{"nrhp_refnum":"93000700","name":"East Farm","other_names":["Archibald M. Brown Estate"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Harbor Rd., N side, at Shep Jones Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Head of the Harbor","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.91326476450004,"lon":-73.15434736619827,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-08-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History","Entertainment/Recreation","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 31-acre country estate district on Harbor Road in Head of the Harbor, Suffolk County, New York, overlooking Stony Brook Harbor. It centers on an early eighteenth-century Smith family farmhouse enlarged in 1910 by architect Archibald M. Brown, with outbuildings and gardens.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is architecturally significant as an intact eighteenth-century farm that Brown transformed into a Colonial Revival country estate for himself between 1910 and 1914. It is also tied to the Richard Smith family, early settlers of the Stony Brook Harbor area. The full 31-acre parcel survives as Brown assembled it, and it is one of four of his residential projects on the harbor.","narrative":"East Farm is a 31-acre waterfront estate in Head of the Harbor, overlooking Stony Brook Harbor. Its core is a wood-framed farmhouse dating to about 1710 and associated with the Smith family, early settlers of the area. In 1910 the architect Archibald M. Brown bought the house and enlarged it as his own country residence, finishing the work by 1914. He kept the original five-bay block with its massive center chimney and added smaller wings, a large dining room with harbor views, a kitchen wing and guest rooms. Colonial Revival detailing was chosen to harmonize with the older house. The grounds hold a formal garden, specimen plantings, a tennis court and dock, plus eighteenth-century outbuildings including a barn, a milk house and cottages. The property was listed for its architecture and for the way it layers an authentic Colonial farmstead with early twentieth-century estate design, all on a parcel that remains intact.","period_of_significance":"c1710-c1914","architect_builder":"Archibald M. Brown, architect","architectural_style":"Colonial; Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; the estate is described as virtually unaltered from its early twentieth-century conversion.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.255222-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/93000700.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000700/d0ad073fd6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000700/d0ad073fd6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Iracaz","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_Farm_farmhouse,_Head_of_the_Harbor.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Iracaz</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_Farm_farmhouse,_Head_of_the_Harbor.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315015","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Farm_(Head_of_the_Harbor,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5328337"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/east-farm-93000700/"}