Pagan-Fletcher House is a historic home located at Valley Stream

Valley Stream, New York

Valley Stream is a village in Nassau County, New York in the United States. The population in the village of Valley Stream was 37,511 at the 2010 census...

 in Nassau County, New York

Nassau County, New York

Nassau County is a suburban county on Long Island, east of New York City in the U.S. state of New York, within the New York Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,339,532...

. It was built about 1840 and is a two story, clapboard sided dwelling, five bays wide with a shallow central portico

Portico

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. It has a one story rear wing with an exterior end chimney. It was extensively remodeled in the early 20th century to 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, when the farmhouse was more than doubled in size. It is the only surviving 19th century structure in Valley Stream. The house was the site of the village's first post office

Post office

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1983.