{"nrhp_refnum":"11000602","name":"Woodhull, Josiah, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"170 North Country Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Shoreham","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.960509958000046,"lon":-72.86969017199993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-08-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, five-bay farmhouse at 170 North Country Road in Shoreham (Wading River area), Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, built ca. 1720 and enlarged in the mid-nineteenth century and again around 1936.","why_significant":"The house is significant under Criteria A and C as an example of early settlement patterns and a vernacular Long Island farmhouse that grew in stages. It retains fabric from the Colonial, Greek Revival and Colonial Revival periods, and it is one of the oldest surviving residences in the Town of Brookhaven. Its raised brick basement, built into a hillside, is an unusual response to the terrain.","narrative":"Built around 1720 on the north side of North Country Road in Shoreham, the Josiah Woodhull House is a two-story, five-bay farmhouse set into a hillside for protection from storms off Long Island Sound. It was home to seven generations of the Woodhull family, descendants of Richard Woodhull, who secured land rights for the Town of Brookhaven. After James Woodhull inherited it in 1834, the house was enlarged with a new brick ground level and Greek Revival window, door and mantel details. In 1936 a New York City couple, Raymond and Aimee Gilleaudeau, bought it as a country retreat and remodeled it in the Colonial Revival style, adding a pedimented entrance, a new staircase and paneled rooms. Eighteenth-century framing still survives inside. The house is recognized as one of the oldest in Brookhaven and as an example of vernacular Long Island farmhouse building. It has been vacant and badly deteriorated, and the Town of Brookhaven has owned it since 2002.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1720-1936","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacant for several years and severely deteriorated; windows boarded. The Town of Brookhaven acquired it in 2002 and has been developing preservation and reuse strategies.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.769247-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/11000602.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000602/3618b0699c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000602/3618b0699c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Team jib","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Josiah_Woodhull_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:Josiah_Woodhull_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322325","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Woodhull_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15229768"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/woodhull-josiah-house-11000602/"}