{"nrhp_refnum":"85002539","name":"Smith, Henry, Farmstead","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"900 Park Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Huntington Station","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.85093605800006,"lon":-73.37965258699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmstead at 900 Park Avenue in Huntington Station, Town of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, with a farmhouse begun about 1750 by Henry Smith and remodelled in the 1860s, plus mid-nineteenth century outbuildings on a three-acre plot.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farmstead is a largely intact property recalling Huntington's eighteenth and nineteenth century agricultural development. Locally it is considered the property in town that most clearly keeps its historic agrarian appearance. The house also shows the typical mid-nineteenth century remodelling of earlier dwellings with Victorian details.","narrative":"Surrounded by twentieth-century tract housing at the corner of Park Avenue and Little Plains Road, this three-acre farmstead in Huntington Station is still cultivated. The farmhouse dates from about 1750, when Henry Smith established the farm, and it was remodelled in the 1860s by Alexander Gardiner for his mother. The two-story clapboard house has a shallow gable roof, bracketed eaves with drop pendants, paired windows and a long front porch with slender Doric columns. Inside, the original eighteenth-century floor plan, woodwork and hardware remain largely unaltered. Behind the house stand a barn, a privy and three sheds from the mid-nineteenth century, along with a non-contributing modern garage. The farm once covered 600 acres. It was listed because it keeps the look of a working farm and illustrates Huntington's shift from subsistence settlement to prosperous nineteenth-century agriculture, which is rare in a heavily developed town.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Builder: Henry Smith; architect unknown","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a residence, with the three-acre plot under active cultivation; condition described as fair, with deterioration listed as a threat.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.555387-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002539.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002539/dd253f7b62-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002539/dd253f7b62-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"DanTD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Smith_(now_John_Gardiner)_Farmstead.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">DanTD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Smith_(now_John_Gardiner)_Farmstead.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314949","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Smith_Farmstead","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14706346"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/smith-henry-farmstead-85002539/"}