{"nrhp_refnum":"85002546","name":"Velzer, N., House and Caretaker's Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"22 Fort Salonga Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Centerport","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.88609573700006,"lon":-73.36253372799996,"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 circa 1830 Greek Revival clapboard house and a nearby circa 1858 caretaker's cottage on adjacent one-acre lots at 22 and 24 Fort Salonga Road, Centerport, in the town of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York.","why_significant":"The house is described as the most distinctive example of vernacular Greek Revival architecture in the town of Huntington. Restrained classical details were applied to a conservative three-bay local form, and the house was among the earliest in Huntington to depart from local building traditions. The style reflects the town's growing prosperity and the Velzer family's wealth, which the later cottage also reflects.","narrative":"Along Fort Salonga Road in Centerport stands a two-and-one-half-story clapboard house built around 1830 for the Velzer family, with a smaller caretaker's cottage of about 1858 on the adjacent lot. The house has a three-bay central block with its gable end to the street, flanked by one-and-one-half-story wings. Its Greek Revival character comes from a broad denticulated cornice with returns, a wide frieze and a deeply recessed entrance with molded surround, sidelights and a spider-web transom. The cottage is a side-hall building with a round-arched gable window and a porch with tapered columns. An early twentieth-century east addition and some modern picture windows are the main changes. The house is considered the most distinctive vernacular Greek Revival building in Huntington and one of the first local residences to move away from conservative building traditions. Its fashionable style reflects the town's early nineteenth-century prosperity and the family's status, and the cottage reflects continued affluence.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular Greek Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is rated fair. Both buildings remain in residential use. The inventory lists zoning and developers as threats, with a five-acre plot to the north being developed as condominiums.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.754126-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002546.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002546/ce64579c36-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002546/ce64579c36-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"DanTD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:22_Fort_Salonga_Road;_Centerport,_NY.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:22_Fort_Salonga_Road;_Centerport,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314881","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._Velzer_House_and_Caretaker%27s_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6951821"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/velzer-n-house-and-caretakers-cottage-85002546/"}