{"nrhp_refnum":"06000563","name":"Jackson, Samuel and Elbert, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1542 Wantagh Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wantagh","county":"Nassau County","state":"NY","lat":40.68450814300007,"lon":-73.51047673299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-07-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A private residence at 1542 Wantagh Avenue in Wantagh, Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York. A small mid-eighteenth-century wing built by Samuel Jackson was enlarged in the early-to-mid nineteenth century by his descendant Elbert Jackson with a large Greek Revival main block.","why_significant":"It is significant under Criterion A for its link to the settlement and evolution of the Town of Hempstead through the Jackson family, who held land in the Wantagh area for three centuries. Under Criterion C, it shows a clear progression of architecture from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth century with a high degree of integrity. It is also a rare surviving example of early vernacular architecture in Nassau County.","narrative":"This two-and-one-half-story, shingle-sided house on Wantagh Avenue in Wantagh, Nassau County, grew in three stages. Samuel Jackson built the oldest part around the middle of the eighteenth century: a one-and-one-half-story timber-frame wing with a central hearth, a room on each side and a sleeping loft. His descendant Elbert Jackson added a much larger Greek Revival main block in the early-to-mid nineteenth century, with a wide central stair hall, two parlors, six-panel doors and a transom-and-sidelight entrance. A kitchen wing was added in the late nineteenth century after Elbert Jackson's death in 1884, and a pedimented porch followed in the early twentieth century. The Jackson family descended from Robert Jackson, a founder of the Town of Hempstead, and held land in the area for about three centuries. The house is listed for that settlement history and for its layered vernacular architecture, which remains a reminder of the area's rural past amid suburban development.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1750-1930","architect_builder":"Samuel Jackson (west wing); Elbert Jackson (Greek Revival main block); carpenter-builder of the main block unnamed in records","architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Historic and current function are both residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.178014-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/06000563.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000563/097f6fb345-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000563/097f6fb345-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Dmadeo","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_and_Elbert_Jackson_House_-_Wantagh_NY.png\" rel=\"noopener\">Dmadeo</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:Samuel_and_Elbert_Jackson_House_-_Wantagh_NY.png"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"05000358","name":"Jones Beach State Park, Causeway and Parkway System","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/jones-beach-state-park-causeway-and-parkway-system-05000358/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319129","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_and_Elbert_Jackson_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7412990"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/nassau-county/jackson-samuel-and-elbert-house-06000563/"}