{"nrhp_refnum":"93000702","name":"Land of Clover","other_names":["Lathrop Brown Estate"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Long Beach Rd., S side","address_restricted":false,"city":"Nissequogue","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.91495597100004,"lon":-73.18602760735794,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-08-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Land of Clover, also called the Lathrop Brown Estate, is a sixty-acre country estate district on the south side of Long Beach Road in Nissequogue, Suffolk County, New York, overlooking Stony Brook Harbor. It was built between 1912 and 1918 and includes a brick Georgian Revival main house and several support buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the estate is a distinctive, intact example of a turn-of-the-century Stony Brook Harbor estate and illustrates the last phase of recreational estate development on Long Island. It is also an outstanding example of Georgian Revival design, believed to be the first independent commission of architect Archibald Brown of Peabody, Wilson and Brown. Its circular horseshoe stable and other outbuildings add to its architectural value.","narrative":"Land of Clover is a sixty-acre estate on a hillside above the west shore of Stony Brook Harbor in Nissequogue, New York. Built between 1912 and 1918 for Lathrop Brown, a realtor and congressman, it centers on a two-story brick Georgian Revival house with slate roof, ten chimneys and curving hyphens linking side wings. Brown's brother, Archibald Brown of Peabody, Wilson and Brown, designed the house, loosely patterned on Westover, a Virginia plantation house, along with six support buildings: a horseshoe-shaped stable, superintendent's cottage, ice house and garage, two barns and a water tower. The estate was listed as a distinctive, well-preserved example of the harborside country seats built by wealthy families in the early twentieth century, and for the quality of its design. Converted to a private school around 1953, it has kept its exterior, interiors and landscape largely unaltered, though several newer school buildings stand on the grounds.","period_of_significance":"c1912-c1918","architect_builder":"Archibald Brown (Peabody, Wilson and Brown)","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Converted to a private school (Knox School) around 1953; the main house and dependencies survive largely intact with minimal alterations. The water tower is deteriorated.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.555304-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/93000702.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000702/83b6b053d7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000702/83b6b053d7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"DanTD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knox_School_in_Nissequogue,_New_York.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">DanTD</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:Knox_School_in_Nissequogue,_New_York.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314979","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Clover","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6484112"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/land-of-clover-93000702/"}