{"nrhp_refnum":"09000136","name":"Tuthill-Lapham House","other_names":["Friendly Hall"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"324 Sound Rd., at corner of Sunset Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Wading River","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.966630921000046,"lon":-72.85151419299996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-03-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A multi-section frame and brick farmhouse, also known as Friendly Hall, at 324 Sound Road in Wading River, Town of Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York. The oldest part dates to about 1820, with additions in 1838, 1869 and the 1920s.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is significant for early settlement patterns in Wading River, since it stood on a road used to ship produce and cordwood to Long Island Sound. It is also significant as a representative early vernacular rural Long Island house, one of the last intact examples as development spreads. It served as a farm, school and summer boarding house, and later became a storm refuge.","narrative":"Friendly Hall, at the corner of Sound Road and Sunset Boulevard in Wading River, began around 1820 as a three-story Federal-style house with a gambrel roof, built by farmer Bartley Fanning Tuthill. He had it set into a hillside to shelter it from storms off Long Island Sound. Later generations enlarged it: an east addition in 1838 that housed a small private school, a west wing in 1869, and a Colonial Revival makeover, new kitchen wing and garage in the 1920s after Wade and Ruth Lapham bought it and gave it its name. Part of the house served as a summer boarding house in the 1890s and early 1900s. The house is significant for its link to early settlement along a road used to ship cordwood and produce, and as one of the last intact examples of an early rural Long Island homestead.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1820-1942","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal; Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as a residence; the form reports the historic and current function as domestic/residence.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.187735-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/09000136.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000136/2dd13c5a14-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000136/2dd13c5a14-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Team jib","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuthill-Lapham_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Team jib</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tuthill-Lapham_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322292","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuthill-Lapham_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7856928"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/tuthill-lapham-house-09000136/"}