{"nrhp_refnum":"90001329","name":"Row, The","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Main St. at Shaver Creek, Three Mile Bay","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chaumont","county":"Jefferson County","state":"NY","lat":44.08025257000003,"lon":-76.20462183299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1990-09-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A group of three contiguous mid-nineteenth-century vernacular wood-frame houses and their outbuildings (six contributing buildings on about 5.4 acres) on Main Street in the hamlet of Three Mile Bay, town of Lyme, near Chaumont, Jefferson County, New York. Built c. 1845-1850.","why_significant":"The group is significant architecturally as a well-preserved, highly consistent set of three gabled-ell houses with modest Greek Revival details. They were built by ship-carpenters during the shipbuilding boom at Three Mile Bay. The nomination states that nowhere in Lyme is there a finer concentration of this house type.","narrative":"Three neighboring houses on the south side of Main Street in Three Mile Bay, in the town of Lyme, make up The Row. Built between about 1845 and 1850, the Aura Wilson, Phillip Shay and Hart Knowlton houses share wood-frame construction, limestone rubble foundations, clapboard siding and Greek Revival touches such as Doric porch posts, wide cornerboards and gable-end returns. Each follows the gabled-ell plan, with a gable-front section beside a lower lateral wing and recessed porch. The houses were built by local tradesmen, including a blacksmith, a tailor and a tanner, during the years when the Wilcox shipyard made the hamlet a busy community. The Wilson house is the earliest and best preserved. The Shay and Knowlton houses received early twentieth-century additions, including a major renovation of the Knowlton house in 1917. Six buildings contribute, including privies and a carriage barn. The group is valued as the finest local concentration of a once-common North Country house type.","period_of_significance":"1845-1850","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular Greek Revival (gabled-ell house type)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The Shay house has been vacant for several years and has deteriorated somewhat; the Knowlton house is a summer residence; the Wilson house is a year-round residence.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.685199-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/90001329.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313156","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Row_(Lyme,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7761641"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/jefferson-county/row-the-90001329/"}