{"nrhp_refnum":"08000448","name":"Howland, Augustus, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1395 Sherwood Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sherwood","county":"Cayuga County","state":"NY","lat":42.75897883400006,"lon":-76.64725786833608,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-05-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmhouse with five contributing farm outbuildings and two granite hitching posts on a 191.2-acre farm at 1395 Sherwood Road, in the town of Ledyard near Sherwood, Cayuga County, New York. The house began as an early 19th-century double house and was enlarged in the Italianate style in the 1850s/60s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is architecturally significant under criterion C as an outstanding, little-altered example of Italianate domestic architecture in rural Cayuga County. Its bracketed cornice, Florentine window with balcony and decorative verandah are unlike anything else nearby. The form says agricultural significance is not justified because many farm structures are lost and crop information is lacking.","narrative":"Set on 191.2 acres east of the hamlet of Sherwood in Cayuga County, this farmhouse began as a small double house built in the 1810s, probably by Thomas Lapham. Augustus Howland bought the farm in 1832, and sometime after 1850 the house was remodeled into a high-style Italianate villa. It is a two-and-one-half-story timber frame building with clapboard siding, a projecting center gable holding a round-arched attic window and balcony, wide paired brackets under broad eaves, and a scroll-sawn verandah. Inside, a Federal staircase, Greek Revival woodwork and mantels, and a Tudor-arched parlor opening survive. Four barns, a former laundry and two granite hitching posts remain from the farm. The house was recognized for its architecture, being far more elaborate than most Quaker-built homes and comparable to fine houses in nearby Aurora. Howland family members, including Augustus's son George, owned it for generations.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1850s/60s - ca. 1900","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":"Mid-19th century: Italianate","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still a single-family residence; the form says Howland family members still owned the property as of 2008.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.085102-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/08000448.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316707","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Howland_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4821451"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/cayuga-county/howland-augustus-house-08000448/"}