Denton Homestead

{{short description|Historic house in New York, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Denton Homestead

| nrhp_type =

| image = Denton Homestead, East Rockaway-1.JPG

| caption = Denton Homestead, September 2015

| location = 60 Denton Ave., East Rockaway, New York

| coordinates = {{coord|40|38|33|N|73|39|45.72|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = New York#USA

| built = c. {{Start date|1795}}, c. 1900, 1924

| architect =

| architecture = Colonial, Colonial Revival

| added = November 12, 2014

| area = {{convert|0.46|acre}}

| refnum = 14000913{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/listings/20141121.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=2014-11-21|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 11/10/14 through 11/14/14|publisher=National Park Service}}

}}

Denton Homestead is a historic home located at East Rockaway in Nassau County, New York. It was built as a tavern about 1795, and is a {{frac|1|1|2}}-story, five-bay, center-hall-plan, vernacular Colonial style frame dwelling. The Denton family bought it in 1808 and converted to a residential farmhouse.{{Cite news|url=http://liherald.com/stories/East-Rockaway-house-a-piece-of-history,59126|title=East Rockaway house a piece of history|work=Herald Community Newspapers|access-date=2017-06-21|language=en|archive-date=2018-02-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180214073640/http://liherald.com/stories/East-Rockaway-house-a-piece-of-history,59126|url-status=live}} It has a side-gable roof and a hipped roof addition added after the house was moved to its present location in 1924. The front facade features a full-width, shed-roofed front porch. The interior features some Colonial Revival style design elements. Also on the property is a contributing carriage house (c. 1900). The house is a rare surviving former tavern and farmhouse from the village's early period.{{cite web

|url=https://cris.parks.ny.gov/

|archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20190404141934/https://cris.parks.ny.gov/

|url-status=dead

|archive-date=2019-04-04

|title=Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)

|publisher=New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

|format=Searchable database

|accessdate=2016-02-01

}} Note: This includes

{{cite web

|url=https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=296335&q=false

|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Denton Homestead

|accessdate=2016-02-01

|author=Jennifer Betsworth

|format=PDF

|date=August 2014

|archive-date=2016-03-05

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305055719/https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=296335&q=false

|url-status=live

}} and [https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=296336&q=false Accompanying photographs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305061053/https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=296336&q=false |date=2016-03-05 }}

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.