{"nrhp_refnum":"04000995","name":"Fury Brook Farm","other_names":["Bairdlea Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Kings Highway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sugar Loaf","county":"Orange County","state":"NY","lat":41.32632549500005,"lon":-74.28025669299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-09-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 7-acre farm complex on Kings Highway (Orange County Route 39) near the hamlet of Sugar Loaf, in the Town of Chester, Orange County, New York. It includes a Greek Revival farmhouse dated 1856, an early nineteenth-century tenant house, and a 1936 dairy barn.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is significant locally for its link to the settlement and growth of the Town of Chester and for showing how local agriculture evolved. Its ownership traces to the 1730s, making it one of the earliest settled parcels in the town. By the early twentieth century it had become one of the town's more substantial dairy operations.","narrative":"Fury Brook Farm is a compact farm complex of about seven acres on Kings Highway, between the hamlet of Sugar Loaf and the Village of Chester in Orange County, New York. Its land was acquired in 1731 by Nathaniel Roe II, and it passed through the Roe, Rhoads and Baird families. The buildings reflect those periods: a small tenant farmers house from about 1810, a two-story Greek Revival farmhouse dated 1856 by a brownstone tablet, and a large T-shaped dairy barn from 1936 that retains hewn framing from an earlier barn. Other contributing elements include a hay barn, a former milk shed, a stone farm wall and a stone-lined creek. The farm lay along the old Kings Highway, an early transportation route, and grew from subsistence farming into a substantial dairy operation under the Baird family. It is no longer actively farmed, but it records the long course of local agriculture and settlement in the Town of Chester.","period_of_significance":"c. 1810-1954","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The farm is no longer active in productive agriculture; the main house and tenant house are in residential use and part of the dairy barn houses a machine shop.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.652179-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/04000995.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000995/8bf4dc4db2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000995/8bf4dc4db2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fury_Brook_Farm.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fury_Brook_Farm.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320654","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fury_Brook_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5509845"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orange-county/fury-brook-farm-04000995/"}