{"nrhp_refnum":"88000012","name":"House at 176 Prospect Avenue","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"176 Prospect Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sea Cliff","county":"Nassau County","state":"NY","lat":40.848568784000065,"lon":-73.65053715199997,"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 and one-half story clapboard residence at 176 Prospect Avenue in the village of Sea Cliff, Nassau County, New York, built in 1886. The architect and builder are unknown.","why_significant":"The nomination holds it to be a distinguished example of late Victorian resort architecture in Sea Cliff, with a design based on the Queen Anne style. It was built when the village was changing from a Methodist camp meeting ground into a fashionable summer resort. It keeps a high level of integrity and has a prominent corner tower and extensive decorative wood detail.","narrative":"Built in 1886 at the corner of Prospect and 15th Avenues in Sea Cliff, this two and one-half story clapboard house has a slate cross-gable roof and a prominent three-story square tower on the facade. The tower has a hipped roof with flaring eaves, a board and batten cornice, and scroll-sawn brackets. A wraparound porch with tapered Doric columns, curvilinear trusswork in the gables, corbelled brick chimneys, wall dormers, bay windows and original lightning rods add to its decoration. Its design draws on the Queen Anne style, with an asymmetrical composition and a conspicuous corner tower. The house went up while Sea Cliff was shifting from a Methodist camp meeting ground to a summer resort, as tent plots were sold off and summer houses multiplied. Although the interior was converted to three apartments in 1940, the exterior is largely unaltered and the interior keeps period finishes and trim. It illustrates the village's 1880s peak of resort growth.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne-based late Victorian resort architecture","criteria":[],"status_note":"Converted to three apartments in 1940; exterior relatively unaltered, condition good, and no known threats.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.171909-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88000012.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000012/4e5bffde7c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000012/4e5bffde7c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Antony-22","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:176_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:176_Prospect_Avenue_2016.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313783","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_176_Prospect_Avenue","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5914002"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/nassau-county/house-at-176-prospect-avenue-88000012/"}