{"nrhp_refnum":"85002508","name":"Chichester's Inn","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"97 Chichester Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"West Hills","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.81985248700005,"lon":-73.42475690099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Chichester's Inn is a long, narrow one-and-a-half story shingle-clad and clapboard building at 97 Chichester Road in West Hills, Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, built circa 1680 by the Chichester family as an inn. The 2.3-acre wooded property also includes an early nineteenth-century springhouse.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a distinctive example of settlement-period architecture in Huntington and a rare, relatively unaltered seventeenth-century inn. It is the only surviving seventeenth-century inn in the town and retains rare interior features such as the original tap room, a boxed staircase and a swinging wooden room partition. It is also associated with the early settlement of West Hills and the Chichester family.","narrative":"Chichester's Inn is a long, narrow, one-and-a-half story building on a wooded 2.3-acre lot on Chichester Road in West Hills, Huntington. It was built around 1680 by the Chichester family on the foundations of an earlier dwelling that had burned. Additions continued into the early nineteenth century. The exterior has an eleven-bay facade, a cross-gable with a pointed-arched window, and varied window types including diamond-paned sash. Inside, the inn keeps a hinged seventeenth-century room divider, the original tap room and a winding, narrow boxed staircase. A small early nineteenth-century stone and clapboard springhouse is also part of the property. The inn served as a local gathering place and town meeting hall until the late nineteenth century, when it became solely a residence. It is the only surviving seventeenth-century inn in Huntington and one of few seventeenth-century buildings left in the town. Its relatively unaltered interior and semi-rural setting recall the early settlement of the area.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; builder: Chichester Family","architectural_style":"Settlement period architecture (seventeenth-century)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as a residence; condition described as good. A 1980 fire damaged the attic, which was rebuilt in its original configuration.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.265451-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002508.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002508/0fcfd6dc0e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002508/0fcfd6dc0e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chichester%27s_Inn.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:Chichester%27s_Inn.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314811","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichester%27s_Inn","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5095980"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/chichesters-inn-85002508/"}