{"nrhp_refnum":"07001453","name":"House at 73 Grove Street","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"73 Grove St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lynbrook","county":"Nassau County","state":"NY","lat":40.665115257000025,"lon":-73.66677058099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-01-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two and one-half story clapboard farmhouse at 73 Grove Street in Lynbrook, Nassau County, New York, probably built around 1840 and moved about 100 feet east to a new foundation in the early twentieth century.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a rare surviving farmhouse from Lynbrook's early period, significant under Criterion C for its craftsmanship and Greek Revival-influenced design. It also qualifies under Criterion A as a physical example of the early twentieth-century real estate development that turned Lynbrook from rural farmland into a commuter suburb.","narrative":"A farmhouse at 73 Grove Street in Lynbrook preserves the village's agricultural past in what is now a suburban neighborhood. Probably built around 1840, though oral tradition claims a late-eighteenth-century date, it is a two and one-half story clapboard house with oak post-and-beam framing, mortise and tenon joinery, hand-cut nails and dentil molding under the eaves. Early in the twentieth century it was moved roughly 100 feet east to a new foundation and served as the residence of a chicken farm until 1933. That year new owners added a rear section with a modern kitchen and more bedrooms, placed out of view from the street. Lynbrook lost nearly all of its early farms as land was subdivided for housing after incorporation in 1911. The house is considered significant for its craftsmanship, for the work of an unidentified builder, and as a reminder of the shift from farmland to a commuter community. It remains a private residence.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1840-1933","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Colonial Georgian; Colonial Revival (original vernacular Greek Revival form)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Currently used as a private residence; a three-bay garage built in 1953 is noncontributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:54.00135-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/07001453.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001453/e5d0bddd5d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001453/e5d0bddd5d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"DanTD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:73_Grove_Street;_Lynbrook,_NY-1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">DanTD</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:73_Grove_Street;_Lynbrook,_NY-1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319127","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_73_Grove_Street","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914462"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/nassau-county/house-at-73-grove-street-07001453/"}