{"nrhp_refnum":"04000286","name":"Shirts, William, House","other_names":["Camperdown Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"196 Harmon Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Scottsville","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.02523214100006,"lon":-77.85430461699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-04-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A vernacular Federal style farmhouse with outbuildings, known as Camperdown Farm, on a five-acre parcel at 196 Harmon Road in the Town of Wheatland, Monroe County, New York, built circa 1825 by William Shirts.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an intact example of vernacular Federal architecture with later nineteenth- and early twentieth-century changes. It is noted for its bold neoclassical interior details, grained doors and carved gable fans. It is also tied to early settler William Shirts and the prominent Harmon family, and its outbuildings show building practices on prosperous lower Genesee Valley farms.","narrative":"Camperdown Farm, at 196 Harmon Road in the Town of Wheatland, centers on a two-story wood-frame house built around 1825 by William Shirts, who came from New Jersey in 1811 and lived first in a log cabin. The vernacular Federal house has a four-bay main block, a rear wing, and gables decorated with carved elliptical fans. Inside, the east parlor has reeded casings with knot-motif corner blocks, and the ground-floor doors are grained to imitate mahogany. The Harmon family bought the property in 1878, and it was often rented or vacant until the mid-1920s, when Mrs. Eugene Harmon and her daughters made it their home. They raised the north wing to two full stories and added the main staircase. Three mid-nineteenth-century barns, a chicken house and corn crib, and an iron windmill remain on the five acres. The property was listed as an early frame house and a reminder of one of the town's first settlers.","period_of_significance":"ca 1825-ca 1925","architect_builder":"William Shirts","architectural_style":"Early Republic / Federal (vernacular Federal)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling, with agricultural land and outbuildings used for field and storage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.242255-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/04000286.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000286/38441beb81-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000286/38441beb81-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WILLIAM_SHIRTS_HOUSE,_SCOTTSVILLE,_MONROE_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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_SHIRTS_HOUSE,_SCOTTSVILLE,_MONROE_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318934","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shirts_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14707799"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/shirts-william-house-04000286/"}