{"nrhp_refnum":"05000328","name":"Sea Cliff Village Hall, Library and Museum Complex","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"300 Sea Cliff Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sea Cliff","county":"Nassau County","state":"NY","lat":40.84927439000006,"lon":-73.63548054899996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-04-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A complex of two connected brick buildings at 300 Sea Cliff Avenue in the village of Sea Cliff, Nassau County, New York, built in 1914 as a Methodist church, Sunday School/chapel and rectory. Milton See and Son designed it and H. H. Vought built it.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is architecturally significant as a highly intact example of Late Gothic Revival (Collegiate Gothic) design and the most prominent architectural feature of the village. It is also significant for its link to Sea Cliff's origins as a Methodist camp ground founded in 1871. The village converted the buildings to a village hall, library and museum rather than demolishing them.","narrative":"Three public functions share a pair of connected brick buildings at 300 Sea Cliff Avenue in Sea Cliff, Nassau County. Built in 1914 as a Methodist church, Sunday School chapel and rectory, the complex was designed by Milton See and Son and built by H. H. Vought. The church, with beige brick, cast stone trim, slate roofs and a square bell tower, follows the Late Gothic Revival or Collegiate Gothic style. The former rectory, in Tudor Revival style, has brick below and stucco above. Sea Cliff began as a Methodist camp ground in 1871 and became a year-round village in the 1880s, and the complex reflects those religious roots. In 1968 the congregation moved to a new church and sold the building to the village. Rather than demolish it, the village converted the nave into a library, the chapel and Sunday School into village offices, and the rectory into a museum. Original details such as the nave arcade and plaster ceiling survive.","period_of_significance":"1914","architect_builder":"Milton See and Son (architects); H. H. Vought (builder)","architectural_style":"Late Gothic Revival (Collegiate Gothic); Tudor Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"In use as the village hall, library and museum since the Village of Sea Cliff bought the former church in 1968 and adapted it, with little loss of architectural detail.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.005014-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/05000328.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000328/7979db69e1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000328/7979db69e1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Antony-22","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sea_Cliff_Library_NW_2015.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Antony-22</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:Sea_Cliff_Library_NW_2015.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319203","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Cliff_Village_Hall,_Library_and_Museum_Complex","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7439861"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/nassau-county/sea-cliff-village-hall-library-and-museum-complex-05000328/"}