{"nrhp_refnum":"07000869","name":"Bull, Julius and Harriet, House","other_names":["Ferry Farm"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2534 Lower Lake Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Seneca Falls","county":"Seneca County","state":"NY","lat":42.903840038000055,"lon":-76.75098871199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, four-bay cobblestone farmhouse built in 1830 on Lower Lake Road overlooking Cayuga Lake, near Seneca Falls, Seneca County, New York, also known as Ferry Farm. A late nineteenth-century carriage barn/workshop stands on the property.","why_significant":"The nomination argues significance under Criterion A for the house's association with Julius and Harriet Bull, documented abolitionists in Seneca County who signed antislavery petitions and Free Soil notices and belonged to the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Local tradition links the farm to the Underground Railroad, though direct evidence is circumstantial. Under Criterion C, it is a remarkably intact example of New York cobblestone architecture.","narrative":"Built in 1830 on a 246-acre farm beside Cayuga Lake, this two-story cobblestone house near Seneca Falls is also known as Ferry Farm. Its walls are laid with variously colored field cobbles, with untooled limestone quoins and flat stone lintels. The doorway trim shows late Federal and early Greek Revival influence, and the interior keeps its original room layout, plaster walls, simple woodwork and hardwood floors. A later carriage barn and workshop also stands on the lot. Julius and Harriet Bull, who bought the farm in 1830, were active abolitionists. Julius signed an 1850 antislavery petition and several Free Soil Party notices in 1848, and both Bulls belonged to the antislavery Wesleyan Methodist Church in Seneca Falls. Local tradition holds that fugitives from slavery were brought across the lake to the farm, and the documents call this plausible though not conclusively proven. The house is also valued as a well-preserved example of cobblestone building in New York.","period_of_significance":"1830 - 1850s","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early 19th Century: vernacular (late Federal/early Greek Revival details)","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single-family dwelling; the interior and exterior retain a high degree of original integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.833053-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/07000869.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000869/fc3843fe96-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000869/fc3843fe96-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SenecaFallsNY_JuliusAndHarrietBullHouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Magicpiano</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:SenecaFallsNY_JuliusAndHarrietBullHouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314650","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Harriet_Bull_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6310177"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/seneca-county/bull-julius-and-harriet-house-07000869/"}