{"nrhp_refnum":"85000338","name":"Clark, Ezra, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Mill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Millerton","county":"Dutchess County","state":"NY","lat":41.92079239000003,"lon":-73.51772351199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-02-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick farmhouse built around 1780 on Mill Road in the Harlem Valley near Millerton, town of Northeast, Dutchess County, New York. The builder is unknown, and it sits on an 8.67-acre parcel.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is architecturally significant as an exceptionally intact late eighteenth-century masonry dwelling in the Hudson Valley. It is built into a hillside with an exposed basement, a central-hall plan and a two-story porch across the main facade, a form it describes as a regional house type. It also notes that a brick inscribed \"J.M. 1780\" casts doubt on the traditional attribution to Ezra Clark.","narrative":"Built around 1780 on a small rise in the flood plain of the Webatuck Creek near Millerton, this brick house is a rectangular, gable-roofed dwelling with two interior end chimneys. It is set into a hillside so that the stone basement is exposed on the south front, where a two-story porch with six chamfered columns spans five bays. Inside, a center-hall plan survives with paired rooms on each side, original mantelpieces, exposed beams and a historic kitchen with a beehive Dutch oven. The house was listed as an exceptionally intact example of a late eighteenth-century masonry dwelling in the Hudson Valley and a variant of a distinctive regional house type. Local tradition names Ezra Clark as builder, and his family is known to have lived there from about 1795, but a brick inscribed \"J.M. 1780\" suggests another origin. Recent work includes a rebuilt porch, staircase and chimneys, and a cedar shingle roof. The parcel is the surviving remnant of a larger farm.","period_of_significance":"1700-1799 (specific date 1780)","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Vernacular residence; regional Hudson Valley house type","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence, in excellent condition and described as unaltered, with some recent reconstruction of the porch, staircase and chimneys.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.032814-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85000338.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000338/29e2075ad5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85000338/29e2075ad5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ezra_Clark_House,_Millerton,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</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:Ezra_Clark_House,_Millerton,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317317","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Clark_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5423342"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/dutchess-county/clark-ezra-house-85000338/"}