{"nrhp_refnum":"85002568","name":"Prime House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"35 Prime Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Huntington","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.874052092000056,"lon":-73.42264139199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half-story clapboard house at 35 Prime Avenue in the village of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, built circa 1855 by Ezra C. Prime as housing for factory workers.","why_significant":"It is a representative example of late settlement-period architecture in Huntington and the only two-family workers' residence in the multiple resource area. It is also linked to Ezra C. Prime and his thimble factory, and is one of two unaltered structures tied to the town's late nineteenth-century industrial development.","narrative":"Prime House is a two-and-one-half-story, gable-roofed, clapboard dwelling at 35 Prime Avenue in Huntington, built around 1855 by Ezra C. Prime, a local thimble manufacturer. It was designed as workers' housing, with a shared central hallway and a two-story apartment on each side. Its five-bay, center-entrance facade has six-over-six windows, a molded fascia board, a simple molded doorway surround with sidelights, interior end chimneys and a shed-roofed front porch. Original moldings, hardware, first-floor fireplaces, two basement fireplaces and a bake oven survive. The house is notable as a late example of the traditional timber-framed building practices used in Huntington from its 1653 settlement into the mid-nineteenth century, and as the only two-family workers' residence among the town's identified resources. Workers of the Prime Thimble Factory lived here until the factory closed in the 1880s, and Prime family members stayed until the 1920s. Heckscher Park now occupies the factory site, leaving this house and the nearby octagon house as reminders of that industry.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; builder Ezra C. Prime","architectural_style":"Late settlement period local building tradition (timber-framed, clapboard, five-bay center-entrance plan)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent; used as a private house; no threats known. Cellar fireplaces were reconstructed circa 1951 and the building was converted to a single-family house circa 1920.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.111902-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002568.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002568/663f7f3379-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002568/663f7f3379-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"DanTD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prime_House;_Huntington,_NY.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">DanTD</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:Prime_House;_Huntington,_NY.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314959","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7243271"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/prime-house-85002568/"}