisteo River, and had village lots laid out in 1832 that formed the nucleus of Addison. Ownership later passed to his son-in-law Rufus Baldwin Jr., then to Calvin Cowley, who ran a large farm. Around 1910 the house was altered in Colonial Revival fashion, with new windows and interior features. It was listed for its ties to early settlement and as a rare local example of simple Federal and Greek Revival design, set within a surviving agricultural landscape.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1830-1910","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic; Transitional Federal/Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a residence; two noncontributing buildings (a former summer kitchen now a garage, and a ranch-style tenant house) share the property, and the nineteenth-century barns no longer exist.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.489806-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/03000593.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000593/e1625a3f93-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/03000593/e1625a3f93-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Stilfehler","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Wombough_House_4.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Stilfehler</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:William_Wombough_House_4.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322015","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wombough_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8020520"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/steuben-county/wombough-william-house-03000593/"}