{"nrhp_refnum":"88000005","name":"House at 285 Sea Cliff Avenue","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"285 Sea Cliff Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sea Cliff","county":"Nassau County","state":"NY","lat":40.84879448500004,"lon":-73.64673643799995,"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 clapboard house at 285 Sea Cliff Avenue in the village of Sea Cliff, Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York, built in 1884 as a summer home and designed by Richard Seaman Pearsall.","why_significant":"The house is presented as a distinguished example of late nineteenth century resort-era architecture in Sea Cliff, with restrained Italianate detail and a high level of integrity. It represents the many middle-income summer houses built as the village changed from a camp meeting ground into a seaside resort. It is also a conspicuous local landmark on a busy thoroughfare in the business district.","narrative":"Built in 1884 as a summer home, this two-story clapboard house on Sea Cliff Avenue shows the Italianate style in a restrained local form. It has a square plan, a low cross-gable roof, deep overhanging eaves with scrollsawn brackets, round-arched windows in the main gable, and a full-width shed-roof porch with turned posts. Its exterior is virtually unaltered, though the interior changed when it was converted to apartments in 1946, and a small shed-roof addition was made around 1932. Richard Seaman Pearsall, a local architect with an office in New York City, designed it. The house was listed as a representative of the middle-income summer houses built when Sea Cliff shifted from a rustic camp meeting ground to a fashionable seaside resort in the mid-1880s, after the camp association began selling large parcels for development. Today it remains a conspicuous landmark in the village's dense business district.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect and builder: Richard Seaman Pearsall","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":[],"status_note":"Present use is a single dwelling; originally a summer home. Exterior is virtually unaltered, interior changed when converted to apartments in 1946. Condition marked excellent; 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 02:50:45.261972-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88000005.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000005/c95dbce5ec-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000005/c95dbce5ec-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Antony-22","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:285_Sea_Cliff_Avenue_2015.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:285_Sea_Cliff_Avenue_2015.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313757","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_285_Sea_Cliff_Avenue","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914194"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/nassau-county/house-at-285-sea-cliff-avenue-88000005/"}