{"nrhp_refnum":"85002521","name":"East Shore Road Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"East Shore Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Halesite","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.89080700200006,"lon":-73.41613041930079,"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":"A small residential historic district of twenty buildings and one structure (a town park) along East Shore Road on the east bank of Huntington Harbor in Halesite, Town of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York. Resources date from the mid-eighteenth century to 1926.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is one of the few surviving, largely intact late nineteenth-century working-class residential enclaves in Huntington, reflecting Halesite's settlement and growth. Most houses date from 1860 to 1900 and were built for workers in nearby commercial and water-related enterprises. It also holds three settlement-period dwellings and the site of a pottery works with unexamined archeological potential.","narrative":"East Shore Road runs along the east bank of Huntington Harbor in Halesite, a narrow, winding lane with steep wooded banks on one side and the water on the other. The district along it holds twenty buildings and a town park, spanning the mid-eighteenth century to 1926. Most of the houses were built between 1860 and 1900 for workers in nearby commercial and water-related businesses. They are modest two-story, three-bay shingle and clapboard dwellings with limited ornament such as bargeboards, wrap-around porches and exposed rafter ends. Three earlier houses, dated about 1800, 1830 and 1850, preserve settlement-period forms despite later additions. The district also includes the site of the Brown Brothers Pottery Works, now parkland, whose archeological potential has not been investigated. A 1916 garage and servants' quarters, the only remnant of a large estate, and a 1926 Colonial Revival house mark later development. The group is valued as a rare, largely intact working-class neighborhood in Huntington.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular working-class Victorian-era dwellings with modest picturesque details; settlement-period houses; Colonial Revival (Ingersoll House, 1926)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Threats to the area are listed as not applicable (NA); the district contains one intrusion and a few non-contributing garages and a c.1950 commercial building.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.097766-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002521.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002521/920a0f92cc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002521/920a0f92cc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Muncharelli","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_Shore_Road_Historic_District,_East_Shore_Road_Halesite.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Muncharelli</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:East_Shore_Road_Historic_District,_East_Shore_Road_Halesite.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314873","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Shore_Road_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5329349"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/east-shore-road-historic-district-85002521/"}