{"nrhp_refnum":"74001222","name":"Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged","other_names":["Harriet Tubman Museum"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"180-182 South St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Auburn","county":"Cayuga County","state":"NY","lat":42.91297403600004,"lon":-76.56474785799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-05-30","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1974-05-30","areas_of_significance":["Black","Religion","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, five-bay frame house built about 1860 at 180 South Street in Auburn, Cayuga County, New York, used as a home for aged and indigent African Americans. It sits on a 19.6-acre parcel owned by the A.M.E. Zion Church; the architect and builder are unknown.","why_significant":"The home is tied to Harriet Tubman's charitable work in Auburn. She bought the land in 1896 and opened the house to the aged and poor, then deeded it to the A.M.E. Zion Church in 1903. She lived there from 1911 until her death in 1913. It is described as the remaining physical evidence of her efforts to continue the Home after she was gone.","narrative":"Located on South Street in Auburn, New York, this two-story frame house with a lateral gable roof was built around 1860. It is a plain balloon-frame building with clapboard siding and a porch along the south and west sides. Harriet Tubman bought the surrounding parcel in 1896 and used the house to shelter elderly and poor African Americans, extending care she had long provided in her own home nearby. In 1903 she deeded the property to the A.M.E. Zion Church, which ran the Home for years after her death in 1913. She herself was admitted to the Home in 1911 and died there. The building later fell into disrepair, and the church restored it in 1953 as a memorial to her life and work. Little of the original interior survives. The site also holds three modern buildings and the cellar hole of a brick house that was part of the Home. It draws visitors and hosts an annual church pilgrimage.","period_of_significance":"1896 - 1913","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century","criteria":["B"],"status_note":"Restored in 1953 after falling into serious disrepair in the 1930s and 1940s; now used as a museum and single dwelling, with a memorial library, multipurpose building and garage on the site.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.153514-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/74001222.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001222/49d9a5cf11-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001222/49d9a5cf11-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lvklock","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harriet_Tubman_House_Dec_2007.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Lvklock</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:Harriet_Tubman_House_Dec_2007.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312220","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman_National_Historical_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5664354"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/cayuga-county/harriet-tubman-home-for-the-aged-74001222/"}