{"nrhp_refnum":"87001875","name":"Tall Pines","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Ridge Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cazenovia","county":"Madison County","state":"NY","lat":42.951027227000054,"lon":-75.85614120899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-11-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmhouse with a contributing guest house on a 2.15-acre lot on the west side of Ridge Road, about one mile north of the village of Cazenovia, Madison County, New York. The house was built about 1835 and enlarged later.","why_significant":"It is argued to be a representative example of vernacular Federal style rural farmhouse architecture in the town of Cazenovia, and an unusually late one built when Greek Revival was already established. Its additions and guest house show the change from working farm to suburban summer-resort residence. The house also holds information about rural building traditions in the first half of the nineteenth century.","narrative":"Tall Pines is a farmhouse on Ridge Road, about a mile north of Cazenovia village, built around 1835 and later enlarged. Its original block is a two-story, three-bay clapboard frame structure on a stone foundation, with a gable roof, cornice returns and a center entrance framed by slender pilasters and a molded entablature. A rear wing thought to date from the 1860s and an early twentieth-century addition with former sleeping porches were added over time. A late nineteenth-century guest house also survives. The property is considered significant as a late, vernacular example of Federal style architecture, built when Greek Revival designs were already common locally. Its changes reflect the shift from working farm to suburban residence as Cazenovia Lake grew popular as a summer resort. Local tradition names the house for the pines around it, and it is believed to have been built by William or Seth Haight. Little original interior fabric remains beyond floorboards in the 1860s wing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect and builder unknown; believed built by William or Seth Haight","architectural_style":"Vernacular Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Present use is residence, condition good; the guest house is used as storage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.625131-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/87001875.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313454","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_Pines_(Cazenovia,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7679951"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/madison-county/tall-pines-87001875/"}