{"nrhp_refnum":"84002992","name":"Hallock Homestead","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"163 Sound Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Northville","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.98406123800004,"lon":-72.58618068599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-06-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmstead at 163 Sound Avenue in Northville, town of Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York. It has a main house begun about 1765 and enlarged in 1845, plus a barn, milk house (a former shoemaker shop), shop/wood house and privy, on about 2.6 acres.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is one of the oldest surviving farm complexes on Long Island's north fork and a well-preserved, representative example of rural Long Island architecture. It was established by the locally prominent Hallock family, who occupied the house until 1979. The complex is the oldest and best preserved of several Hallock farms in the area and reflects a pattern of land inheritance and agrarian life. The former shoemaker shop is called its most historically significant structure.","narrative":"Sound Avenue in Northville, Riverhead, is lined with farmhouses, and one of them, the Hallock Homestead, preserves a complete farm complex on about two and a half acres, the remnant of an original sixty-acre farm. The one-story, five-bay house was probably built around 1765, expanded with a small west room around 1833, and raised to two stories in 1845. Surrounding it are a timber-framed barn, a milk house that began as a shoemaker shop across the road, a shop/wood house and a privy. The Hallock family, early settlers of the area, farmed the land and lived in the house until 1979. Captain Zachariah Hallock's shoemaker account books from 1771 to 1817 survive in a county museum. The property was listed as an intact, representative example of eastern Long Island farm architecture and of the agrarian way of life on the north fork. A preservation organization now owns it and has restored the barn.","period_of_significance":"Late eighteenth century to 1845","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by Hallockville, Inc., a nonprofit preservation organization restoring it as a model Long Island working farm complex; the barn has been restored. The classification marks the property as vacant.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.29983-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/84002992.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002992/80a062b225-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84002992/80a062b225-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Americasroof","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hallock-Homestead.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Americasroof</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:Hallock-Homestead.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322134","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallock_Homestead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5643050"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/hallock-homestead-84002992/"}