{"nrhp_refnum":"87001358","name":"Concklin, Abner, House","other_names":["Old Yellow House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Closter Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Palisades","county":"Rockland County","state":"NY","lat":41.00742846400004,"lon":-73.92020838399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-08-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small two-story, three-bay frame house built c1859 on Closter Road in the hamlet of Palisades, Rockland County, New York, with later rear wings and two contributing outbuildings, a garage and a shed.","why_significant":"The house is presented as a distinctive, intact example of mid-nineteenth-century vernacular residential architecture in Palisades. It represents the British-derived two-story, side-passage house type, here with an unusual hipped roof and later mansard-roofed wings. Its long association with the Concklin family, a founding local family, lets the evolution of the house form be traced into the twentieth century.","narrative":"Built around 1859 on Closter Road in Palisades, Rockland County, this modest frame house was probably built by its first owner, Abner Concklin, a local carpenter and house builder who also served as sexton of the Methodist church. It is two stories tall and three bays wide, with a side-passage plan, a raised stone basement, a full-width porch and an uncommon hipped roof topped by a monitor-like cap. Greek Revival trim survives inside. A kitchen ell and a 1920s rear wing, both with mansard roofs, show how the family adapted the compact plan to changing needs. A shed and an early twentieth-century garage also remain. The house is recognized as a local landmark. It is valued as the best surviving example in the hamlet of the British-derived vernacular house type persisting into the Picturesque era, and for its long ties to the Concklin family. Nearby suburban development has reduced its setting, but the house itself remains largely intact.","period_of_significance":"c1859 - c1920","architect_builder":"Abner Concklin, probable builder","architectural_style":"Vernacular two-story, three-bay, side-passage house with Italianate (hipped roof with monitor-like cap) and Greek Revival trim elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied private residence in good condition, altered by later wings and interior changes.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.876969-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/87001358.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001358/7ffd8954dd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001358/7ffd8954dd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ABNER_CONCKLIN_HOUSE,_PALISADES,_ROCKLAND_COUNTY,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.</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:ABNER_CONCKLIN_HOUSE,_PALISADES,_ROCKLAND_COUNTY,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321430","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abner_Concklin_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4668123"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/rockland-county/concklin-abner-house-87001358/"}