{"nrhp_refnum":"08000515","name":"Woodhull, Benjamin King, House","other_names":["Four Chimneys"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"126 Sound Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wading River","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.96096876100006,"lon":-72.85122261599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-06-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, side-hall, wood-frame house at 126 Sound Road in Wading River, Suffolk County, New York, also known as Four Chimneys. It grew from an eighteenth-century half-house through mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century enlargements.","why_significant":"The house is valued as a vernacular Greek Revival dwelling that preserves four distinct building phases, from an eighteenth-century core to a Colonial Revival rear wing. Its surviving fabric shows how Long Island houses evolved over three centuries. It is also tied to the Woodhull family, prominent in the history of Wading River.","narrative":"Located at 126 Sound Road in Wading River, this wood-frame house sits on a 5.7-acre parcel and shows four distinct building phases. Its oldest part is a one-and-one-half-story eighteenth-century half-house, now the south wing, which keeps its stone-walled cellar and hand-hewn, bark-faced floor joists. In the mid-nineteenth century the house was greatly enlarged with a two-story Greek Revival block, which has a denticulated cornice, six-over-six windows, paneled shutters and a mahogany-railed staircase that rises open to the attic. A rear wing begun in the late nineteenth century was raised to two stories in the early twentieth century in Colonial Revival style, with a gallery railing reminiscent of Chinese Chippendale and an exterior brick chimney. A Victorian shed-roofed porch unifies the front. The property also includes a nineteenth-century privy as a contributing structure. The house reflects the long settlement of Wading River by the Woodhull family and the farming and cordwood economy of the area.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival (vernacular), with Colonial Revival additions","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a residence; the barn burned in a 2005 lightning fire and was rebuilt as a non-contributing structure.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.79022-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/08000515.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000515/e5dbf3bd6f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000515/e5dbf3bd6f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"DanTD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin_King_Woodhull_House,_Wading_River,_NY.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:Benjamin_King_Woodhull_House,_Wading_River,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322323","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_King_Woodhull_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4888915"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/woodhull-benjamin-king-house-08000515/"}