{"nrhp_refnum":"84002942","name":"Poillon-Seguine-Britton House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"360 Great Kills Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Staten Island","state":"NY","lat":40.54561150500007,"lon":-74.13975500899994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-02-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A stone and wood farmhouse at 360 Great Kills Road in Great Kills, Staten Island, on about one acre overlooking Great Kills Bay. The stone portion probably dates to the late seventeenth century, with wood-frame additions from 1845 and later.","why_significant":"The house is one of the oldest in Staten Island and New York City, and it keeps an exceptional degree of integrity while showing its long construction history. It is named for the Poillon, Seguine and Britton families, early settlers of the island's south shore. It also recalls the rural character of Staten Island in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.","narrative":"Overlooking Great Kills Bay on Staten Island, this farmhouse began as a stone dwelling, probably built in the late seventeenth century after Jacques Poillon, a French Huguenot, bought the land in 1677. Details such as relieving arches above the first-floor windows, three-panel shutters, large floor beams and hand-hewn attic collar beams point to that early date. The Poillon family lived there until 1828, when Joseph G. Seguine bought it. The Seguines added a clapboard second story, a colonnaded veranda, a new roof and Greek Revival interior trim, and a wooden kitchen wing went up around 1845. Richard Hamilton Britton and his sister Harriet bought the house in 1912 and made the last major changes in 1930, including a sunroom and roof deck drawn by Robert C. Hornfager. The layers of construction remain readable, which makes the house one of the oldest in New York City and a reminder of the island's rural past.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799, 1800-1899 (specific dates: circa 1695, 1730, 1845, 1930)","architect_builder":"Unknown except for 1930 Robert C. Hornfager","architectural_style":"Greek Revival alterations on a seventeenth-century stone core","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence until 1982, then sold to developers of a health spa and undergoing interior renovation. Condition is listed as excellent and altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.414202-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84002942.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321385","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poillon-Seguine-Britton_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7207855"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/staten-island/poillon-seguine-britton-house-84002942/"}