{"nrhp_refnum":"10000942","name":"Mapes, Mortimer L., House & Seward Homestead","other_names":["Buttonwood Terrace","Seward, William H., Birthplace"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"35 N Main St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Florida","county":"Orange County","state":"NY","lat":41.33513982200003,"lon":-74.35553566799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-11-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Archeology","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Queen Anne-style frame house built in 1887 for Mortimer L. Mapes at 35 North Main Street in the Village of Florida, Orange County, New York, with a carriage barn, outbuildings, a privy and a cast-iron fence on the site of the 1797 Seward house.","why_significant":"The 1887 house is a substantially intact local example of Late Victorian Queen Anne domestic architecture (Criterion C). The carriage barn and a nearby outbuilding reuse timbers and parts of the 1797 house where statesman William H. Seward was born, and may yield information about that house (Criterion D).","narrative":"Set on North Main Street in the Village of Florida, Orange County, this property combines a Queen Anne-style house of 1887 with outbuildings tied to an earlier home. The frame house was built for Mortimer L. Mapes, a carpenter by trade. It has an asymmetrical plan, a corner tower, a wraparound verandah later enclosed, patterned shingling, faux half-timbering and sunburst panels, and it keeps its original plan and many interior finishes. Mapes built it after dismantling a story-and-a-half gambrel-roofed house erected in 1797 for Dr. Samuel S. Seward, where his son William H. Seward was born in 1801. William Seward later served as New York governor, U.S. senator and Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson. Timbers from the 1797 house were reused in the large carriage barn, and a nearby outbuilding is thought to be its kitchen wing. The house is recognized for its architecture, and the barn and outbuilding for their potential to reveal how the Seward house was built.","period_of_significance":"c. 1797-c. 1910","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne","criteria":["C","D"],"status_note":"Historic and current function is single dwelling; one outbuilding is described as dilapidated.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.478307-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/10000942.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320682","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137293002"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orange-county/mapes-mortimer-l-house-and-seward-homestead-10000942/"}