{"nrhp_refnum":"07000490","name":"Carter, John, Farmstead","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"206 Lake Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Youngstown","county":"Niagara County","state":"NY","lat":43.26432269400004,"lon":-79.04600879399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-05-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A mid-19th-century brick farmhouse and brick barn on Lake Road in the Town of Porter, just north of Youngstown, Niagara County, New York. Both were built in 1857-1858 by brickyard owner and master mason John Carter.","why_significant":"The farmstead is presented as a well-preserved example of a mid-19th-century Western New York brick farmhouse and barn, built from bricks made at the owner's own brickyard. The house is a transitional Greek Revival/Italianate design in the Gable Front and Wing form, with an Italianate porch. It also contains ornate plasterwork made by Carter, and the buildings reflect his work as a local builder and brickmaker.","narrative":"Brick from a local brickyard went into both the farmhouse and the barn at this farmstead on Lake Road in the Town of Porter, just north of Youngstown, across from Fort Niagara State Park. John Carter, an English-born master mason, ran the brickyard from around 1850 into the 1880s. He built the barn in 1857 and the house in 1858, using uneven-colored \"seconds\" bricks in both. The farmhouse is L-shaped, with a two-story gable-front main block and a lower side wing. Its design mixes Greek Revival massing and window trim with Italianate roof overhangs, paneled double entry doors and a bracketed wooden porch. Inside, the entrance hall, parlor and front upstairs bedroom have decorative plaster cornices and ceiling rosettes that Carter made with beeswax forms. The barn is a large brick structure with a notched and pegged timber frame and Pennsylvania Barn characteristics. The property is significant as an intact record of a local builder's craft and brickmaking.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"John Carter (owner, master mason and builder)","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century (Greek Revival/Italianate style); barn with Pennsylvania Barn characteristics","criteria":[],"status_note":"Farmhouse currently in residential use; it has a 1977 garage addition and replacement vinyl windows.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.003712-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/07000490.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000490/5b3473a1af-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000490/5b3473a1af-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Pubdog at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Carter_Farmstead_Jun_09.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Pubdog at English Wikipedia</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Carter_Farmstead_Jun_09.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320086","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carter_Farmstead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6225373"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/niagara-county/carter-john-farmstead-07000490/"}