{"nrhp_refnum":"98000162","name":"Clinton, Morris, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"225 Zimmer Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newark Valley","county":"Tioga County","state":"NY","lat":42.21109000800007,"lon":-76.18004405439561,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-03-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-one-half-story, L-shaped frame farmhouse at 225 Zimmer Road in Newark Valley, Tioga County, New York, built about 1881 and designed by its owner, Morris Clinton.","why_significant":"The house is significant under Criterion C as an intact, representative example of late nineteenth-century progressive farmhouse design in Newark Valley. Clinton drew his own plan for light rooms, a central stair and a large attic, and the design was published in an agricultural journal in 1882. It retains an unusually high degree of exterior and interior integrity.","narrative":"Built around 1881 on the Clinton family farm in Newark Valley, this L-shaped, two-and-one-half-story farmhouse was planned by its owner, Morris Clinton. He wanted bright rooms, a central staircase giving access to every second-floor room without passing through others, and a spacious attic under a steep roof. The house has clapboard siding, a brick and fieldstone foundation, cedar shingles, decorative trusswork in its gables, small oculus windows and a bay on the front facade. The plan, an engraving and a description appeared in Moore's Rural New Yorker in 1882, and they show that the house has changed very little. Inside, the original floor plan, moldings, plaster, wainscoting, doors and built-in cupboards survive. It is one of four similar late nineteenth-century houses in the area and retains the most period integrity. It was listed for its architecture. The surviving outbuildings across the road were not counted as contributing to its significance.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1881","architect_builder":"Morris Clinton","architectural_style":"Late Victorian","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single-family dwelling. The dairy barn and silo have collapsed, and only a few outbuildings remain standing, some partially.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.173475-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/98000162.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000162/48ebc43bfa-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000162/48ebc43bfa-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Delphinium1","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morris_Clinton_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Delphinium1</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:Morris_Clinton_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315100","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Clinton_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6913646"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/tioga-county/clinton-morris-house-98000162/"}