{"nrhp_refnum":"06000158","name":"Tuthill, Jesse and Ira, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Main Rd. and Cardinal Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mattituck","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.997098712000025,"lon":-72.51931846099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-03-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-part wood-frame farmhouse at Main Road and Cardinal Drive in Mattituck, Suffolk County, New York, built in 1799 by Jesse Tuthill and enlarged in 1841 by his son Ira Tuthill.","why_significant":"It is significant under Criterion A for the settlement and growth of the Mattituck area, reflecting two generations of the Tuthill family descended from an original Southold settler. Under Criterion C it shows two building styles: a Colonial New England-style 1799 section and an 1841 vernacular Greek Revival section.","narrative":"Located at the corner of Main Road and Cardinal Drive in Mattituck on Long Island's North Fork, this farmhouse was built in two stages. Jesse Tuthill raised a two-room, New England-style colonial house in 1799. His son Ira, a former sea captain, merchant, farmer and church deacon, added a larger two-story Greek Revival house in 1841, joined to the older building through the dining room. The newer section has evenly spaced six-over-six windows, a wide frieze band and a modest gabled roof. Later changes included decorative brackets, an Eastlake-style porch and early twentieth-century colonial revival renovations by Philip R. Tuthill. The family farmed the land until the 1950s. After the property was sold out of the family and faced demolition, a relative bought it and donated it in 1968 to the Mattituck-Laurel Historical Society. It now serves as a local history museum on about two acres, alongside a garage, a milkhouse and a moved schoolhouse.","period_of_significance":"1799-1955","architect_builder":"Jesse and Ira Tuthill","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Owned and maintained by the Mattituck-Laurel Historical Society and used as a local history museum with exhibits and educational programming.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.547385-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/06000158.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000158/883cff0fb4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000158/883cff0fb4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Americasroof","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jesse-and-ira-tuthill.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:Jesse-and-ira-tuthill.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322290","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_and_Ira_Tuthill_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6186992"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/tuthill-jesse-and-ira-house-06000158/"}