{"nrhp_refnum":"83001808","name":"Chase, William Merritt, Homestead","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Canoe Pl. Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Southampton","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.88747667400003,"lon":-72.47148308499999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-06-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two and one-half story shingled frame summer residence and artist's studio on a 2.34 acre lot in Shinnecock Hills, Southampton, Suffolk County, New York, built 1891-1892 and designed by McKim, Mead and White.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the exceptionally intact house is closely tied to painter and teacher William Merritt Chase and to the development of American art around 1900. It is also a work of the noted architectural firm McKim, Mead and White. Chase lived here while teaching at the first out-of-doors art school in the country and painted many works depicting the house and its surroundings.","narrative":"Set among scrub pine and scrub oak dunes between Peconic and Shinnecock Bays, this shingled, gambrel-roofed house in Shinnecock Hills, Southampton, served as both summer home and studio for painter William Merritt Chase. Designed by McKim, Mead and White, it was begun in 1891 and completed a year later on land donated by Samuel Parrish. Distinctive details include a two-story living room with a gallery and a fan-shaped skylight, rope-like balusters, and fluted porch columns with rope capitals that suggest a nautical theme. Chase taught at the nearby Chase Outdoor School of Art, described as the first out-of-doors art school in the country, and spent summers here until the school closed in 1902. He kept the property until his death in 1916. Several of his paintings show the house's interiors, exteriors and surrounding landscape. The house remains notably intact, with only modest additions made around 1917 and 1920.","period_of_significance":"1900- (also 1800-1899 checked; specific date 1892)","architect_builder":"McKim, Mead and White","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and used as a private residence; a one-story frame barn northwest of the house is described as deteriorated.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.079052-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001808.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001808/c29f579f47-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001808/c29f579f47-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":null,"credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shinnecock_Hills_Chase.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shinnecock_Hills_Chase.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322063","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Merritt_Chase_Homestead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14707794"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/chase-william-merritt-homestead-83001808/"}