{"nrhp_refnum":"11001010","name":"Rogers Mansion Museum Complex","other_names":["Southampton Historical Museum and Center __"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"17 Meetinghouse Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Southampton","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.88664087700005,"lon":-72.38795001399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-01-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An outdoor museum complex at 17 Meetinghouse Lane in the Village of Southampton, Suffolk County, New York. It centers on the 1853 Rogers Mansion and includes eleven contributing buildings and two contributing structures, most moved to the site between 1950 and 1960.","why_significant":"The complex is locally significant under Criterion A in recreation and culture as a mid-twentieth century open-air museum village. The Southampton Colonial Society moved threatened historic buildings to the mansion grounds between 1951 and 1960 to create a \"colonial village\" interpreting local history. It reflects mid-century attitudes toward historic preservation and interpretation, drawing inspiration from Colonial Williamsburg.","narrative":"Rogers Mansion Museum Complex is an outdoor museum in the center of Southampton Village, New York. Its core is the 1853 Greek Revival Rogers Mansion, which absorbed an older ca. 1750 farmhouse and was unified by McKim, Mead and White in 1916 with a Colonial Revival overlay. A ca. 1890 carriage house and a 1900 pergola by Charles McKim also belong to the original site. Beginning in 1951, the Southampton Colonial Society moved threatened local buildings onto the grounds, including a schoolhouse, carpenter and blacksmith shops, a paint shop, a general store, corn cribs, outhouses and the 1739 Sayre Barn. The society hoped to create a colonial village showing daily life in Southampton through the nineteenth century, taking guidance from Colonial Williamsburg. Work was complete by 1960. The complex is considered locally significant for recreation and culture, illustrating the open-air museum concept and mid-twentieth century approaches to preserving and interpreting the past.","period_of_significance":"1951-1960","architect_builder":"Charles McKim designed the ca. 1900 pergola; McKim, Mead and White renovated the mansion in 1916","architectural_style":"Greek Revival (Rogers Mansion) with Colonial Revival additions and details","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Operated as a museum complex; the mansion contains exhibition rooms, classrooms, a gift shop, galleries, offices and storage, and the carriage house is used as exhibit space.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.323976-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/11001010.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11001010/58874804c8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11001010/58874804c8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"DanTD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rogers_Mansion_Museum_Complex_in_Southampton,_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:Rogers_Mansion_Museum_Complex_in_Southampton,_NY.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"86002726","name":"Southampton Village Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/southampton-village-historic-district-86002726/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322216","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137303267"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/rogers-mansion-museum-complex-11001010/"}