{"nrhp_refnum":"82003412","name":"Bush-Lyon Homestead","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"John Lyon Park, King St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Port Chester","county":"Westchester County","state":"NY","lat":41.013428472000044,"lon":-73.66715742299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-04-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmhouse with early outbuildings on King Street in John Lyon Park, Port Chester, Westchester County, New York, built about 1720 by an unknown builder and now a house museum.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is one of Port Chester's oldest buildings and part of the area's first settlement, owned by the locally prominent Bush and Lyon families. Many historic features survive despite major additions. It is described as one of the community's most important historic resources.","narrative":"Set within John Lyon Park on King Street in Port Chester, this farmhouse dates to about 1720 and served as a family farm for nearly two hundred years. It began as a one-and-one-half-story, five-bay house with a center stone chimney and later gained a rear wing, a kitchen wing shortly before 1800, and further nineteenth-century additions, along with a mid-nineteenth-century porch with Doric piers. Inside, paneled fireplace walls, Federal period mantels, two bake ovens and hand-hewn attic framing survive. A carriage house, a former slave quarters and a storage structure with a corn crib stand nearby. The land belonged to the Bush family from the late seventeenth century, and the house passed through the Bush and Lyon families. Family tradition holds that General Israel Putnam used it as headquarters in 1778-79, though no documents confirm this. The Village of Port Chester bought the property in 1925, and it now operates as a house museum.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the Village of Port Chester since 1925, in good condition, occupied, and maintained as a house museum by the Port Chester Historical Society with village assistance.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.95913-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82003412.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003412/504724f419-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003412/504724f419-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PortChesterNY_BushLyonHomestead.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PortChesterNY_BushLyonHomestead.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322975","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush-Lyon_Homestead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5001356"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/westchester-county/bush-lyon-homestead-82003412/"}