{"nrhp_refnum":"84000521","name":"Blake, John, House","other_names":["The Blake House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"924 Homestead Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Maybrook","county":"Orange County","state":"NY","lat":41.49357793400003,"lon":-74.20868530099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-12-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half story brick center-hall farmhouse built in 1794 on a 2.4-acre parcel on Homestead Avenue (Route 208) in the village of Maybrook, Orange County, New York, with a rear kitchen wing added in 1842.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as an outstanding example of eighteenth-century brick vernacular architecture in Orange County. It shows Federal-style detail applied to a conservative farmhouse form and is tied to the prominent English Blake family. It also offers a basis for comparing English and Dutch building traditions in the Hudson Valley.","narrative":"Built in 1794, this brick farmhouse on Homestead Avenue in Maybrook was home to the Blake family, early English settlers of Orange County. It is a one-and-one-half story center-hall house on a stone basement, with brick laid in Flemish bond on the south and west walls, molded brick flat arches over openings and a molded brick water table. A kitchen wing was added in 1842. Inside, Federal-style mantels, doors, trim and stair balustrade appear within a plain, squarish farmhouse form that reflects older pre-Revolutionary traditions. John Blake, Jr., who lived here, served as sheriff, state assemblyman and United States Congressman. The property was listed because it is an exceptional, largely intact example of English-tradition brick building in a region better known for Dutch construction, and because it illustrates how Federal taste arrived late in rural areas. A shed, a privy and foundations of other farm buildings survive on the remaining 2.4 acres.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799","architect_builder":"John Blake","architectural_style":"Federal details on a conservative vernacular farmhouse form","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied and used as a private residence; described as largely unaltered, with a shed and privy surviving and foundations of a barn, smokehouse and buttery.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.554356-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84000521.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000521/45229a1ff1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84000521/45229a1ff1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Blake_House_2.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"http://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:John_Blake_House_2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320576","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blake_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6222158"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orange-county/blake-john-house-84000521/"}