{"nrhp_refnum":"06000263","name":"Howland, Slocum and Hannah, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1781 Sherwood Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sherwood","county":"Cayuga County","state":"NY","lat":42.763261829000044,"lon":-76.62217680099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-04-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small one-and-one-half story, gable-roofed vernacular Federal-style frame house on Sherwood Road in the hamlet of Sherwood, town of Scipio, Cayuga County, New York, associated with Slocum and Hannah Howland and dated to about the 1830s.","why_significant":"The house is presented as the center of the most significant Underground Railroad network in Cayuga County outside Auburn. It is tied to Slocum Howland, a well-known Quaker abolitionist and merchant who used his store, tenant houses and port to help freedom seekers reach Canada or settle locally. It is also noted as a vernacular building of its period.","narrative":"This small frame house on Sherwood Road in the Cayuga County hamlet of Sherwood was the home of Slocum and Hannah Howland. It is a one-and-one-half story, three-bay, side-hall building with a gable roof, plain wooden trim and exaggerated cornice returns, reflecting vernacular Federal-era design. Slocum Howland was a Quaker merchant who ran a store in Sherwood and a port at Levanna on Cayuga Lake, and who took part in the antislavery movement. He used his business resources and family and Quaker allies to help people escaping slavery travel to Canada and to find homes and work in Cayuga County. The property is described as the center of the most significant Underground Railroad network in the county outside Auburn, a way station tied to abolitionism. The house is vacant and badly deteriorated, though its fabric is largely original rather than altered by twentieth-century remodeling.","period_of_significance":"1830s - 1850s","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early 19th Century: vernacular (Federal era form, massing and details)","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant; the form describes the house as deteriorated, with some interior walls collapsed, and says it may not survive another winter.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.676192-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/06000263.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000263/3a8ef97c2a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000263/3a8ef97c2a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lvklock","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HowlandHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Lvklock</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:HowlandHouse.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"08000096","name":"Sherwood Equal Rights Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/sherwood-equal-rights-historic-district-08000096/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312214","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slocum_and_Hannah_Howland_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7541267"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/cayuga-county/howland-slocum-and-hannah-house-06000263/"}