{"nrhp_refnum":"85002550","name":"Whitman-Place House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"69 Chichester Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"West Hills","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.81976814300003,"lon":-73.41859298099996,"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 two-and-one-half-story shingled residence at 69 Chichester Road in West Hills, Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, built in 1810 by Tredwell Whitman. The five and one-half acre site also holds a c. 1692 dwelling used as a barn and an early nineteenth century springhouse.","why_significant":"The house is presented as an intact, representative example of settlement period architecture in Huntington, with a slightly later Greek Revival entrance surround. The c. 1692 building is one of only four surviving seventeenth-century buildings in Huntington. The property is also tied to the locally prominent Whitman family, original settlers of West Hills.","narrative":"Set on a five and one-half acre wooded lot along Chichester Road in West Hills, this property centers on a house built in 1810 by Tredwell Whitman, who inherited the land from his grandfather, Nehemiah Whitman. The two-and-one-half-story, three-bay shingled dwelling has a gable roof, an end chimney, six-over-six sash windows and a recessed entrance with fluted pilasters and sidelights. A similar-sized addition was built on the south side in the early twentieth century, yet the original form and details remain. Behind the house stands a c. 1692 building, once the home of John Whitman and later used as a barn. It keeps its timber framing, shingle sheathing and saltbox profile, and is one of only four seventeenth-century buildings surviving in Huntington. A springhouse and a pond complete the setting. The property is linked to the Whitman family, early settlers of West Hills, whose members included the poet Walt Whitman.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; builder Tredwell Whitman","architectural_style":"Settlement period architecture with a Greek Revival style entrance surround","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition given as good; still used as a residence; no threats known.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.745991-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002550.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314883","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitman-Place_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7996604"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/whitman-place-house-85002550/"}