Abraham J. Wood House
5910 Amboy Road | Prince's Bay | built 1840
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1840
Abraham J. Wood buys land on Amboy Road, one of Staten Island's oldest roads
Soon after Abraham J. Wood acquired this land in September 1840, a frame farmhouse went up on a low rise of grass well back from Amboy Road. The road, laid out in May 1709, is one of Staten Island's oldest, and by the mid-1700s it was a main route between New York and Philadelphia for stagecoaches that had to skirt the Jersey Meadows.
“…was erected as a farm house shortly after Abraham J. Wood acquired the land…”
- 1840
The Greek Revival farmhouse takes shape with a center section and two stepped-down wings
The clapboard house has three parts: a center section three windows wide and a story and a half tall, flanked by two lower wings two windows wide. A front porch with four square paneled columns holds up a roof trimmed with dentils, and the doorway keeps its original small-paned transom and sidelights. Low three-paned windows break through the dentilled fascia at the attic level.
- 1974
The city designates 5910 Amboy Road as one of its few remaining farmhouses
The Landmarks Preservation Commission made the house a landmark after a November 27, 1973, hearing at which one witness spoke in favor and no one opposed it; the owner also backed the designation. The commission called it a handsome Greek Revival house and one of New York City's few surviving farmhouses, a reminder of Staten Island's rural past.
Further reading
- 5910 Amboy RoadWikipedia
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