{"nrhp_refnum":"95001279","name":"Chase Cobblestone Farmhouse","other_names":["Chase-Flack Farmhouse"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1191 Manitou Rd., Town of Parma","address_restricted":false,"city":"Hilton","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.25634750250006,"lon":-77.75697611888444,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-11-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A cobblestone farmhouse with associated farm outbuildings on a 53.8-acre farm at 1191 Manitou Road in Parma, near Hilton, Monroe County, New York. It was built about 1836 by Isaac Chase, Jr.","why_significant":"The farmhouse is a representative example of cobblestone construction in New York and a distinguished example of vernacular Greek Revival domestic architecture in Parma. It is one of the best-preserved of roughly ten cobblestone buildings in the town. The surviving farmland and 19th and early 20th century barns also reflect the agrarian heritage of the Genesee River Valley.","narrative":"This cobblestone farmhouse sits on the west side of Manitou Road in eastern Parma, Monroe County, on a 53.8-acre working farm. Built about 1836 by Isaac Chase, Jr., whose family came from Saratoga Springs in 1825 and were among Parma's first settlers, it has a two-story gable-fronted main block with a one-and-one-half-story side ell. The walls are small, variously colored field cobbles laid five rows per limestone quoin, with limestone window trim and a wide frieze with exaggerated returns. Cobbles were reportedly gathered from the Lake Ontario shore at Manitou Beach. One account suggests a date nearer 1850. The farm also keeps an L-shaped late nineteenth century barn, a gambrel-roofed barn and a carriage house, both early twentieth century. The property was listed for its architecture, as one of the better preserved cobblestone buildings in Parma, and for its agricultural history, reflecting farming practice in the Genesee Valley from about 1836 to the 1920s.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1836 - ca. 1920s","architect_builder":"Isaac Chase","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century: Greek Revival (vernacular, cobblestone)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Used as a single dwelling and described as a continuously operating, large-scale working farm; the house is described as virtually intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.254859-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/95001279.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001279/fe6d18cdf0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95001279/fe6d18cdf0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Blue Ice Eastman","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1191_Manitou_Rd_02.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Blue Ice Eastman</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:1191_Manitou_Rd_02.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313601","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_Cobblestone_Farmhouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5087110"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/chase-cobblestone-farmhouse-95001279/"}