{"nrhp_refnum":"80002758","name":"Garibaldi Memorial","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"420 Tompkins Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Staten Island","state":"NY","lat":40.61509893200008,"lon":-74.07372786199994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-04-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Other","Politics/Government","Invention"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one and one-half story clapboard Gothic Revival house at 420 Tompkins Avenue in the Rosebank section of Staten Island, New York, probably built about 1845 by an unknown builder and now used as a museum.","why_significant":"The house is tied to Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian liberator, who lived there for eighteen months in 1850-51. It was also the home of Antonio Meucci, who developed a working model of the telephone there. It has been a symbol of Italian-American pride since the late nineteenth century and is judged nationally significant.","narrative":"This small clapboard house on Tompkins Avenue in Staten Island's Rosebank section began as a country Gothic Revival dwelling, probably built around 1845. In 1850 the exiled Italian leader Giuseppe Garibaldi came to share it with his friend Antonio Meucci, and the two made candles for a living. After Garibaldi returned to Italy, Meucci stayed on and produced a working model of the telephone, though Alexander Graham Bell eventually received the patent. In 1882 the house was donated to the Sons of Italy in America, with Meucci allowed to remain until his death in 1889. It was moved three times, the last between 1900 and 1907, to its present site, where it became a memorial dedicated in 1907. A pedimented, columned structure enclosed it until 1952. Some details, including the vergeboards and sun porch, are gone, but the interior is close to original. It now serves as a museum and is regarded as a symbol of Italian-American pride.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900-","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Country Gothic Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and open to the public as a museum of Garibaldi and Meucci memorabilia; altered and moved from its original site.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.955462-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/80002758.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002758/273365e7b8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002758/273365e7b8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Rolfmueller","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Garibaldi_meucci_house_2008_07_20.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolfmueller</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:Garibaldi_meucci_house_2008_07_20.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321351","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garibaldi-Meucci_Museum","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3758341"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/staten-island/garibaldi-memorial-80002758/"}