{"nrhp_refnum":"79001637","name":"Enfield Falls Mill and Miller's House","other_names":["Treman House and Mill"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW of Ithaca in Robert H. Treman State Park","address_restricted":false,"city":"Ithaca","county":"Tompkins County","state":"NY","lat":42.40114750800004,"lon":-76.59033434952931,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-02-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A former gristmill and the adjacent millowner's house in Robert H. Treman State Park, southwest of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York. The mill's basic form dates to 1839, and both buildings were probably built by Jared Treman in the late 1830s.","why_significant":"The buildings are small surviving remnants of the industrial hamlet of Enfield Falls and show its growth from a mill community into a tourist destination. Both are vernacular Greek Revival buildings, one residential and one industrial. The nearly fully equipped mill is a rare surviving example of early turbine-powered mill technology.","narrative":"Near the western end of Enfield Glen in Robert H. Treman State Park, a Greek Revival gristmill and a millowner's house recall the vanished hamlet of Enfield Falls. Jared Treman bought the site in 1831 and probably built both structures in the late 1830s; family memory dates the mill to 1839. The mill is two and a half stories, with a water-powered turbine buried behind it and three sets of millstones for buckwheat, wheat and coarser feed grains. Most of its equipment survives. Milling drew other trades to the village, and later the nearby glen's scenery brought tourists. In 1916 R.T. Treman bought the parcel, and in 1920 he donated the surrounding lands to New York State as a park. The mill, which had stopped grinding the year before, was altered for visitor use, while the house became the superintendent's residence. The pair is valued as a rare record of early turbine milling and vernacular Greek Revival design.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Unknown (probably built by Jared Treman in the late 1830s)","architectural_style":"Vernacular Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The house is used as the park superintendent's residence. The mill ceased operating as a gristmill in 1917 and was altered in 1920 to give park visitors rest and shelter. Its machinery remains largely intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.182518-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/79001637.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001637/d4f8e193d4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001637/d4f8e193d4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Doug Kerr from Upstate New York","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Enfield_Falls_Mill_Oct_09.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Kerr from Upstate New York</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Enfield_Falls_Mill_Oct_09.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322495","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield_Falls_Mill_and_Miller%27s_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5377302"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/tompkins-county/enfield-falls-mill-and-millers-house-79001637/"}