John Green House (Huntington Bay, New York)
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John Green House is a historic home located at Huntington Bay
Huntington Bay, New York
Huntington Bay is a village in Suffolk County, New York on East Neck on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2000 Census, the village population was 1,496.The Village of Huntington Bay is in the Town of Huntington.-Geography:...

 in Suffolk County, New York
Suffolk County, New York
Suffolk County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York on the eastern portion of Long Island. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,493,350. It was named for the county of Suffolk in England, from which its earliest settlers came...

. It was built about 1900 and is a large, rambling -story, shingle-sheathed gable-roofed residence with gambrel-roofed side wings and a very large, five-bay rear wing. It features a wraparound, flat-roofed porch on paired fluted Doric order
Doric order
The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.-History:...

 columns. It is representative of the Colonial Revival
Colonial Revival architecture
The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style, garden design, and interior design movement in the United States which sought to revive elements of Georgian architecture, part of a broader Colonial Revival Movement in the arts. In the early 1890s Americans began to value their own...

 style. Also on the property is the building containing the original garage / servant's quarters.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

in 1985.
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