{"nrhp_refnum":"88000002","name":"House at 58 Eighteenth Avenue","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"58 Eighteenth Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sea Cliff","county":"Lewis County","state":"NY","lat":40.846850705000065,"lon":-73.64997888599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-02-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, three-bay clapboard building at 58 18th Avenue in the village of Sea Cliff, Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York, built in 1893 as a boarding house. The architect and builder are unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is architecturally significant as a distinguished late nineteenth century summer house that shows Sea Cliff's original character as a vacation resort. It was built as a boarding house during the village's resort peak and is one of a small group of surviving boarding houses. It keeps its picturesque Victorian-era appearance and decorative porch.","narrative":"Built in 1893 as a boarding house, this two-story, three-bay clapboard building on 18th Avenue in Sea Cliff served the village's growing summer population. Sea Cliff was then at the height of its resort development and drew many visitors from the New York City area, so boarding houses and hotels were common. The house has a low cross-gable roof and a symmetrical composition. Its two-tiered front porch carries a spindle frieze, scrollsawn corner braces and spindle balustrades, with a small central gable decorated in fishscale shingles. Fishscale shingles and trusswork also decorate the other gable ends. The interior keeps French doors, a marble fireplace, exposed beams and an oak stairway. The only exterior change was removal of a west-side balcony in the late 1960s. As Sea Cliff became a year-round residential community, many hotels and boarding houses were demolished. This is one of a small group that remain, and it recalls the tastes of the late nineteenth century resort.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian-era design and details","criteria":[],"status_note":"Now a private residence in excellent condition; the only exterior alteration was removal of a deteriorated west-side balcony in the late 1960s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.548347-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88000002.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000002/96531d31e4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000002/96531d31e4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Antony-22","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:58_Eighteenth_Avenue_2016.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Antony-22</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:58_Eighteenth_Avenue_2016.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313761","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_58_Eighteenth_Avenue","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914420"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/lewis-county/house-at-58-eighteenth-avenue-88000002/"}