Stephen Simmons House is a historic home located at Hounsfield in

Jefferson County, New York Jefferson County is a county on the northern border of the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 116,721. Its county seat is Watertown. The county is named after Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United Stat ...

. The farmhouse was built about 1818 and consists of a -story main block and an original 1-story rear wing, with a modern 1-story wood-frame garage attached to the wing. The walls are of roughly dressed local

ashlar Ashlar () is finely dressed (cut, worked) stone, either an individual stone that has been worked until squared, or a structure built from such stones. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, generally rectangular cuboid, mentioned by Vitruv ...

limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...

laid in even courses and trimmed with smoothly dressed limestone. ''See also:'' It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1989.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Houses completed in 1818 Houses in Jefferson County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, New York {{JeffersonCountyNY-NRHP-stub