{"nrhp_refnum":"89002022","name":"Longbotham, Nathaniel, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1541 Stony Brook Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Stony Brook","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.907490996000035,"lon":-73.13428006299995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-11-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-part wood-frame dwelling at 1541 Stony Brook Road in Stony Brook, Suffolk County, New York, consisting of an early eighteenth-century half-house, an older cottage and a 1952 garage, on a .12-acre lot with a shed and a well.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of the most intact and thoroughly documented settlement-period houses in the region. It recalls local settlement and regional vernacular building practices in early eighteenth-century central Long Island. It was built for Nathaniel Longbotham, whose family were early landholders and millers in the Setauket and Stony Brook area.","narrative":"This small farmhouse on Stony Brook Road in Suffolk County, New York, is made up of three joined sections. The largest is a story-and-a-half oak-framed half-house, documented by 1746 and probably built between 1735 and 1745 by Nathaniel Longbotham. Attached to it is a smaller one-story cottage that may be older and now serves as the kitchen. A one-car garage added in 1952 completes the row. The lot of about one-eighth acre is all that remains of a 150-acre farm, and it also holds an early nineteenth-century shed and a late seventeenth or early eighteenth-century well. Inside, the parlor keeps original pine floors, paneling and a brick fireplace, and restoration in the 1980s exposed early shingles and framing details. The Longbotham family were millers and landholders in Setauket and Stony Brook. The house is regarded as one of the region's most intact and well-documented settlement-era dwellings, showing early eighteenth-century building practices on central Long Island.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Nathaniel Longbotham (built the half-house)","architectural_style":"Colonial","criteria":[],"status_note":"Used as a private residence and professionally restored, with work focused on stabilizing and conserving original fabric; transfer to a nonprofit for public education is being explored.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.295288-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/89002022.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002022/ad5752f122-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89002022/ad5752f122-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Springfulutopia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nathaniel_Longbotham_House_photo_taken_from_west.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Springfulutopia</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:Nathaniel_Longbotham_House_photo_taken_from_west.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322168","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Longbotham_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6969740"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/longbotham-nathaniel-house-89002022/"}