{"nrhp_refnum":"06000057","name":"Davis, Charles Homer, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"381 W. Neck Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lloyd Harbor","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.89357996100006,"lon":-73.45446576499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-02-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half story, clapboard-clad Second Empire-style house at 381 West Neck Road in Lloyd Harbor, Suffolk County, New York, built circa 1869 for Charles Homer Davis, with a slate mansard roof and a truncated tower.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an excellent, high-style and remarkably intact example of Second Empire architecture in an area with few houses of such size or sumptuousness. Its details can be linked to period pattern books, especially Cummings and Miller's Modern American Architecture. It is also significant for its association with Davis, a successful New York City builder who returned to West Neck to create one of the earliest estates in the Lloyd Harbor area.","narrative":"Built around 1869, this Second Empire house on West Neck Road in Lloyd Harbor was the country estate of Charles Homer Davis, a West Neck native who made his fortune as a Manhattan builder and brick yard partner. The clapboard house has a slate mansard roof with iron cresting, ornate dormers, a bracketed porch and a truncated corner tower. Inside, a center-hall plan retains original floors, mantels and ceiling medallions. Davis, listed as a builder, probably drew on pattern books, and the dormer and window details appear to follow plates in Cummings and Miller's Modern American Architecture. The house is considered significant as an excellent, well-preserved example of its style in an area where few comparable houses were built, and for its link to Davis, who established one of the earliest estates in the Lloyd Harbor area. A local survey found only eight extant Second Empire houses in Huntington, and this one is described as the most intact.","period_of_significance":"c. 1869","architect_builder":"Charles Homer Davis","architectural_style":"Second Empire","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Used as a residence; the house has been restored over several decades, though it lost its tower roof in the early 1960s and a front balconette was removed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:54.09365-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/06000057.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000057/0f2d476f00-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000057/0f2d476f00-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Muncharelli","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Homer_Davis_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Muncharelli</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:Charles_Homer_Davis_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322088","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Homer_Davis_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5079100"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/davis-charles-homer-house-06000057/"}