{"nrhp_refnum":"78001841","name":"Valentine-Varian House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3266 Bainbridge Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"The Bronx","state":"NY","lat":40.87732249800007,"lon":-73.87936267199996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1978-03-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, five-bay fieldstone farmhouse at 3266 Bainbridge Avenue in the Bronx, New York, built about 1758 and moved in 1965 to a park across the street from its original site.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an important example of a substantial mid-eighteenth-century home built by a well-to-do middle-class farmer, offering a contrast to the Van Cortlandt Mansion and Dyckman Farmhouse. It is described as the only surviving structure in the Bronx showing the life style of a middle-class eighteenth-century family. It is also noted as the residence of the Varian family, who gave New York a mayor and an alderman.","narrative":"Built about 1758 as a farmhouse, this stone residence at 3266 Bainbridge Avenue in the Bronx was moved in 1965 to a park across the street when an apartment tower replaced it on the original site. The two-story, five-bay house has a gable roof, end chimneys, a central doorway under a one-story portico, and a rough-dressed fieldstone exterior that is largely original. Inside, many pine floorboards, hand-forged nails, panelling, four fireplaces and part of the pegged attic rafters survive. Isaac Valentine, a farmer and blacksmith, acquired the land in 1758; the house sat in a battle zone during the Revolution. It was sold in 1791 to Isaac Varian Sr., a New York merchant, whose family later produced a mayor and an alderman. Restoration ran from 1965 to 1968. It is valued as the only surviving Bronx structure showing the life of a middle-class eighteenth-century family, and it now serves as a museum.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Vernacular construction with rough-dressed fieldstone exterior","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied; houses the Museum of Bronx History, owned by the Bronx County Historical Society. Moved in 1965 and restored between July 1965 and May 1968.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.843194-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/78001841.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001841/d3fcdf27a1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/78001841/d3fcdf27a1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Dmadeo","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valentine-varian-house.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Dmadeo</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:Valentine-varian-house.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316533","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%E2%80%93Varian_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7910921"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/the-bronx/valentine-varian-house-78001841/"}