Mills Pond House, 660 North Country Road (State Route 25A), Saint James, Suffolk County, NY

Significance: The Mills Pond House is the nucleus of a small rural hamlet settled and long inhabited by the Mills family. This area provides an unusual survival of a small agricultural community once common on Long Island. The prosperity of the Mills family is evident from this substantial Greek Revival house built for William Wickham Mills in 1838-40. Designed by New York City architect, Calvin Pollard, the house is one of the few high-style structures of this period on Long Island. The extensive original documentation which remains in a family collection provides an unusually complete picture of the construction of a mid 19th century house.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-222, FN-223, FN-224, FN-225, FN-226, FN-227, FN-228, FN-229, FN-230, FN-231
Survey number: HABS NY-5668
Building/structure dates: 1840 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1850 Subsequent Work