{"nrhp_refnum":"07001454","name":"House at 251 Rocklyn Avenue","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"251 Rocklyn Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lynbrook","county":"Nassau County","state":"NY","lat":40.65404029900003,"lon":-73.66489747199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-09-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A wood-frame farmhouse at the corner of Rocklyn and Earle Avenues in the village of Lynbrook, Nassau County, New York. The oldest section dates to about 1793, with mid-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century additions.","why_significant":"The house is significant under Criterion C as a representative of vernacular Greek Revival architecture on Long Island, with an older core updated by later additions. It is also significant under Criterion A as the last physical remnant of a farm that was subdivided during the early twentieth-century real estate boom that turned Lynbrook from a rural community into a suburb. It is described as a rare survivor from the village's early period.","narrative":"This farmhouse at the corner of Rocklyn and Earle Avenues in Lynbrook, Nassau County, grew in stages from a late-eighteenth-century core into a suburban residence. The oldest section, a one-and-one-half-story wing built around 1793, was joined by a two-story center section in the mid-nineteenth century, which brought matching Greek Revival details such as brackets and a frieze band. Late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century additions included rental space, porches with square Doric columns, and a sun porch, now a den. The wood-clapboard house sits on a brick foundation. It was part of a farm held by the Brower family from the 1870s, which was sold in 1904 and subdivided into building lots as the area changed from farmland to a commuter suburb. The house kept its last bit of the farm's land and survives as a rare link to the village's rural beginnings, valued both for its vernacular Greek Revival character and its place in local development.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1793-1938","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival; Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a residence, with part of the house previously converted to rental space.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.929563-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/07001454.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001454/2ddefec2b0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001454/2ddefec2b0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"DanTD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_at_251_Rocklyn_Avenue,_Lynbrook-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:House_at_251_Rocklyn_Avenue,_Lynbrook-1.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319121","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_251_Rocklyn_Avenue","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914169"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/nassau-county/house-at-251-rocklyn-avenue-07001454/"}