This Craftsman style bungalow, constructed in West New Brighton on Staten Island in 1920-21 is unusually well designed and maintains a high degree of original fabric and setting. This house was constructed as a part of a residential section developed in the 1920s by the Competent Home Building Company. The principals of this development and […]
The most imposing surviving Seventeenth Century manor house on Staten Island is a magnificent two and one-half story fieldstone residence, constructed between the years 1680 and 1688, now called the Conference House. The house is rectangular in plan with a centrally designed hall and has an attic of immense dimensions. The stone masonry, impressively bold […]
The Henry Hogg Biddle House, built in the late 1840s, is a rare surviving example of a house that combines in its design spring eave construction with Greek Revival style architecture. The Biddle House is particularly unusual in that it preserves an extremely rare, and possibly unique, instance on Staten Island and in the rest […]
The Rutan-Journeay House at 7647 Amboy Road, built ca. 1848, is a rare survivor of early Tottenville. This vernacular clapboard cottage merges older local building traditions with newer Greek Revival modes. Its doorway and porch are excellent examples of the Greek Revival style. Through its first two owners the house has close ties to the […]
The Theodore F. and Elizabeth J. De Hart House, built ca. 1850, is a rare survivor of early Tottenville, an important 19th-century town on Staten Island’s South Shore. This vernacular clapboard cottage merges older local building traditions with newer Greek and Gothic Revival modes.
The George Cunningham Store at 173 Main Street, Tottenville, built c. 1892, is a rare and intact vernacular commercial building in the Queen Anne style from a significant period of development for Tottenville. Its robust bay windows with decorative brackets are rare survivors of a once popular feature of early American commercial architecture. The building […]
Constructed between 1869 and 1874, the James L .and Lucinda Bedell House is a fine example of the free-standing Second Empire style residence and, until it was altered in March 2005, was the best preserved house in the style on Staten Island’s South Shore. It is the only architecturally distinguished Second Empire frame house in […]
Built in 1903-04, the Tottenville Branch of the New York Public Library is the oldest public library building on Staten Island and one of the oldest in the city. Its construction was the result of industrialist Andrew Carnegie’s unprecedented philanthropic campaign to extend and consolidate the library branch system in New York City, and eventually […]
Westfield Township District School No. 5, erected in 1878 and enlarged in 1896-97 to plans provided by the architectural firm of Pierce & Brun, demonstrates the strong commitment of the inhabitants of Tottenville to education. As the oldest public school remaining in use on Staten Island, the building recalls the era when such schools on […]
Designated June 28, 2016 The Lighthouse Complex was built as part of the federal government’s efforts to provide an integrated system of navigational aids throughout the United States in the early 19th through 20th centuries. It is one of eight extant lighthouses in Staten Island and the second oldest in the borough. The Prince’s Bay […]
