Town of Southampton Driving, Biking & Walking Tours - 375 Years

TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON Driving, Biking & Walking Tours

2016 TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON DRIVING, BIKING & WALKING TOURS

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Southampton Town. These tours are inspired by the diversity of our rich architectural history and by the pride that so many property owners show in the care and preservation of their

Research Assistant Christopher Robinson, who collected the images and wrote descriptions for each of the historic resources; Website Manager, Debra Keller, and GIS Director, Ross Baldwin, for their expertise and dedication crafting the paper and online versions, and members of the Landmarks & Historic Districts Board who helped edit the tours.

It has been a pleasure to work on this introduction to Southampton Town’s wonderful historical sites and resources that remain for us all to enjoy today.

Sincerely,

Sundy A. Schermeyer Southampton Town Clerk, RMC Historic Division

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during the research phase. Special thanks are due to Town Historian Zachary Studenroth and

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throughout the Town who generously shared their information, expertise and suggestions

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Developing these tours was only possible with the help of historical societies and individuals

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The Tours may also be found on the Town’s website at www.southamptontownny.gov/

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was important that no one taking the tours be encouraged to trespass on private property.

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all sites are visible from a public road or sidewalk. With so many private homes included, it

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outskirts as well, we created both walking and driving tours. But one factor remains constant:

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where historical resources are concentrated in the downtown areas and scattered on the

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with an average of 25 to 30 sites in each tour. For villages like Sag Harbor and Southampton,

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Villages, hamlets and geographical tour areas were created individually or grouped together,

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tour, from which nearly 500 were selected to create 18 separate tours, 14 for driving or biking,

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homes and businesses. Over 800 buildings, sites and markers were first considered for the

9. Villages of North Haven & Sag Harbor....Driving 10. Village of Quogue.....................................Driving 11. Village of Sag Harbor................................Walking 12. Village of Sagaponack..............................Driving 13. Village of Southampton............................Driving & Walking 14. Village of Westhampton Beach.................Walking 15. Water Mill.................................................Driving 16. Westhampton & Quiogue..........................Driving

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The Town Historic Division is proud to present Driving, Biking & Walking Tours of

1. Bridgehampton..................................... Driving & Walking 2. East Quogue......................................... Drving 3. Eastport, Speonk & Remsenburg......... Driving 4. Flanders, Riverside & Northampton.... Driving 5. Hampton Bays...................................... Driving 6. Hayground & Mecox........................... Driving 7. North Sea & Noyac ............................. Driving 8. Shinnecock Hills & Tuckahoe............. Driving

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Dear Southampton Tour-goer:

Welcome to the Town of Southampton’s Driving, Biking & Walking Tours The tours are designed to encourage residents and visitors alike to explore the town and discover its many historic sites and attractions.

Choose a tour below.

Please enjoy the tours, but respect private property at all times.

The buildings selected are visible from public roads.

Locations are approximate.

DRIVING & BIKING TOURS Bridgehampton...................................................... 4-7 East Quogue..................................................... 13-17 Eastport, Speonk & Remsenburg.................. 18-23 Flanders, Riverside & Northampton............. 24-28 Hampton Bays.................................................. 29-33 Hayground & Mecox...................................... 34-38 North Sea & Noyac ....................................... 39-43 Shinnecock Hills & Tuckahoe.......................... 44-48 Villages of North Haven & Sag Harbor..... 49-53 Village of Quogue.......................................... 61-65 Village of Sagaponack.................................. 66-71 Village of Southampton................................. 72-76 Water Mill......................................................... 82-87 Westhampton & Quiogue.............................. 88-94

WALKING TOURS Bridgehampton....................................................8-12 Village of Sag Harbor................................... 54-60 Village of Southampton................................. 77-81 Village of Westhampton Beach..................95-100

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SOUTHAMPTON TOWN SUPERVISOR Jay Schneiderman COUNCIL MEMBERS John Bouvier Julie Lofstad

Stan Glinka Christine P. Scalera

TOWN CLERK

Sundy A. Schermeyer 1st Edition 2016

BRIDGEHAMPTON driving & biking tour Bridgehampton, settled in 1656 by Massachusetts landowner Josiah Stanborough, occupied an area near Mecox Bay and Sagaponack Pond.

In 1670, a meeting house was built for the community which consisted of English settlers and Native Americans. The settlers grew corn, fished, slaughtered beached whales, herded cattle and cut lumber.

Similar to other Southampton hamlets, Bridgehampton was later known for its mills. In 1837, the 1820 Beebe Mill in Sag Harbor was purchased by Judge Abraham T. Rose and Richard Gelston and moved to Bridgehampton. The town’s first rail station was built in 1870. While the population declined in the late 19th century due to families seeking land in the West, summer residents and Irish and Polish immigrants moved into the area in the 1880s, adding to Bridgehampton’s diverse population. The immigration of Polish farmers shifted the traditional cattle herding economy toward potatoes.

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8. Mile Marker see page 5 5. Channing Daughters Winery see page 5

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6. Halsey/Tiffany Farmhouse

see page 4 791 Lumber Lane This two-story, vernacular saltbox probably dates to the late 18th century. The façade, which does not face the road, is five bays wide with a central entryway. The windows on the first story contain twelve-over-eight double-hung sash. Built by local Revolutionary War hero Matthew Halsey, the farm was acquired by Nathan N. Tiffany, a relation to the Tiffany jewelry/glass family. Tiffany established the banking firm of Sanford and Tiffany in Bridgehampton. The property was purchased in 1928 by the Babinski family, Polish immigrants, who owned it until 2000.

1. Nova’s Ark Project 30 Millstone Road The gallery and public art park at the intersection of Millstone Road and Scuttlehole Road is known as Nova’s Ark Project, a whimsical 95-acre complex of eye-catching structures and sculptures begun in 1973. The peak-roofed building is a repurposed potato barn, while the new structure next to it is shaped like a barrel turned on its side.

Mihai Popa (Nova) was born in Romania in 1928 and after traveling to Russia, Hungary and Italy, settled on the East End where over forty of his sculptures are now installed. Nova died in 2009.

2. Windmill Hill (NYS Historic marker)

see page 4 Scuttle Hole Road Windmill Hill Site of John Wick’s spider-legged Windmill about 1700.

7. “Hillview Farm” (Tiffany/Hendrickson) 270 Lumber Lane The Hendrickson Farm, once known as “Hillview Farm,” is a street-facing, clapboard-sided house built in 1866. The farmhouse, which is still in excellent condition, has a half-round gable window and an Italianatestyle porch. It retains accessory barns (including a three-bay English threshing barn) and other agricultural buildings, including several poultry houses. The original owner, Nathan Tiffany, sold the farm in 1906 to Howard Hendrickson, who cultivated turnips and potatoes there for the New York market in addition to establishing a small herd of cattle.

8. Mile Marker 3. “Ocean View” 69 Brick Kiln Road This five-bay, two-story Federal style farmhouse, constructed c. 1800, preserves a broad sweeping front porch that appears to have been added c. 1860 during the Italianate Revival period. The house was home to William D. Halsey, author of Sketches from Local History (1935) and for many years Southampton Town Historian. The house enjoys a wonderful site, facing south over farm fields, with distant views to the Atlantic Ocean.

see page 4 551 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike This small stone monument, most likely a mile marker, is located in the grass on the east side of the Bridgehampton Sag-Harbor Turnpike, immediately in front of the house at 551 Bridgehampton Sag Harbor Turnpike. No words, numbers or other markings remain discernable on this small granite marker. Mile markers once served as traveling aids along carriage and postal routes in the 18th and early 19th century and are vulnerable to motorists today.

4. “Dulce Domum”

see page 4 121 Brick Kiln Road Identified on old surveys as “Dulce Domum” and built in 1891, this unusual gambrel-roofed mansion with a central castellated turret and stone end chimney is visible in the distance from Scuttle Hole Road. This Gothic Revival house was built by Dr. John L. Gardiner, a relation to the Gardiners Island family. “The Castle,” as it is known locally, has a 40 foot high tower from which Mecox Bay, the Atlantic Ocean, and other bodies of water can be seen. For many years, the surrounding privet hedge was also cut to simulate the parapets of a medieval castle.

5. Channing Daughters Winery

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1927 Scuttle Hole Road Channing Daughters Winery grows and creates wines from many white and red grape varieties, including whites Tocai Friulano and Muscat Ottonel, and reds Blautrankisch and Cabernet Sauvignon. Their vines, a small winery and tasting room are located on twenty-eight acres of land that is bathed with warm ocean breezes, a climate that is unusually hospitable to their wide array of fascinating grape varieties, some dating back to 1982.

9. Edgewood Cemetery 86 Edgewood Avenue Edgewood Cemetery contains approximately 500 markers of marble and granite, which date from the early 20th century. Edgewood Cemetery is one of about fifty historic and active burying grounds in the town. The earliest is the Old Southampton Burying Ground on Little Plains Road in Southampton, where monuments dating from the late 17th century may be found.

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10. Edgar Mulford House 24 Lumber Lane Mulford, who trained at Bellevue Medical College in New York and built this house c. 1878 to accommodate his medical practice, was a direct descendant of 17th century East Hampton settlers. It is said that when 650,000 Americans died of influenza during the 1918 pandemic, Mulford only lost one patient due to his advice that his patients not travel. The barn that stands behind the house was built for the doctor’s horses, but later accommodated his Stanley Steamer automobiles.

13. Bridgehampton School 2685 Montauk Highway The Bridgehampton School is a Colonial Revival-style structure completed in 1931. The two-story brick building, reportedly designed by the New York architectural firm of Tooker & Marsh, has a tripartite façade centered on an entry bay flanked by paired columns. The doorway is distinguished by an elaborate Colonial Revival-style door surround, likely rendered in cast stone. The windows have simple surrounds with pronounced cast stone keystones. The structure has a hipped roof clad in slate, surrounded by a low parapet and surmounted by a cupola that was designed to exhaust the school’s ventilating system.

11. Potato Barn 34 Snake Hollow Road The banked, concrete-walled potato barn with its shingle-clad gable end is typical of this unique, purpose-built farm structure. Its gable roof ridge stretches back perpendicular to Snake Hollow Road. Potato barns such as this one were built with sturdy walls to withstand the outward pressure of the potatoes stored within, and their masonry construction stayed cool in the summer time.

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2583 Montauk Highway “Sayrelands” is an 18th century, two-story, five-bay vernacular dwelling clad in wood shingles on a stone foundation. The house has massive internal chimneys at each end. The house is thought to date to c. 1730.

Owned at times by Uriah Sayre, D. Halsey, and L. Post, it was purchased in 1770 by Col. Nathan Post who captained a sloop during the Revolution. Uriah Sayre, a whaling captain, bought the house in 1832 and it remained in the Sayre family until the 1960s.

25 Hildreth Avenue One of eleven windmills left standing on eastern Long Island, the Beebe Windmill was constructed in 1820 for a retired Sag Harbor ship captain, but purchased by Judge Abraham Rose and Richard Gelston and moved to Bridgehampton in 1837. The mill is notable for the cast iron gearing housed inside, a great technological advance over the wooden gearing that typified mills of the 18th century. After falling into disuse with the advent of steam-powered mills, the structure was acquired in 1915 by wealthy summer resident John Berwind and later donated to Southampton Town. Today, it is operated seasonally for tours by the Bridgehampton Historical Museum.

17. John Sandford House

15. “Minden” (Berwind Estate)

690 Ocean Road Situated at the northwest corner of Ocean Road and Paul’s Lane, this four-bay c. 1745 Saltbox is believed to have been built by 20-year old John Sandford, Ezekiel I’s grandson, for his future bride. John later became a political radical and local militia leader, and became the first to sign the Articles of Confederation at the start of the Revolution in Southampton Town.

151 Ocean Avenue John Berwind, a Pennsylvania industrialist, and his wife Katherine constructed this Craftsman style Mediterranean inspired summer home in 1913 at a cost of $250,000. The structure features open wood beams in the balconies and roof overhangs, while incorporating stucco wall treatments and tile roofing suggestive of the Mediterranean. The Berwinds were local philanthropists, contributed generously to the Community House when it was constructed and made it possible to preserve the Beebe Windmill next door. “Minden” became a religious conference center and retreat in the 1940s but is once again privately owned.

18. Colonel Levi Howell House 628 Ocean Road Levi Howell, an officer in the War of 1812, is said to have built this house at the southwest corner of Ocean Road and Paul’s Lane c. 1814. His brother, a New York cabinetmaker, assisted with its construction which consisted in part of joining it to a pre-existing c.

1730 dwelling. The large English beech tree was salvaged from the Louis Phillipe, a French ship stranded off the coast in 1842.

19. Sagg Bridge (NYS Historic Marker) 211 Bridge Lane

16. Ezekiel Sandford House

40 Bridge Lane The Ezekiel Sanford House is dated as early as 1680. Sandford was a wheelwright and a person of importance in the community.

This two-story, four-bay vernacular “saltbox” house is clad in wood shingles. A massive central brick chimney rises from the roof ridge and the windows contain twelve-over-eight light sash, both typical of First Period dwellings. Also on the property is a three-bay barn of early vintage which appears to preserve a threshing floor typical of English style barns. The house has passed through ten generations and remains in the Sandford family.

20. First House (NYS Historic Marker) 518 Bridge Lane

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BRIDGEHAMPTON WALKING TOUR From the Presbyterian Church of 1842 at the east end of the hamlet to the 1871 Methodist Church on the west, Bridgehampton’s downtown Main Street offers a wonderful variety of buildings that express its evolution as the region’s business center after the Revolutionary War. The greatest concentration of resources dates between the Greek Revival era of the 1840s and the pre-Depression times known as the Roaring Twenties. In addition to commercial enterprises and institutions such as the firehouse, library, historical society and community house, two other churches – Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Church and Saint Ann’s Episcopal Church – occupy the half-mile stretch. One of the most remarkable architectural features is the pairing of two grand Greek Revival houses at the intersection of Montauk Highway with the Sag Harbor-Bridgehampton Turnpike and Ocean Avenue. These dignified structures, both built as residences but repurposed over the years for alternative uses and facing uncertain futures, are now preserved.

A stroll down Bridgehampton’s Main Street is architecturally rewarding and gratifying as well, with trendy shops and eateries to satisfy any appetite!

12. Dr. Levi Wright House see page 10

15. Triangular Commons Militia Green (NYS Historic Marker) see page 11

19. Bridgehampton National Bank see page 11

18. Pharmacy see page 11

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1. Bridgehampton Union Methodist Church 2247 Montauk Highway Built on Main Street in 1833 to replace an earlier structure that stood at the corner of Ocean Road and Church Lane, the Methodist Church was moved to its present site in 1871 and given a “facelift” with flanking corner towers and round-arched windows characteristic of the later Gothic Revival style. The steeple blew down in the Hurricane of 1938, but the bell survived and a shorter steeple was rebuilt in 1940. A parsonage, constructed in 1890, stands next door.

2. Henry Fordham House 2273 Montauk Highway The small, three-bay two story Henry Fordham House is a classic Long Island “half house” built in the Greek Revival style, c. 1830.

Characteristic elements of the style include the covered stoop supported on narrow piers, and a front doorway that boasts a transom and sidelights. The gable roof terminates on a wide cornice that surmounts the front façade.

3. Gurden Corwith House 2266 Montauk Highway This Greek Revival style house was built c. 1840 by Gurden Corwith, an enterprising farmer who would later become one of the hamlet’s wealthiest residents. The projecting entryway supported on columns, paneled front door with transom and sidelights, and shallow-pitched gable roof with wide soffits are all characteristics of the Greek Revival style.

4. Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Church 2352 Montauk Highway Built in 1914, the church resulted from the creation of a new Catholic parish that stretched between Water Mill and Wainscott established in June 1913. Architect F. Burrall Hoffman, Jr., provided the young congregation with a novel and modern design which combines a prominent, shingle clad street-facing gable wall punctuated by a large round window and classically inspired doorway. The original steeple was blown down in the Hurricane of 1938 (a common occurrence!), but the bell survived and is displayed on the lawn today.

5. Bridgehampton Community House 2357 Montauk Highway Constructed in 1923, the Classical Revival style Community House was built with donations from local residents. The impetus for the building originated with Bridgehampton historian James Truslow Adams, who wanted to honor those who served in World War I. Over the years the building has accommodated the Fire Department, the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons and other civic organizations.

6. William Corwith House (Bridgehampton Historical Museum) 2368 Montauk Highway Now headquarters of the Bridgehampton Historical Museum, this five-bay two story c. 1840 farmhouse was originally home to William Corwith, who was a wealthy farmer and political leader. Corwith served as chairman of the Southampton Town Trustees, justice of the peace, overseer of the poor, and trustee of the Presbyterian church. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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7. Candy Kitchen 2385 Montauk Highway Long a favorite “sweet spot” in downtown Bridgehampton, the stuccoclad Candy Kitchen at the corner of Montauk Highway and School Street was built about 1925 and remains a popular eatery and ice cream shop. Locals congregate for early morning and lunchtime gossip, while weekenders find it convenient for coffee and a newspaper en route to the Hampton Jitney stop across the street. A “landmark” in the truest sense of the word, the Candy Kitchen has been kept alive by proprietor Stavropoulos and Laggis families for decades.

10. Bridgehampton Hook & Ladder Co. 23 Corwith Avenue First constructed in 1908 to house Bridgehampton’s Hook & Ladder Company, the two-story wood-frame building with its distinctive tower was repurposed in 1923 as the First Baptist Church. They, too, outgrew the building in 1981, when it discovered yet another use as the Dan Flavin Art Institute featuring a permanent installation of nine of this artist’s fluorescent light artworks created between 1963 and 1981.

8. Henry H. Chatfield House 2397 Montauk Highway Henry Chatfield’s c. 1900 Queen Anne style house, with its prominent front porch and octagonal tower, has been adapted for use as a gift shop today, but originally served as the residence of the first president of the Bridgehampton National Bank (1910-1912) and president of the Board of Education (1908-1912). The scale of this wood framed house is reminiscent of a time a century ago when Bridgehampton’s Main Street remained primarily residential.

11. Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church

9. “Bobby Van’s” (Basso’s Restaurant)

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2402 Montauk Highway This Tudor Revival-style building at 2402 Montauk Highway was originally known as Basso’s Restaurant, a popular pub and eatery opened by Frank and Celestina Basso in the Roaring 20s. Surviving both Prohibition and the Great Depression a decade later, famed restaurateur and pianist Bobby Van operated the establishment in 1969, attracting such notables as Truman Capote and Kurt Vonnegut among his clientele. The restaurant remains in operation today.

2429 Montauk Highway The Greek Revival style Presbyterian Church was constructed c. 1842 by a Sag Harbor contractor and features Ionic pilasters, gothic-arched windows and a tall steeple. Beginning as the Church of Christ in the 17th century, this ancient congregation constructed a new meeting house in 1737 and joined the Long Island Presbytery in 1794. The present edifice reflects the mid-19th century optimism shared by many parishes who witnessed their congregations increasing, thus outgrowing their former church buildings.

12. Dr. Levi Wright House

see page 8 94 Ocean Road The Greek Revival style Wright House was built c. 1840. Dr. Levi Wright combined the family dining room with his waiting room, and is said to have seen his patients on Sundays when they could combine their church visits nearby. The house was later the residence of Presbyterian minister Arthur Newman; more recently it was home to racehorse painter Richard Reeves.

16. E. J. Hildreth’s Store

13. Old Bridgehampton Burying Ground 32 Hull Lane Despite its location adjacent the Presbyterian Church, this burying ground is incorporated as an independent entity known as the “Old Cemetery Association of Bridgehampton.” The remains of some of Bridgehampton’s most prominent and influential citizens are interred here, along with others who achieved less notoriety, but are nonetheless noteworthy such as William E. Haines, who died as a result of falling on board the whaling Bark Nimrod on September 18, 1860. Haines was 19 years old at the time of his death.

2468 Montauk Highway Edwin Jones Hildreth began his sporting and novelty goods store here in 1888, and later served as trustee of the Bridgehampton National Bank and trustee/president of the Community House. In addition to retail sales, Hildreth repaired bicycles out of the shop. By the 1950s, the building had reopened as a bar and restaurant; Billy DePetris, son of the owner, was a close friend of Hall of Fame slugger Carl Yastrzemski, who honed his skills playing stickball behind the restaurant.

17. The Hampton Library

14. Saint Ann’s Episcopal Church & Rectory 2463 Montauk Highway Built in the early 1900s as a golf clubhouse on Bridge Lane in Sagaponack, the church was first moved in 1907 to a site near Ocean Road to serve as a summer chapel, and in 1910 was moved again to its present site at the corner of Hull Lane. The adjacent Dutch Revival style parish house was built in 1915. The church’s pipe organ was introduced in the 1920s and the belfry was built in the early 1980s.

15. Triangular Commons Militia Green

see page 8 2473 Montauk Highway This plot of land, once much larger than today, served as a training area for colonial era militias from Bridgehampton as well as neighboring Southampton, East Hampton and Sag Harbor. These companies of local men aged between eighteen and forty-five were expected to supply their own muskets, bayonet and cartridge box.

The commons was located across the road from the renowned Bulls Head Tavern (demolished), where legend suggests the troops would congregate after their drills.

2478 Montauk Highway Built in 1876, The Hampton Library was started by Hayground native Charles Rogers who went west as a young man and built a fortune in lead mining and banking. The Queen Anne style building opened for business with over 3,500 books, the largest library of its day east of Brooklyn. Poet and newspaper editor William Cullen Bryant, a friend of Rogers, is said to have selected the first book. Since that time, it was electrified in 1916 and enlarged three times (1892, second story added; 1980, children’s wing; and 2008, back addition).

18. Pharmacy

see page 8 2486 Montauk Highway The two-story, wood-frame storefront that once housed a pharmacy retains its c. 1898 Character, despite having been converted for other commercial uses over the years, among them a women’s apparel store and a barbershop. Sivigny’s was the last to occupy the central section of the building.

19. Bridgehampton National Bank

see page 8 2488 Montauk Highway Built in 1903, the brick structure began as Ernest C. Loper’s store and was leased to the newly chartered Bridgehampton National Bank in 1910. After remodeling and expanding the building in the Neoclassical style, the bank remained in this location for nearly ninety years, until 2000. Today renamed the Farrell Building, it houses a well-known coffee shop which preserves the old safe as part of its décor.

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20. D. L. Chester Dry Goods Store 2495 Montauk Highway Daniel L. Chester, an early director of the Bridgehampton National Bank, built his new dry goods store out of brick in 1907, having lost his former store to fire. Chester kept his horse and wagon behind the store, and like other merchants in town, traveled from door to door to promote business.

During World War II the store became a meat and grocery market.

23. Judge Abraham Topping Rose House 2546 Montauk Highway A virtual contemporary of the Rogers house across the road, the Greek Revival style Rose House embodies a form that is equally characteristic, but visually quite different from the street-facing portico and columns of its companion. Attorney Abraham Rose was Yale-educated and served as a Suffolk County judge. His impressive house was purchased by the local businessman and golf club founder Henry N. Corwith around 1900, and in more recent times has served as a restaurant, inn and antiques shop. Recent adaptive use and restoration has converted both the house and barn into a day spa and restaurant.

21. Wick’s Tavern (NYS Historic Marker) Montauk Highway

22. Veterans Monument Ocean Road & Montauk Highway Unveiled as a memorial to war veterans on July 4, 1910, the monument was a highlight of Bridgehampton’s 250th settlement anniversary (then considered 1660).

Carved in granite and rising seventeen feet to a bronze eagle, the monument weighs twenty-five tons. Civil War veterans attending the ceremony raised the American flag and the Reverend Arthur Newman, who had proposed it, blessed the event. Since that time, the discovery of a homestead built in 1656 in neighboring Sagaponack has caused historians to recognize that date as the hamlet’s earliest settlement.

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24. “Hampton House” (Nathaniel Rogers House) 2539 Montauk Highway This imposing, high-style Greek Revival dwelling was constructed c.

1840 for Nathaniel Rogers, a portrait painter of miniatures from New York City; by 1861, the prominent whaling captain James R. Huntting (1825-1882), owned the house and by 1895 it had become a boardinghouse and restaurant operated by John Hedges and his daughter, Caroline Hopping. The house actually conceals a structure of earlier date, which was enlarged and updated with the present façade supported on fluted Ionic columns. The house has been acquired

by Southampton Town and will be managed by the Bridgehampton Historical Society.

EAST QUOGUE driving & biking tour East Quogue, an ocean-front hamlet originally known as Fourth Neck and situated between Quogue (west) and Hampton Bays (east), was purchased in the mid-seventeenth century by early town settler John Ogden, but not divided into lots for settlement until the 1730s. At first a rural hamlet, the village was quickly transformed into a summer resort after the Long Island Rail Road arrived in the 1870s, bringing with it an influx of seasonal visitors. Then known as Atlanticville, the community saw construction of a dozen or more boardinghouses that catered to summer tourists. Transportation to and from these boardinghouses and the nearby railroad station was arranged by coach, and three meals were provided per day but little else in the way of entertainment or amenities.

3. Halsey/Sanford House see page 14

20. Foster/Downs House see page 17

18. United Methodist Church & Parsonage see page 17

23. Miss M. Terrell Boardinghouse see page 17 17. Smith/Edwards House see page 16

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4. Victorian Farmhouse 1. Oakwood Cemetery 100 Spinney Road Established in the early 20th century, Oakwood Cemetery preserves over 300 gravestones on over twenty acres and is actively managed today as a burial place by the Oakwood Cemetery Association. The main entrance to the cemetery is located on Lewis Road and is marked by cobblestone piers and walls. Both marble and granite headstones are found at the site; the former being typical of the late 19th and early 20th century, whereas the latter characterizing more recent practice.

653 Montauk Highway A late Victorian era house with cross-gable roof form and wrap-around porch supported on turned posts and fret-sawn brackets, this vernacular farmhouse was moved from Patchogue where it is said to have served as a doctor’s residence. The paired upper story windows with their round arched tops and the pierced barge boards that ornament the eaves of the front façade are all characteristic of 1870s construction and design.

5. W. F. Edwards House

2. Box Tree Monument 96 Lewis Road A small, granite monument now marks the site of the former Box Tree, said to be the oldest postal letterbox in the nation. It was located at the intersection of Box Tree Road and Lewis Road, which was the early the road from East Quogue to Riverhead (then called Suffolk County Courthouse). Mail delivered by stagecoach in the late eighteenth century was deposited in a wooden box attached to the celebrated Box Tree, which burned in 1891. In 1894, a section of the Box Tree was removed to Postmaster Burton’s store, signifying its designation as a post office. A fragment of the tree is preserved today at the Schoolhouse Museum in Quogue (rear of Library).

3. Halsey/Sanford House

see page 13 607 Montauk Highway This two-story, three-bay shingle clad dwelling with front-facing gable façade preserves an entablature. Surrounding the front door consistent with its c. 1860 construction date. The deep overhanging roof with flaring eaves and two-over-two window sash are original and typical of post-Civil War era vernacular design. Occupied by N. Halsey by 1873, ownership had changed to H. H. Sanford by 1902. No structure occupied the parcel according to historic maps in 1858.

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722 Montauk Highway William F. Edwards (1827-1869) and his wife Caroline Phillips (18271892) built this Greek Revival style house about 1850. A classic, single-story vernacular “half house” with three bays facing the road, the dwelling preserves its original six-over-six window sash and entryway with pilasters and entablature. The corner boards are capped with moldings in the Greek Revival tradition. By 1916 the dwelling, which is one of the oldest in East Quogue, was owned by Sherwood Hallock.

6. F. Cooke House 39 Sunset Avenue A large, sprawling gambrel-roofed dwelling with four prominent attic dormers, the F. Cooke House dates c. 1900 and epitomizes the “Cottage Style” prevalent among the summer colonies that dotted Southampton’s ocean shoreline. This is a Colonial Revival style house, its subsumed wrap-around porch supported on Doric columns. Especially elegant is the central attic dormer that aligns with the main entry below, with its broken pediment and flanking twelve-light oval windows. A two-story ell lies perpendicular to the main house.

10. Edward/French House 7. Reeve/Mackey House 14 Walker Avenue This large, two-story five-bay late Victorian era farmhouse was constructed c. 1900 for B. F. Reeve. It boasts a prominent octagonal corner tower and a broad front porch supported on Doric columns. The subsumed porch, which results from the second story overhanging the first, is a special feature. Ownership had transferred to Mrs. Sarah Mackey by 1916, according to historic maps.

8. George Bailey House 11 Walker Avenue An unusual turn-of-the-century residence believed to have been built c.

1904, the George Bailey house retains asymmetrical massing and an octagonal roof dormer that suggest the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement. Oversized Doric columns support the wrap-around porch, while double hung windows preserve a variety of window panes. Prior to 1904, the parcel was part of the Catherine Walker property which gave the street its name.

19 Walker Avenue A two-story vernacular farmhouse built c. 1900, the Edwards/ French House preserves cross gable massing, center brick chimney and wrap-around porch. It is said that an earlier house is concealed within the later house. It was one of several houses that were owned

by L. Edwards by 1902, and became the home of George French in 1916.

11. Walker House Annex 33 Walker Avenue The three-story Walker House Annex once served as a large extension of the Walker House, one of East Quogue’s largest summer establishments which burned in 1939. The high-pitched gambrel roof and attic dormers allowed for additional bed chambers. The wrap-around porch, supported on Doric columns, was an elegant amenity for this summer vacation destination. A garage remains on the property which may have served as a horse barn in the nineteenth century.

9. A. Carter House 13 Walker Avenue This large vernacular Victorian era farmhouse with shingle siding, a steeply pitched gable roof and broad, wrap-around porch is dated c.

1890. The porch is supported on turned wooden posts. The six-over-one window sash and the three-story bay that projects from the side façade beneath a hipped roof are all typical of late 19th century style and construction.

12. William Randall House 25 Bay Avenue This vernacular, four-bay Foursquare style house was built c. 1910 for William Randall, who had purchased the property before 1902.

Its broad hipped roof, hipped dormer windows centered on each roof slope, and central brick chimney are characteristic of the form.

The wrap-around porch, however, is reminiscent of Victorian era houses in the community.

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13. Charles Van Hise House 28 Bay Avenue Dating a bit earlier than its neighbors, the Charles Van Hise House is a late Victorian era vernacular farmhouse with a broad, shed-roofed front porch and prominent façade gables. The porch is supported on turned posts with decorative fret-sawn brackets. Van Hise bought the property, which lies immediately north of what was once the East Quogue Field Club, some time before 1902 and remained in ownership until after 1916.

15. Craftsman-style Bungalow 24 Bay Avenue This classic Craftsman style bungalow exemplifies the architectural qualities that made it so popular in the 1920s, including its compact massing, overhanging second story that creates a “subsumed” porch below, and oversized shed-roofed attic dormer. The exposed brick chimney on the side façade hearkens back to Eastlake and Queen Anne style houses of the 1880s, while the wide overhang of the gable roof is supported on pronounced brackets that suggest the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement.

14. Maurice Smith House 26 Bay Avenue A late Queen Anne style home dating c. 1890, the Maurice Smith House possesses all the qualities of a fashionable late Victorian residence: asymmetrical massing, patterned shingle siding, cross gables and a wrap-around porch supported on turned wooden posts.

The three-sided window bay attached to the side façade rises a full two stories and terminates beneath a hipped roof that projects from the attic gable.

16. F. L. Terrell House 22 Bay Avenue Typical of many turn-of-the-century East Quogue houses, the c. 1910 Terrell house blends several architectural styles into a single, successful composition including the Dutch Colonial Revival. The two-story dwelling with its prominent façade gable surmounting a two-story bay window retains a gambrel shaped roof that terminates on the ground floor in the shed-roofed porch above the wrap-around porch.

17. Smith/Edwards House

see page 13 20 Bay Avenue This two-story, cross-gable Queen Anne style house built c. 1900 is clad in decorative shingles of various shapes, and then “polychromed” for added effect. The wrap-around porch, projecting attic gables and asymmetrical fenestration are also characteristics of this architectural style. The house was owned by Caroline Smith in 1902 and by L. Edwards by 1916.

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18. United Methodist Church & Parsonage

see page 13 574 & 568 Montauk Highway East Quogue’s United Methodist Church was built c. 1882, but the adjoining cemetery is a bit older, with headstones dating from the 1850s. The church is an example of the vernacular Tudor Style, which enjoyed popularity in the 1870s and ‘80s with its “faux” halftimbering and emphasis on the wooden elements of the design. A front-facing gable overhangs the first story, where a tri-partite stained glass window is inserted into the composition. A corner bell tower rises over three stories above a pedimented entryway. Next door is the Parsonage built in 1905.

21. Benjamin Franklin Rogers House 506 Montauk Highway This large, two-story Queen Anne style residence was built c. 1900 by the owner of a general store that once stood to the west of it in the late 19th century. The cross-gable massing with prominent façade gables and double-hung windows with elongated diamond-paned top sash are all typical of the architectural style. Doric columns support the front porch, which is designed with a gable roof that accentuates the entry stair.

19. East Quogue Methodist Church Cemetery 584 Montauk Highway Behind the United Methodist Church is a Southampton Town-owned cemetery with burials dating from the 1850s. Like many of the Colonial era burying grounds that preceded it, the cemetery predates the church itself. One of its most notable monuments is made of cast zinc, referred to in the late 19th century as “white bronze.” This novel metal enjoyed a brief period of popularity but never replaced stone as the material of choice, and by the early 1900s virtually all monuments and headstones were carved in granite. The zinc monument in East Quogue is the only such example among all of the ten Townowned burying grounds and cemeteries.

20. Foster/Downs House

see page 13 556 Montauk Highway One of the earlier surviving houses in East Quogue, the c. 1857 FosterDowns house is Italianate Revival in style and boasts a bracketed roof in keeping with the 1850s. The house was built for Captain and Mrs. Josiah Foster. Later acquired by Captain James E. and Ida Squires Downs, it descended in the Downs family to the present day. Mrs. James E. Downs was the owner as late as 1916 according to historic maps. Originally part of a large farm, one of the remaining barns has been converted as a residence and stands nearby. The house was designated a Town Landmark in January 2013.

22. Richard “Schyler” Terrell House 429 Montauk Highway This large Queen Anne style residence, now converted for office use, was built about 1882 shortly after its original owners, Richard and Frances Terrell, purchased the property from the Ryder family. A rear addition of one story once served as the second East Quogue schoolhouse, built in 1873 and purchased c. 1900 to create a kitchen addition to the Terrell house when the third schoolhouse was built. The distinctive combination of decorative shingles, overhanging attic gables and projecting entry cover are a combination of Queen Anne and Tudor Revival styles.

23. Miss M. Terrell Boardinghouse

see page 13 405 Montauk Highway This large, three-story structure designed in the Dutch Colonial Revival style was originally built as a two-story residence in 1910. Its high cross-gable gambrel roof, shed-roofed dormers and six-over-six window sash are all indicative of its architectural style, while the decorative woodwork in the form of an elliptical fanlight in the Colonial Revival style above the attic window suggests the added third story was built in the 1920s. During Prohibition, it served as a speakeasy, but stood vacant for many years until its conversion as a restaurant known as the Stone Creek Inn.

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Eastport, Speonk & Remsenburg driving & biking tour Eastport and neighboring Speonk-Remsenburg are separated by a tidal creek known as the East River, but each share a geography and history of settlement, much of it clustered along the old Montauk Highway (also called Main Street). Eastport is the most western hamlet in the town, bordered to the west by Brookhaven Town. It traces its origins to the creation of West Pond in 1772 by Col. Josiah Smith of East Moriches and his brother-in-law David Howell. The dam would serve as a roadbed for the Montauk Highway where it crosses Seatuck Creek, and hosted several mills, including saw, grist and sorghum (for molasses). In the 19th century, when local post offices were named, the residents of what was known as Seatuck were unable to keep the name because of is similarity to Setauket, another Long Island hamlet, and chose Eastport instead. Major events in its history included the arrival of the railroad in 1872, which enabled reliable transportation of farm products to New York City, and the advent of duck farming, which transformed the landscape in the late 19th century, rendering it unsuitable for the construction of boardinghouses or summer homes.

Speonk- Remsenburg, by contrast, was settled before the nearby hamlet of Eastport and enjoyed several decades as a summer destination in the late 19th century. The Remsenburg Academy, an elite school for boys, was built in the 1860s and boardinghouses and hotels followed.

The debate over the name pre-occupied locals in the 1890s; petitions were filed, postal authorities weighed in once again and sided with the “Remsenburg” camp although the railroad held fast with “Speonk.” Today, the former is associated with the southerly half of the hamlet, while the latter lies to the north.

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1. Duck Farm 13 River Avenue This modest bungalow and its accessory “brooder” barns are rare remnants of a Long Island duck industry that has all but disappeared today. The geography of Eastport, protected from the Atlantic Ocean by the Great South Bay and with its creek banks rising gently from East River and Seatuck Creek, was well suited to duck “ranching.”

Environmental regulations and economic factors have forced the industry West, leaving farm buildings such as these ripe for development.

2. Pickford Robinson House 457 Montauk Highway The vernacular farmhouse with cross-gable plan and wrap-around porch was the home of Pickford Robinson, author of a pictorial history of Eastport, which was used in the 1920s as a promotional guide. A smaller house located at the rear of the property was built in the early 18th century and moved to Eastport c. 1775. It served as a residence for John M. Tuttle, Jr., and his son and grandson, before being moved again to its present location.

4. Ralph Tuttle House 392 Main Street A large house of 1870s vintage, the Ralph Tuttle House retains the architectural detailing of a classic Queen Anne style dwelling: cross gable form, wrap-around porch with angled corner supported on turned posts and fret-sawn brackets, a corner tower with conical roof, and projecting bay windows with decorative shingling.

5. Eastport School & Soldiers Memorial 390 Montauk Highway / 1 Tuttle Avenue Eastport School is a horizontally organized, two-story brick building with cast stone detailing built in 1927 in the Collegiate Gothic style. The symmetrical front façade is divided into five sections with a center entry surmounted by a pointed arch window and a pair of turrets flanking a clock. The roof line is crenellated, consistent with the Collegiate Gothic style. The soldiers’ memorial sculpture was completed in 1922 by Theophilus Brouwer whose son, Roger, posed for the sculpture.

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3. Wilson Gordon House 453 Montauk Highway A vernacular, Victorian era farmhouse with wrap-around porch, the Wilson Gordon House is said to have been built in the 1860s and was associated with a duck farm situated on the west side of River Avenue, south of the railroad bridge.

22 Tuttle Avenue Founded around 1850, the Eastport Cemetery contains about 700 headstones representing a variety of materials commonly found in 19th century burying grounds, including zinc.

Marketed as “cast bronze” in its heyday, zinc is a brittle, bluish-white metallic element used in the formation of many alloys including brass, bronze and German silver. Cast metal monuments were touted as being impervious to weathering; never popular, those which survive in the Eastport Cemetery have stood the test of time.

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386 Main Street An eclectic structure exhibiting elements of the Gothic, Romanesque and Neoclassical styles, the Eastport Bible Church was first built in 1853.

Moved back from the road in 1896 and turned ninety degrees, the façade was evidently reconfigured at that time. Behind the church are three adjacent cemeteries: one belonging to the church, a second that is fenced and known as the Brown or Tuttle family cemetery, and a third (and largest) that belongs to the Eastport Cemetery Association.

415 Montauk Highway One of the oldest surviving houses in Eastport, the J. Homan house was built in the 1790s and exhibits the classic Long Island “half house” form of three bays and a single story beneath a gable roof. A small addition at the rear and the covered stoop are later alterations.

11. W. H. Pye House

8. J.H. Tuttle/Ashcroft House 433 Montauk Highway The J. H. Tuttle or Ashcroft House is a late 19th century, vernacular Queen Anne style house with a cross-gable form, wood shingle siding and a wrap-around porch supported on turned wooden posts and decorative verge boards. The attic gables retain original four-over-four window sash.

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427 Main Street Built in the 1880s, this was the home of Mrs. S. A. Wells. Its three-bay façade, bracketed front porch and tall six-over-six windows are all typical of vernacular dwellings of the period. The pointed attic window seen on the end gable suggests the period of construction. The side wing of one-and-one-half stories appears original.

63 Bay Avenue The eclectic W. H. Pye House combines Stick Style and Queen Anne style elements and was originally located on the east shore of the west creek, and later turned 180 degrees and moved closer to the Southampton Town Dock. Pye at one time had the largest duck farm in Eastport. His house, large and elegant, boasts a recessed second story porch, bay windows and a bracketed roof.

12. Seatuck Lodge 74 Cedar Lane Built by author and publisher Alonzo Reed in 1895, the gambrel-roofed lodge was used in the summer as a private club until its purchase in 1918 by Charles Hilles, Secretary of the Treasury under President Taft, who converted it into a private residence. The large, 20-room residence is situated on an estate of 23 acres. A windmill tower original to the house remains standing on the property.

13. Perry Tuthill House & Barn 172 South Country Road The Tuthill house was originally constructed in Eastport in the late 1700s and moved to Remsenburg in the early 1800s, Perry was a brother of Ira B. Tuthill whose house remains standing next door. The three-bay “half house” with its side wing retain large chimneys centered on the roof ridge and six-over-six window sash. An “English” type barn remains standing on the property.

see page 18 1 Basket Neck Lane The chapel, constructed in 1853 in the Greek Revival style, features pilasters at the double doors flanked by large, sixteen-over-sixteen window sash. A small steeple with a belfry surmounts the chapel. Behind it lies the Remsenburg Cemetery, a 1-acre church yard with about 330 gravestones dating as early as the 1850s. The cemetery is noteworthy as the burial place of English author and humorist P. G. Wodehouse.

16. Remsenburg Chapel & Cemetery

14. Ira B. Tuthill House 170 South Country Road One of the oldest houses in Remsenburg, it is believed to have been built c. 1757. Ira B. Tuthill was a large landowner and Long Island Railroad engineer. The gambrel-roofed main section is a classic Long Island “half house” with three bays and a massive brick chimney centered on the ridge, whereas the one-and-one-half story wing with shed-roofed porch is likely a later addition.

15. F.C. Raynor House 76 Phillips Avenue Built in the 1880s for Fred C. Raynor, the house was delivered pre-cut to the Speonk railroad station and assembled on site above a small brick cellar. It came complete with a mantelpiece that Raynor thought too old fashioned for a house heated with stoves! The Raynor house blends elements of the Queen Anne and Stick Styles, and is unusual for its square shed-roofed tower that rises to the attic level above the front door. The wrap-around porch supported on turned posts and overhanging roof eaves are typical of the Queen Anne style.

17. Remsenburg Community Church 165 South Country Road The brick Remsenburg Community Church exhibits elements of the Romanesque and Arts & Crafts Styles, its massive central tower battered and surmounted by louvered openings for the belfry at the top. A large, segmental arch window occupies the ground floor of the tower; above it reads “Remsenburg Church” carved in brownstone. The tower is flanked by brick porte cocheres.

18. Tuttle Burying Ground Remsen Lane Also known as the Historic Remsenburg Cemetery, this small burying ground preserves sixteen marble headstones ranging in date from 1791 to 1914. The cemetery is enclosed with a board fence and its condition is relatively good. It is one of over historic burying grounds in Southampton Town, ten of which are owned and maintained by the town and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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19. Dr. Charles Remsen House 31 Remsen Lane Originally a summer home for the man who gave Remsenburg its name, this sprawling vernacular house dating from the 1890s had no heating system when first constructed by local builder Daniel W. Ruland. The cross gable plan house features projecting bay windows, a porch with posts and brackets, dormers and brick chimneys typical of the construction period.

20. Byron Tuttle House 153 South Country Road This vernacular, frame and clapboard covered Victorian era farmhouse appears to date c. 1880 and was associated with Byron Tuttle until at least 1916. Two stories high and organized on a cross-gable plan, the house has shallow roof pitches and flaring eaves that are characteristic of its construction period. A porch supported on bracketed columns stretches the length of the front façade.

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136 South Country Road This house was built for Capt. Jeremiah Rogers in the 1860s, who shuttled summer visitors to and from “The Ocean House” next door.

From there, he would also sail them across the bay for ocean bathing.

Years later Rogers sold the house and delivered coal for a living. The vernacular farmhouse boasts a wrap-around porch and decorative ridge boards on the roof.

22. The Ocean House 132 South Country Road Built in 1871 during the heyday of summer tourism, The Ocean House was owned and operated by John W. Tuthill. An 1899 advertisement for the hotel reads “A first class table, with all kinds of fresh vegetables, poultry, eggs, meat and fruit. Airy rooms. Music. Fine lawn with shade trees.” Room and board in 1908 was $8.00 to $10.00 per week.

23. The Remsenburg Academy 130 South Country Road Built in the early 1860s, the academy was run by John W. Tuthill (owner of The Ocean House next door) for young men who boarded with local families. Tuthill, a professor of mathematics, was assisted by Maria Vanderpool Studley of Claverack, New York. The school closed in 1869 but reopened after years of neglect as the Remsenburg Post Office (1958-67). It is now owned by Southampton Town and serves as a community resource. Its board-and-batten siding, tower and bracketed roofline are adaptations of the Italianate Revival style.

24. Daniel W. Ruland House 133 South Country Road Built by Ruland c. 1865, this vernacular farmhouse features scalloped shingles in the gables and a corbelled brick chimney. Ruland also built the Remsen House for Dr. Charles Remsen, c. 1880. Window sash are six-over-six and six-over-two, typical of the period.

25. Gilbert Rogers House Gilbert Rogers House A classic Long Island “half house” of one-and-one-half stories, the Rogers house retains a Greek Revival style pedimented entryway above the front door and denticulated roof cornice. The narrow windows (nine-over-nine on the first story and fixed six-light above) are original as is the narrow brick chimney centered on the ridge, indicative of a stove within. The wings that stretch to the right and left of the main house may also be original. Rogers is listed as the owner between 1902 and 1916.

28. George Chappell Halstead House 86 South Country Road Built c. 1750, the Halstead house is one of the oldest in Remsenburg.

Restored in 1927, it preserves the hand hewn frame, locust pegs and wide pine floor boards that are characteristic of its construction period.

29. Fordham Mill 26. C. Halsey House 99 South Country Road This large, five-bay two-story vernacular farmhouse may date from the early 1800s but has additions in the Colonial Revival style, including an entry porch, reconfigured roof with flaring eaves and attic dormers. It was associated with C. Halsey between 1873 and 1902, and by 1916 was owned by H. Fordham.

175 Montauk Highway The brick mill at Speonk has a long history, beginning with Jonathan and Enoch Jagger who dammed the stream at the head of the Speonk River and built a wood-framed saw mill on this site in the early 1800s. Daniel W. Tuttle, a carriage maker, bought the mill in 1844 and built the first section of the brick mill that stands today. E. O. Fordham acquired the mill in 1911, converting it from water to electric power. The Fordham Mill is designated a Town Landmark.

27. Capt. Rogers House 92 South Country Road Built as early as c. 1790, the Rogers house is a Greek Revival style two-story, three-bay “half house” with denticulated cornices and a pedimented entryway that appears to be a Colonial Revival addition.

If a section of the house dates from the late 1700s, it may be the smaller wing which has since been altered with Colonial Revival features including the gable dormers.

30. Speonk Railroad Station 54 North Phillips Avenue The old railroad station was once a hub of activity in the hamlet.

Constructed in 1901 to replace the original station built in 1870, it was heated with a pot belly stove. The train depot closed in 1958 and was repurposed as a snack bar in the 1960s. Today the station still serves as a restaurant.

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FLANDERS, RIVERSIDE & NORTHAMPTON driving & biking tour The northwest corner of Southampton Town, home to the world renowned Big Duck, is also a place of unspoiled beauty encompassing thousands of acres of protected woodland, streams and other natural resources. With the exception of Flanders Road, the historic corridor that connects the County Center with the eastern towns, only minimal development took place in this area. The most settled of the three hamlets is Flanders, located on the south side of the Peconic River near its mouth. Flanders developed primarily along the main road that bisects it; the oldest house surviving is that of James Benjamin, built about 1782. The local economy relied on harvesting natural resources: game, fish, shellfish, clay, bog iron, salt hay and cordwood. By the mid-19th century Flanders also became a destination for summer vacationers and sportsmen, and duck farming flourished through the early 20th century.

West of Flanders is the tiny hamlet of Riverside, a community that is sparsely settled due in part to the vast, natural resources of the Central Pine Barrens that stretch to the south. Today, a handful of older homes are scattered along the main road, two of which are included in the tour. To the south and west of Riverside is Northampton, an area that remains largely uninhabited with protected ponds, marshland and extensive woodlands. Three Suffolk County parks – Peconic Bog, Peconic Hills and Cranberry Bog Preserve – are all located here, as is Suffolk County Community College’s Eastern Campus and Hampton Hills Country Club. A proposed community, Vanderbilt Park, appears on early 20th century maps but was never realized. A later housing development, brainchild of architect Leonard Sheldon, was built on the hills overlooking Wildwood Lake. Sheldon’s mid-century modern Wildwood Lanes, built c. 1957 and the last surviving bowling alley in the town, remains standing.

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1. Suffolk County Community College 121 Speonk Riverhead Road The Eastern Campus of Suffolk County Community College opened in 1977 and is the smallest of the institution’s three main campuses: Ammerman in Selden (1961), Eastern and Michael J. Grant in Brentwood (1974). The college is the largest in the State University of New York system, and boasts the lowest tuition of any college on Long Island. It offers over 70 degree and certificate programs. The Eastern Campus is home to the Lyceum Gallery, which features local and regional artists as well as student works.

4. Vernacular Farmhouse 43 Flanders Road Similar to its neighbor at 437 Flanders Road, the massing and detailing of this one-and-one-half-story house is typical of 19th century residential design. Three bays wide on the main floor, the front door is centered and a shed-roofed porch supported on turned wooden posts stretches across the front façade. The house features six-over-six window sash and likely dates from the late 19th century.

2. Wildwood Lanes (Bowling Alley) 3951 Lake Avenue Wildwood Lanes (Bowling Alley), 3951 Lake Avenue.

Constructed c. 1957, Wildwood Lanes made a bold architectural statement in the Northampton landscape with its mid-century modern design. Conceived by architect and urban planner Leonard Sheldon (1924-1997), the 16-lane bowling alley is the last of its kind in Southampton Town. Sheldon is remembered for laying out the nearby housing development at Wildwood Lake in 1952, and for his community activism to preserve open space on the East End.

3. Suffolk County Government Center 100 Center Drive South Suffolk County Government Center,100 Center Drive South.

The Suffolk County Government Center is home to the Surrogate Court, County Treasurer, County Court and Law Library, Clerk and Sheriff. The Suffolk County Jail is located here as well. The center, technically situated within Southampton Town, is strategically located near the hamlet of Riverhead, which once served as the seat of county government. In the 18th century, Riverhead was known as “Suffolk County Courthouse.”

Even today, stone mile markers stand along the Main Road stretching the length of Southold Town, each carved with the miles traveled from “SUFFOLK CH.”

5. NYS Historic Marker Peconic Avenue

6. L. Fanning House 437 Flanders Road Most likely an early to mid-19th century dwelling, this traditional oneand-one-half story clapboard house is shown as belonging to L. Fanning on the 1916 map. Four bays wide downstairs and only two up, the asymmetrical position of the front door suggests that a shallow entry and stairway to the upper level is set against the west façade. The window sash, which are two-over-two on the ground floor and fixed four-light on the upper story, appear to date from the late 19th century.

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7. Thomas & Augustus J. Dunbar Houses 924 & 916 Flanders Road A. J.” Dunbar built matching houses in 1895 in the Queen Anne style; both are situated on heavily wooded parcels and now nearly invisible from the road. The brothers were entertainers and built their houses as summer homes. The Thomas Dunbar House, two stories high with jerkin head gable ends and decorative shingle wall treatments; both houses preserve windows with stained glass. A two-story barn with a vented cupola survives on the Thomas Dunbar property.

10. “Methodist Point” (Samuel Griffing House & Barns) 1040 Flanders Road Charles Smith (1800-1861) was purchased in 1861 by John Griffing whose son Samuel established Flanders’ first duck farm here in 1884.

The vernacular farmhouse, accessory structures and duck farm were inherited by Samuel Griffing’s son-in-law Thomas I. Havens. The property is also known as “Methodist Point.”

8. Blue Barn 949 Flanders Road The Blue Barn is a small, one-and-one-half story barn that originally stood slightly to the west of its present location on land belonging to Chauncey Minor Havens, proprietor/owner of the Havens House, a 25-room summer hotel. The Blue Barn preserves a timber frame suggesting a mid-19th century date. The barn was constructed as a carriage barn and was acquired by Southampton Town for use by the Flanders Village Historical Society and is a designated Town landmark.

11. Pleasure Woods Cemetery 15 & 19 Golden Leaf Trail Tucked away in the woods off Golden Leaf Trail, a cul de sac reached from Pleasure Woods Drive, is the tiny Pleasure Woods Cemetery that was once a private family burial plot for the Havens and Benjamin families. Only eight marble headstones survive, several of them severely damaged. The earliest is that of William F. and Hannah Benjamin’s daughter (name obliterated), who died February 28, 1822, aged 13 years and 3 months. The cemetery is one of ten owned and maintained

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see page 24 1012 Flanders Road The iconic Big Duck and the “ranch” and accessory buildings behind it are designated landmarks on Town, State and National Registers of Historic Places. The duck was constructed in Riverhead as a retail store for Martin Maurer, a local duck farmer, who moved his farm to Flanders in the 1930s. The store remained open until 1984, when the Big Duck became threatened with demolition and was donated to the county and moved to Sears-Bellows County Park. In 2007, the Big Duck returned to its present site, which the town had acquired in 2001. Today, the county runs a tourist center in the Big Duck while the Friends of the Big Duck sponsor events and programs on behalf of the town.

12. J. Benjamin House 38 Pleasure Drive The five-bay, two-story house identified as “J. Benjamin” on 1873 maps belonged to “W. Benjamin” in 1916 but may date from the early 19th century. The Benjamin family was prominent in early Flanders’ settlement. The house is sited near the foot of Pleasure Drive, on a slight rise that overlooks Peconic Bay to the north.

13. James Benjamin Homestead 1182 Flanders Road One of the oldest houses in Flanders, the James Benjamin Homestead was constructed c. 1782 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The five-bay, two story form with its center chimney and nine-over-six window sash is a classic example of the “full” sized Long Island colonial era farmhouse. see page 24 1193 Flanders Road Originally built as a Congregational Church c. 1840, it was sold to the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1891 and moved back from the road to its present site in 1930. The one-story frame structure has a steeple centered on the front façade which retains a louvered belfry, bell and steeply pitched roof. The stained glass windows were likely introduced in the 1890s.

14. Flanders United Methodist Church

17. Vernacular Farmhouse 1231 Flanders Road Next door to the west of the Flanders Schoolhouse stands this vernacular two-story farmhouse built c. 1900. Italianate style brackets at the overhanging roof eaves and a porch supported on segmented columns are details of interest. The house once served as a boardinghouse and is shown on historic maps as belonging to Miss E. H. Tighe in 1916.

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15. “Willow Cottage” (Josiah Goodale House) 1212 Flanders Road Originally Josiah Goodale’s Homestead built c. 1760, the structure was inherited by Josiah’s great-great-grandson and enlarged c. 1890 as a boardinghouse named “Willow Cottage.” The two-story building is organized around a cross-gable plan with a front-facing gable façade.

In the 1950s it still functioned as a boardinghouse known as “Lillian’s” and offered rooms for rent.

16. T. K. Miller House & Carriage House 1227 Flanders Road This imposing, Queen Ann style house situated on a rise of ground that overlooks Peconic Bay to the north was built c. 1890 for railroad tycoon Thaddeus K. Miller. The complex massing, multiple gables, and wrap-around porch supported on turned posts and brackets are all hallmarks of the Queen Anne style, heightened today by the building’s paint scheme.

1261 Flanders Road Built in 1880s to replace the earlier 1858 schoolhouse which was damaged by fire, the one-room Flanders Schoolhouse served the local community as School No. 4 from 1886 until closing in 1959. Typical of the form, its gable front faces the road and a single chimney rises at the back centered on the roof ridge. The long, rectangular massing is typically high for a single story building and its windows (now replaced) were oversized to admit extra light. After adaptive use as a church, the schoolhouse now serves as a private residence.

19. Flanders Cemetery 1377 Flanders Road The Flanders Cemetery, with gravestones dating from the late 1700s to the present, remains active today and operated by the Flanders Cemetery Association. Approximately 310 stones survive, including marble, brownstone and granite. As is typical of rural burying grounds in the town, a majority of the stones face to the west in keeping with early Christian burial practices.

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20. Priest Nathaniel Fanning House 1372 Flanders Road This compact three-bay, two story dwelling is an example of the “half house” from typical of eastern Long Island and likely dates to the mid-19th century. Nathaniel was a direct descendant of Capt. James Fanning, the first of the name to settle on Long Island. After 1873, the property is listed as owned by J. F. Penny.

23. George W. Brown House 1553 Flanders Road This vernacular two-story farmhouse with a front-facing gable and shed-roofed porch was built c. 1888 for George W. Brown and has descended in the family. The porch preserves detailing indicative of the Italianate Revival style. Historic maps show the land was owned by Charles Sanford in 1873.

21. “Grove House” (Capt. R.W. Penney House) 1380 Flanders Road Robert W. Penney’s “Grove House” was a popular boardinghouse built c. 1880 and operated as of 1922 by the Brewster family. At about that time the Flanders Club building was moved and attached to the back, serving as a kitchen wing. The large, three-story structure is noteworthy for having exterior plumbing, evidently an afterthought with the advent of indoor running water, and only practical for summer use! Investigation of the structure suggests earlier, First Period origins.

24. Flanders Gun Club Lodge & Cabins Smithers County Park, Rte 24 Originally developed c. 1890 as a hunting club, this 430-acre property was given to the county by R. Brinkly Smithers in 1971. Smithers, son of a wealthy investment banker, used his personal fortune to establish centers and institutes for alcoholism research and treatment. Today, Ducks Unlimited uses the park for educational programs, exhibits and special events.

25. Black Duck Lodge & Hubbard Cemetery 22. Flanders Memorial Park Rte 24 This narrow “vest pocket” park is dedicated as a memorial to deceased members of the Armed Services and the Flanders Volunteer Fire Department. A 9/11 Memorial constructed of two steel beams salvaged from the World Trade Center was added to the park and dedicated on September 11, 2011 in memory of local firefighters who contributed to search and recovery efforts after the 2001 terrorist attack.

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2 Red Creek Road Built by the Hubbard family c. 1838 and later owned by financier E. F. Hutton, Black Duck Lodge was originally a farmhouse converted for use as a private hunting club or lodge. The two-story house is flanked by side wings that appear to be Hutton additions of the Colonial Revival era. Beyond the house is a small, fenced burying ground devoted to members of the Hubbard family. While the lodge and surrounding park are owned by Suffolk County, the burying ground is located on a tiny, land-locked parcel surrounded by park land but owned and maintained

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HAMPTON BAYS DRIVING & BIKING TOUR Historically a cluster of eleven hamlets stretching north from the ocean to the Great Peconic Bay, Good Ground was re-named Hampton Bays in 1922 one year after its most famous landmark, the Canoe Place Inn, burned to the ground. Good Ground’s Main Street had always been the center of these far-flung rural communities, which included Canoe Place, East and West Tiana, Newtown, Ponquogue, Rampasture, Red Creek, Squiretown, Southport and Springville. Today, these historic place names remain embedded in street names and other usages.

Good Ground wasn’t settled until about 1740, although the land was purchased from the Native Americans by John Ogden in 1659 as part of the Quogue Purchase. Settlement was slow to follow in this western part of Southampton Town. As early as 1750, however, the original Canoe Place Inn was constructed on the old Montauk Highway in the vicinity of a natural portage – later the Shinnecock Canal – which gave the inn its name. During the Revolutionary War, the inn housed British officers stationed at a fort strategically located on the nearby bluffs overlooking the bay. After the fire in 1921, the Canoe Place Inn was rebuilt in fireproof construction and remains standing today, awaiting restoration.

Summer visitors who advocated for the name change from Good Ground to Hampton Bays arrived in ever increasing numbers after the railroad’s arrival in 1869. The new name suited the place, situated as it is on three bays: Great Peconic, Shinnecock and Tiana. These bodies of water have always sustained the local economy by providing ample fishing for both local consumption and export. In fact, Hampton Bays is the second highest producing commercial fishing port in New York State after Montauk. Many of its historic buildings and structures reflect this maritime tradition.

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1. Squires/Fournier Burying Ground

see page 29 142 Red Creek Road Approximately 45 headstones are preserved at the Squires/Fournier Burying Ground, so-named for the two families whose members predominate. The headstones range in date from 1802 to 1901 and are largely carved of marble, the preferred material for monuments throughout the 19th century. The burying ground is one of ten that are owned and maintained by Southampton Town.

5. Shinnecock Canal & NYS Historic Marker

2. Squires/Miller House

Montauk Highway/Shinnecock Canal Early maps show a narrow, quarter-mile land mass between the Peconic and Shinnecock Bays, an area the Native Americans utilized as a portage, hence the name “Canoe Place.” The idea of digging a canal between the two bodies of water finally took hold in the 19th century; work began in 1884 and the canal opened in 1892. A lock was added in 1919, after it was discovered the current eroded the walls of the original canal, and a new lock and gate heads were built in 1968.

Today, the canal is managed by Suffolk County on behalf of the New York State Canal System.

5 Red Creek Road This late Greek Revival style, five-bay dwelling of one-and-one-half stories preserves exceptional integrity. Its paired brick chimneys centered at each end of the gable roof, six-over-six window sash with fixed threelight windows above, and small side wing all appear original. The shedroofed cover at the front door may be an addition, but the screen door appears to date from the 1850s and may also be original. The house was owned by S. Squires in the 1870s and S. Miller by 1902.

6. Canoe Place Inn 239 East Montauk Highway Documented in the will of Stephen Herrick to be operating before 1756, the Canoe Place Inn accommodated British officers during the Revolutionary War and passed through numerous owners and received several additions before acquisition by Julius Keller, the owner of the renowned Maxim’s Restaurant in New York City, in 1917. Tragically, the inn was destroyed by fire in 1921 but was rebuilt in fireproof construction the following year to the designs of William L. Bottomley. The inn has operated until recently and awaits restoration and adaptive use.

3. Ellis Squires Sr. House 178 Newtown Road The oldest documented house in Hampton Bays, the Ellis Squires, Jr. House is a three-bay, two-story dwelling that appears to be of 18th century construction although it preserves exterior detailing such as the Federal style front door and door surround that dates from the early 1800s.

Small nine-over-six window sash are evidence of an earlier date, as is the stone foundation. The screened porch and back extensions are later additions. The house was acquired in 2005 by Southampton Town and awaits acquisition and preservation by a private party.

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see page 29 There have been three railroad bridges over the canal. The first, built in 1869 when the tracks were laid, washed out around 1898 due to the current rushing through the canal. It was replaced with a second bridge at that time. The third steel truss bridge, built in 1931 and described as “a new modern steel structure of ample capacity for present and future heavy railroad traffic” was of the “K4” type (named for the heavier train cars then in use). Given the infrequent use of rail transportation today, it’s likely the third bridge will last for the foreseeable future!

7. Cuffee Burial Plot 178 Wakeman Road Secluded deep in the woods off Wakeman Road is a small family burial plot that contains the remains of the Native American Cuffee family, all members of the local Shinnecock tribe. Two marble headstones survive as fragments, while a memorial tablet carved in granite identifies those interred as Noah (1778-1852), Mary (1763-1855) and Absalom (18361858) Cuffee. The burial plot has become accessible as a result of the acquisition of a vacant parcel on Canoe Place Road, soon to be the new site of the Canoe Place Chapel.

11. Prosper King House (Hampton Bays Historical Society) 8. Canoe Place Chapel 30 Canoe Place Road The small, vernacular wood framed chapel once perched at the edge of Canoe Place Road was built in the early 19th century as a meetinghouse for the local Native American population, some of whom lived nearby in sections of Canoe Place and Ponquogue. As built, the former meetinghouse had its front door centered on a side wall; as a chapel, the door was moved to the gable end and given a small covered entryway. The chapel is owned and landmarked by Southampton Town and awaits restoration.

116 West Montauk Highway Originally the home of Prosper and Mary L. Fanning King, this modest Greek Revival style Long Island “half house” was built about 1830 and became home to the King’s ten children. After Mary died, Prosper and his second wife Julianna had five more children!

The King house descended in the family for nearly a century, later becoming an antiques store before acquisition by Southampton Town under a stewardship agreement with the Hampton Bays Historical and Preservation Society, who have restored the dwelling as their headquarters.

12. Lyzon Hat Shop 9. Rev. Paul Cuffee - Indian Preacher Gravesite NYS Historic Marker 199 East Montauk Highway Ordained a minister in the “Strict Congregational Convention of Long Island,” Native American missionary Paul Cuffee preached among the Indians of Eastern Long Island until his death in 1812. His headstone, a tall white marble monument, is inscribed in part: “Humble, pious and indefatigable in testifying the gospel of the grace of God he finished his course with joy on the 7th of March 1812 aged 55 years.”

120 West Montauk Highway The gambrel-roofed Lyzon Hat Shop was run as a general store in the 1890s by Elisha King, whose son Walter transformed it into a hat shop around 1920 after studying commercial art and window dressing at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Walter and his wife Helen Case, a milliner, achieved world renown and a clientele of “high society” ladies that included DuPonts, Mellons and Fords. Even European royalty patronized the shop, which was encouraged by card tables set up on the lawn for the chauffeurs while the ladies shopped! Walter King maintained the shop until his death at 75 in 1968, and today it awaits restoration.

13. Chamber of Commerce & Mile Marker 10. Knights of Columbus/St. Rosalie’s Roman Catholic Church 31 East Montauk Highway A good example of adaptive reuse, the old wood frame church built in 1901 houses the Knights of Columbus today. Although it lost its steeple in the Hurricane of 1938 and was enlarged to the rear in 1958, the structure retains good integrity. Its current reuse and successful preservation was prompted by the threat of demolition in 1995, when the new church edifice was constructed on the site.

140 West Montauk Highway Now home to both the Chamber of Commerce and the Hampton Bays Historical and Preservation Society, this vernacular five-bay, one-andone-half story dwelling was built about 1830. Early owners included Elisha and Ruth Hewitt King and Mrs. Effie G. Wells. It’s believed that the house was built on property to the west, but was moved when that parcel was given to the Good Ground Cemetery Association.

A mile marker preserved out front, now worn beyond recognition, once recorded the distance for stage coach travelers to Canoe Place, Patchogue, Southampton and Riverhead.

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14. United Methodist Church

see page 29 158 West Montauk Highway Soon after the first Methodist Society formed in Good Ground in 1836, a meetinghouse was built in 1840 but replaced by a new and larger church edifice in 1863. Both the church and Woodmen’s Hall erected next door burned to the ground in 1907 and the present church was built in 1908. The present structure is a shingle-clad building organized around a cross gable plan, with a three-story bell tower and Gothic windows, many of which preserve stained glass.

17. “Lough Rea” (Daniel S. Loughran House) 18 Rampasture Road A good example of the Dutch Colonial Revival style, the Daniel S. Loughran House features a front-facing gambrel roof and a subsumed porch supported by paired, Doric style columns. Some of the windows retain diamond-paned upper sash. Loughran was born in 1853 and died on January 1, 1909, leaving a sizable estate to his wife Margaret who continued to summer there. He was a wealthy iron founder and Brooklyn banker, and served as president of the Kings County Ironworks. In 1933, the house was purchased by Brooklyn builder Henry Loeffler and in 1937 divided into two houses for Loeffler’s daughters, then Mrs. Bodenheimer and Mrs. Jurgens.

15. Good Ground Cemetery 13 Cemetery Road/99 Riverhead Road Established in 1882, The Good Ground Cemetery preserves headstones dating as early as 1835 signifying that the monuments may have been removed from other burial sites. The oldest markers, which are predominantly carved in marble, are located in an area directly behind the United Methodist Church. More recent stones stretch toward the back and are predominantly granite. The cemetery site has been divided by the Sunrise Highway (SR 27), and thus has a second address and access from Riverhead Road.

18. Peninsula House 26 Elder Avenue A former boardinghouse, “Peninsula House” was constructed c. 1884 and preserves the proportions, massing and attic dormers suggesting it was built to accommodate a large number of people in its heyday.

The tall two-over-two window sashes are typical of its late 19th century construction period.

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212 West Montauk Highway Operated as Slo Jacks for over thirty years, this fast food restaurant preserves the “Mid-Century Modern” design and materials associated with roadside architecture of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Despite a newer glass-enclosed entryway, the massing and detailing of the original structure preserves exceptional integrity. The unique and dynamic design employs steel, concrete and glass beneath a gently sloping roof surmounted by two large arches that impart a space-age quality to the design.

2 Nautilus Lane The extraordinary, front-facing gable house at 2 Nautilus Lane combines elements of the Arts & Crafts and Shingle styles, but is unique in its evocation of a Swiss chalet. The building’s massive roof with its overhanging eaves featuring large decorative brackets is punctuated by two towering chimneys. The front façade is punctuated by four rows of windows, beginning with those of the enclosed porch, above which are round-arched windows with multiple panes, surmounted by a projecting bay with six-over-six windows in the lower attic and a pair of sash above these. The brick foundation, which incorporates round-arched windows as well, also appears to be original to this unusual design.

20. St. Mary’s Episcopal Church 165 Ponquogue Avenue A fine example of the Tudor/Medieval Revival Style, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church was constructed in stages between 1919 and 1931.

Two separate sections of the building have steeply pitched gable roofs and are connected to a two-story, block-like crenellated tower via a Norman style arcade. Griffin-like gargoyles decorate the tower.

Exterior finishes are of stucco applied in a rusticated manner, suggesting irregular masonry beneath.

23. U S Coast Guard Station & Shinnecock Lighthouse NYS Historic Marker 29 Lighthouse Road The first Coast Guard station was built at this site in 1855; initially a single building that served as both barracks and boathouse, the station was expanded during World War I to include a wood-frame barracks and a new boathouse. After the Hurricane of 1938 destroyed the station buildings, new ones were built including the three-story brick Colonial Revival barracks that stands today. The Shinnecock (or Ponquogue) Lighthouse was built in 1877 and stood until 1948 when it was demolished, its warning beacon having been transferred to a steel tower built nearby. see page 29 275 Dune Road Constructed in 1930, the old Ponquogue Draw Bridge was the only access to the Atlantic Ocean and beaches in Hampton Bays until 1986, when the old bridge was taken down and a new, stationary bridge was constructed by Suffolk County. At that time Supervisor Marty Lang petitioned the county to preserve the approaches to the old bridge as fishing piers, a use they serve to this day. The park is open year-round for fishing, launching boats, scuba diving, picnicking and bird watching.

24. Old Ponquogue Bridge Marine Park

21. Nathan Penny Foster House 10 Wakeman Road A well preserved example of the vernacular Queen Anne style, this twostory dwelling is essentially a five-bay house although two of its first floor windows are paired. A central octagonal tower rises to a conical roof and boasts round-arched windows on the second story, whereas the remaining sash retain decorative stained glass upper sash above two-light lower sash. A wide open porch surrounds the foot of the center tower, mirroring its octagonal form.

25. Tiana Life Saving Station 22. Eastlake Style House 50 Foster Avenue A unique architectural design exhibited in the hamlet is this Eastlake Style House, with its cross-gable massing, wrap-around front porch supported on turned wooden posts, and combination of vertical and horizontal wood sheathing which is a hallmark of the style. The angled corners of the front façade rise two full stories and are mirrored by the form of the porch, while the attic story overhangs the recessed lower floors with a roofline articulated with ornamental barge boards. The window sash are two-over-two, consistent with its late 19th century construction period.

70 Dune Road The Tiana station was built in 1871, although title to the land on which it was built wasn’t acquired by the government until 1900. In 1912, the building was substantially rebuilt but was deactivated in 1937. With the onset of World War II, the station was reactivated for service and manned by an African-American crew, commanded by Chief Petty Officer Cecil R. Foster. Both the station and grounds were abandoned in 1946. Since that time, the building has seen reuse as a beach club and has been acquired by Southampton Town for preservation.

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HAYGROUND & MECOX driving & biking tour Hayground and Mecox, each areas of early settlement, never gained status as hamlets with concentrated populations but remain as distinct regions nevertheless. They straddle the hamlets of Water Mill and Bridgehampton and extend from north of the Montauk Highway south to the ocean. Hayground was named for its primary industry, haying. English hay and red clover were the primary crops harvested and stored as winter feed for local cattle owners. Mecox Bay and Hayground marshes and wetlands produced salt hay and the salt that cured it, while uplands provided space for drying grasses. Hay and tall grass were used as animal feed, mulch, insulation, and shipping material.

The Hayground Cemetery, its oldest gravestone dating 1721, corresponds to the original settlement of the area. By the middle of that century, some local residents experienced a religious awakening that resulted in the creation of their own congregation, “the people of the New Light,” whose meeting house still stands on Ocean Road. The fervor subsided in 1775, however, after their minister, Elijah Paine, died and was buried in the Hayground Cemetery.

Like many Southampton communities, Hayground received a windmill in 1809. It stood in the triangular commons at the center of the community and continued in use for over a century until 1919, making it the longest active mill on Long Island. It was then adapted for use as an artist studio. During the early 1900s, the local economy shifted from hay to duck “ranching.” The Mecox Duck Farm was one of the largest in the town and operated for over sixty years into the 1970s. Today, proximity to the ocean, Mecox Bay and scenic vistas make Hayground and Mecox desirable areas for summer and weekend homes.

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1. Capt. H. Hallock House 22 Scuttle Hole Road This modest Greek Revival dwelling of one story was the home of Captain H. Hallock in the mid-19th century, and later owned by M. Avens (1916). Its front-facing gable façade preserves wide roof eaves, an overhanging cornice and deep returns at the base of the roofline, all hallmarks of the Greek Revival style. It is believed that the house was built c. 1825. Capt. Harvey B. Hallock was born in Quogue in 1823, married Elizabeth L. Hawkins around 1850 and died in Bridgehampton in 1899. He is buried in Water Mill.

4. Timothy Halsey House 168 Strongs Lane This Cape Cod type dwelling situated at the corner of Strongs Lane and Scuttle Hole Road was built c. 1790 and typifies the form; one story in height, its center door with sidelights is flanked by two windows on either side while its square footprint hugs the ground. Recently restored, the house preserves a pair of narrow brick chimneys centered on the roof ridge that likely replaced a single, more massive chimney. Timothy Halsey served as the local schoolmaster.

5. “The Maples” 2. Rogers Potato Barn 421 Scuttlehole Road The potato barn, a unique and purpose-built structure that accommodates the temporary storage of potatoes after harvest, is typically set half underground to maintain the cooler temperatures that root vegetables require. Due to their weight, potatoes also need strong walls to resist the outward pressure that would threaten the integrity of the structure. The Rogers Potato Barn is one of several in the area that remain in active use; others include barns at 53 Narrow Lane, 433 Mecox Road and 240 Hayground Road.

680 Scuttle Hole Road This large, turn-of-the-century vernacular farmhouse features a crossgable plan and entry gates built of cobble stones with the property’s name and date of construction, “1911.” The house preserves a high level of integrity.

6. Wesnofske Farm (Haynes/Collins House) 3. House 1224 Head of Pond Road A modest, front-facing one-and-one-half story vernacular dwelling with hints of the Greek Revival style, this three-bay house preserves a brick chimney centered on its roof ridge and a side wing which are both likely original to its mid-19th century construction period. The covered front entry and side porch appear to be later additions.

832 Scuttle Hole Road Unusual in its use of the Queen Anne style, the main farmhouse employs a cross-gable form with a distinctive, octagonal tower that rises three full stories beneath a conical roof. Other hallmarks of the style include the decorative window sash and wrap-around porch. The large potato barn, still in use today, is “banked” or artificially set into the ground which regulates the temperature of the potatoes stored inside.

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7. “Breeze Hill” (Conklin House & Potato Barn) 890 Scuttle Hole Road The stately Conklin House, a five-bay two-story dwelling constructed c.

1845, preserves a porch on the front façade and a side kitchen wing.

Brick chimneys are centered on the ridge at either end of the roof, signifying the placement of fireplaces within. Six-over-six window sash, round-arched attic windows and decorative roof brackets are all typical of its construction period. The potato barn is banked with shingle siding on the front façade.

10. Cook House 439 Hayground Road Unusual in its fenestration (window placement), the two-story, four-bay Cook House is a vernacular farmhouse dating from the late 18th or early 19th century. Careful study of the front façade suggests that the front door, now centered, was originally flanked by windows to the right in typical “half house” fashion. The windows to the left of center on each story are more widely spaced, indicating the likelihood of an addition.

The covered entryway is a later alteration.

11. Hayground School

see page 34 1524 Montauk Highway Built at the corner of Montauk Highway and Hayground Road in 1891, this building served as the Hayground School until 1946, when the Knights of Columbus occupied it. In more recent years it has served as an antiques shop. The structure is only one story high, but its gable roof is elongated along the south façade where the walls extend at each end beyond the central block and a tower with an open belfry rises at the center beneath a conical roof. Two eyebrow dormer windows flank the belfry in this unusual former school building.

8. Atlantic Golf Club (Guyer Farm) 1040 Scuttle Hole Road The Atlantic Golf Club, located on land formerly known as the Equinox or Guyer Farm, was opened for regular play in 1992 and preserves a contemporary clubhouse as well as this vernacular farmhouse and a related potato barn. Despite its relatively recent creation, the Atlantic Golf Club has distinguished itself as a first rate course, winning Golf Digest’s award for “Best New Private Course” the year it opened.

The clubhouse, designed by Hart Howerton, emulates the traditional Long Island Shingle Style, while the course itself (Rees Jones architect) preserves the glacial topography, swales and wetlands, and even a few kettle holes in its 204 acres. The historic house was the former home of Sayre Baldwin, a dairyman, Bridgehampton National Bank officer and local civic leader.

12. Herman R. Halsey House 1414 Montauk Highway This front-facing, vernacular Greek Revival farmhouse with its prominent triangular attic window was built for Herman R. Halsey in the mid19th century. It remained in the Halsey family for many years. Historic features include six-over-six window sash, the shed-roofed porch supported on slender columns, a side wing of one-and-one-half stories and two brick chimneys for venting both the fireplaces and the kitchen cookstove.

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849 Hayground Road Two houses and multiple large barns are located on this extensive horse farm now known as Two Trees Farm, originally a dairy farm started by Henry N. Corwith (Carwytham Farm) but transformed in recent years into a riding facility. The 114-acre farm is now undergoing redevelopment with large residential parcels. The existing houses include one large Shingle Style structure and another in the Colonial Revival style.

see page 34 78 Mecox Road The Newton Farmhouse is a two-story vernacular dwelling composed of three sections, with a central and west (right hand) section likely dating from the first half of the 19th century and exhibiting elements of the Federal and Greek Revival styles. The east section to the left is a more recent addition. Architectural elements that characterize the earlier sections include the simple wood cornice, door frame with pilasters and transom, six-over-six window sash and massive brick chimneys. Early surveys suggest a c. 1690 date for the original building, but this has not been corroborated by contemporary historians.

14. Incarnation Lutheran Church 59 Hayground Road Constructed in 1961, the ship-like Incarnation Lutheran Church was designed by the Murphy Company and is clad diagonally and vertically with boards. A clerestory of windows rises beneath the roof overhang to the roof peak. The building was pre-fabricated in Urbana, Illinois and shipped to the site where its components were assembled by crane.

18. Sweeny House 265 Mecox Road A vernacular Long Island “half-house” preserving the classic features of the form – one story high, three bays wide, with a large brick chimney centered on the ridge – the Sweeny House is one of several similar farmhouses surviving in the area that date from the late 18th or early 19th century. This house was owned by at least two generations of the Sweeny family, first by a D. Sweeney according to the 1873 map, and later by Thomas Sweeny between 1902 and 1916.

15. J. H. Rogers House 94 Mecox Road A full two-story, three-bay Federal period farmhouse, the J. H. Rogers House epitomizes vernacular Long Island residential architecture of the post-Revolutionary period. While the roof overhang suggests replacement in the 19th century, features such as the shingle cladding (no corner boards), eight-over-eight window sash, and the pair of brick chimneys centered on the roof ridge are all indications of an early construction period. After J. H. Rogers (1858), the house was owned by I. Halsey (1873) and J. Cummings (1916).

16. Hay Ground House

see page 34 163 Mecox Road Built c. 1723, enlarged in 1832 and moved back from Montauk Highway in the 1960s, Hay Ground House is said to have begun as a saltbox type house but was later raised to a full two story dwelling. The three-bay front façade with center door preserving a transom light, twelve-over-eight window sashes, and the colossal brick chimney centered on the roof ridge are all characteristics of its early construction period.

17. Kendall/Tyndall House 206 Mecox Road The modest, one-story Cape Cod type house known as the Kendall/ Tyndall House is a classic Long Island farmhouse that likely dates from the early 19th century. Its three-bay front façade and relatively deep footprint are characteristic of the Cape Cod form, which is altered here only by the attic dormer which is a later addition. The kitchen ell that extends to the back is also typical. Many of the original six-over-six window sashes and brick chimney centered on the roof ridge survive. Early owners were J. Kendall (1873), M. Tyndall (1902) and J. Tyndall (1916).

19. Jennings Farmhouse 317 Mecox Road The two-story, three-bay Jennings Farmhouse appears to be an early structure that has been updated in the Colonial Revival style of the early 20th century. The two matching brick chimneys that rise from the front roof slope and flank the center bay are possibly alterations and a replacement of a massive, single chimney aligned on the roof ridge. A. G. Jennings was listed as the owner in 1873, and Mrs. Emma Jennings was owner in 1902. By 1916, maps identify the house as “formerly Mrs. Emma Jennings,” suggesting her demise by that date.

20. Russell House 49 Huntington Lane A rare example of a Modernist residence in this area, the Russell House was constructed c. 1955. Architects Peter Blake and Julian & Barbara Neski designed the summer home for businessman Jack Russell.

The striking features of the design include the horizontality of the upper story glass box that overhangs the 10 foot high masonry entry story below, and its oversized windows providing views to the farm fields beyond. Blake (1920-2006), a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, was curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art and later editor in chief of Architectural Forum.

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see page 34 100 Windmill Lane This ancient burying ground preserves approximately 350 headstones, some dating from the 1720s from the time period in which both Hayground and Mecox were settled. The earliest stones are carved of brownstone and slate; stones dating from the 19th century are typically carved in white marble. One example of a zinc (“white bronze”) monument survives as well. The 1.3-acre site is fenced with wooden pickets supported on granite posts and is managed by the Hayground Cemetery Association as an active burial place.

21. Vernacular Farmhouse 39 Horsemill Lane This small, one-and-one-half story farmhouse with street-facing gable façade appears from the treatment of its porch posts to date from about 1880. The fret-sawn brackets that stretch between the porch posts are indicative of that construction period, as are the two-over-two window sashes. The small single-story ell to the side may be a later addition. The house remains standing on land long associated with the Ludlow family, early Bridgehampton area settlers.

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22. Ludlow Farmhouse 19 Horsemill Lane One of several houses in this area associated with the Ludlow family, this “full” two-story five-bay vernacular farmhouse appears to date from the mid- to late 19th century but has alterations such as the three attic dormers, exposed brick chimney and wide flat-roofed porch all probably added in the early 20th century. Two-over-two window sashes survive from the original house. Gordon Ludlow was identified as the owner on maps of that time period.

23. Mecox Burying Ground 90 Jobs Lane Now a one-acre parcel on Jobs Lane, the historic Mecox Burying Ground contains about 100 headstones dating as early as 1717 when the area was first settled. The last burial was in 1925. Typical of the period, the oldest stones are carved in brownstone with crude, block-like lettering whereas later headstones are often carved in slate and boast artistic motifs including deaths heads and winged cherubs. The burying ground is one of more than fifty across Southampton Town with headstones dating before 1900.

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248 Newlight Lane A fine example of a vernacular farmhouse finished in the Greek Revival style, the two-story Haynes House features a front-facing gable façade with an elaborate front door and door surround, six-over-six window sash, engaged pilasters instead of simple corner boards, and a triangular attic window. The side wing of one story with its own front entrance is likely original. Historic ownership passed from W. Haynes in 1873 to Mrs. W. Haynes in 1902 and A. Jones by 1916.

1703 Montauk Highway The five-bay, two-story Gen. Abraham Rose House was built in 1791.

Rose was born in 1765, became a surveyor and served as brigadier general in the Revolutionary War, later becoming commander in charge of the defense of Sag Harbor in the War of 1812. He died in 1843.

This stately Colonial house remained in the Rose family until the early 20th century and is now an antiques shop.

27. Rose-Corwith-Haynes House 1728 Montauk Highway Greek Revival in style, the Rose-Corwith-Haynes House (also known as the Topping House) may have been built as late as 1875. Early maps have property owners as D. Rose (1858), D. P. Rose (1873) and S. L. Haynes (1916). The triangular attic window, engaged pilasters serving as corner boards, and porch supported on columns are all characteristics of the Greek Revival style. It was not unusual, however, for farmhouses in remote rural communities such as this to have been constructed decades after the style was popular.

28. Corwith-Baldwin House 1981 Montauk Highway The Greek Revival style Corwith-Baldwin House is built in the classic Long Island “half house” form, its elegant front door and door surround featuring sidelights and a transom with six-over-six window sashes and narrow, fixed light sashes above. The kitchen wing at the side with its secondary front entry door is likely original. Some reports suggest that the house was built c. 1730, and that the main section was added in 1837. Confirmation of this would require an interior assessment.

north sea & noyac driving & biking tour The hamlets of North Sea and Noyac are enjoyed for their natural resources, including Southampton Town’s Emma Rose Elliston Memorial Park and The Nature Conservancy’s Wolf Swamp Preserve bordering Big Fresh Pond, as well as the Elizabeth A. Morton Wildlife Refuge, donated in 1954 to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service by Mrs. Elizabeth Morton Tilton. These and lesser known resources such as Laurel Valley County Park, Trout Pond and Conscience Point Park preserve an unspoiled landscape where hundreds of acres have been set aside for hiking and other outdoor past times. The hamlets also border an equally varied shoreline, offering endless opportunities for swimming, boating and kayaking, fishing and other water sports. Their history is equally fascinating.

North Sea is the second oldest community in Southampton Town. It derives from the ancient name for the Great Peconic Bay, then the “North Sea,” as distinguished from the Atlantic Ocean, called the “South Sea.” Southampton’s original settlers landed at North Sea’s Conscience Point in 1640, and while the first settlement took place on the south shore, permission to occupy North Sea was granted John Ogden in 1647. One of the earliest North Sea families was that of John Rose, whose descendants remain in the area; Capt. Jetur R. Rose, a whaling captain remembered for being accompanied by his wife and family on multiple voyages, is interred at the North Sea Burying Ground.

Adjoining North Sea to the east is Noyac, a name derived from the Native American for “point of land.” It is, in fact, a peninsula measuring some two miles in length which was originally granted to John Jessup in 1679. The Jessup family gave its name to Jessup’s Neck, now part of the Morton Wildlife Refuge. A fulling mill of early construction once occupied the dam at Trout Pond, now long gone. Today, the area is enjoyed for its wooded landscape and close proximity to two thriving villages, Southampton and Sag Harbor.

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1. Corrigan House 444 North Sea Road A large, impressive Queen Anne style dwelling organized around a cross gable plan, the Corrigan House preserves architectural features associated with its style: ornate gable eaves, patterned shingle siding, wrap-around porch supported on bracketed posts and multi-light window sash. The construction date is c. 1890. A recent addition to the rear enlarged the footprint of the house, but respected the architectural integrity of the original design.

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see page 39 520 North Sea Road Somewhat stark in its lack of outward ornamentation, the Miller House is a vernacular, Federal period dwelling of the “half house” form. The doorway with its distinctive transom light and arched entablature, is Federal or early 19th century in design. Original architectural features include the brick chimney positioned off-center on the roof ridge, brownstone foundation and six-over-six window sash.

5. Capt. Jetur R. Rose House 1679 North Sea Road A classic Greek Revival era farmhouse retaining a high style entry porch supported on slender columns, the two-story, five-bay Capt. J.R. Rose House has descended in the family for over two centuries. Supported on a granite foundation, the impressive detailing of the house suggests the affluence of its owner, Capt. Jetur Rogers Rose (1823-92), whose wife and family accompanied him on whaling voyages between 1853 and 1868. He and other family members are buried at the North Sea Burying Ground nearby.

6. J.R. Harris House 3. Emma Rose Elliston Memorial Park 40 Millstone Brook Road The Rose family, early settlers of North Sea, left a lasting legacy to Southampton Town in the gift of land that now forms the Emma Rose Elliston Park. Encompassing over 100 acres on both sides of Millstone Brook Road, the initial bequest was made by Joseph Elliston in 1951 and was since increased by later gifts of property. The park borders Big Fresh Pond, the second largest lake on Long Island, and offers numerous hiking trails and unspoiled woodlands.

The park is dedicated to the memory of Emma Rose Elliston, daughter of whaling ship Capt. Jetur Rose (see: Rose-Elliston House).

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16 Millstone Brook Road With approximately 125 headstones and footstones intact, the earliest of which dates from 1782, the North Sea Burying Ground preserved the remains of North Sea residents until the early decades of the 20th century. It is now one of ten such historic burying grounds owned and maintained by Southampton Town. Decorative Victorian era fencing and heavy tree cover combine to make the site one of the more difficult to maintain, although local volunteers have helped restore the site under Town guidance. Many members of the Rose family, prominent in North Sea history, are buried here.

1719 North Sea Road Prominently sited and facing east at the intersection of North Sea Road and Noyac Road, the J. R. Harris house is a vernacular Greek Revival era farmhouse composed of three sections: a main block of two stories and two side wings , with a covered porch set against the central portion. The bold front doorway with its wide pilasters supporting an entablature, transom and sidelights and paneled door are all typical of mid-19th century design. By 1916 it was the home of Robert Harwold.

7. A. Rose House 1799 North Sea Road Built on a brownstone foundation (imported from Connecticut), the house identified in 1873 as “A. Rose” is a vernacular five-bay, two-story farmhouse with an enclosed sun room of one story that appears to date from the early 20th century. The two brick chimneys centered on the roof ridge, six-over-six window sash and center door treatment suggest a constriction date of the mid-1800s. By 1916, property ownership had transferred to “A. Jennings.”

8. J. Reeve House 1917 North Sea Road Compact in massing beneath a gambrel roof, with an elaborate Greek Revival style doorway centered on its front façade, the J. Reeve house appears to date from the 1830s or ‘40s. Its twelve-over-twelve window sash are undoubtedly original, as are the pair of brick chimneys centered on the roof ridge and the “demi-lune” windows in the attic. A map of 1873 identifies the house as “J. Reeve” which could have been either of two Jeremiah Reeves now buried at the North Sea Burying Ground, who died in 1880 and 1884.

12. Rose/Elliston House 1680 North Sea Road A simple, compact four-bay vernacular house of one story, the RoseElliston House is situated across North Sea Road from the Greek Revival era residence of Capt. Jetur R. Rose. Identified as belonging to Rose in 1873, it is thought to have been occupied by him prior to the construction of his permanent residence. The massing and simple door treatment of the dwelling suggest a construction date of the early to mid-19th century.

9. Conscience Point Park, Rock & NYS Historic Marker see page 39 1990 North Sea Road Acquired in 1910 from Charles W. Reeve by the Southampton Colonial Society (now Southampton Historical Museum) for its historical associations, Conscience Point Park was soon “improved” with the addition of a large glacial erratic bearing a bronze plaque commemorating the arrival of Southampton settlers from Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1640. The rock has been a focus of sesqui-centennial celebrations ever since 1915, when it first formed the focus of community-wide pageants celebrating Southampton as the first English settlement in New York State.

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1976 North Sea Road The Colonial Revival style Tupper Boathouse, built in 1929 by Frank E. Tupper for his son, Edwin Odell Tupper, was constructed as a boat building and repair shop, as well as a showroom and functioned between 1930 and 1959. A residential wing accommodated Tupper’s family. Now owned by Southampton Town, the boathouse received a grant in 2014 from the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation for Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Assistance for Historic Properties, enabling the town to stabilize the structure for future adaptive reuse.

13. North Sea Community Association 130 Noyac Road Constructed in 1929, this former schoolhouse was used as a meeting place for the Community Association since 1933. Now home to this community group, it’s an asymmetrical structure preserving two features that are characteristic of schoolhouse design: the tower and bank of windows. The tower’s pyramidal roof and flaring eaves are supported on modillions; rising three stories above the front entryway, it incorporates an oval window at the second story and is open at the top story. The row of five connected windows, which are typically tall in proportion to the structure, are associated with school architecture and the desire to bring natural light into the classroom.

11. “Port of Missing Men” (Col. H.H. Rogers Estate) 2277 North Sea Road The early 20th century estate of Colonel H.H. Rogers, known as the “Port of Missing Men,” is not visible from the main road except for two outbuildings located at the service entrance. The Colonial Revival style gate lodge and hipped roof garage appear to date from when the estate was laid out. Colonel H.H. Rogers, heir to the Standard Oil fortune, built his “Port of Missing Men” on Cow Neck as a sort of hunting retreat in the 1920s. The estate is said to include two historic houses moved there for preservation, one being the original John Scott house of 1661.

14. North Sea Farms 1060 Noyac Road North Sea Farms, also known as Kings Farm, is a complex of turnof-the-century accessory structures clustered around a two-story vernacular farmhouse dating from the 1870s. Distinguishing features of the farmhouse include its front facing gable façade with six-over-six window sash, hipped roof porch of one story, and attic window with pointed upper sash. The house was owned by C.W. Payne in 1873.

Today, the active farm and farm stand describes itself as “A Small Farm With a Little Bit of Everything.”

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15. D. R. Rose House 1201 Noyac Road A two-story, three-bay vernacular “half house” preserving twelveover-twelve window sash and side wing, the clapboard D.R. Rose House appears to date from the late 18th century and is therefore one of the oldest dwellings in the area. The over-scaled brick chimneys rising through the roof ridges are original features. The house is also known as the Osborn-Wiggins House.

18. St. James Episcopal Chapel 2689 Noyac Road A gift to the community from Mrs. Russell Sage (see: Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum and John Jermain Memorial Library, Sag Harbor Walking Tour), this chapel appears “Tudor” in design due to its faux half-timbering in the attic gable and covered stoop facing Noyac Road. Its flared shingle walls, casement windows and deep eave overhangs suggest a construction date of c. 1900. It was built to serve the spiritual needs of summer residents.

16. William Cauldwell House 51 Peconic Avenue Constructed in 1892 for William Cauldwell, publisher of the New York Sunday Mercury newspaper and at one time a New York State senator, the Cauldwell house is unusual for its scale – nearly three stories in height – and interior arrangement, which appears to have been oriented to summer guests. Its Queen Anne style is typical for its construction date; architectural features include the patterned shingle wall cladding, multi-paned window sash, steeply pitched gable roof and porches supported on bracketed posts.

19. Noyac Schoolhouse 3010 Noyac Road This hipped roof schoolhouse is a designated Southampton Town landmark and serves as a meeting place for the Noyac Civic Council.

The Council was founded in 1954 to advocate for quality of life issues in the hamlet of Noyac. The one-story schoolhouse, with its asymmetrical fenestration, prominent brick chimney and pedimented Neoclassical front entryway, appears to have been built in the early 1900s.

20. Eldridge Home (Historic Marker)

17. Wiggins/Pierson House 2635 Noyac Road The late 19th century period, cross-gable house with wrap-around porch supported on bracketed posts remained in the Wiggins family from 1902 until 1916, and was thereafter the residence of N. Pierson.

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Ruggs Path Residence of Thomas Sleight Eldridge (1855-1924) and Susan Chadwick Eldridge (1851-1910). On this site are the remains of a home built circa 1870. Originally located on the east side of Ruggs Path and associated with the Sampson family, it was purchased in 1882 by Henry Chadwick (1824-1908), “the Father of American Baseball,” for his daughter. In 1892 it was moved to the west side of Ruggs Path to capture the scenic views of Trout Pond and Noyac Bay. Originally more modest, the home was enlarged by the Eldridges to become a 4-story shingle-style home adorned with many gables, a tower and porches. It is remembered as an inviting and frequent gathering place for the Eldridges, their friends, family, visitors and 10 children. Destroyed by fire, 1944. Dedicated by White, Deweil, Mcgovern & Remkus 2012.

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see page 39 1175 Brick Kiln Road This cemetery is affiliated with St. Andrews Roman Catholic Church in Sag Harbor and dates from the early 20th century. Marble and granite markers predominate, which are typical of the period.

A distinguishing feature is the arched iron entryway, supported on masonry piers. The 12.7-acre cemetery remains an active burial place.

21. Meig’s Expedition (NYS Historic Marker) Long Beach Rd/Noyac Road

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22. J. Bennett House 4040 Noyac Road A wood-frame, cross-gable farmhouse with clapboard siding, the J. Bennett House preserves decorative fretwork spanning the bracketed posts that support its wrap-around porch. These architectural features suggest a construction date of the 1880s. By 1902 it was the residence of J. Bennett.

23. Old Noyac (Edwards) Burying Ground 4340 Noyac Road One of Southampton Town’s ten historic burying grounds, the Noyac (Edwards) Burying Ground preserves approximately 52 headstones ranging in date from 1768 to 1868. Members of the Edwards family predominate. The largest monument is an obelisk memorializing the “Edwards” name, including Charles (d. 1834), Maltby (d. 1837) and George (d. 1850). The slate or brownstone headstones of earlier family members may be found nearby, including Thomas (d. 1768), Mehitabel (d. 1774) and John (d. 1798). The most unusual marker is a tri-part headstone for the Drake family: Aaron (d. 1839), wife Lucretia (d.

1835) and their son Moses (d. 1868).

1241 Brick Kiln Road This modest, single-story three-bay “half-house” represents the most basic form and massing in vernacular residential architecture.

Its diminutive size, compact shape, simple gable roof and fenestration, and the chimney centered on the roof ridge inside the end gable provided all the essentials of a house, but without much room for expansion! The house is actually a rare survivor from the late 18th or early 19th century due to its size; many more were built in the period, but due to their modest proportions, have either been demolished or used as additions to larger dwellings.

26. Vernacular “Half” House 1292 Brick Kiln Road Like the house across the road and slightly to the west, the house at 1292 also began as a “half-house” of only one story but received “improvements” that enlarged upon its original footprint.

A side wing of two stories was added and the roof line, with its deeply overhanging eaves, appears to have been replaced. The Greek Revival era paneled door, pilasters and transom all date the house to about 1840. It retains its stone foundation (unusual on Long Island, where most stone must be imported!) and six-over-six window sash.

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SHINNECOCK & TUCKAHOE driving & biking tour The Shinnecock Hills, named for the Native American tribe that occupied Southampton Town prior to English settlement in 1640 and a vibrant force in the town’s contemporary culture, was first a grazing area for colonists’ cattle in the 18th century. Early photographs show its low, rolling hills with few trees and fewer structures, an open and windswept landscape that leant itself to the creation many years later of the Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art by renowned American Impressionist painter William Merritt Chase in the 1890s. Chase’s summer house and his nearby Art Village where a studio and individual cottages were built for students still retain their integrity. A renowned American architect was also active in Shinnecock Hills in this period and into the early decades of the 20th century; Grosvenor Atterbury, architect for Forest Hills Gardens in Queens, is best known for beautifully designed and crafted country houses that adapt themselves well to the landscape. His work is represented on the tour.

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4. “Algoma” (Alfred H. Swayne Estate) 1. William Merritt Chase Homestead 371 Canoe Place Road Attributed (in sketch form) to architects McKim, Mead & White, the late 19th century William Merritt Chase Homestead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The gambrel-roofed, shingle clad house with subsumed front porch supported on Doric columns served as Chase’s summer residence. Chase, who was born in Nineveh, Indiana, trained in New York City and traveled extensively in Europe before settling into a career as one of America’s best known Impressionists.

2. Arts & Crafts House 56 Ridge Road This large complex house designed in the Arts & Crafts Style was built for students of noted plein air artist William Merritt Chase. Its overhanging eaves, multiple shed-roofed dormers, ribbon windows with twelveover-one window sash and numerous chimneys are characteristic of its architectural style. Chase (1849-1916), whose house remains standing nearby (see: William Merritt Chase Homestead, 371 Canoe Place Road), was the impetus behind the creation of the nearby Art Village.

360 Montauk Highway Built for General Wager Swayne c. 1900 and designed by renowned country house architect Grosvenor Atterbury, the Swayne house was inherited by financier and General Motors vice-president Alfred H. Swayne (1870-1937) after his father’s death in 1902. The large Shingle Style residence features long, sweeping rooflines associated with the style and is admirably adapted to its site. Atterbury was responsible for other commissions in the Shinnecock Hills (see: “Andros Hills”).”

5. Stony Brook Southampton (Alfred B. Claflin Estate) 65 Tuckahoe Road Now the Administration Building on the Stony Brook Southampton college campus, the Claflin Estate house is a large, stucco-clad residence designed by Grosvenor Atterbury and built c. 1898. The house was Atterbury’s first commission in the Shinnecock Hills. After World War II, the estate was purchased by Thomas Tucker Schwartz and converted into the Tucker Mill Inn, a guest house for wealthy vacationers. Arthur B. Claflin, who began business in his father’s dry goods firm of H.B. Claflin & Co., grew wealthy in textiles but lost his fortune during the Great Depression. The estate was purchased in 1963 for adaptive use as a college campus.

6. Stony Brook Southampton (Windmill)

see page 44 65 Tuckahoe Road An 18th century windmill now stands next door to the Administration Building on the Stony Brook Southampton college campus. Playwright Tennessee Williams is said to have rented the windmill in the 1950s. The windmill originally stood on Hill Street in nearby Southampton Village, but was moved to its present location in the 1890s by former estate owner Arthur B. Claflin prior to the creation of the college campus.

Claflin’s daughter Beatrice is said to have used the structure as a playhouse. The iconic windmill received a costly facelift in 2009, after which its doors reopened to college students who use it as a meeting place.

7. Shinnecock Hills Golf Club 3. “Andros Hills” (Thomas G. Condon Estate) 409 Montauk Highway Stucco-clad and imposing with its large gable facades, jerkin head roofs and Prairie Style windows, this estate house was one of several designed by local favorite Grosvenor Atterbury c. 1906 for Thomas Gerald Condon, president of the Southwestern Coal & Iron Company.

The architect’s use of stucco as exterior cladding is unusual for his work, yet repeated nearby at the Claflin Estate with which it shares many similarities of siting as well.

see page 44 200 Tuckahoe Road The oldest organized golf club in America (1891) with the oldest clubhouse (1892), the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club was also the first of its kind to admit women as members. The course was designed by Willie Davis of the Royal Montreal Golf Club and the striking, elongated clubhouse was designed by Stanford White of the noted architectural firm McKim, Mead and White. Six additional holes were designed by Willie Dunn in 1894. The clubhouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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8. “Bayberry Land” Estate Gates

see page 44 405 Sebonac Road All that remains of the historic Charles Hamilton Sabin Estate, “Bayberry Land,” are the decorative iron gates that flank the entrance to what has since been redeveloped as a private golf course. Designed by architects Cross & Cross c. 1918 in collaboration with landscape architect Marian Cruger Coffin, “Bayberry Land” was the summer home of prominent financier Charles H. Sabin and his wife Pauline, both of whom were ardent anti-prohibitionists. Their estate was acquired in 2001 and the house was demolished in 2004 after a prolonged battle with Southampton Town and area preservationists.

11. Capt. E. White House 89 Whites Lane Largely concealed within a densely wooded property is a vernacular two-story farmhouse of the “half house” type that was owned by a Capt. E. White in the 1870s. The covered stoop supported on slender columns appears to be a later addition. A side wing of one-and-onehalf stories is likely original. The house may date as early as the late 18th century.

9. National Golf Links of America 405 Sebonac Road Designed by famous golf course designer Charles Blair MacDonald in the late 1890s, National Golf Links of America opened in 1911. The intent was to design a course that would rival the earlier (and adjoining) Shinnecock Hills Golf Club. The property includes a clubhouse, entry gates, and windmill as well as the golf course. Jarvis Hunt, one of the founding members of the club, designed the large, Arts & Crafts style stucco-clad clubhouse which overlooks Peconic Bay. The windmill was purchased in Europe by Macdonald and shipped to the golf club at the suggestion of a member.

10. “Ballyshear” (Charles MacDonald Estate) 117 Whites Lane Noted golf course designer Charles B. Macdonald (see: National Golf Links of America) had this large estate home constructed c. 1913 to the designs of F. Burrall Hoffman, Jr. (1882-1980). Hoffman had trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, from 1903 to 1907; his best known commission is “Villa Vizcaya” built for John Deering in Miami in 1912.

The brick house is Colonial Revival in style, two stories high beneath a steeply pitched hipped roof, with several tall chimneys piercing the lower levels of the roof and secondary wings extending from each side.

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a recent owner.

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12. Robinson House 76 Barkers Island Road The vernacular farmhouse and adjacent barn (separate parcel) were labeled as “formerly Robinson” in a map of 1916. The house itself was labeled as W. H. Robinson in 1873. The house has been enlarged with several additions, whereas the barn, now converted as a residence, retains its original massing.

13. Robinson Barn 68 Barkers Island Road The Robinson barn, now converted as a residence, retains its original massing. The barn is of the “English” type with its threshing floor centered on the side wall; two large sliding doors provided access to this area, while stalls for the animals and hay mows above them were located at each end.

14. Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center & Museum

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Montauk Highway/West Gate Road Hakame! The Shinnecock Reservation is home to the Shinnecock Indian Nation, a continuously self-governing tribe residing along the shores of Long Island for thousands of years. The nation received federal recognition as a tribe in 2010. The Shinnecock Reservation is located on a peninsula bordered by Montauk Highway to the north, Shinnecock Bay to the west and Heady Creek to the east. Approximately half of the Shinnecock tribal members live on the reservation today. The Shinnecock Reservation was set aside in 1859.

Established in 2001, the Cultural Center is the only Native American institution of its kind on Long Island. The Museum displays and interprets Shinnecock history spanning over 10,000 years of Long Island habitation in 5,000 square feet of exhibition space. The Center & Museum hosts cultural festivals, dance performances, lectures, book signings and workshops.

Briar Lane, Ochre Lane, Studio Lane The Art Village is a concentrated group of cottages and a studio built in the 1890s for the Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art. It was the brainchild of Jane and William Hoyt, both summer residents looking to attract more affluent visitors to the area. William Hoyt planned the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club with the same objective, while Jane Hoyt devoted her energies to the Art Village where American Impressionist William Merritt Chase served as director. All together, there are nine cottages in the Art Village designed in either the Arts & Crafts or Colonial Revival styles, all characteristic of their period of construction.

15. Art Village Briar Lane There are three early cottages on Briar Lane, numbers 2, 9 and 15, and while each has been altered or enlarged, they preserve a relationship to the neighborhood and sufficient architectural integrity to be identified as part of the original Art Village. The former residence of Miss Hetty L. Parrish at 2 Briar Lane is a Dutch Colonial Revival house similar in style to “Stepping Stones” at 9 Studio Lane; its large additions are subservient to the original design and massing. Like the nearby house, its ground floor porch subsumed beneath an overhanging gambrel roof is a distinctive architectural feature.

17. Art Village Ochre Lane There are six historic cottages along Ochre Lane, which runs parallel to Montauk Highway and bisects the center of the Art Village. One of the cottages, located at 11 Ochre Lane, was the residence of Zella de Milhau, arguably the village’s most flamboyant and memorable resident. Miss de Milhau named the place “Laffalot” after her adopted Shinnecock Indian name “Chiola” meaning “she who laughs.”

De Milhau volunteered in the World War and drove an ambulance for the French resistance; back home, she was seen driving one of the area’s first automobiles. Next door at 13 Ochre is “Shingletop” and at 18 Ochre Lane is “Half Acre,” originally two cottages, and the cottage of Mrs. H. Davis Ives whose father-in-law was the noted American sculptor Halsey Ives.

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18. Art Village Studio Lane “Stepping Stones” located at 9 Studio Lane, occupies a large parcel of land bordered on the south by the Montauk Highway. Later the summer home of David and Helen Gurley Brown, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan Magazine for thirty two years, the cottage had been occupied originally by painter Gifford Beal and his brother, the writer Carlton Beal. The cottage is designed in the Dutch Colonial Revival style, with a subsumed porch on the first floor and a prominent brick chimney attached to the side façade. The gable-roofed dormer windows with paired sashes appear original.

468 Magee Street The Colonial Revival style, hipped roof Tuckahoe Common School, a stucco-pargeted masonry structure with brick quoins at the window openings, is one story in height with banks of windows that conform to the school’s architectural requirements. A louvered cupola surmounts the roof ridge, aligned with the center door.

22. Southampton Cemetery 441 and 545 North Sea Road The Southampton Cemetery occupies two contiguous parcels of land with frontage on both Sebonac Road (County Rt 39) and North Sea Road. The cemetery is actively administered by the Southampton

Cemetery Association, and preserves numerous crypts, hedged lanes,

and family plots, some dating as early as about 1885. The entrance 19. Elks Lodge #1574 (C. E. Sanford House) wall and piers flanking the main entrance were dedicated in 1913 605 County Road 39 and bear the inscription: “In Memoriam William Curtis Gulliver 1847The mid- to late 19th century Sanford House retains its impressive 1909 and Curtis Gulliver 1881-1892.” The elder Gulliver was an columned front façade but has been substantially altered. The main attorney; his summer estate on Squabble Lane, called “The Box,” was block of two stories with centered front doorway appears to date demolished in 1962. from the post-Civil War period because of the distinctive flared roofline; the east wing is most likely a recent addition, while the west wing may be original. Southampton Lodge, No. 1574, B.P.O. Elks, was instituted on December 7, 1929 and started with ninety members.

After occupying rented quarters, the lodge acquired the Sanford House on fourteen acres in 1940; architect Arthur Newman of Bridgehampton designed the alterations and the lodge room, which was dedicated on October 25, 1941.

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Barn is a banked, gambrel roofed structure with end walls and roof clad in wood shingles. Four large, glazed “garage” type doors occupy 23. Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Cemetery the ground level of the east façade, where access to the interior is 231 County Road 39 provided. A series of four six-over-six window sashes occupy the upper The Sacred Heart Cemetery Association manages the Sacred Heart floor, while a pair of window openings is set beneath the ridge. Large Cemetery, which serves the Roman Catholic congregation that worships ventilators are set along the roof’s ridge. on Hill Street in Southampton Village. An active cemetery, it shares a boundary with the Southampton Cemetery to the east and is entered

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VILLAGES OF north haven & SAG HARBOR Driving & biking tour Sag Harbor and North Haven have been shaped by the bodies of water that surround them, from the deep water access and a shipping industry that brought wealth and pride of conquest, up to the modern era when recreational boating, fishing, swimming and other water sports underpin a resort economy unlike any other on eastern Long Island. Today, these adjacent communities look nothing alike; Sag Harbor is a quintessential whaling village with historic homes crowding narrow back streets and a bustling Main Street, while North Haven retains a wooded landscape, with its waterfront homes located out of view. But the two share a long history. Families have historically owned and occupied land in both, and the waterways they share continue to unite them.

Sag Harbor was founded in 1707. At least, that’s the first time “Port at Sagg” is found in the Southampton Town Records. After humble beginnings and a handful of houses, the port town expanded exponentially to become the town’s most populated community a century later.

Sag Harbor was named a Port of Entry after the Revolution, and the Whaling Era that followed established it as a center of that lucrative industry. Its houses, churches, civic structures and other historic sites are reminders of that prosperous time and the Manufacturing Era that followed it, before an economic downturn that followed World War I. The vibrant community seen today reflects the success of a preservation movement begun in the 1970s and a more recent boom in the second home and tourism industries.

10. Eastville Burying Ground see page 51

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1. White-Collins-Mulvihill House (Spring Farm) 820 Brick Kiln Road The vernacular two-story White-Collins-Mulvihill House is owned by the descendants of Daniel Francis Mulvihill who served as naval liaison to the E.W. Bliss Torpedo Company in Sag Harbor. A designated Southampton Town landmark, the property was once part of “Spring Farm,” a 110-acre parcel purchased in 1921 by Mulvihill and his wife, Anna C. McDonough, and now a 75-acre preserve established in their memory in 2001. In 2006, and adjoining 25 acres was preserved in memory of their son, William P. Mulvihill, a history teacher and author of numerous published works including “South Fork Place Names.

4. John Jermain’s Mill (Historic Marker) 44 Jermain Avenue Near here is the site of John Jermain’s Mill, constructed in 1793 ~ powered by a ditch dredged from ponds farther uphill, in an effort to make Otter Pond commercially profitable. The mill failed, as did other attempts to commercialize the pond. Finally Mrs. Russell Sage purchased the Pond and incorporated it within Mashashimuet Park. Erected by the Sag Harbor Historical Society.

5. Ephraim Byram House 2. Mashashimuet Park 395 Jermain Avenue Sag Harbor summer resident and philanthropist Mrs. Russell Sage purchased the land from the Park and Fair Grounds Association in 1908, transforming an old trotting course and fairgrounds into a public park for Sag Harbor’s children. She built the superintendent’s house, playground, two tennis courts and athletic field and named the park “Mashashimuet” signifying “at the great spring” in the Algonquian language.

72 Jermain Avenue Sag Harbor’s eccentric inventor Ephraim Byram was born to a family of clockmakers and was himself a mechanic, astronomer, bookbinder and cabinetmaker in addition to a maker of clocks. His Italianate Revival style villa built c. 1852 stands in front of the site of the Sherry & Byram Clock Works, which produced large clocks for church steeples and street posts all along the East Coast. The asymmetrical tower of Byram’s house was not only fashionable but also provided the amateur astronomer with an observatory for viewing the heaves.

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Main Street Otter Pond Park & WWI Monument, Main Street/Jermain Avenue.

Like the park across the street, Otter Pond Park owes its preservation to philanthropist Mrs. Russell Sage who acquired it and many of the houses surrounding it and transformed it for public enjoyment. The pond is one of a series of fresh-water ponds between Sag Harbor and Sagaponack to the south. Otters once swam there, hence the name.

90 Jermain Avenue Opened in 1840, the 10-acre Oakland Cemetery is adjacent the Ephraim Byram House and contains the gravesites of many notable Sag Harborites including summer resident and ballet master George Balanchine. Among its many impressive monuments and obelisks is the Broken Mast Monument erected in the memory of whaling ships’ captains lost at sea “in actual encounter with monsters of the deep.” The ancestors of presidential hopeful Howard Dean are interred here as well.

10. Eastville Burying Ground

see page 49 Eastville Avenue The Eastville Community Historical Society owns, maintains and protects the century-old cemetery on Eastville Avenue in which African and Native Americans of the original St. David’s Church congregation are buried. Many of those interred here were Sag Harbor whalers. The burying ground has now become a focus of preservation activities and interactive workshops sponsored by the society.

7. St. Andrews Roman Catholic Church & Rectory see page 49 135 Division Street St. Andrews Church was completed in 1872. In addition to its stained glass windows, it boasts of multi-colored marble altar designed by McBride Studios in 1922. The vernacular Gothic Revival church employs lancet windows and a tall central steeple and belfry. The rectory survives next door to the church, its mansard roof characteristic of the Second Empire style of the 1870s.

8. Temple Adas Israel

see page 49 30 Atlantic Avenue Temple Adas Israel is the oldest synagogue in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, established in 1893 for a congregation of Russian and PolishJewish men and their families who came to work at the Fahys Watchcase factory in the late 19th century. Founded as Congregation Mishkan Israel, the temple bought land in 1896 and completed construction in 1898. The vernacular rectangular building is dignified by a flight of stairs flanked

by Gothic, pointed-arch windows.

9. Pierson Middle-High School 200 Jermain Avenue One of many philanthropic ventures in Sag Harbor, Pierson Middle-High School was the gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, completed in 1908 at a cost of $102,000. Formerly, students had attended class in the upper stories of Village Hall on Main Street. The school was named for Mrs. Sage’s ancestor, Abraham Pierson, and reflected her interest in using public schools as a way of improving the recreational life and living conditions among local residents

11. St. David A.M.E. Zion Church Eastville Avenue Eastville Community Historical Society helps to tell the story of St. David AME Zion Church, in its original location since 1839 when it was built for African Americans and Native Americans. It is widely believed to be a stop along the Underground Railroad. The founding Pastor, Rev. P. Thompson, was a noted Abolitionist and friend of Frederick Douglass.

12. Eastville Community Historical Society 139 Hampton Street Founded in 1981, the Eastville Community Historical Society was chartered to preserve the history of the working-class community of Eastville. From the early 1800’s until the mid 1900’s, the section of historic Sag Harbor known as Eastville was home to a multi-ethnic population of African Americans, European immigrants and Native Americans. The Society moved its headquarters to 139 Hampton Street in 1996, a Sears Roebuck catalog house built c. 1925.

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15. Benjamin Crowell Payne House (Colonial Hotel)

1 Fahys Road The impressive temple-style Greek Revival house at 1 Fahys Road was built in 1843 and substantially altered in 1911, when its fluted Iconic columns were moved to the west façade and replaced with square piers on the south. A second story was added to the side wing as well. Benjamin Crowell Payne, a local carpenter/builder, was also a captain of whale ships. In 1911, the house was acquired by Henry C. Ham, the proprietor of the Nassau Hotel in Sag Harbor, who enlarged and converted the house into The Colonial Hotel. Today, the house has returned to its original use as a private residence.

13. L ance Corporal Jordan Hearter Veterans’ Memorial Bridge Ferry Road Lance Corporal Hearter (1988-2008) was a rifleman from the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines who died at the age of nineteen while defending a checkpoint in Ramadi, Iraq during the Iraq War in Anbar Province.

His heroism and sacrifice is credited with saving the lives of over fifty marines and Iraqi policemen. Lance Corporal Hearter was awarded a Navy Cross and a Purple Heart for his bravery and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery. The bridge itself was built in 2000 and replaces an earlier span constructed in 1937.

16. Prentice Mulford House (James Madison Payne House) 114 Ferry Road Originally built on the site of the Municipal Building on Main Street, Sag Harbor, the c. 1770 home of Ezekiel and Prentice Mulford was dismantled and moved to North Haven in the mid-1800s by James Henry Payne for his elderly parents, Wilson and Phebe Payne. It was later moved across Ferry Road to its present location. The modest, fivebay one-story form is unusual for its period and may have begun as a three-bay “half house” more typical of the region.

14. “The Point House” (John Payne, Jr., House) 6 Fahys Road Born in 1758, John Payne, Jr., descended from a long line of North Haven (“Hog Neck”) residents. After marrying Patience Van Scoy in 1783, twelve children were born to the couple between 1785 and 1800. Payne was a successful merchant in the Sag Harbor firm of Payne & Ripley and hired Eliab Byram of Sag Harbor in 1804 to construct the five-bay, two story vernacular house to accommodate his large family.

Later known as “The Point House,” it served for a time as a hotel and was bought in 1886 by Joseph Fahys, who moved the house to make way for his mansion overlooking the bay.

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17. Lewis Jagger Corwin House 144 Ferry Road The five-bay, two-story hipped roof house with distinctive roof railings that stands at the corner of Ferry Road and Maunakea Street was built

by Joseph Corwin c. 1830 and originally stood near Actor’s Colony Road. By the early 1900s, Lewis Jagger Corwin had acquired the property and subdivided it into building lots, calling it Actor’s Colony at North Haven. In the same year, Corwin had Jacob O. Hopping move the house to its present location. The broad front porch supported on narrow posts and the exterior brick chimney are later additions.

21. Ferry Road Cemetery 18. King/Franklin House 120 Sunset Beach Road Overlooking the bay at the end of Sunset Beach Road, the KingFranklin house is thought to incorporate lumber from Hog Neck’s first schoolhouse, which stood on the site in the late 1700s. Gilbert King owned the property in the early 1800s and the house was purchased

by Hiram King in 1848. King and his wife Harriet lived in the house for over fifty years; she died in 1904. The house preserves detailing from the Greek Revival era but appears to have been updated in the Colonial Revival style with paired windows on both stories and shedroofed attic dormers.

243 Ferry Road The largest and most accessible of North Haven’s burying grounds, the Ferry Road Cemetery is enclosed within a post and iron rail fence and occupies a little knoll that rises above the north side of Ferry Road.

Headstones are predominantly marble and brownstone, typical of their late 18th to mid-19th century period. John Payne, Sr. and Jr., both veterans of the Revolutionary War, are buried here as are members of the Hamilton, Payne and Havens families

22. North Haven Village Hall 19. One-Room Schoolhouse 184 Ferry Road For a tiny building, this one-room schoolhouse has a long and complicated history! Built about 1847, it replaced an earlier structure located closer to the water’s edge that was swept away in a storm. By 1891, a decision was made to replace the building with a two-room version and the old schoolhouse was moved nearby and repurposed as a wood shed which it remained for many years. But after the formation of the North Haven Village Improvement Society in 1932, the modest but now venerable building was again recycled – this time as Village Hall – and moved once again, back to its original location at the corner of Payne Avenue and Ferry Road.

20. Havens/Crowell Farmhouse 220 Ferry Road The oldest surviving house on North Haven – the Havens-Crowell Farmhouse – dates from the mid-18th century. It was likely built by Constant Havens II, who fought in the French & Indian War as well as in the Revolution. After Havens’ death in 1797, the house was sold to Joseph Crowell, also a Revolutionary War veteran, who established a salt works on the property and enlarged the house. Crowell died in 1831. Later owners have preserved the house, which is now occupied by Village Historian Joe Zaykowski and his wife Julie Loveridge.

335 Ferry Road North Haven’s Village Hall was designed by architect and local village resident Frederick Stelle of Stelle Architects, Bridgehampton.

The modest, one-story shingle-clad structure befits its wooded setting, and is organized around two sections connected by a glass-covered breezeway. From its beginning in 1985, Stelle Architects has featured sustainable designs inspired by indigenous forms and materials. While their specialty is single-family beach dwellings and second homes, North Haven’s Village Hall is an early work of the firm that remains a credit to its sustaining architectural principles.

23. South Ferry Shelter Island Terminal 399 Ferry Road The South Ferry links North Haven with Shelter Island along NYS Rte. 114, the only roadway between the North and South Forks east of Riverhead. Six generations of the Clark family have owned and operated the South Ferry. Founder Samuel Clark began making the run in a rowboat, but the crossing was narrower and shallower than at present. By the late 1800s, the Clarks used sailboats and sometimes towed a scow behind to accommodate horses and carriages. Today, the ferry operates year-round and encounters severe weather and crossings 51 made treacherous by swiftly moving currents.

VILLAGE OF SAG HARBOR walking tour Sag Harbor and North Haven have been shaped by the bodies of water that surround them, from the deep water access and a shipping industry that brought wealth and pride of conquest, up to the modern era when recreational boating, fishing, swimming and other water sports underpin a resort economy unlike any other on eastern Long Island. Today, these adjacent communities look nothing alike; Sag Harbor is a quintessential whaling village with historic homes crowding narrow back streets and a bustling Main Street, while North Haven retains a wooded landscape, with its waterfront homes located out of view. But the two share a long history. Families have historically owned and occupied land in both, and the waterways they share continue to unite them.

Sag Harbor was founded in 1707. At least, that’s the first time “Port at Sagg” is found in the Southampton Town Records. After humble beginnings and a handful of houses, the port town expanded exponentially to become the town’s most populated community a century later.

Sag Harbor was named a Port of Entry after the Revolution, and the Whaling Era that followed established it as a center of that lucrative industry. Its houses, churches, civic structures and other historic sites are reminders of that prosperous time and the Manufacturing Era that followed it, before an economic downturn that followed World War I. The vibrant community seen today reflects the success of a preservation movement begun in the 1970s and a more recent boom in the second home and tourism industries.

17. Sag Harbor Garden Center (LI Rail Road Depot) see page 57

2. L’Hommedieu House see page 55

4. Samuel Huntting House see page 55

11. Sybil Douglas House see page 56 9. Benjamin Huntting House 22. Old Burying Ground (Sag Harbor Whaling Museum) 21. Meigs Monument see page 58 see page 58 see page 56

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4. Samuel Huntting House

see page 54 237 Main Street Flanking the entrance to Palmer Terrace with the companion Huntting Cooper house, the residence of Samuel Huntting was built in 1797 by Dr. Nathaniel Gardner and updated by Huntting c. 1830. Its architecture combines features of both the Federal and Greek Revival, including its handsome door and doorway, a porch supported on Ionic columns and the unusual attic window wreaths carved in wood. Samuel and Gilbert Huntting, whose house sits adjacent across Palmer Terrace, were two of the Huntting brothers who along with Benjamin dominated the whaling industry in the first half of the 19th century.

1. Benjamin Glover House 278 Main Street This gambrel-roofed Federal period house was constructed by local carpenter/builder Benjamin Glover for his own use. Glover also built the Van Scoy House at the corner of Jefferson and Main Streets. In addition to its distinctive gambrel roof, Glover’s house displays a similar cornice to that which he employed on the Van Scoy house as well as a prominent paneled front door and door surround protected beneath an entry cover supported on narrow fluted posts. The house reveals Glover to have been a carpenter/builder of considerable skill.

2. L’Hommedieu House

see page 54 258 Main Street Unusual in Sag Harbor for its masonry construction, the two-and-a-half story L’Hommedieu House seems more urban than its wood-framed, clapboard and shingle-sided neighbors. Samuel L’Hommedieu, the grandson of a Huguenot fugitive, operated a ropewalk in town which was a long, narrow building in which workers walked back and forth, twisting hemp into ropes for use in ships’ riggings, lines and cables. The house is exceptional in the village for its use of brick construction on a brownstone foundation. The brownstone steps and front doorway, recessed behind Doric columns, is characteristic of its Greek Revival style.

3. Howell/Napier House 238 Main Street One of the larger and more imposing houses on Main Street, the Italianate Revival Howell-Napier House was actually built in 1790 in the Federal style but updated architecturally in the 1830s by Nathan P. Howell when the younger Howell inherited the place from his father.

Howell’s adopted daughter, who in turn inherited it, married Alexander Napier. Although porches and other features that appear in old photos have been removed, the large two-story house retains bracketed eaves, a cupola and a “widow’s walk” with roof railings that distinguish it as a mid-century Italianate villa.

5. Huntting Cooper House 227 Main Street The Huntting family distinguished itself in the economic and social affairs of Sag Harbor in the 1800s, primarily as a leading force in the whale “fishery.” Several houses, including the Huntting Cooper House, remain as their legacy. Gilbert, one of four Huntting brothers and a partner in the whaling business, built this house which is considered to be one of the most graceful in the village. Its front porch is supported on slender Ionic columns beneath a hipped roof and its doorway with leaded transom and sidelights is an outstanding example of Federal period design.

6. Major John Jermain House 221 Main Street Built for John Jermain in 1798, this three-bay, two-story Federal period “half house” with side wing was later owned and occupied as a summer home by Mrs. Russell Sage, Jermain’s granddaughter. When it was built, the property extended south to Otter Pond. Nearby Jermain Avenue is named for Major Jermain, a Revolutionary War veteran born in Westchester County. He relocated to Sag Harbor after the war and married Margaret Pierson of Bridgehampton. One of their nine children, Margaret Pierson Jermain, was Mrs. Russell Sage’s grandmother.

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7. Van Scoy House 203 Main Street The Van Scoy house at the corner of Main and Jefferson Streets, opposite the Whaling Museum and next door to the John Jermain Memorial Library, is a late Federal period gem that boasts a gambrel shaped roof and fine architectural detailing. The house was built in 1810 by local carpenter/builder Benjamin Glover and occupied in the 1850s by Arnold Van Scoy, Sag Harbor’s first daguerreotypist. The bold cornice with modillion blocks and elaborate front door surround are characteristics of its early 19th century design.

10. Custom House (Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities) (corner) Main & Garden Streets A restored house museum now owned by the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, Sag Harbor’s Custom House was saved from demolition in 1948. It was moved from the corner of Union and Church Streets to its present location at the rear of the Hannibal French House with funds provided by Governor Charles Edison of New Jersey, who occupied the French house as his summer home. The c. 1791 Custom House was home to Sag Harbor’s first Custom Master, Henry Packer Dering, who enlarged it for his business as customs collector and postmaster, as well as to accommodate his family. The house is Federal in style, with 12-over-12 window sash, over-scaled chimneys and a front door with transom light.

11. Sybil Douglas House

8. John Jermain Memorial Library 201 Main Street Designed by Augustus N. Allen and opened in 1910, the John Jermain Memorial Library was one of many gifts to Sag Harbor from summer resident and philanthropist Mrs. Russell Sage. Its Neo-classical style mimics the Whaling Museum across Main Street, while its reading room on the second story preserves a dome constructed of Guastavino tile, a tour de force in its day. Now undergoing a major architectural program that will double its capacity, the library that was named for Major John Jermain (1758-1819), Revolutionary War veteran and grandfather of Mrs. Russell Sage, will continue to serve Sag Harbor’s residents as their greatest benefactress had wished.

see page 54 189 Main Street Originally built for ship owner Benjamin Huntting I on the site of the present Whaling Museum, the house was sold to Capt. Robert Ludlow Douglas and moved in 1838 to make way for the grand Greek Revival house that Benjamin Huntting II constructed c. 1845. Douglas (18041853) was a sea captain who, at the time of his death, was in command of a steamer plying between Galveston, Texas and New Orleans. His daughter Sybil, one of four children, was born in 1850. The house is a classic gambrel-roofed, five-bay, two-story Federal dwelling with unusually fine architectural details.

9. Benjamin Huntting House (Sag Harbor Whaling Museum)

see page 54 200 Main Street Sag Harbor’s most imposing Greek Revival house, the temple-fronted Whaling Museum was home to Benjamin and Mary Huntting and their three children. Huntting and his three brothers inherited the shipping business and whale ships of their father, Benjamin Huntting I, and after relocating his Federal style house down the street (see: Sybil Douglas House), the younger Benjamin retained New York architect Minard Lafever to design a fashionable villa that would represent their wealth and status in the community. After serving briefly as philanthropist Mrs. Russell Sage’s summer home in the early 1900s, the house became a Masonic Temple in the 1920s and ownership passed to the Whaling Museum in 1945.

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12. Hannibal French House 186 Main Street Situated across the street from the Sybil Douglas House, the Hannibal French House is elaborately Italianate Revival in style, but the structure actually encapsulates an earlier and smaller house constructed in the Federal period. Hannibal French (1817-89) had prospered from whaling and as part owner of Sag Harbor’s Maidstone Steam Flouring Mills, and despite the decline of whaling after the 1850s, enlarged his Main Street home in 1860 into a palatial village home. The deeply bracketed eaves and spiral-turned wooden posts are exceptional aspects of its design.

13. Annie Cooper Boyd House (Sag Harbor Historical Society) 174 Main Street Set well back from the street, the Annie Cooper Boyd house is one of a handful of houses that appears to have been built in Sag Harbor in the 18th century. The picturesque porch and dormer were added in 1906. The house was artist Annie Cooper Boyd’s residence and views of the village grace the walls. Her daughter Nancy Boyd Willey, an avid preservationist and local historian, left the house to the Sag Harbor Historical Society upon her death in 1998.

14. Hope House 165 Main Street Benjamin Franklin Hope, a skilled jeweler, watch and clockmaker, constructed this Victorian Second Empire style house c. 1860. Its mansard type roof is characteristic of the period, as are the paired brackets supporting the overhanging roof, 2-over-2 window sashes with molded casings and lintels, and hooded entryway. The side wing retains its ornamental roof railing.

15. Stanton House 155 Main Street Standing at the division of Madison and Main Streets, the Stanton House was built in 1840 in the Greek Revival style. Its elaborate corner boards and denticulated cornice are typical, as is the front door surround. As a young midshipman, Admiral Stanton accompanied Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s fleet to Japan on one of his historic visits in 1852-4 that opened that reclusive nation to the West. Stanton was born in Sag Harbor in 1834 and died in Connecticut in 1924.

16. Civil War Monument Main & Madison Streets A small, triangular park surrounded by a low Victorian fence at the intersection of Main and Madison Streets contains a tall, salt-and-pepper granite Civil War monument erected to the memory of “the brave men who from Sag Harbor bore some loyal part in the great Civil War.” The monument is surrounded by small piles of cannon balls and a mortar.

In 1988, a large iron urn was dedicated by the Sag Harbor Historical Society to the memory Josephine O’Halloran Bassett (1903-1985), a long time member of the Olde Sagg Harbour Committee, which worked for many years to preserve village landmarks and history prior to the creation of the historic district.

17. Sag Harbor Garden Center (LI Rail Road Depot) see page 54 11 Spring Street When the LI Railroad came to town in the 1870s, it brought vacationers in the summer months who previously relied on watercraft that plied Long Island Sound. It was the beginning of eastern Long Island’s great Tourism Era, which left a permanent mark on villages and the surrounding landscape in the form of hotels and boardinghouses, waterfront “cottages” and railroad stations. The tracks have disappeared but Sag Harbor’s Victorian railroad depot survives as a garden center on Spring Street. Its deep overhanging roof eaves supported on elegant brackets and its polychromed clapboards are typical of its Victorian construction period.

18. Methodist Church

48 Madison Street Originally built on High Street in 1835, the Methodist Church was moved to this location in 1864. It’s a private residence today. Local inventor and clockmaker Ephraim Byram (see: Sag Harbor & North Haven Driving Tour) provided the original church steeple with its tower clock, but that was replaced with an Italianate style campanile in 1864 which blew down in the Hurricane of 1938. The front doors are said to have been inspired by the famous bronze doors of the Baptistry in Florence, Italy.

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23. Old Whalers’ Church (Presbyterian) 19. Jared Wade House 23 Union Street At the northwest corner of Union and Madison Streets is the modest but picture-perfect Jared Wade House, a Federal period gem built

by Captain Jared Wade in 1797. Jared Wade (1776-1849) was the captain of whale ships and is buried at Oakland Cemetery. His one-story house preserves original 12-over-12 window sash, narrow clapboards and a beautifully articulated front doorway complete with an elliptical fanlight, leaded transom and sidelights, molded door surround and paneled door.

44 Union Street Adjacent the Old Burying Ground but unaffiliated with it is the Egyptian Revival style Old Whalers’ Church, erected in 1843-4 to the designs of the New York architect Minard Lafever. When built, its telescopic tower measured 185 feet high and was seen far out to see by whalers who were leaving or returning to port. The Hurricane of 1938 lifted the steeple off the building and only fragments of it survive, some displayed inside the sacristy. Fret sawn blubber spades adorn the roof, references to the Whaling Era that was at its height when the church was built.

24. Atheneum (NYS Historic Marker) 20. Stephen B. French House 20 Union Street Across Union Street from the Jared Wade House is the Stephen B. French House, an Italianate Revival dwelling set high on its site. French was a shipping magnate active in Republican politics and friend of President Chester B. Arthur, who summered here. As a result, the house became known as the Summer White House. Its deep, bracketed roof eaves, rounded and paired windows and delicate porch are all intact as built in the Victorian period. The foundation is constructed of brownstone blocks imported from Connecticut.

Sage & Church Streets ATHENEUM. This is the original site of the Atheneum, as well as the Old Barn Church, Sag Harbor’s first place of worship and town hall.

A second church was built here by the Presbyterians in 1817, finally replaced by the Whalers Church in 1844. The structure was then moved to the corner of Union and Church Streets, where it survived as a beloved and much used social hall, until 1924 when in one hour it burned to the ground. Mourned by the entire East End community.

Erected by the Sag Harbor Historical Society

21. Meigs Monument

see page 54 Union Street (opposite Church Street) The stone monument on Union Street just off Madison Street was erected in 1902 to honor Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs, a hero of the Revolutionary War and privateer from Connecticut where many Long Islanders had fled after the Battle of Long Island. Meigs captured the British garrison located here in 1777 and destroyed a number of British ships and provisions in the harbor. A small but flawless maneuver, Meigs Raid gave a boost to the Continental Army which was then suffering a string of defeats.

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see page 54 Madison & Union Streets The Old Burying Ground is situated next door to the Old Whalers’ Church but is not affiliated with it, having been established in 1767 when the infant sons of the Howell family were laid to rest. Many of the names that are represented on the monuments – Cooper, Edwards, Fordham, Hand, Hedges and Sleight to name a few – were Sag Harbor residents who figured prominently in its early history. The Old Burying Ground is owned and maintained by Sag Harbor Village.

25. Murray Hill Hose Co. (Fireman’s Museum) 46 Church Street Built by the first Presbyterian Church as a meeting hall in 1833, the structure was acquired by the village in 1856 to serve as a schoolhouse, municipal hall and jail. By 1896, it housed the Montauk Hose Co. and Gazelle Hose Co., and since 1978 it has displayed exhibits related to firemen and fire fighting in Sag Harbor. Notable fires in downtown Sag Harbor included those of 1817, 1845 and 1877.

26. Peleg Latham House 117 Main Street The Peleg Latham House near the corner of Main and Madison Streets was built in 1791, a typical symmetrical five-bay, two-story house of its day. The large center chimney and 12-over-12 window sash are original to its Federal period construction; the porch and stairs are late Victorian, added when the house was raised up a story on a high brick foundation to accommodate a commercial enterprise beneath it.

29. Murf’s Backstreet Tavern 64 Division Street One of Sag Harbor’s oldest surviving dwellings, Murf’s Backstreet Tavern is a favorite “watering hole” for locals and therefore a contemporary landmark as well! The structure itself is postRevolutionary and thought to have been built about 1792. A private residence until 1970, it first became a bar in 1973 called “Tinker Alley Bar.” In 1976, it was acquired by Thomas Murphy, a retired police officer who operated the establishment until his death at age 78 in 2010. But his legacy lives on; the new owner and proprietor, Jay Hamel, preserves Murf’s traditions to this day, including his old jukebox and dartboard. Murf’s even has a ghost named Addie, who is known to play pranks on patrons!

27. Bulova Watchcase Factory 15 Division Street Built in the early 1880s, Joseph Fahys’ watchcase factory was established in Sag Harbor at the invitation of the Business Aid Committee which persuaded the New Jersey entrepreneur to relocate his enterprise here as a way of revitalizing the local economy. Over 400 people were put to work, thus filling a devastating employment gap precipitated by the decline of the whaling industry in the 1860s.

After closing in 1931, the factory was reopened and operated by the Bulova Watch Company between 1937 and 1980. Abandoned and vacant for many years, the factory structure has now undergone major renovations and conversion into high-end condominiums.

30. Old Jailhouse Museum 70 Division Street Restored in 1996 and operated as a museum by the Sag Harbor Historical Society, the Old Jail House was constructed in 1916 and intended to house prisoners more humanely than had been the case beforehand in the village. The museum displays a collection of police memorabilia and is open by appointment by calling the Sag Harbor Historical Society.

28. Umbrella House 89A Division Street Perhaps the oldest building in Sag Harbor, the tiny so-called “Umbrella House” is named for its distinctive gambrel roof form, which is thought to have been thatched in the early years. The building was used to quarter British soldiers in 1777 and later became an arsenal. It suffered cannon fire in the War of 1812 and has the scars to prove it!

Later uses included a machinist’s shop, antiques store and currently a wine shop.

31. Municipal Building 55 Main Street Next door to the American Hotel is Sag Harbor’s Municipal Building, formerly the Mansion House Hotel. In 1873 the hotel was converted for use as Sag Harbor’s first comprehensive Union School. It functioned as a school until 1907, when philanthropist and summer resident Mrs. Russell Sage decided that a more modern school was needed. Pierson High School was built with her money the following year.

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32. American Hotel 45 Main Street One of two adjacent brick buildings (the other being the Municipal Building), the American Hotel was built in 1846 by Nathaniel Tinker for his cabinetmaking business after the disastrous Fire of 1845. The site is thought to be that of John Howell’s Inn and residence, where Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs captured British officers in their beds during the Revolutionary War. The Gothic Revival porch was added when Tinker’s building became a hotel in 1877.

33. Duke Fordham’s Inn (Historic Marker)

(corner) Main Street & Long Island Avenue Here stood Duke Fordham’s Inn, destroyed by the fire of 1845; here James Fenimore Cooper penned his first novel, Precaution, while awaiting the return of the whaleship, Union, in which he owned shares along with his uncle, local cooper, Edward Cooper. Precaution was not a best-seller, but it and Cooper’s proceeds from the Union encouraged his further writings, which culminated in The Last of the Mohicans. Erected by the Sag Harbor Historical Society.

36. Sag Harbor Grain Co. 1 Bay Street This brick building on Bay Street was built in 1879 when it housed the Hampton Flour Mill, successor to the Maidstone Flour Mills destroyed in the great fire of 1877. Later, the E.W. Bliss Co. administered torpedo testing at Long Beach and Gardiner’s Bay from this building before and during World War I, and Agawam and Grumman aircraft companies occupied the building, producing parts for the Apollo Lunar Module which landed on the moon in 1969.

37. Wharf Street (Historic Marker) Main Street This is the site of Wharf Street - a block-long maze of stacked lumber, barrells, jostling horse-drawn wagons and carriages; of sea captains, sailors, harpooners, stevedores and tradesmen; of coopers, boatyards, sailmakers and smithies - all servicing the maritime trades. With the precipitous decline in whaling after the disastrous fire of 1877 Wharf Street was never rebuilt. Later the landfill was dredged away to provide docking space for the side-wheelers and steam packets that commuted to New York City. Erected by the Sag Harbor Historical Society.

34. First Custom House (NYS Historic Marker) Route 114 & Main Street

38. Long Wharf

35. Marine Park & WWII Monument

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7 Bay Street This Memorial Is Dedicated To The Men And Women Of Sag Harbor Who Served Our Country In World War II.

(foot of) Main Street Sag Harbor’s first wharf was built in 1771; Long Wharf dates from 1821, rebuilt and extended to accommodate larger vessels for the whaling trade. At times, ships were moored six-deep at the wharf, awaiting their turn to depart on long-distance whaling voyages that could last up to three years. With the end of whaling in the 1860s, the sail makers, ropewalks, coopers and foundries that clustered around the wharf and served the industry also disappeared. Today, large pleasure craft take the place of whale ships.

VILLAGE OF QUOGUE driving & biking tour The Incorporated Village of Quogue is located in the westerly section of Southampton Town. Descendants of Edward Howell and Thomas Halsey, two of the town founders in 1640, were among the earliest settlers of Quogue a century later. In 1659, the area was acquired from the Native Americans by John Ogden, a prominent member of the town, who sold the so-called “Quogue Purchase” to Captain John Scott. The parcel was acquired by the town in 1663. At about the same time, a large tract of land to the north was acquired by Captain Thomas Topping.

By 1666, this also became town land. The present western boundary of Southampton Town was then fixed and its uninhabited lands later allotted. Quogue’s earliest settlement is dated c. 1730; it’s burying ground dates from the 1750s. It was then known as “Assup’s Neck.”

Quogue’s modern history doesn’t begin until the mid-19th century Boardinghouse Era, however, when vacationers discovered the village.

Hunting, fishing and bathing were popular pastimes among urban tourists, who were drawn to Long Island’s ocean beaches and cool summer breezes. Following a brief period in which large, Victorian-era hotels along Quogue Street accommodated the seasonal influx, permanent “summer cottages” sprung up on parallel streets laid out closer to the ocean. These shingle-clad houses with their broad porches and gambrel roofs are among the village’s finest architectural treasures, while earlier settlement period dwellings may still be found dotted amongst them.

Today, the Incorporated Village of Quogue (incorporated 1928) boasts one of the greatest concentrations of distinguished private residences, public buildings and other historic sites in Southampton Town.

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1. St. Paul’s AME Zion Church

39 Montauk Highway St. Paul’s AME Zion Church built in 1921-2 is a one-story, gable roofed sanctuary with a two-story corner tower. The lancet windows, round headed louvered openings in the tower and pointed “Gothic” style front door are all original architectural features. The origins of the church actually date to 1916, when a prayer group of a handful of residents began to meet nearby. They founded the church in 1917 and bought the property from Charles H. Martin for $3. Construction of the new church was completed in 1922 at a cost of about $400.

4. Quogue Community Hall 123 Jessup Avenue Work began on the Quogue Community Hall in 1922 and was completed in 1924. It was built to accommodate public functions in the village, such as the showing of motion pictures. It came into being by the combined efforts of the Quogue Village Improvement Association and the Quogue Ladies’ Aid Society. It was constructed by builder C.M. Carman for about $15,000.

2. Church of the Atonement 17 Quogue Street Constructed between 1883 and 1884, land for the whimsical Shingle Style “Church of the Atonement” was given by Samuel Davies Craig. The architect was Sydney V. Stratton, an employee of McKim, Mead & White; windows were commissioned by Mrs. Craig and came from Cox, Son and Buckley of London and Tiffany studios. The first service was held by Abram Littlejohn, first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, on July 13, 1884. The church has served the village for summer worship ever since, as originally intended. In 1966 a rectory was built, financed by public subscription of the congregation and other village residents.

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24 Quogue Street Named “Pen Craig” meaning “Home of the Craig’s” in Welsh, the house was built in 1880 by Samuel Davies Craig, one of Quogue’s earliest summer residents. Craig purchased the land for his estate from the Stevens farm. The house originally contained a ballroom which was later moved east on Quogue Street in 1900 to become the main part of a new house built in that year, “La Concha.” Samuel D. Craig (1842-1904) and his wife Ellen McDonald Baylis (1843-1916) are buried behind the Church of the Atonement beneath two granite tablets enclosed by a tall iron fence.

5. “Pond House” (Quogue Historical Society) 114 Jessup Avenue Now headquarters for the Quogue Historical Society, this former store is called “Pond House,” named for the pond by which it sits. It is used by the society for changing exhibitions, as well as program and office space.

Jessup Avenue was opened in 1878 and soon became the commercial hub for the village, thus enabling the adjoining Quogue Street to develop as a residential area for both village residents and summer visitors. “Pond House” was acquired on behalf of the historical society by Southampton Town’s Community Preservation Fund, which since its inception in 1999 has preserved open space and historic resources for all to enjoy.

6. “Inn Spot” (Jessup’s Store) 48 Quogue Street This Victorian-era store is thought to have been built by the Jessup family in the early 1870’s. It became George H. Jessup’s store between 1890 and 1905. The Quogue Library got its start here, when books were kept on a few shelves prior to the library’s construction in 1897. A. A. Tuthill ran a pharmacy here from about 1905 – 1926. When George M. Perry took over the pharmacy, it became known as Perry’s Drug Store. Closed for several years in the late 1970s, it was bought and reopened in the mid – 1980s. It has remained open as a café in recent years.

7. “Weathervane” (Jessup Homestead) 52 Quogue Street Like many structures of the 18th and 19th centuries on Long Island, the Jessup Homestead (also called the “Weathervane”) evolved over decades and preserves the physical evidence of construction practice and design features of several architectural periods. The main, two-story section with front porch appears to have been an addition of the mid19th century (notice its Greek Revival doorway), whereas the west wing preserves evidence dating from the early 18th century. The residence was likely enlarged to serve as a boarding house in the 19th century; historic maps note it then as the “Foster House.”

10. Mary Post House 76 Quogue Street This house is one of the five earliest houses in Quogue and is said to have been built in the 1730’s. It originally stood to the south of its present location on land belonging to Jonathan Cook, who moved to Quogue from Southampton and bought Quogue land in the early 1730s. The property on which the house stands was transferred from the Cook family to Post family ownership in 1817, hence the name.

11. “Clovercroft” (Josiah Post Residence) 77 Quogue Street The house was built in 1889 and named “Clovercroft” by the people who built it, Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Post, grandparents of Howell Post Young. Post Lane was opened in 1888, and it is thought that this house was built shortly thereafter. The house, which features a distinctive Mansard style roof, retains many of its original features as well as a later front porch supported on Doric columns and side wings with rooftop railings.

8. Quogue Burying Ground

58 Lamb Avenue The original Quogue Burying Ground was established in the mid-18th century, and remains in active use today as the Quogue Cemetery Association. It contains headstones typical of 18th and 19th century practice (e.g., slate, brownstone & marble) as well as those of the 20th century (granite). Many of Quogue’s earliest settlers are buried here, including Daniel Howell who died in 1798, aged 23, whose headstone

reads: “In youthful bloom diseases wore my life away:

My soul returned to God, my body to its native clay.

My friends, consider well your mortal state.

Secure your souls in Christ before it be too late.”

The Quogue Burying Ground was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

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1 Beach Lane The Presbyterian chapel, designed by architect George H. Skidmore and built c. 1870 (renovated in 1901), stands at the southwest corner of Beach Lane and Quogue Street. It is covered with wood shingles and painted white. The rectangular footprint of the church is one story high with a bell tower of two stories rising at the northeast corner. Skidmore (1841-1904) was a prolific Long Island architect; among his other commissions are the Mattituck Methodist Church and the Center Moriches and Westhampton (Quiogue) Presbyterian Churches, all of which remain standing today.

12. “Slumberside” (Admiral Alfred T. Mahan Residence) 53 Quaquanantuck Lane This two-story, three-bay gable roofed house with wrap-around porch and prominent façade gable incorporates an unusual sleeping porch on the attic level. This architectural feature may have given inspiration for the name. The house was constructed c. 1894 for Admiral and Mrs. Alfred T. Mahan. Mahan (1840-1914) was a US Navy admiral and historian who has been called “the most important American military strategist of the nineteenth century” in part because of his emphasis on sea power. He is remembered for his influential writings, including The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 published in 1890.

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13. Post Lane Bridge

see page 61 Post Lane This bascule type bridge spans the Quogue Canal on Post Lane. The bridge was constructed in 1940 to take the place of two earlier, adjacent bridges that had been wiped out by the Hurricane of 1938.

Its total length is 170 feet; longest span is 67.9 feet and deck width is 39.7 feet. Its distinctive twin towers and cast concrete construction are indicative of the Art Moderne style in vogue in the 1930s and ‘40s.

Commonly known as a drawbridge, a bascule bridge is a moveable bridge that functions with a counterweight that balances the span, allowing for upward swing to provide clearance for boat traffic.

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78 Dune Road The former United States Life Saving Station constructed in 1912 has been moved from the beach and adaptively reused as a residence.

The building retains significant original architectural detailing, however, including its look-out tower, attic dormers, and two-door boat shed opening. A “Life Boat House” is identified on historical maps as early as 1873, but the present structure (later moved back from the ocean beach and adapted for use as a residence), was built as part of a program that established life saving stations along the entire coast of Long Island.

88 Quogue Street “Kronest” was built in 1895 for Crowell Hadden. The house is a large, two-story, hipped roof Colonial Revival style “cottage” with a wrap around, posted porch and porte cochere. The paired multi-paned window sash, front door and door surround, clustered brick chimneys and attic dormers are all original architectural features. The Hadden’s were Brooklyn residents who summered in Quogue; Crowell Hadden was head of the Brooklyn Savings Bank and is said to have been a man with a good sense of humor who sported a handlebar moustache!

18. Old Schoolhouse Museum 90 Quogue Street The Old Schoolhouse Museum, located directly behind the c. 1896 Quogue Library, was built in 1822 and is one of the oldest schoolhouses in Suffolk County. It originally stood on the north side of Quogue Street near the present site of Old Depot Road and is now operated by the Quogue Historical Society. Quogue School District No. 3 was one of the first set up in Southampton Town, and was one of a group of Common School Districts established by NY State education law in 1812.

15. Capt. Henry Gardiner Residence 83 Quogue Street This classic, two-story five-bay farmhouse was built in the 1820s. Its center door, gable roof with flared eaves, end chimneys and symmetrical fenestration are characteristic of the period. The front porch has been removed. The house was bought by Henry Gardiner in 1826 for $625.

Gardiner was one of a handful of Quogue residents who went into the whaling industry; he became the captain of whale ships and traveled to the South Seas, before amassing a fortune and settling into retirement in the early days of Quogue’s Boardinghouse Era.

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84 Quogue Street The house was built in the Second Empire style c. 1894 by Henry W. Hallock and designed by architect George H. Skidmore (see: Presbyterian Chapel). Later acquired by John G. Wendel, who converted the nearby Cooper House into a hotel in the 1890s, also ran “Zephyros” as a boardinghouse. It is similar in its Second Empire style to the “Shinnecock Arms” on Jessup Avenue and “Quantuck Manor” on Quantuck Lane. The house behind it on Old Depot Road was originally the laundry and servants’ quarters for this house.

19. “Winnecomac” (Abram Skidmore Post Residence) 94 Quogue Street “Winnecomac” was built by Abram Skidmore Post in 1907/08. Mr. Post inherited the land from his uncle, John H. Post, who had died without direct heirs. The land was acquired in 1734 by the Post family.

The architect of the house was Woodruff Leeming. Richard Post, his brother George Birkbeck Post and their sister, Marguerite, summered at “Winnecomac” from 1908 until the family rented it to James Ferris and his family in 1947, later selling it to them.

23. “Fair Acres” (Theodore Wentz Residence)

see page 61 25 Shinnecock Road Built for Theodore Wentz c. 1910 in the Colonial Revival style, it’s thought that the architect of “Fair Acres” was sent to the James River, Virginia area to copy his design from the early houses found there. The house boasts pronounced “quoins” at the corners and other detailing characteristic of the Colonial Revival style. Quaquanantuck Lane was opened for residential development in 1888, along with Ocean Avenue, Post Lane and Niamaug Lane. Within a few short years, summer homes began to populate these new neighborhoods.

20. Josiah Foster Homestead 108 Quogue Street The Josiah Foster Homestead was built in the early 1700s and occupied by the Foster family continuously until the death of Miss Sally Foster in 1932. It is one of the earliest houses in Quogue. Both the interior and the exterior remain largely unchanged, except for the removal of the east wing in 1894, which is now part of a house located at 112 Quogue Street. The house is also said to have functioned as a schoolhouse in the 1790s. The builder of the house was also responsible for building one of Quogue’s other early 18th century houses, “Old Revolution.”

24. Shinnecock Yacht Club 39 Niamogue Lane The Shinnecock Yacht Club is a one-story, gambrel roofed maritime type structure that occupies a wharf projecting into Penniman Creek at the easterly end of Niamogue Lane. The building continues to house the Shinnecock Yacht Club, which was organized as the Shinnecock Bay Yacht Club on April 20, 1887 (incorporated 1890; name changed to Shinnecock Yacht Club in 1901). The building was constructed c.

1895 and retains original architectural detailing despite its vulnerable location at the water’s edge.

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Hatcher but the style which still features a prominent gambrel roof was not changed.

22. “Rose Manor” (Dr. Greeff Residence) 23 Shinnecock Road Known variously as “Rose Manor” and “Belle Meade,” the house was built c. 1900 for a Dr. Greeff, and was marked as the Greeff house on a 1916 map of Quogue. Shinnecock Road was opened in 1881, enabling access to the waterfront parcels that front on Penniman Creek. It was the first of a series of such roadways that exploited the undeveloped land stretching to the south of Quogue Street, which by the turn-of-the-century enabled the redevelopment of the area with large summer homes and easy access to the ocean beach.

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26. “Illahee” (Griffin Residence) 137 Montauk Highway Also known as “White Horse,” this two-story, five-bay late Colonialera house with gable roof, attic dormers (later additions), massive brick chimney centered on the roof ridge and six-over-six window sashes was constructed c. 1819. Its massing and form are associated with the “twelve post frame” type dwelling that was characteristic of larger residences of the 18th and early 19th century. The house was constructed for Judge Nathaniel Griffin and is said to have used recycled framing elements from older dwellings in its construction.

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VILLAGE OF Sagaponack DRIVING & BIKING tour Unique in Southampton Town for the extent of its open agricultural space, the Incorporated Village of Sagaponack (2008) traces its history nearly to the origins of the town itself. Beginning in 1653, the “Sagaponack Division” created forty-one home lots measuring some 150 acres in size. A second division followed in 1677, and the street pattern that developed around the north-south Sagaponack Main Street is evident today. The oldest surviving house from the settlement period, the c. 1692 Pierson-Albright House at 473 Sagaponack Main Street, remains standing today. Other early houses survive as well, including examples of the “half house” form so-called because of its three-bay façade which appears to be “half” the size of a full, five-bay center hall house.

These early residences now stand alongside those of the 19th century Gothic Revival, Italianate and Queen Anne style, as well as Shingle and Colonial Revival style houses often associated with vacationing New Yorkers. With the arrival of the Long Island Rail Road in 1870, reaching agricultural markets in the city and countryside destinations for weary city dwellers became relatively fast and affordable. The birth of the Boardinghouse Era was witnessed in Sagaponack with the conversion of several old farm houses for the purpose. And before the end of the century, summer homes of the wealthy appeared as well, with one of them constructed by a banking family from Ohio who had vacationed there before. The history of Sagaponack is well represented in its architecture, in its burying grounds, and in its preserved open space in which barns, silos, sheds and other agricultural buildings appear to outnumber the houses.

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1. Poxabogue Burying Ground 11 Sagaponack Main Street Laid out in the mid- to late 18th century when the earlier burying ground (Sagg Burying Ground) began to fill up, Poxabogue Burying Ground is a 1.2-acre burying ground with headstones dating from 1773. One unusual feature of the site was its use of granite fence posts to support its original picket fence, evidence of which can be seen running along the east and south property lines. A cemetery association was founded to care for the site in 1898 by Sag Harbor philanthropist Mrs. Russell Sage, whose ancestors are buried here.

2. “Sunset Hill” (Capt. E. Halsey House) 151 Sagaponack Main Street A two-story frame house dating c. 1870, the T-shaped Captain E. Halsey house with its steeply pitched roof, deep overhanging eaves and bay windows is a typical Victorian farmhouse. First owned by Robert Post, it was later home to Capt. E. Halsey (1873) and N. P. Halsey (1916). The house was renovated in 2008, losing some of its architectural features but retaining its original massing. Prior to remodeling, it was the home of author James Jones (1921-1977) best known for his novels From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line.

3. Haney House 178 Sagaponack Main Street This two-story c. 1890 residence is organized around an L-shaped plan and features a shed-roofed porch supported on turned posts, bracketed eaves, corbelled brick chimneys and two-over-one window sash. Henry Haney owned several properties in Sagaponack at the turn-of-thecentury, some of which he rented out to summer visitors. Haney was a Sagaponack farmer and served as correspondent for the Farmers’ Institute which met at the Atlantic Hall in Bridgehampton.

4. Pierson/Hedges House 207 Sagaponack Main Street Possibly built by Josiah Pierson c. 1747, the house was later owned by William D. Halsey (1850), Robert Hedges (1876) and his son Stephen Hedges (1916). The large, complex building appears to preserve an original, two-story three-bay “half-house” at its center corresponding to the earliest dwelling. The main house is L-shaped with Colonial Revival details, suggesting a major alteration and addition in the early 1900s.

5. Polhemus/St. John House 312 Sagaponack Main Street The timber-framed, two-story Polhemus-St. John House is a classic Long Island three-bay “half-house” that dates c. 1790. Its six-over-six window sash and large brick chimney appear to be original. The house was built by Nathan Pierson and later owned by Cook Hildreth.

Nathan, who was the grandson of Theophilus and Sarah Pierson – both early Bridgehampton and Sagaponack residents – was born in Bridgehampton in 1748, but died in Richmond, Massachusetts in 1826 at the age of 77.

6. Pierson/Thayer House 345 Sagaponack Main Street Constructed c. 1795, the Pierson-Thayer House is a two-story dwelling with its gable end to the street. Built originally by Abraham Pierson, it descended through generations of the Pierson family until the late 19th century. It was converted by Hiram S. Rogers in 1904/07 for use as a boarding house known as “Fairview House.” A portion of that structure was moved to Mecox in 1917. One of the sheds may be the former blacksmith shop of William Jones.

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10. Sagaponack School 400 Sagaponack Main Street Still in active use today, the Sagaponack School was built in 1885 to replace an earlier schoolhouse. It remained the only public building in the village until Sagaponack’s incorporation in 2005, necessitating construction of a new Village Hall. The schoolhouse is one-and-one-half stories high on a brick foundation, with a cupola and decorative wall shingles. East and west entries retain porticoes.

8. “Greenridge” (John G. Deshler Residence) 397 Sagaponack Main Street This gambrel-roofed summer home, built in 1899 for John G. Deshler, combines elements of the Shingle and Colonial Revival styles. Its asymmetrical arrangement of roof shapes and pitches, window sashes and dormers are characteristic of the Shingle Style, whereas the hipped roof porte cochere with its classical columns, pilasters, balustrades and urns are Colonial Revival in style. Deshler was a resident of Columbus, Ohio, and heir to a banking fortune who had summered at Charles S. Rogers’ boardinghouse with his family for many years prior constructing “Greenridge” in 1899

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12. Pierson/Albright House 9. Hildreth House 652 Sagaponack Road This Colonial Revival style residence was built in 1919 by Thomas Hildreth. It retains a gable roof with a hipped roof front porch supported on Doric columns, a corbel-topped chimney and a hipped roof dormer.

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473 Sagaponack Main Street Constructed as early as 1692, the Pierson-Albright House is a threebay “salt box” retaining a modillioned cornice, six-over-six sash and a shed-roofed entryway supported on piers. A one-story, gable roofed ell that once stood to the east has been removed. The house was built by Theodore Pierson; subsequent owners included Andrew Barron, Lemuel and Daniel Howell Haines, and Henry L. Topping.

13. Seabreeze Inn 500 Sagaponack Main Street The so-called Seabreeze Inn is a timber-frame building that preserves an early section (center) believed to date from the mid-18th century.

The main house is a five-bay, two-story residence built on a stone foundation beneath a gable roof. A porch extends across the front façade. The leaded glass transom above the front door and the two-story, flat-roofed additions (north and west) appear to date from the early to mid-19th century. The property preserves 25 acres of farmland.

16. Lemuel Pierson House 178 Hedges Lane The eastern portion of the Lemuel Pierson House, a two-story threebay “half house” built c. 1750, was enlarged to the west with a two-story wing and a porch supported on Doric columns dating from the mid-19th century. The elder Lemuel Pierson (1717-1797) was born in Bridgehampton but resettled Piersonville near Morris, New Jersey, where he died aged about 80; the younger Lemuel Pierson (17441821), likely the first owner of this house, is buried nearby in the Sagg Burying Ground.

17. Johnson House 53 Hedges Lane The Johnson House is a two-story Greek Revival style residence of about 1840 with a main block and side wings stretching to the east and west. The Greek Revival style may be seen in the wide frieze boards above the second story windows, the cornice returns at the gable ends and the classical door surrounds. At one time the residence served as migrant worker housing.

14. Sullivan House 535 Sagaponack Main Street The modest, one-and-one-half story Sullivan House has a complex history that belies its simple outward appearance. According to historian William D. Halsey writing in 1935, the house was one of Sag Harbor’s three original dwellings, built before 1707. This house floated off its foundation in a high tide, landing across the bay in North Haven, where it was purchased by Moses Rose and re-erected in Water Mill. In 1870, Rose’s grandson Edward Rose sold the house to Edward Mooney, who moved it by oxen to Sagaponack.

18. “Winnecoma” (John C. Sherlock Residence) 15. Sagaponack General Store & Post Office

see page 66 542 Sagaponack Main Street The commercial building at the center of this hamlet serves as the de facto gathering place for local residents, and is the only such structure in Sagaponack. Built c. 1880, the two-story building preserves its large storefront display windows and a bracketed overhanging roof eave. It has been home to the Sagaponack Post Office since 1889.

601 Sagaponack Main Street A large, gambrel-roofed Shingle Style house built for summer resident John C. Sherlock in 1899, “Winnecoma” incorporates Colonial Revival style details such as molded window headers and a classical door surround. Architects for the project were James E. Ware and Sons of New York, who also designed a nearby summer home for F. V. Clowes in Bridgehampton.

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19. Dr. Nathaniel Topping House 590 Sagaponack Main Street The three-bay Dr. Nathaniel Topping House built c. 1820 was enlarged

by George Clarence Topping with a south wing which historical photographs record with Italianate detailing, suggesting a c. 186080 construction date (now removed). The original “half-house” retains a front doorway with sidelights and flat-roofed front porch added c.

1880. Dr. Nathaniel Topping was born about 1791 in Bridgehampton, married Mary Halsey (1787-1819) of Southampton and later Elizabeth Hedges (1795-1833) of East Hampton, and died in Sagaponack in 1871. He is buried at the Sagg Cemetery. see page 66 618 Sagaponack Main Street The Madoo Conservancy preserves two barns and two houses, one of which was converted for use as an artist’s studio. The barns are of greater architectural interest due to their antiquity, one constructed c.

1740 and the other c. 1850. The earlier is preserved on its original foundation. The gardens on the property were developed by artist and poet Robert W. Dash beginning in 1967. Today, the Madoo Conservancy is dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the gardens and historic structures on the property.

22. Capt. Josiah Foster House 698 Sagaponack Main Street The two-story wood frame Capt. Josiah Foster House is Gothic Revival in style and dates c. 1874. The house replaces an earlier one that burned.

Architectural features include its front facing gable, deep roof eaves and decorative cornice, and pair of lancet windows in the gable. The shed-roofed front porch is supported on turned posts. The house has descended in Foster family ownership to the present day.

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23. Pierson/Engle House 709 Sagaponack Main Street A late 18th century period, two-story “half house” with a two-story front porch supported on turned posts, the Pierson-Engle House was built on land originally owned by Southampton Town Clerk Henry Pierson (1653-1669). The porch is a later addition, but appears in photographs before 1920.

21. Pierson/Rogers/Vonnegut House 620 Sagaponack Main Street This large center chimney, five-bay house preserves a pilastered front entryway with leaded glass transom. The attic dormer is not historic, although the denticulated cornice is original. Old photographs show the house with a front porch, two-over-two window sash and a large barn to the north, all of which have been removed. It was built c. 1740 for Peter Hildreth; later owners included members of the Pierson and Rogers families as well as author Kurt Vonnegut.

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24. Foster House & Farm Buildings 729 Sagaponack Main Street This Foursquare style farmhouse preserves a characteristic hipped roof on the main house, attic dormer, front entry and garage; its sixover-one window sash are also typical of the form. The historic farm buildings on the property are its most distinctive feature: several sheds, an equipment barn and potato barn make up the inventory of historic buildings, while modern barns and silos complete the complex.

25. Topping House 761 Sagaponack Main Street One of several “Topping” houses in the hamlet, this one-and-one-half story example dates c. 1820 and preserves a simple front door with transom and additions to the north (shed roof) and east (gable roof).

Numerous outbuildings that stood until 1923 are now gone.

26. Job Pierson House 794 Sagaponack Main Street One of the earliest houses left standing in the village, the two-story, five-bay c.1695 timber framed Job Pierson House preserves its massive central chimney and a transom sash over the front doorway.

The cantilevered window on the south façade was added after 1924.

The property stayed within the Pierson family until c. 1850 and later became the summer home of G. I. Tolson.

27. Sagg Burying Ground 807 Sagaponack Main Street Sagaponack’s original burying ground occupies a narrow, 1.1-acre parcel and remains active to this day. It’s oldest headstone, that of Justice of the Peace John Topping, dates from 1686. In 1882, historian William S. Pelletreau wrote of this burying ground that its “fence having become dilapidated, the inhabitants with praiseworthy care, have within a few years replaced it with one elegant in form and durable in material.

28. Addison/Barbour House 819 Sagaponack Main Street Built in 1894 for Addison G. Topping, this Queen Ann style house is organized on a cross plan and retains characteristic features of the period including decorative wood shingle siding, corbelled chimneys, and a front porch supported on turned posts and cut out trim and brackets. Addison Gardiner Topping (1861-1933) was born in Sagaponack, married Flora Rosena Foster and had three daughters (Mary, Alice and Elsie), and passed away in Bridgehampton.

29. Matthew/Topping House 853 Sagaponack Main Street The timber-framed Matthew Topping House was built c. 1797, and is a “full” plan house of five bays and two stories with a pilastered front entryway. Later owners were Gardiner B. and Addison G. Topping (see: Addison-Barbour House, 819 Sagaponack Main Street).

30. White/Klebnikov House 560 Bridge Lane The two-story, five-bay White-Klebnikov House preserves its original gable roof with denticulated cornice, central chimney and twelve-overeight window sash. The south verandah, with its Chinese Chippendale style roof balustrade, is a later addition, as is the Colonial Revival style front entry with portico and columns. Built c. 1730 by Hezekiah Bower, the house was bought by John White in 1764 and moved to its present location in 1882. It was the summer home of Frederick Seward, who served as under Secretary of State to his father, William Seward, during President Abraham Lincoln’s presidency.

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VILLAGE OF southampton DRIVING & BIKING tour The original settlement of Southampton Town, which occurred in 1640, took root east of the commercial center of Southampton Village in a place known as Old Town. Wickapogue Road runs through this section of the village and preserves some of the rural feeling associated with the early community, which had likely been cleared for cultivation by Native American inhabitants and therefore made suitable for English settlement. The Downs House, one of the few surviving dwellings from the settlement period, faces south on Wickapogue Road. Soon after settlement, the village center shifted to the west and established a north-south Main Street typical of town planning in that day. The Thomas Halsey, Jr., House on South Main Street survives; two other First Period dwellings, each altered and enlarged, remain standing on Main Street as well (see: Village of Southampton Walking Tour).

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1. North Main Street Historic District When Southampton Village was surveyed for its historic resources in 1979, a cluster of houses was proposed for landmark recognition and designated in 1986 as the North Main Street Historic District. Separated from the larger downtown historic district to the south by a railroad overpass, the district preserves late 18th and 19th century houses in a variety of architectural styles. Most noteworthy are the large, twostory five-bay vernacular farmhouses. Several eclectic Victorian houses were built here as well, when the area was still considered to be on the outskirts of town. Contributing resources in this district are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

2. LIRR Station Railroad Plaza One story high under a hipped roof with long covered platform sheds supported on console brackets stretching from either side, Southampton’s Long Island Railroad Station was built in 1902 on land that was purchased from John Fournier in 1897. The masonry station combines brick corners with stucco walls into which oyster shells have been pressed for decorative effect. Three Palladian style window heads and doors with voussoirs remain as built; an original fireplace survives as well, together with early railroad memorabilia on display.

4. Sons of Gideon Masonic Lodge 47 209 Windmill Lane The Sons of Gideon Masonic Lodge 47 was constructed as the Bethel Presbyterian Church in the early 1900s and functioned as such until the church merged with First Presbyterian Church in 1965. The building is of one story, shingle clad and notable architecturally for its overhanging roof eaves with exposed rafter tails supported on brackets, pointed windows with diamond shaped window panes, and an enclosed entryway centered on the front façade that echoes the detailing of the main building. A small belfry rises above the ridge.

5. “Cooper Hall” (Mercator Cooper House) 81 Windmill Lane The two-story, Greek Revival style “Cooper Hall” with its prominent roof railing and formal entryway is now a part of the Rogers Memorial Library complex, but was built in the 1840s as the home of Mercator Cooper.

Cooper (1803-1872), born in Sag Harbor and a captain of whale ships, is credited as one of the first Americans to visit Japan (1845) and Antarctica (1851). Under Cooper’s command, the whale ship Manhattan rescued Japanese sailors and returned them safely to the mainland. Two of his crewman were of special interest – African American sailor Pyrrhus Concer and Native American Shinnecock Eleazer – the first men “of color” the native Japanese had ever seen.

3. African-American Museum of the East End 245 North Sea Road Formed by local residents in 2011, the museum is planned to occupy the former barber shop and beauty parlor located on North Sea Road which served decades ago as the community center in this African-American neighborhood. The tiny building measures only about 800 square feet in size, but is slated for an addition to the rear and a basement that will serve as exhibit and research areas as well as space for offices, public programs and outdoor events. The building was landmarked by the Village of Southampton and acquired for preservation under Southampton Town’s Community Preservation Fund program.

6. World War Memorial at Agawam Park & Pyrrhus Concer Historical Marker The World War Memorial at Agawam Park was built of Indiana limestone and dedicated on August 19, 1923, Goodwillie and Moran architects.

The names of those who served from Southampton are carved in the “open” monument, which looks south across the lake to the Atlantic Ocean.

To the west of the monument is a historical marker dedicated to Pyrrhus Concer, African American Southampton resident and crew member of the whale ship Manhattan made famous by its rescue of Japanese sailors in 1845 (see: “Cooper Hall”). In his later years, Concer acquired a house overlooking Agawam Lake and shuttled summer visitors by boat from the village to the ocean beach.

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10. “The Orchard”/ “Whitefield” (James L. Breese House)

7. Lake Agawam & Pyrrhus Concer Way (Pond Lane) While much of the lakefront is privately owned and inaccessible, a section of Pond Lane south of Agawam Memorial Park provides a scenic vista of both the lake and the prospect of the Atlantic Ocean to the south. Park benches are provided. Several stately homes set well back from South Main Street can be spotted from this vantage point, including the large, white 8-bay J. Lawrence McKeever House from 1897. In the distance can be seen the Dune Church on Gin Lane, and beyond it the Atlantic Ocean.

155 Hill Street One of two documented McKim, Mead & White houses in Southampton Village (the other being Samuel L. Parrish residence, First Neck Lane), “The Orchard” was constructed c. 1898 for James L. Breese, a New York financier and friend of the architects. The design conjures up the Old South, with its Mount Vernon style portico conveying the message of a genteel and leisurely lifestyle. The rear façade, by contrast, is more “New England” in its Federal Revival style; in truth, it is said that an authentic 18th century farmhouse lies at the core of this summer house, and its 14”-long exterior cypress shingles are a reference to a Long Island Colonial idiom. The estate has been converted to condominiums, with the main house serving in part as communal space.

11. Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Roman Catholic Church

see page 72 168 Hill Street Designed in 1907 by T. H. Poole and Co. of New York City, Sacred Hearts is a striking edifice constructed of white Dorset, Vermont marble.

The corner stone was laid on July 29, 1907 and construction was completed by Norcross Brothers Company of New York the following year. The Gothic Revival building features a four-story bell tower and a three-story window that soars high above the front entryway. This was the third Catholic church serving the parish, the first having been built in 1880 and the second in 1892.

8. The Southampton Theatre 43 Hill Street Southampton’s large, brick movie theatre preserves a classically inspired Adamesque façade and was constructed by Michael Glynne and opened in 1932. The building is typical of its era, with an intact marquee projecting from the center bay above the entryway.

Architectural features of interest include engaged pilasters, a central pediment ornamented with a cartouche and swags, and the modillioned cornice. The Chippendale style balustrade above the first floor appears to be original to the design. Glynne was a colorful local figure; having previously operated Glynne’s Garden Theatre in the village as well as movie houses in Astoria, Bay Shore, Patchogue, Greenport and Sag Harbor, he opened the Southampton Theatre to much fanfare in 1932.

9. Southampton Club

see page 72 10 First Neck Lane This large, gambrel-roofed structure with its prominent central portico was designed in 1899 by the renowned architect Grosvenor Atterbury (1869-1956). Atterbury studied at Yale and Harvard and later worked in the offices of McKim, Mead & White before starting his own practice around 1895. He is probably best known for his model housing community of Forest Hills Garden, which he began in 1909 for the Russell Sage Foundation. His Long Island country house commissions are numerous and his own house, known as “The Lodge”, was built nearby between 1900 and 1925 in the Shinnecock Hills.

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12. Mile Markers Hill Street & Hampton Road Stone mile markers are rare survivors today, relics of early travel often located too close to the roadway to withstand the widening, maintenance and high speed traffic of today. But two remain in Southampton Village, each declaring the distance from Southampton to nearby hamlets including Good Ground (Hampton Bays) and Quogue to the west and Water Mill and Bridgehampton to the east. Mile markers were helpful to travelers in the stage coach era, providing useful information that translated into the time left in ones journey. The mile markers in Southampton Village date from the early to mid-19th century.

13. “Keewaydin” (formerly “Claverack”)

see page 72 129 Halsey Neck Lane Built for Thomas H. Barber c. 1892, “Claverack” is a stately shingle-clad high-style Georgian Revival house that boasts a gambrel roof with over scaled chimneys, symmetrical fenestration with pedimented dormers, and a covered entryway supported on paired columns and surmounted by a decorative wood railing. The side wings of one story are original.

Landscape architects were Olmstead Brothers of Boston. A later owner, Henry Mortimer, renamed the estate “Keewaydin.”

14. “The Shallows” (Lucien Hamilton Tyng House) 689 Halsey Neck Lane A large, rambling two-story stucco house designed in 1930-31 in the International Style, the Tyng residence replaced an earlier house lost to fire. Designed by famed architects Peabody, Wilson & Brown, the house was the first of its kind to introduce the astringent purity of German Bauhaus design to eastern Long Island. It is said, however, that the interior does not live up to the “open floor” concept of the style and is instead organized around a more conventional floor plan.

15. “White Fences” (Samuel L. Parrish House) 409 First Neck Lane Designed by the renowned architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White in 1889, the shingled Parrish residence known as “White Fence” is a large, Colonial Revival structure with hipped roof, sprawling wraparound porch with circular pavilions, and symmetrical fenestration. The central attic dormer, which aligns with the front entry, features a broken pediment. Samuel Longstreth Parrish (1849-1932) was a Philadelphia Quaker by birth, early summer resident and benefactor of Southampton Village. Parrish had the Parrish Art Museum (1898) constructed and filled it with his collection of artworks and sculpture; he also donated land for the Southampton Hospital and helped establish the Rogers Memorial Library (see: Southampton Village Walking Tour).

16. St. Andrews Dune Church 12 Gin Lane Organized as St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, the building was donated by early Southampton summer resident Dr. T. Gaillard Thomas and moved to its present location in 1879. The structure had previously served as a life saving station on the ocean beach, but was decommissioned and adaptively reused as a summer chapel. Land for the church was donated by another notable summer resident, C. Wyllys Betts. While the building has been enlarged, it preserves the eclectic architecture associated with its original transformation as well as numerous stained glass windows designed by Tiffany Studios.

17. Southampton Bathing Corporation 14 Gin Lane Founded in 1923, the Bathing Corporation of Southampton is said to be one of the most exclusive on the East Coast; it’s claim to fame on the tour, however, is its architecture. The stuccoed, Spanish Revival style central pavilion is well planned for summer activities, with open arcades facing both the pool area and the ocean beach below. The dining room and adjoining kitchens occupy the main building. The architectural style suggests the warmth of the Mediterranean Sea, always a destination for cold Northern Europeans, and a popular choice in the 1920s for estate houses as well as related leisure destinations.

18. “Wyndecote” (Robert H. Robertson House) 354 South Main Street Architect Robert H. Robertson (1849-1919), who designed a summer cottage named “Sunnymeade” in 1886-87 next door for Dr. Francis Markoe, created his own residence in 1887-88. The picturesque main front, with its two-tiered open porch and arched second story, is oddly suggestive of a Swiss chalet. Robertson’s other contributions to Southampton Village were the original Rogers Memorial Library and Hall located at the corner of Main Street and Jobs Lane (1895) and, with his architect son T. Markoe Robertson, the Southampton Hospital (1911-13)

19. Thomas Halsey House 249 South Main Street One of the very few surviving “First Period” houses in Southampton Village, the Halsey House stands on South Main Street where much of the original 17th century community was concentrated. Enlarged several times, it appears that the original timber-frame structure may date as early as 1683. The house was restored and furnished with the help of Henry DuPont of Winterthur, Delaware, fame; today, the gardens are maintained by the Old Town Garden Club while the house is owned and operated as a house museum by the Southampton Historical Museums and Research Center.

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see page 72 110 South Main Street Built in 1916 and first known as St. John’s Mission, the small stone Gothic Revival church with its slate roof and front and rear parapet walls remains standing on South Main Street. The rectory, a timber-framed house built in the 18th century, stands next door. The church is designed in the “perpendicular Gothic style” signifying its tall pointed windows; inside, the narthex (entry room) is finished with exposed timbering.

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21. Old Southampton Burying Ground 205 Little Plains Road The final resting place of Southampton’s earliest settlers, the Old Southampton Burying Ground is a 2-acre field largely empty of headstones due to the custom of using wooden grave markers for all but the wealthiest of the town’s inhabitants. Approximately 50 headstones and footstones survive today, some of them the oldest in Southampton Town. The earliest dates from 1682, the most recent from 1897. Among the most remarkable of the monuments are massive brownstones carved in the “heraldic” style which preserve the coats-of-arms of the Howell family, prominent early settlers. The site is one of ten historic burying grounds owned and maintained by Southampton Town.

30 Pine Street Complimentary in style to the adjacent High School, the Grade School was designed by William I. LaFon, Jr., and completed in 1933. LaFon also designed the original Southampton Town Hall (1925) located at the corner of Hampton Road and Main Street (now adapted for use as a commercial store) and the auditorium addition for the High School (1926), now Town Hall. The classical designs of the Grade School, its brick construction and cast stone detailing complement the style of the High School. A recent addition to the south of the school has successfully enlarged the building with a sympathetic design.

25. New Southampton Town Hall (former Southampton High School)

22. Southampton Hospital & Parrish Memorial Hall 240 Meeting House Lane The idea of creating a village hospital actually began in the early 1900s, occupying two rented rooms at the Goodale Boarding House on Hampton Road. After incorporation in 1909, the hospital moved to what survives today as a nearby residence, and in 1913 moved again into a new hospital designed by T. Markoe Robertson. The large, brick Colonial Revival style structure with open two-story porches at each end was later absorbed into the present structure. Next door is the one-story Parrish Memorial Hall, the gift of Samuel L. Parrish, and built in 1922 in memory of the soldiers and sailors who perished during World War I. In the 1930s it functioned as a summer theatre.

23. Downs House

see page 72 371 Wickapogue Road One of the oldest houses in Southampton Village, the Downs House was built c. 1684 for the White family who remained in possession until the late 19th century. It was acquired by Lewis Downs before 1916. The house is five bays wide and two stories high, with a large brick chimney centered on the roof ridge. The pedimented entryway and side wings are additions. As is customary for this early period, the house faces south.

Verification of its First Period date is found inside, where the evidence of its massive timber frame construction can be confirmed.

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116 Hampton Road Socially prominent architect William Lawrence Bottomley (1883-1951), known for many Long Island estate houses and the second Canoe Place Inn in Hampton Bays, won a national competition to design the Southampton High School in 1912. The school is Georgian Revival, combining a three-story pedimented center block beneath a slatecovered hipped roof with side wings of two stories featuring grouped windows and half-circular attic dormers. A tall cupola crowns the central block. The auditorium was added in 1926 (William A. LaFon, Jr., architect). Today, the school serves as Southampton Town Hall.

26. Post Crossing neighborhood Post Crossing Post Crossing runs parallel to Hampton Road in the heart of Southampton Village and preserves a neighborhood of remarkable integrity. Houses range in style from Queen Anne to Colonial Revival, and include Four Squares and large-scaled vernacular Victorians with broad porches and decorative shingles. The street was laid out in the late 19th century and quickly developed, resulting in its homogeneous collection of houses that share common features such as ample size, front yard setbacks, wood shingle siding, and decorative architectural trim.

VILLAGE OF sOUTHAMPTON WALKING tour Take a walk down Southampton’s Main Street and you’ll walk back in time to the 17th century, when settlers’ houses lined the street, all facing south. Over three centuries have passed since “Ye Towne Street” was laid out, but in addition to the North End Burying Ground laid out in 1712, three of the early houses and a small manufactory still stand today. Later dwellings of 18th century construction are found here as well, notably the White and Huntting-Foster Houses, with their fronts now facing the street, by then the usual practice.

Main Street is memorable for its late 19th and early 20th century storefronts, too, as well as distinguished churches and municipal buildings.

Hildreth’s Department Store, founded in 1842 and the nation’s oldest, occupies a large wood-frame Victorian structure. More unusual are the large Parrish Buildings of 1928, built in the Colonial Revival style; a center arcade once opened from Main Street onto Samuel L. Parrish’s front lawn, but is now enclosed. The Methodist and Presbyterian churches and the old Town and Village Halls are on the tour. The Southampton Historical Museums and Research Center, with its restored Rogers Mansion and collection of rescued accessory buildings, is tucked away on Meeting House Lane opposite Jobs Lane. The tour ends on Jobs Lane, where many of the trendy shops occupy Victorian-era structures, and the former Parrish Art Museum has been reopened as the Southampton Arts Center. The former Rogers Memorial Library awaits adaptive reuse.

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4. White House 1. Herrick House 17 North Main Street This gambrel-roofed house with its attic dormers and covered front entryway (both later alterations) was built about 1750 and is said to have been commandeered during the Revolutionary War by General William Erskine. The general took his meals here while headquartered at the nearby Pelletreau House (now gone). By the mid-19th century, it became the residence of H.F. Herrick (see: Herrick Store) and remained in Herrick family ownership throughout the 20th century.

159 Main Street A two-story, three-bay vernacular farmhouse dating from the early 1800s, the White House remained in family ownership for generations before its acquisition by the Southampton Historical Museum. A small bay window on the south façade is a Victorian era addition, as is the front porch. The rear extension may be an earlier dwelling. Seymour White, who owned the property when it was surveyed by the village in 1979, was the grandson of Capt. G.G. White who owned it in the 1870s. The house has been sold with preservation covenants to a sympathetic private buyer.

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2. North End Burying Ground & NYS Historic Marker 165 Main Street Established in 1712, the North End Burying Ground began receiving the third and fourth generations of founding families, as the Old Southampton Burying Ground (now located on Little Plains Road) filled up. The 1.8-acre site is one of Southampton Town’s ten historic burying grounds and preserves numerous headstones and footstones decoratively carved in brownstone and slate. One of the last burials was that of William S. Pelletreau (1840-1918); elected Town Clerk in 1862, Pelletreau was responsible for organizing and cataloguing the early Town Records and arranged for their publication beginning in 1874.

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see page 77 160 Main Street Constructed by local builder Madison Jagger about 1883, the shingleclad United Methodist Church boasts a four-story bell tower with corner pinnacles and a steeply pitched conical roof. Its pointed windows and modest stick work at the roof’s eaves are characteristics of its vernacular Country Gothic style. The Methodist “society” was first organized in the village in 1845, and acquired the old Presbyterian church, which was replaced at that time with the structure that remains standing today at Meeting House Lane and South Main Street. The first Methodist pastor was Gilbert Osborne of Riverhead.

136 Main Street Its west end gable wall facing sideways to the street, the 3-story A. J. Post House is one of three First Period buildings on the tour (see: HunttingFoster House and Pelletreau Silver Shop). Despite a third story and flat pitched roof constructed in the 19th century when it was enlarged as a boardinghouse, the original house dates from the late 17th or early 18th century and retains typical features of the period including the southfacing front façade and a colossal summer beam on the first floor.

6. Orion Hotel 131 Main Street The two-story, three-bay Queen Anne commercial store opposite the A.J. Post House was originally the Orion Hotel and later converted as a saloon. Built in the 1890s, its distinguishing architectural features include decorative saw-tooth shingling in the gable, the jerkin head roof detail, and a broad front porch supported on posts and brackets that stretches across the front façade. It appears on historical maps as “Est. of Dan Havens” in 1902 and “I. Frank” in 1916.

10. Fellingham’s Restaurant 7. Huntting/Foster House 126 Main Street A large, 5-bay 2 ½-story house with origins in the early 18th century, the Huntting-Foster House was built for the Huntting family whose interests in the whaling industry prompted some to move to Sag Harbor in the late 1700s (see: Sag Harbor Walking Tour). The unusual gambrel-roofed projection above the front stoop may be found elsewhere in the village, and was added by one of three Herrick sisters in the 1890s.

8. Old Southampton Town Hall

see page 77 1 Hampton Road Like nearby Village Hall and the two school buildings located east on Hampton Road, the original Southampton Town Hall is a classically inspired brick structure with limestone and cast stone detailing. It was constructed in 1925 to the designs of architect William I. LaFon, Jr., who was also responsible for the auditorium addition to Southampton High School (now Town Hall) in 1926 and the Southampton Grade School in 1933. The two-story building occupies a corner lot on which the 18th century period Rhodes House, now relocated to Windmill Lane, once stood. Its large twelve-over-twelve window sash, recessed entry portico supported on Corinthian columns, and roof balustrade are features of its classical design.

17 Cameron Street The modest, one-story building located just steps from Main Street is deceiving from the exterior architecturally. Its covered dining area, which projects from the front façade, conceals the fact that the building was once a private home constructed in the Greek Revival style. Whether the building has been moved to this location or not is unrecorded, but the architectural features that it preserves are unmistakable: the window casings, despite the removal of window sash, preserve detailing from the mid-19th century including hardware for the shutters, and the center doorway is ornamented in the Greek Revival style. Inside, the exposed framing of the old house can be seen overhead.

11. Hildreth’s Dept. Store 51-55 Main Street In business since 1842 and now in its 13th generation of family ownership, the legendary Hildreth’s Department Store now occupies two adjoining vernacular, gable roofed storefronts dating from the mid-19th century. A 2-story connector joins the two original buildings, one of which preserves cast iron columns on the main floor. Early maps identify the site as “L. Hildreth” in 1858 and “Mrs. A. Hildreth” in 1873. This store is known as “America’s oldest continously operated department store.”

9. Pelletreau Silver Shop 80 Main Street The tiny, gambrel-roofed structure may date as early as 1686 but became the silver shop of Francis Pelletreau, who acquired the building from merchant Stephen Boyer in 1728. Pelletreau’s more famous silversmith son Elias took over both the trade and the shop in 1737, and the business continued until 1822. In later years, the building served as a cobbler’s shop and book shop, and was acquired by Herman Maurhard in 1943 and bequeathed to Southampton Village. Restored in the 1960s by the Southampton Colonial Society with assistance from Henry F. DuPont, the structure is administered by the Southampton Historical Museum and occupied today by a jewelry-maker.

12. Herrick Hardware 41 Main Street One of the village’s oldest commercial buildings, Herrick Hardware appears on historic maps as “store and Post Office” in 1858, as “H.F. Herrick Store” by 1873 and as “Herrick” in 1902 and 1916. By 1932 it had become a hardware and paint store, as it is today. The twostory gable roofed structure with six-over-six windows is a vernacular building of the mid-19th century.

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13. Masonic Building 38-40 Main Street Unusual with its stucco wall material and second floor pent roof covered with clay pantiles and supported on large brackets, the Masonic Building was constructed as an Odd Fellows lodge about 1895 and remodeled in the 1920s. True to tradition, the Masons’ large lodge room is located on the second story, away from prying eyes, while the main floor shops generate revenue to help underwrite the costs of running the fraternal organization. The Masonic Lodge Old Town 908 Free & Accepted Masons was established in 1913 as an offshoot of the Sag Harbor lodge, and they acquired the building from the Odd Fellows in 1936. see page 77 25 Main Street Adjacent to Village Hall is the former Southampton Bank, a relatively severe, two-story three-bay brick building with a prominent center doorway flanked by Doric columns supporting a classically inspired entablature. The roof cornice is supported on dentils beneath a balustrade parapet. Established in 1888, the Southampton Bank moved to this building about 1896. Today, it serves as a jewelry and antiques store.

16. Corwith Pharmacy 5 Main Street The former Corwith Pharmacy built about 1901 is a two-story, Colonial Revival style commercial building retaining Palladian windows on the attic level and deep overhanging roof eaves and a prominent cornice that defines the height of the second story. The projecting storefront windows appear original. The building is identified as W. A. Corwith in 1902.

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17. Rogers Memorial Library 11 Jobs Lane Designed by architect Robert H. Robertson in 1895, the Rogers Memorial Library was built on the site of the old Southampton Academy which was moved further west on Jobs Lane. The halftimbering and stucco upper story of this picturesque brick and slateroofed building are inspired by English precedents. Robertson also contributed summer “cottages” to the village (see Southampton Village Driving Tour) and his architect son T. Markoe Robertson designed the Southampton Hospital.

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23 Main Street Designed in 1910 by architect F. Burrall Hoffman (1882-1980) and constructed by contractors Donnelly and Corrigan, Village Hall is a brick, three-story classically inspired municipal building that boasts a two-story portico on the front façade. When first built, Village Hall accommodated the Post Office (first floor) and Telephone Company (basement and third floor) as well as a courtroom, public hall and village offices. Hoffman began his career in the studios of Carrere & Hastings and established his own architectural practice in 1910. His greatest commission is considered Villa Vizcaya, the winter home of industrialist James Deering in Miami, Florida, designed in collaboration with interior designer Paul Chalfin.

18. Parrish Art Museum Building 25 Jobs Lane “The Parrish” was a gift to the village in 1897 from philanthropist Samuel L. Parrish. While the museum that bears his name has since moved to a new facility in Water Mill, the original building has found new purpose as the Southampton Arts Center, providing the region with cultural programming including visual arts, film, live performances, talks and children’s activities. Mindful of their role in the community, the Southampton Arts Center acts as a steward for the building, whose preservation is its primary mission. The arboretum that surrounds the building as well as the busts of 18 Roman emperors that embellish it are original.

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19. Jobs Lane Shops Jobs Lane In addition to its larger and more distinguished buildings – the Parrish Art Museum and Rogers Memorial Library – Jobs Lane is a marvel of little shops, many dating from the 19th century and preserving a quaint and varied street front that belies the treasures that lie within! A stroll down Jobs Lane (be sure to look up) is a worthwhile side trip at the conclusion of the Main Street tour.

20 South Main Street The Gothic Revival First Presbyterian Church was built in 1843 to replace an earlier edifice located further to the south. The clock tower and its belfry, which terminates under a crenellated roof, are characteristic of the architectural style. The clocks were installed in 1887 and were the gift of Mrs. Robert Waller in memory of her mother; the bell is from the Meneely foundry in Troy, New York. Next door is the manse, a gambrel roofed dwelling dating from the early 19th century with an unusual second story porch (addition). At the corner may be observed a NYS Historical Marker for “Ye Towne Street Opened 1648” signifying the date at which the original settlement moved from the area of Old Town and Wickapogue Roads to the east.

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see page 77 2-22 Main Street The stately, brick two-story Colonial Revival buildings that face Village Hall were constructed in stages in the late 1920s by Samuel L. Parrish (see: Parrish Art Museum) to the designs of architect Grosvenor Atterbury. Noted retailers such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Best & Co. have taken turns as tenants. The one-story building to the north was the first built, followed by the central block made possible by moving the Parrish residence back from the street (see: Rogers Mansion/Southampton Historical Museum, 17 Meetinghouse Lane). As built, the central section was an open arcade giving access to the house behind it.

20. Tower Gallery 2-18 Jobs Lane “The Southampton Shops” at the corner of Jobs Lane and Main Street were introduced in 1927 as “modern store building(s) designed for the occupancy of high class shops catering to the discerning purchaser and providing (a) shopping accommodation for the large summer colony that makes Southampton its headquarters.” The four-story brick corner tower, fortress-like beneath a conical slate roof, strikes a visual balance with the Rogers Memorial Library across the street, while fluted columns supporting arched entryways establish a rhythm along Jobs Lane. Bonwit Teller, an upscale department store founded in 1895 and liquidated in 1990, was an early tenant of the corner store.

23. Rogers Mansion & Sayre Barn 17 Meeting House Lane The Capt. Rogers Mansion, a high-style, two-and-a-half story Greek Revival block surmounted with a roof balustrade and cupola, was later the home and office of Dr. John Nugent, Sr., before acquisition by Southampton Village philanthropist Samuel L. Parrish. Moved back from Main Street by Parrish in the late 1920s to make way for commercial stores (see Parrish Buildings), it was purchased by Southampton Village after his death and is now headquarters for the Southampton Historical Museum. The property is populated by an assortment of smaller structures, all relocated there for preservation and now listed as a district on the National Register of Historic Places.

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WATER MILL driving & BIKING tour The hamlet of Water Mill is of ancient origins, having the right geography to enable the construction of a grist mill in 1644, just four years after the town’s settlement. Edward Howell, who was among the original proprietors, agreed to build the mill if the Town constructed the dam and provided the manpower for operating it which required opening Mecox Bay to the Atlantic Ocean. This artificial channel or “Seapoose” (as it was called by the native Shinnecocks) is referenced numerous times in the Town Records throughout the settlement period. After serving the community for centuries, the mill building was maintained by a group of concerned Water Mill residents in the early 1900s and acquired in 1942. It opened as a museum in 1969; by 1976, its machinery had been reconstructed and the mill was grinding grain again!

The historic hamlet has always been a farming community. Large, fertile farms stretched north and south of Montauk Highway, which bi-sects it. The hamlet center is clustered along the highway and features an old burying ground and a windmill moved from Sag Harbor in 1813 to replace a mill destroyed in 1811. The arrival of the Long Island Railroad in the 1870s had a major impact on the hamlet, as elsewhere in Southampton Town, opening up opportunities for shipping produce and seafood to metropolitan markets. With quicker and cheaper transportation came tourism, especially summer visitors who erected cottages on Mecox Bay and the ocean, beginning a trend that continues today. In the 1880s, a wave of Polish immigrants came to Water Mill, augmenting the labor force, and in the early 1900s the local dairy industry shifted to the production of potatoes. Farming is still practiced today, but is confined for the most part to farmland that has been preserved by the state, county and Southampton Town. Potato farming has given way to more diversified crops, including “pick-your-own” orchards and grapes for wine production.

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1. Potato Barn 50 Upper Seven Ponds Road The distinctive massing and characteristic construction of a Long Island style potato barn are well represented in this example, whose symmetrical buttresses form a rhythmic pattern along the side facades.

Masonry walls are not only sturdy but also cooler than wood frame, especially when the landscape did not provide a natural place to bury such a barn at least partially below grade. Ventilators provide necessary cooling as well.

2. Jennings/Rose House 459 Head of Pond Road A classic Greek Revival style farmhouse dating c. 1840, the JenningsRose House may have been home to Charles Beach Corwith but was owned by Charles Rose by the early 1900s. The triangular attic gable with centered window, front doorway with sidelights, and a porch with hipped roof supported on columns are all characteristic of the style.

Charles Rose was a prominent poultry man in Water Mill.

4. S. W. Squires House 576 Head of Pond Road The stately two-story, five-bay Squires farmhouse faces south on a high, stone foundation, its two dependencies stretching to either side.

Stylistically, the house preserves Italianate features like the roundheaded windows of the west wing which suggest a c. 1850 date of construction. Later in the 19th century it was the farm of S. W. Squires, who was listed in the Suffolk County Agricultural News as having some of his acreage planted in corn.

5. Halsey House and Potato Barn 513 Deerfield Road Always in the Halsey family, this front-facing c. 1840 Greek Revival farmhouse boasts the classic details of its style, including a doorway with sidelights and transom, a molded cornice with decorative returns, and a triangular attic window centered beneath the roof peak. Still a working farm, the property retains a potato barn with banked earth on either side.

6. Halsey House 3. Gideon Halsey House 500 Head of Pond Road Built for Gideon Halsey c. 1775 and later owned by generations of the Foster family, this farmhouse preserves a massive, center chimney that is characteristic of a mid- to late 18th century vernacular house. While the first floor has five bays, the upper story has only three. Alterations include the replacement of earlier windows with two-over-two sash in the late 1800s and perhaps the addition of the small east wing.

351 Deerfield Road This late 18th century Federal style farmhouse was moved to its present site in recent years, but preserves the architectural detailing of its original construction. Built on a large farm c. 1794 by Major James White, it was later acquired by the Halsey family and now enjoys a view high on a hill overlooking the Mill Pond in Water Mill. The twelveover-twelve window sash and colossal brick chimney centered on the roof ridge are original and distinctive features of its post-Revolutionary construction period.

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7. Melvin P. Halsey House 231 Deerfield Road Reportedly built in 1859 and remodeled in the Queen Anne style c.

1880, the Melvin P. Halsey House has a cross-gable roof and an unusual, “chamfered” architectural detail on the first floor that gives the front of the house a distinctive shape. While the porch floor has been extended across the front façade, it remains unaltered beneath a shed roof. The six-over-one windows sashes and decorative, multi-paned attic window are also characteristic of late 19th century design. Melvin P. Halsey (1844-1921), born in Bridgehampton, was the author of several songs written aboard whaling vessels in the 1860s and 1870s. His original manuscript is preserved at the Southampton Historical Museum.

10. David Halsey House 173 David’s Lane This vernacular “half-house” on David’s Lane preserved its old barns and accessory buildings until recent times, but those have been demolished, making space for the large mansard-roofed residence built next door. It’s believed to be one of the oldest houses in the hamlet.

The two-story form was once typical of 18th and early 19th century farmhouses in the area, many of which have disappeared. Now an accessory building, the Halsey House may enjoy a more certain future.

David Halsey (1722-1805) was the grandson of David Halsey (16631731), an early Water Mill settler.

8. Rosemary Lodge 22 Rose Hill Road Listed in 2000 on the State and National Registers of Historic Places, Rosemary Lodge dates from 1884, with a rear wing built in 1904 and later additions sympathetic to its original Shingle Style architecture. Designed as a summer cottage for the Rev. H.T. Rose by architect Frederick W. Stickney, the house features multiple roof pitches, dormers and gables, a broad porch and asymmetrical massing. Stickney was a Boston architect who later joined the New York office of Ware and Van Brunt.

11. “Half-Way House” (Warren House) 755 Montauk Highway Known as the “Half-Way House” or Warren House, this two-story, fivebay residence was built in two parts; a break in the roof slope and a line in the shingles to the right of the front doorway suggest that the west side was an addition to the original three-bay façade. The Greek Revival detailing – the front door and doorway, corner pilasters, roof cornice – was most likely added when the house was enlarged. The house is said to have functioned as a stage coach stop.

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386 Rose Hill Road The Corwith-Jennings House was designed by local architect Walter Brady and originally stood on Montauk Highway, but was moved to its present location when the Market Square shopping center was built in the mid-1970s. Its irregular massing and distinctive two-story tower are hallmarks of the late Queen Anne style, here beautifully adapted as a summer home with a gracious front porch that wraps the front and side facades. The conical tower roof supported on a bracketed cornice, decorative upper window sashes and glazed front door flanked by wide sidelights all appear to survive from the original design.

12. Water Mill Community House 743 Montauk Highway Built in 1897 as the Union Chapel, the structure served as a nondenominational church into the 1920s. Its construction had been funded by public donations and it was designed by Southampton architect Walter E. Brady. Since the 1920s, it served as the Water Mill Community House. The shingle wall covering, three-story corner tower with conical roof and rounded window tops, and tri-part front window are characteristics of the late Queen Anne style.

13. Water Mill Cemetery 731 Montauk Highway Laid out in 1729, the Water Mill Cemetery remains an active burial ground and preserves headstones dating from the 1720s until the present. Characteristic of historic burial practices, the older stones face west while their footstones face to the east. This orientation of the deceased signified the Second Coming, when the dead could sit up and witness Christ’s rising in the East. More recent headstones, typically those carved in granite, do not usually preserve this custom.

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see page 82 695 Montauk Highway The State and National Registered Corwith Windmill on the Water Mill Village Green is one of only four historic windmills surviving in Southampton Town and the only one on Long Island whose cap is rotated on a greased curb by an external tail pole. Technically it’s a smock mill, so named for its distinctive shape. The mill was constructed in 1800 in North Haven and moved to Water Mill in 1813; today it’s owned and maintained by the Water Mill Improvement Association.

16. House 20 Old Mill Road The Colonial Revival style house at 20 Old Mill Road incorporates an earlier Queen Anne style house built c. 1882 for Julia A. Van Ness, a Baltimore widow whose husband, Eugene Van Ness, had served in the Union army during the Civil War. William Edgar Moran, a New York architect, bought the property c. 1920 and together with his partner Parker Morse Hooper, transformed the house with a sweeping front roof supported on two-story columns reminiscent of a Colonial era stage coach inn. Moran is known locally as the architect of the World War I monument (1923) at the head of Lake Agawam in Southampton Village.

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15. “Villa Maria Convent” (Keyes/ Morse Estate) 51 Halsey Lane Occupying the large waterfront property that fronts on Mill Creek to the south of Montauk Highway is the former Villa Maria Convent, now a private residence (again) and formerly the summer home of Dr. Edward L. Keyes. The large, rambling c. 1895 wood frame Keyes residence was transformed in 1919 by Brooklyn architect Frank Freeman into a palatial, stucco-clad mansion with colossal porticos. The new owner, Edward Phinley Morse, was a wealthy industrialist and owner of the Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company in Brooklyn. It was acquired by the Order of the Sisters of Saint Dominic in 1931 but has recently returned to private use.

632 Montauk Highway A large Foursquare or “Prairie” style residence situated at the intersection of Montauk Highway and Old Mill Road, was part of the Edward P. Morse Estate across the road (see: Villa Maria Convent).

It boasts a hipped roof, symmetrically arranged roof dormers and a hipped, wrap-around porch supported on columns all characteristic of its early 20th century construction period. The multi-paned windows are reminiscent of the earlier Queen Anne style. Morse was the Canadian born owner of the Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company in Brooklyn and a summer resident of Water Mill.

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19. Water Mill Museum

see page 82 41 Old Mill Road This Town, State and National Registered landmark was built by Edward Howell in 1644. Howell was among the original settlers from Lynn, Massachusetts in 1640. The mill’s strategic location on Mill Creek required construction of a mill dam that trapped tidal water and powered the mill wheel. It was relocated in the late 18th century, necessitating the reconstruction of the mill dam. Operating as both a grist and fulling mill throughout the 19th century, it was owned by the Benedict family until 1942, after which time it was acquired and reopened as a museum.

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326 Cobb Road The five-story, shingle-clad octagonal tower at 326 Cobb Road was built on the Thomas R. Ball estate c. 1903. It served as a water tower that supported a wind pump and water tank reported to have had a capacity of 6,000 gallons. Its pedimented, Neo-classical entry porch and decorative window lintels indicate its early 20th century construction date. Later adapted for use as a private residence, the 80 foot tall water tower was originally furnished with an observatory on the top floor that provided a view of Eastern Long Island and Long Island Sound.

20. Asher Benedict House 57 Old Mill Road A vernacular two-story, three-bay farmhouse with side wing dating from the late 1700s preserves its Federal period front door and transom light, denticulated roof cornice and six-over-six window sash. The house was owned by the Benedict family which operated the adjacent water mill and a general store in the village in the 19th century. Later, with the influx of summer tourists, the house doubled as a boardinghouse for seasonal guests called “Nowedonah House.”

23. Halsey House 231 Cobb Road One of several Halsey family houses in Water Mill, this two-story five-bay vernacular farmhouse dates from the late 18th or early 19th century. It has seen few alterations, except for the pair of narrow brick chimneys that likely replace the colossal chimney that was centered on the ridge and the covered entryway that obscures the front door and transom.

21. T.R. Ball Estate 15 Little Cobb Road This shingle clad Colonial Revival house was on the estate of T.R. Ball, a summer resident of Water Mill and principal with Best & Co., the New York-based department store. The house is especially interesting because it revives the “saltbox” form but introduces architectural elements that are not consistent with that historic house type including gable dormers, a wrap-around porch and asymmetrical brick chimneys.

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24. Capt. T. Sayre House 495 Flying Point Road The Sayre house is a large, five-bay two-story “full” type house that likely dates from the early to mid-19th century. The Colonial Revival style entry porch is an alteration of a later century. Captain T. Sayre is listed as owner in the 1870s and after the turn-of-the-century it had become the home of M. H. Sayre.

25. Flying Point Cemetery Wickapogue/Flying Point Road The one-acre Flying Point (or Wickapogue) Cemetery preserves approximately 241 headstones with dates ranging from 1732 through the 20th century. The fenced site is well maintained.

Headstones face predominantly to the west, preserving the Christian tradition that the deceased would be laid to rest in a position that enabled him or her to sit up and witness the Christ’s Second Coming in the East.

28. Foster House (Hotel) 357 Montauk Highway This large Queen Anne style farmhouse with a wrap-around porch and cross-gable plan is believed by some historians to incorporate two earlier houses, each moved to the site to form a single structure.

Frank E. and Evelyn Benedict occupied the house which was located on Frank’s extensive nursery and florist operation, where he had developed a business supplying landscaping services and cut flowers to weekend residents and second home owners. Later owners of the property were Frank and Evelyn’s son, Frank L. Benedict and his wife, Florence.

26. Benjamin Foster House 84 Montauk Highway The core of the modest Benjamin Foster house is a Long Island “half-house” in its most basic form, just one story in height with its front door transom barely finding enough room to squeeze beneath the roof cornice. It was probably built before 1800, and despite later additions to the back, preserves its classic shape. Benjamin Foster was born in 1734 and descended from Peter Foster, the first of the name to settle in Southampton in the mid-1600s. The house is a Southampton Town designated landmark.

29. Settler’s Field 511 Cobb Road The triangular open space at the west end of Water Mill is marked with a boulder and a bronze plaque that identifies the place as Settlers’ Field. The park was dedicated in June 2006 on land that had descended in the Foster family. Southampton Town Community Preservation Funds and private donations made the purchase and preservation of this open space possible.

27. Benedict House 312 Montauk Highway This modest, two-story three-bay Federal period “half house” is a classic of its form, with few modifications except for the elaborate door surround, which is likely a Colonial Revival alteration. It is believed to have been built by Samuel Foster (1739-1821), whose brother Benjamin Foster (b. 1734) owned the house at #84 Montauk Highway.

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WESTHAMPTON & qUIOGUE DRIVING & BIKING tour Westhampton and Quiogue occupy an area of Southampton Town acquired for the colonists’ expansion several decades after the initial settlement in 1640, which was first bounded on the west by Canoe Place (the location of today’s Shinnecock Canal). Conflicting claims to land ownership between the English colonists and the Native Americans was resolved in 1666 with the Quogue Purchase, when ownership to this vast expanse of unsettled lands was decided in favor of the colonists. Actual habitation was slow to follow in the region, however, which remained remote from the population centers to the east. The Native Americans called the Westhampton area Ketchaponack, or “place where large roots grow.” The original nucleus of the Westhampton community was located at the head of Beaver Dam Creek, where the first grist mill in the western part of the town was built in 1746. A Presbyterian church had already been established here (1742), and by 1795 a school was constructed as well, which led to the creation of a thriving commercial center by the end of the century. But the area was devoted primarily to farming, fishing and lumbering, and by the end of the 19th century lent itself to the development of the Long Island duck industry, with its sandy soil and close proximity to fresh water which were ideal conditions for the industry. A. J. Hallock’s “Atlantic Farm” on Brushy Neck Lane would become the largest “duck ranch” in the world and lead the industry until restrictive environmental regulations and a growing recreational and tourism industry resulted in the decline of duck farming on Long Island in the 1960s and 1970s.

Quiogue, a hamlet located to the east of Westhampton and west of Quogue, was originally known as Assup’s Neck and is first documented in the Town Records in 1707. Like the adjacent communities along this section of the South Shore, its early economy was based on farming and fishing but gave way to summer tourism after the arrival of the Long Island Railroad in the 1870s. Local residents augmented their incomes by renting out extra rooms; later, boardinghouses sprung up followed by summer cottages, substantial homes and other amenities for the affluent.

Several of these seasonal homes survive today, converted for year-round use. The Westhampton Presbyterian Church is also found in Quiogue, moved from the “Beaver Dam” section of Westhampton to be more centrally located for its parishioners. One of the town’s ten historic burying grounds is located behind the church.

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1. E. O. Wilcox House 9 Brushy Neck Lane Eugene Orville Wilcox, one of the original duck farmers in Westhampton, built this house c. 1896. Its three-story tower with pyramidal roof, paired two-over-two window sash, high hipped roof and decorative wall shingles are characteristics of the late Queen Anne style. The duck farm began in 1883 as Sea Side Ranch, but was changed to Ensilage Duck Farms (1889) and finally to Oceanic Duck Farm. Never as large as the Atlantic Duck Farm next door to the south, the Oceanic Duck Farm was highly successful nevertheless, reaching its peak in 1940 when it produced 145,000 ducks. The house remains in the Wilcox family.

2. Jagger Family Burial Ground 141 Montauk Highway Also known as the Jagger-Wells Cemetery, this small L-shaped family burial ground occupies a secluded lot on the south side of Montauk Highway. It preserves 40 headstones ranging in date from 1840 to the present. It remains an active burial site managed by the JaggerMills Cemetery Association. While the overall condition of the headstones is very good, granite replacement markers have been installed to assist in identifying the names of those whose marble headstones have become illegible.

3. Westhampton Methodist Church 116 Montauk Highway Built to replace an earlier church that burned in 1919, the Westhampton Methodist Church was designed by Leonard L. Bishop. The three-story crenellated tower and lancet windows are characteristic of the late Gothic Revival style. Bishop was a local architect who had also designed the William B. F. Drew Residence in Westhampton Beach, among others.

E.O. Fordham was the builder.

4. Andrew Jackson Jagger House 172 South Road Constructed in the 1860s, the Jagger house once served as the post office for the Tanners Neck area of Westhampton before an official post office was built. Houses with central locations like this one often served this purpose in smaller communities, prior to the advent of the modern postal system. The vernacular Jagger House preserves a deep overhanging roof, hipped roof wrap-around porch and two-over-two window sash characteristic of its construction period.

5. Apaucuck House 153 South Road Elihu Raynor began this house c. 1797 for himself and his wife Elizabeth, and started a farm on Apaucuck Neck on land he had acquired from his father Nathan. Elihu farmed the land until his death in 1826, when the property was divided and sons Herrick Raynor and John Cook Raynor continued to farm the land. Later additions to the central structure obscure the original homestead, although these are of historic interest as well.

6. James D. Goodman House and Boat Building Shop 146 South Road Goodman, a local boat builder, constructed his farmhouse c. 1870 and the boat building shop located to the east of the house. Goodman built many of the wooden boats that sailed on the bays during the last quarter of the 19th century. He died in 1913 and the house has descended in the family.

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7. Casa Basso Restaurant (Theophilus Brouwer Castle)

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59 Montauk Highway First built in 1906 as a pottery studio for artist Theophilus Brouwer, the property was acquired in the 1950s by the Mondoni family and converted for use as the Casa Basso Restaurant. Several of Brouwer’s concrete sculptures – two swordsmen and some animals – remain to this day. The “castle” is composed of round and square crenellated towers and horse shoe-shaped entryways. Despite the replacement of window sashes and the stucco wall treatment, the architectural integrity of this unusual structure is preserved.

10. Vernon Corwin House 23 Montauk Highway This large, two-story vernacular Victorian era farmhouse is organized around a cross axial plan and preserves a wrap-around porch that may have been a later addition. The Gothic style attic window and Italianate front door suggest an original construction date of c. 1860.

Vernon Russell Corwin was born in Westhampton in 1873.

8. Westhampton Cemetery 28 Montauk Highway Still an active cemetery, the Westhampton Cemetery was founded in 1795 and preserves headstones associated with the Presbyterian Church built in 1742 that once stood nearby on Beaver Dam. A Civil War Monument was erected on August 1, 1866 as a memorial to the men in fell in that conflict from Westhampton. It is inscribed “Westhampton’s tribute to the patriotism and bravery of her sons, who in the war for the preservation of the Union, heroically fought, and honorably fell – 18614.” Howard Cosell (1918-1995), the noted television sportscaster, is buried also here.

11. Bishop’s Store 402 Mill Road Stanton Bishop started this general store in 1868. The building also provided space for a post office that served the Beaverdam area from 1871 until the turn-of-the-century. Rogers Bishop was appointed Postmaster of Westhampton in 1871 and held the post until his death in 1881, when his second wife Jennie Brown Bishop took over, serving until 1902. The store has been converted as a residence.

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61 Station Road The small vernacular dwelling that sits near the railroad tracks is known as the “Stationmaster’s House” and was built shortly after the Long Island Railroad’s Sag Harbor Branch came through Westhampton in 1870.

Despite a more recent, flat-roofed extension at the back of the house, the main section of one-and-one-half stories with a kitchen ell of one story extending to the back appears original.

10 Baycrest Avenue Greek Revival in style with narrow upper story windows set into a wide frieze board, the three-bay “half house” with smaller side wings does not appear on maps until the turn-of-the-century, suggesting it may have been moved to this site. A smaller, single story structure at the back of the property preserves 12-over-12 window sashes flanking a central door with transom. In form and fenestration, the smaller building appears to have been a schoolhouse although its origins remain a mystery. J. B. Cook was the manager of the nearby Westhampton Ice Company in the 1920s.

16. House 13. C.R. Bishop House 2 Bishop Avenue The C.R. Bishop farmhouse is located at the northeast corner of South Road and Bishop Avenue, and was constructed c. 1870 on land bordering the east side of Beaverdam Creek that the Bishop family had acquired in the 1850s. The house is a vernacular, frontfacing gable farmhouse with an original porch, six-over-six double hung window sashes and two rear extensions that appear to be early additions. Queen Anne style multi-light windows survive in the middle section.

113 South Road This c. 1870 vernacular farmhouse has a cross-gable roof and Gothic style pointed arch attic window. A brick chimney rises from the roof ridge. Two-over-two double hung sash and wrap-around porch are original features.

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214 Westhampton Riverhead Road In 1943 the Federal government built this air base and gunnery range for the U.S. Army Corps for use during World War II. After the war the base was given to Suffolk County. In 1951 it was reclaimed for the Korean War National Emergency and later in the 1950s it became the prime Air Defense Command base responsible for defending the New York metropolitan area. After its deactivation in 1969, the base was leased back to Suffolk County in 1970 and renamed in 1991 in honor of Francis S. Gabreski, a former base commander and World War II air ace.

14. Farmhouse 115 South Road The picturesque Victorian era farmhouse at 115 South Road preserves deep overhanging eaves supported on paired brackets and a front porch supported on turned posts and fret sawn spandrels, all characteristics of a c. 1870 construction. The projecting first floor bay window and round arched attic sash are also original.

18. Crowther House 97 Beach Lane The large, two-story gambrel-roofed Crowther House is a good example of a Long Island seaside “cottage” built c. 1910 in the Dutch Colonial Revival style. The shed-roofed dormers that project from its steeply pitched lower roof and the long porch are all characteristics of the type. The house was acquired by the Crowther family and was placed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places in 1985.

19. George Haven Putnam House 15. Richard Culver Homestead 112 South Road The main block of the house was built by Richard Culver in the late 1850s in an area of Westhampton around the intersection of Baycrest and South Road known by locals at one time as “Culvertown.” This is probably the earliest Culver house in the area. A full, two-story fivebay vernacular farmhouse, it likely received its Colonial Revival style pedimented entryway and attic dormers in the early 1900s.

see page 88 47 Homans Avenue The Colonial Revival style George Haven Putnam House features prominent gambrel-roofed façade gables, a widow’s walk and tiny attic level windows that are vaguely reminiscent of a ship’s port holes. Other original windows are six-over-one or diamond-paned.

George Haven Putnam (1844-1930) was a publisher and author who, after his father’s death in 1872, founded G. P. Putnam’s Sons publishers along with his brothers, John and Irving. George would hold the position of president of the firm for fifty-two years.

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20. Sheppard Homan House 28 Sheppard Street This large Queen Anne style house with multiple gables and a hipped roof retains original windows that feature diamond pane uppers over single light lower sash. The porte cochere is also original and integral with the wrap-around porch. Built in 1890 by Sheppard Homan, it occupies land south of Main Street that Homan had purchased from Silas Tuttle.

21. Roman Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception 580 Main Street The present church, the third Roman Catholic Church in Quiogue, was built in 1922. The first was constructed in the 1890s on Meeting House Road, just to the south of the present church; it accommodated a summer clientele, but became obsolete as more Catholics moved into the area.

A second church was built to the north of it, the first being converted for use as a store and then a private residence after its relocation. When the second church proved too small for its growing population, it was also moved and remodeled as a Parish Hall. The present church has a rose window, tile roof, three-story bell tower and stucco-clad walls.

23. Lucius Hart Beers House 607 Main Street The large, two-story hipped roof Lucius Hart Beers House exhibits elements of the Craftsman style, and features overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends, dormer windows and a widow’s walk, and multiple brick chimneys. It confirms in terms of its massing to the Foursquare style that became popular in the early decades of the 20th century. Beers (1859-1948) was a founding member of the Quantuck Beach Club and practiced law in New York City with the firm Lord, Day & Lord.

24. Niebrudge Cottage 25 Alden Lane The Niebrudge family, one of the first to summer at Quiogue, constructed this shingle clad summer home c 1908. The Dutch Colonial Revival style house is two-and-a-half stories high, with sweeping roof slopes and a prominent, shed-roofed dormer that dominates the front façade. A gambrel roofed addition of one story extends to the side.

Frank B. Niebrudge was a New York City broker who purchased the property from Franklin C. Jessup, a descendant of one of Quiogue’s oldest families.

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9 Ocame Avenue A two-story structure with a porch extending across the front and a two story ell addition, the Henry Walker House is unusual architecturally for having a three-story tower rising at the end of the wing. What purpose did it serve? Dated by tax records to c. 1900, this modest farmhouse may have also served as a fire station according to one historical survey.

52 Alden Lane Professor Rodney G. Kimball built his “cottage” at the end of Alden Lane in 1879. Although modest in scale, its proximity to the water resulted in it serving for many years as an unofficial “clubhouse” for the Quantuck Yacht Club. The club was the nucleus of community life; the Kimball, Woodbridge, Carter, Martin and Spink families were all active sailors, and kept their boats tied up just to the south of the cottage. During racing season, a tent was pitched at the end of Alden Lane. Kimball was Professor of Mathematics at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.

26. Walter Martin Cottage 30 Alden Lane Brooklyn architect W. C. Martin designed this summer cottage for his brother Walter H. Martin in 1890. Its Shingle Style is seen in its wood shingle cladding, steeply pitched gable roof with paired attic dormers and a central, shed-roofed dormer, and broad wrap-around porch supported on slender columns. The multi-paned window sashes are original. Architect W. C. Martin specialized in designing schools and worked extensively for the New York Board of Education. Walter H. Martin was an avid sailor and responsible for organizing the Quantuck Yacht Club in 1891.

29. Woodbridge Cottage 17 Woodbridge Lane The first house built on Woodbridge Lane was this cottage, built

by Rev. Samuel Woodbridge, a native of New Brunswick, New Jersey and cousin of Presbyterian minister John Woodbridge Patton.

Samuel Merrill Woodbridge (1819-1905) was a distinguished clergyman, theologian, author and college professor. Woodbridge Cottage is also known as “The Second Cottage” as it was probably the second such cottage built in Quiogue specifically for use as a summer residence.

30. Prof. Alonzo Reed Cottage 27. Frederick Burrell Cottage 18 Alden Lane The Burrell “Cottage” at the corner of Alden and Woodbridge Lanes is a modest front-gable, gambrel roofed house built c. 1900 that features a subsumed front porch and enclosed sunroom. Later the Miscordia Sisters Villa, it is once again in private hands. A large guesthouse was built at the rear of the house around 1920.

25 Woodbridge Lane The Reed Cottage, named for original owner Prof. Alonzo Reed of Brooklyn, was constructed in the 1870s. Its two-story front façade features paired gables that flank a protruding bay topped with a round tower beneath a conical roof. Patterned fish scale wall shingles, multi-paned window sash and finials in the eaves distinguish this Victorian house as an unusually exuberant “cottage” of the period. Reed, a professor of English language and literature at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, later moved to Speonk and his house became the summer residence of Prof.

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28. W.C. Peckam Cottage 9 Woodbridge Lane The Peckham Cottage was built for college professor W. C. Peckham in 1888. Its gambrel roof and wrap-around porch with a rounded extension stretching onto the lawn are typical of its late Victorian era construction date. Peckham was a professor of physics and science, was head of the Dept. of Physics at Amherst, and taught astronomy at Adelphi College in Brooklyn. He also served as Adjutant-General of the GAR (Grand Army of the Republic), and was seated next to President Chester A. Arthur at the opening celebrations of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883.”

31. Charles Halsey House 33 Woodbridge Lane After Jabez Foster granted a right-of-way across his property in 1870, Woodbridge Lane was opened and several cottages were built primarily for summer residents. The Charles Halsey house is a modest, late Victorian era example built about 1900. Its wraparound porch, fish-scaled shingle cladding and elongated first floor windows are characteristic of the period.

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34. Strebel’s 670 Montauk Highway Unusual in the area for its brick construction, the single story commercial structure now occupied by Strebel’s Laundromat was built c. 1924.

The structure features a front gable with corbelled eaves and a central doorway surrounded with a cast concrete or cast-stone surround. Although the windows appear to have been changed, the building retains its character as an example of roadside architecture from the 1920s.

32. Westhampton Presbyterian Church/ Cemetery 90 Meeting House Road The Presbyterian Church in Quiogue traces its roots to 1742 when the original meetinghouse was built at Beaver Dam in nearby Westhampton on land the Town of Southampton designated for the purpose. By 1832, however, the congregation decided that a more central location was desirable; land was acquired in Quiogue from the Foster family and a chapel was built in 1832. The present Shingle Style building was constructed in 1888 to the designs of Riverhead architect George Skidmore. A Town-owned cemetery occupies land behind the church.

35. Quantuck Water Works 194 South Country Road This brick industrial building is associated with the original Quantuck Water Works, founded at the turn-of-the-century. A contract for its construction was awarded to the Richardson Company of Oswego, New York in 1903. The one story gable-roofed structure has been altered with original window openings closed up, but brownstone lintels remain in place. The company originally operated from wells that were dug to a depth of 40 feet; pumps ran on gasoline and 99 fire hydrants were connected to the system.

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108 Meeting House Road Said to be the third summer cottage built in Quiogue, this vernacular Victorian era house with multiple gables, shed-roofed dormers and diamond paned window sash was constructed by Sarah and Rachel Gould, sisters of Mrs. John W. Patton, the wife of Presbyterian minister Rev. John Woodbridge Patton. The Gould sisters, who were active in the social life of the church, took in summer boarders when the Foster Homestead was full.

VILLAGE OF WESTHAMPTON BEACH WALKING tour The Incorporated Village of Westhampton Beach (previously known by the Indian name Ketchaponack) began as a satellite community when the Southampton settlement expanded with the Quogue Purchase of 1666. Following the “laying out” of the Quogue Purchase, drawings were held for those who wanted to invest in sections of the new land. The area that eventually became the Village of Westhampton Beach encompassed three of these sections: Ketchaponack and Potunk included today’s village center, whereas Oneck was located to the west.

Hezekiah Howell and Jonathan Raynor purchased much of Ketchaponack; John Jessup and Thomas Stevens acquired much of Potunk. These family names appear throughout village history. In the late 17th century and early 18th century the land was used primarily for grazing cattle, and some of these early settlers began to establish homesteads in the area.

In the beginning, the area to the west and north of the present village center known as Beaver Dam was the center of commercial life. By 1870, however, the Long Island Rail Road had reached Westhampton, making the village far more accessible than before. Thereafter, the hamlet grew considerably, beginning in the Boardinghouse Era of the 1870s through the early 1900s. By the 1920s the thriving hamlet required a more formal governing structure and in November 1928 the residents incorporated the Village of Westhampton Beach. Nearly all of the buildings featured on the tour were built between 1900 and the 1930s. Several were constructed by Henry Platt who was active in early commercial development. Others dating from the 1930s were built by the Heelbarp Corporation, which was organized in 1926 by E. H. Rogers, L. E. Pierson, E. H. Bishop, A. J. Hallock and E. O. Fordham for large-scale real estate development. These buildings contribute to the character of the village today, along with others such as the Post Office of 1940, the Methodist Church of 1892 and the complex of earlier structures preserved and restored by the Westhampton Beach Historical Society.

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1. Eckart’s Luncheonette 162 Mill Road Opened by bartender Jacob Eckart and his wife Elsie as “The Inside Out” in 1911, the eatery that later became a luncheonette began as a barroom and served as a “speakeasy” during the Prohibition Era. Following his service in WWII, Jacob and Elsie’s youngest son, Warren “Red” Eckart, took over the business, turning it into the luncheonette it is today. Red’s daughter, Dee Eckart McClain, now runs the business, which remains a true landmark for local residents and longtime customers alike.

101 Mill Road One of several historic structures that make up the Westhampton Beach Historical Society campus on Mill Road, the Tuthill House Museum was built in 1840 by Josiah Tuthill, grandson of John Tuthill who emigrated from Scotland about 1760 and settled in Speonk (now Remsenburg). The house was moved twice, first in 1954 to Quiogue from its original location on South Country Road where it had also served as a post office during the 1890s, and again in 1991 to the present site after its donation to the society. The house was restored and opened to the public in 1995.

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2. Mechanics Hall 142 Mill Road This masonry, two-story building was constructed in 1906 by the Junior Order of American Mechanics at a cost of $7,000 and served for many years as their assembly hall, hosting meetings, social gatherings and theatre productions. After the disastrous Hurricane of 1938, the hall served briefly as a school, and during WWII became a meeting hall where young servicemen and eligible ladies could meet and mingle.

More recently it has served as restaurant and nightclub.

101 Mill Road Now a part of the Westhampton Beach Historical Society’s group of preserved historic structures, the Thurston Raynor Milk House was once a part of the Thurston Raynor Homestead on South Road and Apaucuck Point Road in Westhampton. Raynor operated a dairy farm and the milk house was an integral feature on the farm; it contained a cream separator, and surplus milk was treated in the milk house first by hand and later with an electric motor. The cellar beneath the milk house was packed with salt hay or seaweed and used to keep the cream cool.

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101 Mill Road The most recent addition to the Westhampton Beach Historical Society is the Foster-Meeker House, said to be the oldest surviving house in the village and dated to about 1735. The one-story, five-bay timber frame dwelling has been moved at least twice in its history, but preserves the structural framing of a pre-Revolutionary Era vernacular Cape Cod type farmhouse. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

101 Mill Road An unusual structure that completes the array of preserved historic buildings at the Westhampton Beach Historical Society is the Meeker Carriage House and Privy. Combining two activities that were indispensable in their day, the building was evidently purpose-built and preserves the massing and detailing associated with its original functions.

The structure was built about 1845 and stood behind the Foster-Meeker House on Main Street. It was donated to the society by Walter Goldstein in 2008 and restored the following year. The privy section contains a two-seater, whereas the carriage house displays the society’s collection of farming implements and an Amish courting carriage.

7. Beach United Methodist Church 39 Mill Road Built in 1892, Beach United Methodist Church on Mill Road is a shingle clad, Queen Ann style building with asymmetrical massing, three-story bell tower and cross axial floor plan that features a tri-part stained glass window on the front façade. The main entryway and secondary doorway retain matching roofs that curve gently before terminating on turned posts. A parsonage in the Foursquare style stands next door. In 1990, the church hosted the Westhampton Beach Historical Society’s first fundraiser – a chicken supper – when the society was first started and before it established a campus of historical buildings nearby.

10. Seaside Bank Building 154 Main Street The Seaside Bank was founded in 1904 by a group of Westhampton Beach and Quogue businessmen and operated under that name until its acquisition in 1970 by the Long Island Trust Company. Erastus F. Post, a Quogue resident, served the bank as one of its earliest presidents. The brick, hipped roof building is distinguished by its Classical detailing, including engaged pilasters and tall, arched windows. Despite the addition of an entryway that partially obscures the front façade, the original architecture of this stately building is well preserved.

11. Former Post Office 8. Henry Howell House 32 Mill Road Once the home of Henry Jarvis Howell and his wife Florence, the Howell House was built about 1907 shortly after their marriage.

Henry’s father, Mortimer Howell, had operated a boardinghouse next door since 1868, and Henry and Florence took over the business after his retirement in 1901. The wood frame house is organized around a cross gable plan.

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see page 95 170 Main Street The Westhampton Beach Post Office, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was designed by Louis A. Simons, Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, and completed in 1940. Its construction was part of the comprehensive WPA program that the U.S. government sponsored as a consequence of the Great Depression during the 1930s. The brick structure is Colonial Revival in style. Of additional interest is a mural inside entitled “Outdoor Sports” that was painted by Sol Wilson in 1942. Wilson was a Russian immigrant who had come to this country in 1901 and painted murals for the U.S. Treasury Department’s Section of Fine Arts.

144 Main Street Constructed in 1914 by E, H. Bishop, the main portion of this modest structure was leased by the U. S. Postal Service and operated as a post office until 1940 when the new post office was built. Afterwards it operated as Straw’s Stationery Store until the 1950s and Cobb’s Luncheonette until the 1970s. Today, the Post Stop Café occupies the pyramidal-roofed structure.

12. E. H. Bishop Store 132-138 Main Street The former E. H. Bishop Store, constructed about 1880 and moved to this location in 1902, is thought to be a part of this structure which is also known as the Bishop-Newins-Sexton Building. Bishop operated a dry goods business here until 1924, when it was taken over by Wilfred Newins who continued to run it until 1951. Daniel Brown bought the business and expanded the building at that time, later selling it to Bill and Peggy Sexton in 1970. The structure has since been extensively renovated.

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13. Platt/Schwartz Building 126-128 Main Street Henry Platt constructed this building in the early 1900s, and is said to have used a barn formerly owned by Ernest Bishop as part of its structure. Platt operated a dry goods and clothing store until 1930, when he sold the building to Herbert N. Schwartz. The Schwartz family continued to operate the business until 1982.

16. First Firehouse 7 Glovers Lane Constructed in 1903 on Griffing Avenue, the wood frame, two-story firehouse was moved to this site in 1917 and remained in use until about 1953. The department was originally organized in 1903 as a joint venture between the villages of Westhampton Beach and Quogue.

In April of 1927 the villages separated their fire departments, and the Westhampton Beach Volunteer Fire Department has protected the villages of Westhampton Beach and Quiogue ever since. A new fire station was constructed on the site of an older facility in 2014.

14. Zaloom Building 122 Main Street Located on the site of Ward Havens’ blacksmith shop, the Zaloom Building was opened as The Orient Shop by Charles and Elsie Zaloom in the 1930s. The storefront is an extension of a modest residence which is clearly visible at the rear. Charles and Elsie’s son Donald J. Zaloom continued to run The Orient Shop for many years, until his death at age 81 in 2008. Donald Zaloom was a member of the Westhampton Beach Fire Department for over thirty years. Andrew “Ward” Havens (18691935) was Westhampton Beach’s blacksmith for over forty years.

17. Daniel Egbert Smith Building 104 Main Street Moved to this location by George Jagger in the late 1800s, the building became Daniel Egbert Smith’s market around 1900, selling ice cream, cake, fruits and vegetables, and dairy products until 1940. Smith was born in Setauket in 1862 and died in Westhampton Beach in 1932. He was likely a direct descendant of Richard “Bull” Smith, the founder of the Town of Smithtown.

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112 Main Street The Seeley Building is named for James and Angelina Seeley who operated a general store on the main floor and raised their six children upstairs. Despite later alterations, the architectural character of this turn-of-the-century commercial structure is preserved. James (18691951) and Angelina bought the store in 1904 and their youngest child, Gloria Seeley (1912-1984), continued to run the business from the 1930s until the 1980s when it was converted as a bakery. The first floor is elevated above the street, a precaution against occasional flooding from nearby Moniebogue Creek.

18. Grimshaw and Redfield Building 92-96 Main Street Built in 1896, the two-story Grimshaw & Redfield Building looks much the way it did when constructed with its mansard roof, attic dormers, distinctive bay windows and recessed entryways on the ground floor.

For a brief time, the building served as the Ketchaponack Post Office (1909-1914) as well as the home of Larabee Dry Goods, Grimshaw & Redfield Plumbing & Hardware, and the Hampton Chronicle (Southampton Press) from 1907 to 1925.

22. Law Office 19. A. E. White Building 84-88 Main Street The A. E. White Building, constructed c. 1918, occupies the site of an earlier house that had been used as offices for local doctors and dentists. White’s building is the site of the first telephone exchange in Westhampton, which functioned until a new building was constructed in 1930. A Foursquare type house in its massing, the two-story, hipped roof house retains double-hung six-over-six window sash, overhanging eaves and distinctive trim.

50 Sunset Avenue Constructed around 1920, this former house which was converted for use as law offices was built about the same time that Sunset Avenue was first opened. The small two-story, wood framed building is a vernacular cottage that retains original architectural features including symmetrical fenestration and the front porch. The small scale of the building and its residential character help to define the historic character of the village.

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20. Performing Arts Center 76 Main Street Built by the Heelbarp Corporation in 1922 and first operated by the Prudential Company as the Westhampton Theater, the center opened in June 1932 with New York State Governor Alfred E. Smith in attendance.

It functioned as a movie theater until 1996. After renovation and expansion in 1998, the center preserved elements of its Classical Revival architecture.

43 Main Street Mitchell Stevens was a seventh generation descendant of one of the village’s earliest founding families. Capt. Thomas Stephens (1650-1701) is documented in the town records to have been in Southampton by 1663, and his son Thomas relocated to Westhampton c. 1700. Mitchell’s father was John Mitchell Stephens (1840-1922), his grandfather was Abraham Stephens (1805-1822) and his great grandfather was Charles Stephens (1772-1846). Constructed in 1898, the Stevens House may incorporate a wing from the 18th century Stevens Homestead, which was acquired by Dr. Seth Jagger in the 1920s for use as a home and office.

24. William Winters House 21. Speeds Drugstore 72 Main Street Constructed in 1933 by the Heelbarp Corporation for Bob Green, the building was soon acquired by Morris Speed in 1938. Speed operated a drugstore here for over 60 years. Today, the building preserves good architectural integrity and serves as a retail store.

83 Main Street Now a retail store, the former Winters House was constructed in the early 1900s and has served as a variety of businesses over the years.

It was the home of William Winters who operated a real estate firm next door from 1912 until the 1960s. Its cross axial floor plan and street-facing gable are hallmarks of its late Queen Ann style. William Henry Winters (b. 1877) was married to Edith Maud Griffing (b. 1882) in 1905, and each were lifelong residents of the village.

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25. Winters Building 85-93 Main Street Constructed in the early 1900s and home to a variety of businesses over the years, the Winters Building is associated with William Winters who lived next door and operated a real estate business there for several decades. Winters advertised his sales and rental listings extensively in real estate magazines such as Country Life, Long Island Agronomist, and Long Island and Real Life. The building has been altered over the years, but preserves distinctive architectural features from its early years.

28. Platt Building for A & P 119-121 Main Street Next door to the Platt Building is a commercial structure with a similar name – Platt Building for A & P – constructed in 1921 by Henry Platt for the A & P grocery store. The store operated as an A & P for only a decade, when its inventory was purchased by Gelston Walter who continued to run it as Walter’s Market for many years.

It later became Victor Dayton’s Market. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company – better known as the “A & P” – began in 1859 as a small chain of retail tea and coffee stores in New York City, and became the country’s first grocery chain.

26. Weixelbaum Building 103 Main Street Despite alterations since its construction about 1902, the Weixelbaum Building retains enough exterior character to be identified as one of Westhampton Beach’s older commercial structures. Moses Weixelbaum (b. 1875) and his wife Carrie (b. 1882) emigrated from Germany and opened the Westhampton Market at the turn-of-the-century. Their sons Milton and Jesse would each figure prominently in the business life of the village as well. The building has served as the Royal Scarlet, W. Heins Meat Market, and Westhampton Quogue Market.

29. Owens Building 123 Main Street Ben Owens constructed this commercial structure in 1909. A plumbing business operated out of the east side until the 1960s, when the building was purchased by Hallock Culver. The west side of the building was operated as a butcher shop by Herbert Wimpfheimer until 1817, when it became the Roulston Food Store.

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115 Main Street One of the oldest documented commercial structures in the village, the Platt Building was likely built by Hugo Schramm in the mid-1890s and then sold to Henry Platt. Over the years, it has served as a clothing store, Western Union office, Swezey & Newins Department Store, and until recent times, Magic’s Pub and the Artful Dodger. In 1925, John King moved the printing presses and linotypes of the Hampton Chronicle (now Southampton Press) into the east end of the building where they remained in operation until 1957. The two-story, wood frame structure retains many of its original architectural features including recessed entryways and porch railings.

30. Parlato Motor Company Building 133-135 Main Street Constructed c. 1927 for Michael J. Parlato (1888-1963), who had outgrown a smaller garage on the property built around 1895, the Parlato Motor Company Building was then purchased

by Al John who operated it as a Chevrolet dealership. It later became converted for use as the Marakesh nightclub. Parlato served as chief of the Westhampton Beach Fire Department from 1932 to 1934.

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Southampton Town. These tours are inspired by the diversity of our rich architectural history and by the pride that so many property owners show in the care and preservation of their

Research Assistant Christopher Robinson, who collected the images and wrote descriptions for each of the historic resources; Website Manager, Debra Keller, and GIS Director, Ross Baldwin, for their expertise and dedication crafting the paper and online versions, and members of the Landmarks & Historic Districts Board who helped edit the tours.

It has been a pleasure to work on this introduction to Southampton Town’s wonderful historical sites and resources that remain for us all to enjoy today.

Sincerely,

Sundy A. Schermeyer Southampton Town Clerk, RMC Historic Division

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homes and businesses. Over 800 buildings, sites and markers were first considered for the

9. Villages of North Haven & Sag Harbor....Driving 10. Village of Quogue.....................................Driving 11. Village of Sag Harbor................................Walking 12. Village of Sagaponack..............................Driving 13. Village of Southampton............................Driving & Walking 14. Village of Westhampton Beach.................Walking 15. Water Mill.................................................Driving 16. Westhampton & Quiogue..........................Driving

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