{"nrhp_refnum":"94000256","name":"Miller, William, Farm Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["William Miller Chapel Boundary Increase","See Also:Miller, Wil"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Co. Rt. 11 W of US 4","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hampton","county":"Washington County","state":"NY","lat":43.595338687000066,"lon":-73.31182858219483,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-04-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Religion","Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 25-acre farm district on County Route 11 in Low Hampton, Town of Hampton, Washington County, New York, with William Miller's house built in 1815, a farm building complex, a quarry and kiln, a chapel built in 1848, and the outcrop known as Ascension Rock.","why_significant":"The farm is the resource most strongly associated with William Miller, the religious leader whose followers awaited the apocalypse in 1844 at Ascension Rock. The nomination places him within the early nineteenth-century revival movements of upstate New York. The boundary increase adds the farm to the previously listed chapel and Ascension Rock.","narrative":"This farm district in Low Hampton, Washington County, New York, covers about 25 acres that once belonged to a 146-acre parcel assembled by William Miller in 1814. It includes his two-story frame house, completed in 1815 and later updated by his son with a Greek Revival doorway and end flues. A complex of seven farm buildings and structures, a limestone quarry and kiln, a maple grove, stone and wire fences, and traces of an orchard record farm life across several generations. Miller also built the chapel here in 1848, and the limestone outcrop called Ascension Rock is where he and his followers waited for the expected end of the world in 1844. The district was recognized as the property most closely tied to Miller, a Baptist preacher shaped by the revival movements of upstate New York. It adds the farm to the chapel and Ascension Rock, which were listed earlier, in 1975. His boyhood home and family cemetery lie nearby but are outside the boundary.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"William Miller (built house 1815 and chapel 1848); son John Miller (1850s alterations)","architectural_style":"Federal; Greek Revival; No Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"The house has had restoration work underway, with a restoration plan developed; the chapel and farm are currently used as a museum and religious site, and the farm buildings are described as remaining.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.204776-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/94000256.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000256/c296e3a0e3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000256/c296e3a0e3-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jomegat","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Miller_Home.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jomegat</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:William_Miller_Home.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322855","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Miller_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14707796"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/washington-county/miller-william-farm-historic-district-boundary-increase-94000256/"}