{"nrhp_refnum":"79001632","name":"Carll, Marion, Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"475 Commack Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Commack","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.82571372700005,"lon":-73.29513466043232,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-06-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farm complex of about 9.3 acres at 475 Commack Road in Commack, Suffolk County, New York, worked by the Carll family from 1701. It includes an 1860 farmhouse built by John Carll and a group of barns and outbuildings.","why_significant":"The farm is tied to the earliest settlement of the area and to the agricultural development of Suffolk County in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Its farmhouse mixes Federal proportions with Italianate details, and its outbuildings show how the farm grew over two centuries. It is described as one of the few surviving direct links to central Long Island's early settlement and the last largely unaltered reminder of Commack's farming era.","narrative":"Set on about nine acres off Commack Road, this farm was worked by the Carll family from 1701 into the twentieth century. Timothy Carll bought land within the Winnecomac Patent, and later generations built successive farmhouses on the site. The present white clapboard house was erected in 1860 by John Carll after the 1748 house burned. It combines Federal-period lines with Italianate brackets and a flat-roofed wing. Around it stand horse, carriage, sheep and storage barns, a smoke house, a privy, a milk house and chicken coops, built of local wood on fieldstone foundations. The buildings record changes in farming, including a shift toward dairy activity after World War I. In the 1930s part of the surrounding land became a small airport, later leased to a country club, which kept open space around the farm. Marion Carll died in 1968 and left the property to the school district for educational and community use. It survives amid dense development as a reminder of Commack's agricultural past.","period_of_significance":"Eighteenth century through twentieth century; specific date 1860","architect_builder":"farmhouse: John Carll","architectural_style":"Federal proportions with Italianate decorative elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"The farmhouse is occupied by a member of the Carll family. Several outbuildings are no longer in use or serve as work sheds, hay storage and a nature study center. Marion Carll left the farm to the Commack School District for use as an educational and community center.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.775639-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/79001632.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001632/116f1cfaa2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001632/116f1cfaa2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"AJW1188","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marion_Carll_Farm_Entrance.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">AJW1188</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:Marion_Carll_Farm_Entrance.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322055","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Carll_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6765114"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/carll-marion-farm-79001632/"}