Built 1721 Opened 1721 Added to NRHP 26 June 1986 | NRHP Reference # 86001387 Area 4,000 m² | |
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Similar John Philip Sousa House, Main Street School, Cow Neck Peninsula Historical, Sands‑Willets House, Execution Rocks Light | ||
Thomas Dodge Homestead is a historic home located at Port Washington in Nassau County, New York. It is a settlement era farmhouse dated to 1721 with additions completed about 1750 and in 1903. It is a 1 1⁄2-story, L-shaped heavy timber-frame building sheathed with natural cedar wood shingles. The main block has a saltbox shape and there is a nearly square, 1 1⁄2-story gable-roofed wing. Also on the property are a contributing barn (1880), privy (1886), chicken coop, and shed. It is operated as a historic house museum by the Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society, which has its headquarters in the Sands-Willets Homestead, another historic house museum.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
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