{"nrhp_refnum":"04001448","name":"Town Doctors' House and Site","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"310 Ackerly Pond Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Southold","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":41.05709243000007,"lon":-72.43611611899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-01-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Community Planning and Development","Architecture","European","Native American"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A residential house and archaeological site at 310 Ackerly Pond Lane in Southold, Suffolk County, New York, on a 0.709-acre lot beside Bilberry Swamp. The two-and-one-half-story timber-framed house dates to around 1720 and was expanded circa 1880, 1930 and in 2002-2003.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property reflects Southold's early settlement and its cultural ties to New England (Criterion A). It also presents the house as a rare surviving early-eighteenth century colonial example (Criterion C). The site has yielded and may yield archaeological information from Late Archaic Native American use and from eighteenth to twentieth century occupation (Criterion D).","narrative":"Set beside Bilberry Swamp on Ackerly Pond Lane in Southold, this small property combines an early colonial house with an archaeological site. The timber-framed house, estimated at around 1720, has two and one-half stories, a central brick chimney and a plan of two rooms flanking a central hearth, following New England Colonial patterns brought by settlers from the New Haven Colony. Additions came around 1880, 1930 and in 2002-2003. The land was set aside in 1664 for Dr. Robert Trusteane, the town physician, though few later residents were doctors and the house briefly served as a select school in the 1830s. Excavations have recovered household items from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, evidence of mid-nineteenth century clothing work, and Late Archaic Native American tools, suggesting berry gathering at the wetland. The property was listed for its role in Southold's settlement, its surviving early architecture and its archaeological potential.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1706-1954","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"New England Colonial","criteria":["A","C","D"],"status_note":"Used as a residence; the house was restored and expanded in 2002-2003, and the site has been partly excavated.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:54.024434-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/04001448.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001448/188015fbca-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001448/188015fbca-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"DanTD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southold_Town_Doctor%27s_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">DanTD</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:Southold_Town_Doctor%27s_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322286","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Doctors%27_House_and_Site","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7829945"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/town-doctors-house-and-site-04001448/"}