{"nrhp_refnum":"88000009","name":"House at 195 Prospect Avenue","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"195 Prospect Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sea Cliff","county":"Nassau County","state":"NY","lat":40.846949094000024,"lon":-73.65068864399996,"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 residence at 195 Prospect Avenue in the village of Sea Cliff, Nassau County, New York, built in 1890 as a private summer house. Architect and builder are unknown.","why_significant":"The house is considered a distinctive example of Sea Cliff's late nineteenth-century summer resort architecture. It was built at the peak of the village's resort development and shows the ornate Victorian detailing typical of that era. It is also a well-known local landmark because it is identical to its neighbor at 199 Prospect Avenue.","narrative":"Built in 1890 as a private summer house, this two-story residence on Prospect Avenue in Sea Cliff reflects the village's late nineteenth-century role as a seaside resort. It has a decorative slate jerkin head roof and a clapboard exterior with a stickwork string course, shingled second floor and gables, and bargeboards. A central projecting shed-roof dormer covers the entrance porch, which has spool-turned posts, fan-shaped brackets, a sunburst motif and a lattice frieze. Windows are one-over-one sash with stained-glass borders, and two tapered chimneys rise above the roofline. Inside, the original fireplaces, door and window moldings, and woodwork survive. Only a rear porch, added in the 1970s, changes the original form. The house is known locally because it is identical to its neighbor at 199 Prospect Avenue. Its ornate detail on a small residence illustrates the tastes and lifestyles of the seasonal visitors who fueled Sea Cliff's rapid growth in the 1890s.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Victorian-era summer resort architecture (picturesque late nineteenth-century ornamentation)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is listed as good, and the house is still used as a residence. The interior is described as virtually unaltered, and a rear porch was added in the 1970s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.048682-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88000009.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000009/88f4bafa12-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000009/88f4bafa12-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Antony-22","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:195_Prospect_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:195_Prospect_Avenue_2016.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313767","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_195_Prospect_Avenue","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15225970"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/nassau-county/house-at-195-prospect-avenue-88000009/"}