House at 244 Park Avenue

This c. 1830 house at 244 Park Avenue in Huntington, Suffolk County, is a four-bay dwelling with a saltbox profile, clapboard sheathing and a brick foundation. The facade has three multi-pane frieze windows with shutters, six-over-six double-hung sash windows with flush wooden trim, and an entrance with a simple molded surround. A shed-roof porch on square columns covers three bays, and a center chimney rises through the roofline. The house stands on a half-acre lot on an embankment above Park Avenue, with no outbuildings, and is surrounded by Huntington Hospital. It was listed because it is an intact, representative example of settlement-period architecture in the town. It is one of two houses in the village with an unusual four-bay plan and keeps a high level of its original design and materials, without the later enlargements common to its contemporaries. Its clapboard sheathing, frieze windows, central chimney and small-pane windows reflect the local building tradition, and its location north of the village green ties it to Huntington's early settlement.