{"nrhp_refnum":"85002500","name":"Brush Farmstead","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"344 Greenlawn Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Huntington","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.866816381000035,"lon":-73.37511224499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small farmstead on a 2.5-acre parcel at 344 Greenlawn Road in Greenlawn, Town of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York. It includes a main farmhouse built circa 1873, a caretaker's cottage and several outbuildings.","why_significant":"It is a small, cohesive, largely intact late nineteenth-century agricultural complex that recalls Huntington's farming prosperity. The farmhouse and caretaker's cottage show modest but locally distinctive Second Empire details, including mansard roofs, dormers and bracketing. Few period farmhouses in the town received such decoration. They belong to a small set of well-preserved Second Empire residences in Huntington.","narrative":"Along busy Greenlawn Road in Huntington, a 2.5-acre farmstead preserves the remnants of a once sixty-acre farm. Luther Brush received the land from his father in the early 1870s and had built the main house and set up a working farm by 1873. Devine Monger bought the property in the late 1870s and soon added a caretaker's cottage across the road, designed in the same style as the main house. Both buildings have clapboard walls, tall dormered mansard roofs, two-over-two windows and decorative bracketing typical of the Second Empire style. The farmhouse stands two and one-half stories, while the cottage is a smaller version. Two barns, a privy, sheds and other outbuildings, mostly dating to the turn of the century, complete the group. Surrounded by mid-twentieth century housing, the farmstead is a rare reminder of the agriculture that anchored Huntington's economy into the early twentieth century, and its ornamented farm residences are unusual in the town.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; builders Luther Brush (main dwelling) and Devine Monger (worker's cottage)","architectural_style":"Second Empire","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is listed as good, with no known threats; the property remains in residential use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.706614-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002500.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314835","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137302351"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/brush-farmstead-85002500/"}