{"nrhp_refnum":"85002552","name":"Williams, Henry, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"43 Mill Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Huntington","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.87872597000006,"lon":-73.43511052399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half story, three-bay clapboard house with a one-story west wing at 43 Mill Lane in the village of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, built circa 1850 by local farmer Henry Williams.","why_significant":"The house is described as an architecturally distinctive mid-nineteenth century residence and a late, largely intact example of Huntington's settlement-era building tradition. It combines settlement-period details such as multi-pane sash, an interior end chimney and clapboard sheathing with a decorative bracketed cornice reflecting later picturesque taste. It also remains virtually unaltered.","narrative":"Located on a densely wooded three-quarter acre lot along Mill Lane in Huntington, this house was built around 1850 by Henry Williams, a local farmer with considerable land and assets. The main block rises two and one-half stories with three bays, a gable roof, clapboard siding, six-over-six double-hung windows, an interior end chimney and a side entrance under a gable-roofed porch. A one-story, four-bay west wing and several small shed-roofed rear additions complete the building. A picket fence encloses the lot, which has no outbuildings. The house is notable because it carries forward Huntington's settlement-era building tradition, which lasted from the town's founding in 1653 into the mid-nineteenth century, while adding a decorative bracketed cornice that points to the growing picturesque taste of the later century. It has remained virtually unaltered and continues in residential use. It was listed for illustrating local residential building practice at mid-century.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect and builder unknown; built by Henry Williams, a local farmer","architectural_style":"Settlement-period (Huntington settlement era) vernacular with bracketed cornice reflecting picturesque taste","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent; still used as a residence, as originally; 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 02:50:45.040082-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002552.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002552/187207a17d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002552/187207a17d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"DanTD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Williams_House;_Halesite,_NY-2.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_Williams_House;_Halesite,_NY-2.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314815","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Williams_House_(Huntington,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5730286"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/williams-henry-house-85002552/"}