{"nrhp_refnum":"04001451","name":"Strong, Thomas, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"100 Wainscott Hollow Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wainscott","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.93688231800007,"lon":-72.25162793999993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-01-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half-story, L-shaped, cedar-shingled house at 100 Wainscott Hollow Road in Wainscott, Town of East Hampton, Suffolk County, New York. The oldest section dates to about 1695 and was built by Thomas Strong, with additions in the early and late nineteenth century.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is significant under Criterion A as a visible reminder of Wainscott's late seventeenth-century settlement and of how one family used it as a home and farmstead for eight generations. Under Criterion C it is a New England Colonial central-hearth house whose framing shows Massachusetts and Dutch influences. It retains a high degree of integrity, and very few houses built for average families around 1700 survive.","narrative":"Built around 1695 by carpenter Thomas Strong, this L-shaped, cedar-shingled house on Wainscott Hollow Road is one of the older structures in the Wainscott settlement of East Hampton, Long Island. Strong came from Northampton, Massachusetts, and built in the New England tradition, with a center chimney and double-pile plan. Exposed framing shows close studding, adzed plates, summer beams and bird's mouth rafter joints, along with closely spaced joists that reflect Dutch influence. The house grew in three stages: an early nineteenth-century northern wing with its own fireplace, and a late nineteenth-century upstairs room added to accommodate summer boarders. Eight generations of Strong descendants lived here and farmed the land. A restoration began after 1975 and a modern kitchen was added. The house sits on 4.9 acres surrounded by farmland now being developed. Few houses built for ordinary families around 1700 survive, which makes this one important to understanding late seventeenth-century life on Long Island.","period_of_significance":"c.1695-1954","architect_builder":"Thomas Strong","architectural_style":"New England Colonial","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a residence; historic portions were restored after 1975 and a modern kitchen was added. The rural setting is described as threatened by surrounding residential development.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.327683-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/04001451.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001451/a308cce6c7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001451/a308cce6c7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Americasroof","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas-strong-house.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Americasroof</a>, <a href=\"https://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:Thomas-strong-house.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322274","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Strong_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7794252"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/strong-thomas-house-04001451/"}