{"nrhp_refnum":"94000965","name":"Wilkinson, Jemima, House","other_names":["Friend's House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3912 Friend Hill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Jerusalem","county":"Yates County","state":"NY","lat":42.654727151500055,"lon":-77.16538638339861,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-08-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Exploration/Settlement","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large two-and-one-half-story frame Federal-style house on Friend Hill Road in Jerusalem, Yates County, New York, built 1809-1815 for Jemima Wilkinson, the Universal Friend, on a 127.3-acre rural parcel with a mausoleum and barn.","why_significant":"It is the only surviving home of Jemima Wilkinson, the first American-born woman to found a religious group, and is tied to the early settlement of Yates County. It is also a distinctive example of early-nineteenth-century Federal residential architecture in the Finger Lakes region. The house was designed and supervised by Thomas Clark of Philadelphia.","narrative":"Built between 1809 and 1815 on a hillside above the Guyanoga Valley, this large Federal-style frame house was the final home of Jemima Wilkinson, who founded the Society of Universal Friends. Designed and supervised by Philadelphia builder Thomas Clark, it measures 40 by 50 feet and rises two and one-half stories above a stone foundation. A wide central hall, original red pine floors, hand-hewn white oak beams and fireplaces with classical mantels survive largely intact. Wilkinson's bedroom was the southeast room on the second floor, and the spacious rooms accommodated meetings of her society. The 127.3-acre property also holds a barrel-vaulted stone and brick mausoleum from about 1819, intended for her tomb but never used, and a bank barn from about 1870. The house is the only surviving residence of Wilkinson, who led followers into Yates County in the late 1700s, and it is a distinctive Federal-style residence of the Finger Lakes region.","period_of_significance":"1809 - 1819, ca. 1870","architect_builder":"Thomas Clark","architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; the ca. 1819 mausoleum is described as vacant. Windows were replaced ca. 1951, but original interior fabric is largely intact.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.421401-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/94000965.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315619","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jemima_Wilkinson_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6177176"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/yates-county/wilkinson-jemima-house-94000965/"}