{"nrhp_refnum":"90001323","name":"Lance Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"S. Shore Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chaumont","county":"Jefferson County","state":"NY","lat":43.98107271950005,"lon":-76.26027390962415,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-09-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A working dairy and hay farm complex on South Shore Road (County Road 57) on Point Peninsula near Chaumont, town of Lyme, Jefferson County, New York. It includes a 1908 farmhouse, outbuildings dating from the 1850s to 1916, and 188.9 acres.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the farm as an intact late nineteenth to early twentieth century farmstead that grew with the region's dairy industry and the turn-of-the-century hay boom. Its 1908 farmhouse is cited as work of Charles Gamble & Sons of Sackets Harbor, leading local carpenter-builders. The farm also had the first cheese factory in Lyme, founded by Peter Lance, and its barns and outbuildings record local building and farm layout practices.","narrative":"Lance Farm is a dairy and hay farm on Point Peninsula in the town of Lyme, Jefferson County, near the Toad Hole inlet on Lake Ontario. The complex has a 1908 farmhouse, a cattle barn of 1916, a mid-nineteenth-century horse barn, a granary, a milk house and a forge, set among 188.9 acres of hayfields. Peter Lance arrived from Herkimer County in 1848, and by 1870 he had opened the first cheese factory in Lyme on this farm. The farm grew with the railroad, the dairy trade and the turn-of-the-century hay boom. The two-and-one-half-story farmhouse was built by Charles Gamble & Sons of Sackets Harbor, a firm that built about 150 houses in western Jefferson County. It has a large scale, shingled gable dormers, Queen Anne sash and turned porch woodwork. The surviving buildings and open farmland together show how a North Country farmstead was built and arranged. A ruin of the original 1860 farmhouse does not contribute.","period_of_significance":"1860-1920","architect_builder":"Charles Gamble & Sons of Sackets Harbor (farmhouse); otherwise architect and builder listed as unknown","architectural_style":"Carpenter-built farmhouse in the Gamble style with Queen Anne sash; vernacular farm outbuildings","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition rated good; the farmhouse is still a residence and the property is a private farm. The outbuildings are used for boat storage, general storage and maple syrup making, and the 1860 farmhouse survives only as a ruin.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:46.234508-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/90001323.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313208","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6483384"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/jefferson-county/lance-farm-90001323/"}