{"nrhp_refnum":"07000865","name":"Kinne, David and Mary, Farmstead","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6858 Kinne Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ovid","county":"Seneca County","state":"NY","lat":42.69190098650003,"lon":-76.84419191115964,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Social History","Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 104-acre farmstead northwest of Ovid in the town of Romulus, Seneca County, New York, with a vernacular Greek Revival house built about 1855 and seven historic agricultural outbuildings.","why_significant":"The farm is tied to David and Mary Kinne, grain farmers and abolitionists, and illustrates the importance of grain production in Seneca County. David Kinne's anti-slavery activity is documented, and a family tradition links the farm to the Underground Railroad, though no documents support it. The house and outbuildings are also intact examples of Greek Revival architecture and 19th-century farm construction.","narrative":"This 104-acre farmstead northwest of Ovid, in the town of Romulus, Seneca County, centers on a vernacular Greek Revival house built about 1855 by David Wisner Kinne and Mary Stone Kinne. Seven intact outbuildings survive: an outhouse, machine shop, carriage house, horse barn, scale house, gambrel-roofed barn and machine shed. The farm focused on grain rather than dairy, and the scale house was used to weigh grain from surrounding farms. In 1850 Kinne was among the county's largest oat producers, and his farm ranked among its most valuable. He was also an abolitionist who gave money to the New York State Vigilance Committee in 1849, subscribed to Frederick Douglass' Paper and ran for the Assembly on the Liberty Party ticket. Family tradition connects the farm to the Underground Railroad, but no documents confirm it. The property is notable for agriculture, social history, architecture and its largely unchanged nineteenth-century setting.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1840 - ca. 1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early 19th Century: Greek Revival","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Historic and current function is single family dwelling; the farm stayed in the Kinne family until very recently and retains exceptional integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.63731-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/07000865.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000865/66dc3e339d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000865/66dc3e339d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DAVID_AND_MARY_KINNE_FARMSTEAD,_SENECA_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</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:DAVID_AND_MARY_KINNE_FARMSTEAD,_SENECA_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314632","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_and_Mary_Kinne_Farmstead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5241438"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/seneca-county/kinne-david-and-mary-farmstead-07000865/"}