{"nrhp_refnum":"77000979","name":"Neville House","other_names":["Old Stone Jug"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"806 Richmond Terrace","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Staten Island","state":"NY","lat":40.64466385600008,"lon":-74.09862896499999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-07-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A red sandstone house built about 1770 on the north shore of Staten Island at 806 Richmond Terrace, New Brighton, overlooking the Kill van Kull. It was built for Captain John Neville and is also known as the \"Old Stone Jug.\"","why_significant":"It is one of the few surviving pre-Revolutionary houses in New York City. It is significant as an example of vernacular eighteenth-century design and construction and as a representative of Staten Island's early history as a rural settlement.","narrative":"Overlooking the Kill van Kull on Staten Island's north shore, this red quarried sandstone house was built about 1770 for Captain John Neville, a retired naval officer. It has two gable-roofed sections: a main block of two and a half stories on a raised basement, five bays long, and a one-and-a-half-story east wing. A two-story veranda shelters the north facade beneath a curved roof slope. Later dormers pierce the roof, and the interiors have been altered, with pressed tin ceilings and some Neo-classical detailing in the double parlor and entrance hall. Early in the nineteenth century it became the home of county Judge Jacob Tysen and his son Raymond S. Tysen, who wrote a short history of Staten Island. After the Civil War it served as a tavern and acquired the name \"Old Stone Jug.\" It is listed as one of the few surviving pre-Revolutionary houses in New York City and as a plain, functional example of eighteenth-century rural building.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as a private residence; the form rates its condition as fair and notes that the interiors have been altered. A 1976 letter says the exterior was unchanged since 1972.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.982821-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/77000979.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000979/ebf1a4a63d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000979/ebf1a4a63d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Robert Haber","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neville_House_806_Richmond_Terrace_Staten_Island,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Haber</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:Neville_House_806_Richmond_Terrace_Staten_Island,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321373","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_House_(Staten_Island)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15261945"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/staten-island/neville-house-77000979/"}