{"nrhp_refnum":"88000013","name":"House at 173 Sixteenth Avenue","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"173 Sixteenth Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Sea Cliff","county":"Nassau County","state":"NY","lat":40.84750748500005,"lon":-73.65221946399998,"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 one and one-half story, cruciform-shaped clapboard house at 173 16th (Sixteenth) Avenue in the village of Sea Cliff, Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York, built circa 1880. Architect and builder are unknown.","why_significant":"The house is argued to be a distinguished example of late nineteenth century summer resort architecture in Sea Cliff. It was built as the village changed from a rural camp meeting ground into a resort community. It keeps features reminiscent of mid-nineteenth century Gothic Revival cottages, such as a multi-gabled roof, decorative bargeboards, a wraparound porch, bay windows and round-arched windows.","narrative":"Built around 1880, this one and one-half story house on a small corner lot at 16th Avenue and Bay Avenue in Sea Cliff is a picturesque summer cottage from the village's resort era. It has a cruciform plan, a cross-gable roof, and original board and batten siding now covered by clapboard. Scrollsawn bargeboards with finials decorate the shingled gables and wall dormers, and a symmetrical three-bay facade has central French doors with elliptical transoms. A two-story bay window, round-arched dormer windows and a two-tiered wraparound porch with turned posts add to its character. The house was built when Sea Cliff was shifting from a camp meeting ground to a resort drawing growing numbers of summer visitors, and streets and lots were being laid out for summer houses. Its Gothic Revival details recall that growth. Alterations in the 1950s were limited to moving the chimney and removing the south entrance door.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Gothic Revival style (picturesque summer cottage)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Private residence in fair condition; the only exterior alterations were made in the 1950s, and the interior retains many original features. No threats are known.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.75304-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88000013.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000013/961298e2b5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000013/961298e2b5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Antony-22","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:173_Sixteenth_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:173_Sixteenth_Avenue_2015.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313755","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_at_173_Sixteenth_Avenue","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5913997"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/nassau-county/house-at-173-sixteenth-avenue-88000013/"}