Thomas Dodge Homestead

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Thomas Dodge Homestead
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Location 58 Harbor Rd., Port Washington, New York
Coordinates 40°50′20″N73°41′51″W / 40.83889°N 73.69750°W / 40.83889; -73.69750 Coordinates: 40°50′20″N73°41′51″W / 40.83889°N 73.69750°W / 40.83889; -73.69750
Area 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built 1721
NRHP reference # 86001387 [1]
Added to NRHP June 26, 1986

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 12-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 12-story gable-roofed wing. Also on the property are a contributing barn (1880), privy (1886), chicken coop, and shed. [2] 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.

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