Southampton's Balcastle was built in 1911 by local craftsman J. Edward Elliston for a wealthy Russian immigrant. The home, which is unusual in a community that consists almost entirely of frame structures, is considered a rare and impressive example of America's Gothic Revival style. Balcastle was reportedly inspired by an Irish castle.At the time of the home's construction, Southampton was already an established summer getaway for well-to-do New Yorkers. Homes built in Southampton during the late 1800s and early 1900s were designed in a variety of styles, but even amid the eclectic styles in the town, Balcastle was undoubtedly an oddity, both in size and architecture.Nothing is known about the owner of Balcastle, but the designer, Elliston, was well-known in the area. Elliston designed a number of homes in Southampton during its development into a summer resort area, but none of them are similar to Balcastle. The most distinctive feature of the home is its two-story brick and limestone tower which houses the master suite. The property itself is small, however, at slightly less than half an acre. The home itself is 2,900 square feet. In addition to the home, the property also has a swimming pool and a glassed-in gazebo that has been used as both a pool house and guest house. One former owner, a Bulova heiress, reportedly housed bear cubs in the structure.In 1998, the designer William Sofield purchased the home, which he described as an "eyesore" at the time. Sofield spent years renovating the home and listed it for sale in 2010 for $4.2 million. The property was eventually taken off the market but was listed again in 2018 for $3.7 million.

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One of the most distinctive homes in Southampton, Balcastle was built in 1911 and was inspired by a castle in Ireland. The brick and limestone structure features whimsical details, such as a tower and a large, glass-enclosed gazebo. The castle is located in the heart of the town and though it likely appeared strikingly extravagant when it was built, it is now one of a number of estate-like homes in the area. Balcastle is somewhat unusual in that it sits on less than half an acre. The home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 

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Drive from Westhampton eastward to Southampton, stopping at historical museums, mansions, and a lighthouse in between at Quoque and Shinnecock Hills.

The Westhampton Beach Historical Society covers a wide area: Westhampton, Westhampton Beach, Westhampton Dunes, Quiogue, Remsenberg, Speonk, and Eastport.The Foster-Meeker House had been moved from its original location previously and stood at 297 Main Street. The historical society reconstructed the five-bay wide building with its central entrance using its intact post-and-beam framing system on a mortared stone foundation. The Cape Cod style house was built low to the ground and compact to help the early settlers survive Long Island's hurricanes and winter winds. The original chimney of brick or stone was replaced by the mid-twentieth century with a smaller, brick chimney which was reproduced at the new site. A later addition of a rear roof dormer along the length of the building was removed during the restoration/rebuilding by the historical society, as were two rear ground floor projecting window bays. The first floor tier of beams had to be rebuilt in the 1950s due to structural issues but were documented before reconstruction; original or very early alterations were seen in the framing in the attic. Original support posts and some of the doors from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries survived. The exterior wood shingles were replaced by wooden clapboard siding.Originally on South Country Road in Remsenberg, the Josiah Tuthill House was the home of the grandson of John Tuthill, a Scottish immigrant. John was the first settler in Speonk (later Remsenberg) after moving from Southold around 1760. The farmhouse was used as a U.S. Post Office in the 1890s when Josiah's son, Gilbert, was the postmaster. The building was moved to Quiogue in 1954 by floating it in the bay. A year after the house was donated to the historical society in 1990, it was moved to Mill Road. After being restored by the historical society, the Josiah Tuthill House was opened to the public in 1995. The house is a side-gabled frame structure in two sections, with the main entrance at one end of the three-bay wide main block, sheltered by a pedimented gable porch. The side wing is four bays wide with an off-center entrance and a shed-roof porch along the wing.A wooden ramp leads up to the Foster-Meeker carriage house/ privy. The outbuilding stood behind the Foster-Meeker House on Main Street and also was donated to the historical society in 2008 by Walter Goldstein. The restored building displays an Amish courting carriage and farm implements. The privy wing of the building contains a two-seater.The Thurston Raynor milk house once stood at the Thurston Raynor Homestead on South Avenue and Apaucuck Point Road in Westhampton on his dairy farm. The building contained a cream separator; the cellar was packed with salt hay from the barrier islands or seaweed to keep the cream cool.

If not for the efforts of the Westhampton Beach Historical Society, the Foster-Meeker House would have been demolished. This historic treasure was built around 1735 and is likely the oldest surviving house in the village! The historical society bought the building in 2008 and moved it from 297 Main Street to 115 Mill Road at the historical society's headquarters complex; the building now contains the Foster-Meeker Heritage Center. Also on the campus are three more historic buildings. The 1840 Josiah Tuthill House is next door to the Foster-Meeker House, at 101 Mill Road. Two historical wood frame outbuildings were moved to the campus for preservation and are in the rear yard of the Tuthill House: a carriage house with privy from the Foster-Meeker property, dating to about 1850; and a milk house from Thurston Raynor's Apaucuck Farm. Admission is free but donations are appreciated. The Foster-Meeker House was added to the National Register in 2009 for its importance in early settlement and architecture.

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The Pond House was the location of Mary Payne's Home Store in the 1910s, where shoppers could browse the two front rooms. The Quogue Historical Society (QHS) moved from the Quogue Library to the Pond House in 2011 after renovating the building. A local historical walking tour brochure may be picked up from outside of the Pond House or can be viewed at the link provided below. The tour begins at the Pond House and explores both sides of historical Jessup Avenue. Jessup Avenue opened in 1878 and runs northward from Quogue Street to Montauk Highway (County Road 80). Jessup Avenue features a small commercial district in the lower portion of the road and at its intersection with Quogue Street; buildings ae typically one-story wood frame or masonry, with some of the early twentieth century commercial buildings covered in stucco. Montauk Highway is an an eighteenth-century road based on a pre-settlement path that connects many of the south shore of Long Island communities. The stage coach from New York City reached Quogue in the mid-eighteenth century and was an overnight stop in the three-day trip across Long Island. In Quogue, Montauk Highway used to follow the route now called Main Street. In the mid-1890s, Montauk Highway was realigned and straightened to match the road's eastern and western approaches to the village.The Quogue Historical District was listed in the National Register in 2016 and covers over 500 acres. Quogue Street tends to be a dividing line between two types of residential areas. The homes south of Quogue Street up to the oceanfront tend to be those of the the wealthier "summer people" who could afford larger homes closer to the Atlantic. Homes north of Quogue Street tend to be more modest, catering to the village residents who service the summer people. The historic district straddles Quogue Street and is mainly south of the re-routed Montauk Highway.Although most of the contributing buildings (about 90 percent) are single-family residences, there are other types of resources, including a cluster of mid- to late-19th century commercial buildings. The Quogue Cemetery (58 Lamb Avenue) was established in the 1750s and is also individually listed in the National Register (2013) as part of a themed nomination of historic burial grounds of Southampton Township, Suffolk County. Most of the older headstones are in the northwest portion of the cemetery. The first public building in the village still survives - the 1822 one-room schoolhouse. The building was moved from its original location to the Quogue Library grounds to save it from demolition, the Quogue Historical Society has been restoring the former school building recently. The second schoolhouse in the village was constructed in 1893 on Jessup Avenue; the two-room structure was later enlarged, but no longer is standing. The third school building survives (10 Edgewood Road) and was built in 1934; it is a one-story colonial revival style brick structure. All three churches built in the historic district survive: a Presbyterian Church (1870/ enlarged 1901, corner of Quogue Street and Beach Lane); an Episcopal Chapel (1883, 17 Quogue Street, now Church of the Atonement), and St. Paul's A.M.E. Zion Church (39 Montauk Highway).The Quogue Village Historical District is considered significant in areas of settlement, social history, recreation, and architecture, from 1750 to 1935.

The Quoque Historical Society is located in the Pond House at 114 Jessup Avenue in the midst of the National Register-listed Quogue Village Historical District. A walking tour brochure is available from outside the Pond House or from an online download (linked below), showing some of the historical buildings along Jessup Avenue. The historic district encompasses about 200 buildings (maps provided as figures below) representing the village's 250-year-old history. The village was an isolated agricultural settlement in the early eighteenth century, settled from existing settlers moving from nearby Southampton (which had been settled by Puritans in 1640). The Long Island Railroad reached the village in 1876, encouraging the development of truck farming and bringing summer visitors. By the late nineteenth century, Quogue was a bustling seaside resort with many hotels, boarding houses, and seaside cottages and estate residences. The twentieth century brought the incorporation of the village in 1928. The contributing buildings in the historic district date from the mid-1700s to the 1930s and are 90 percent residential.

Quogue Historical Society and Quogue Village

The U.S. Life-Saving Service was established in 1848 as part of the U.S. Treasury Department; its purpose was to rescue people from coastal maritime disasters. The original life-saving station in this spot was in an isolated location when it was constructed in 1872. The old station was standing adjacent to the new, larger station built in 1912. The 1872 station building was used for storage from 1912 to 1916 or so, when it was moved off of the property, about 300 feet to the east. The 1872 station had been converted to a private residence and was still occupied as of 1999.The 1912 building is one and a half stories with a gable roof pierced by a four-story, hipped roof tower flanked by four dormer windows on the north side and five dormer windows on the south side. The wood shingle clad building is on a poured concrete foundation raised about four feet off the ground level and is sheltered from the Atlantic Ocean by a dune to the south. The front door leads to a small hall under the tower stairs. The crew quarters were on the second floor. Several changes were made during the life of the Coast Guard use of the building, including extending the kitchen southward and lowering the floor above and below the surf boat and equipment bays (now a garage with a living room above). The wood shingled original roof has been replaced with asphalt shingles and the wood shingled exterior has been covered with cement-asbestos shingles.Dune Road, the main east-west road across the barrier island, was opened in 1910 to 1911. Summer residences started to be built nearby around the turn of the twentieth century. Some of the married Coast Guard employees also built small houses for their families nearby. Two other U.S. Life-Saving stations of the same "Lorain" design as Quogue survive on Long Island, at Tiana and Blue Point; both of these have had significantly more alterations and are in poorer condition than Quogue's. The use of motorized boats by the coastal life-saving service began around 1905 on Long Island. As motorized ships became more common, crews could cover wider areas from their home base, resulting in the need for fewer life-saving stations. Not having to row through churning surfs to reach coastal accident sites also gave the crews an edge. The motto of the lifesavers was "You have to go out, but you don't have to come back."The Quogue Life-Saving Station was deactivated in 1937 but reactivated in 1939 in the lead-up to World War II. During a hurricane in 1938, locals broke into the vacant building to escape coastal flooding and survived within the tower. The station was closed for good in 1948 after a regional station was built at Ponquogue Point in Shinnecock. The Coast Guard divided the Quogue property into three lots and sold each to private owners, with the station in the middle lot. The side lots have each had homes built on them since.The Calloway family purchased the 1912 life saving station from the U.S. Coast Guard and used the property as a home for many years. Later, the property was a summer rental called "Under Dune." One of those summer rentals in 1993 was to John and Wendy Cooney. The couple enjoyed staying there so much that they bought the property from the Calloways. The Cooneys spent several years renovating the building, keeping historic preservation in mind; they maintain a website for the life-saving station (linked below) they call home.

Quogue's Life-Saving Station was built on the barrier island in 1912 in the Shingle Style from one of the standard plans for U.S. Life-Saving Service buildings. It was next door to the first life-saving station that was built on this site in 1872. Previously, a boat house built on the island in 1849 was used by volunteers to aid in water rescues from shipwrecks. The Life-Saving Service and the Revenue Cutter Service merged to become the U.S. Coast Guard in 1915 and the station was sold to the U.S. Navy. The building has been a private residence since purchased from the Coast Guard in the late 1940s and has been owned by two different families since then. The Quogue Life-Saving Station was listed in the New York and National Registers of Historic Places in 1999. The Quogue Station is one of the most intact of the dozen stations built on Long Island before 1915.

Quogue Life-Saving Station

The woman who founded the open air art school in Shinnecock Hills was Janet Ralston Chase (Mrs. William) Hoyt of Indiana. Mrs. Hoyt was the daughter of a former Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; her husband was a real estate developer and amateur architect. Her concept was supported financially by Mrs. Samuel Parrish of Shinnecock Hills and Mrs. Henry Kirke Porter of Pittsburgh. Samuel Parrish donated the land where Chase's house/ studio was built; his niece bought the house from the estate of William Merritt Chase after he died in 1916.William Merritt Chase was born in Indiana in 1849. He studied art in New York at the National Academy of Design and in Europe at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. One of his paintings won a prize at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, starting his career in earnest. Chase rented the main gallery in the Tenth Street Studio Building in Greenwich Village in New York City from 1878 to 1895. Chase was president of the Society of American Artists from 1885 to 1895. He married Alice Bremond Gerson in 1886 and the couple had eleven children, seven of whom survived childhood. Chase moved his wife and children from their home in Greenwich Village to the homestead in Shinnecock Hills for the summers of 1892 to 1902 while he taught at the art school, three miles to the east. In the first summer (1891), Chase stayed at the Shinnecock Inn. Chase painted scenes of his children playing in the art studio at Shinnecock Hills. Chase's painting "The Big Bayberry Bush" is part of the permanent collection of the Parrish Art Museum (also a Clio entry) in Water Mill; it shows his three young daughters playing in the dunes in 1895 with the homestead in the background. Chase continued teaching art both in New York at his Chase School of Art and later at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Among the dozens of artists he taught are Georgia O'Keeffe and Charles Demuth.The two-and-a-half story wood frame homestead was sheathed in weathered wooden shingles when it was documented for the National Register in 1983. Four gabled dormer windows pierce the south (front) and north sides of the gambrel roof, with three "eyebrow" dormers added onto the front at some point (they are not there in the 1895 photo or architectural sketches (see the images). The wide front porch has fluted columns with rope capitals reflecting the nautical locale. The interior walls and ceilings were covered in unpainted narrow beaded boards. Hardwood floors and a wooden stairway led to a gallery around the edges of a two-story living room. A rear laundry room, bathroom, and porch were added around 1920, after the Chase family sold the property.

The William Merritt Chase Homestead, on the north side of Canoe Place Road in Shinnecock Hills, was designed by the well-known New York City architectural firm McKim, Mead &amp; White and built in 1891-1892. The building was the combined summer home and artist's studio for William Merritt Chase, an American artist. A school of art was established in Shinnecock Hills in 1891, inspired by the founder's trips to Europe and seeing the popularity of plein air painting outdoors. Chase was invited to become headmaster of the school. The "Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art" has been credited with being the birthplace of an American expressionist landscape painting. Chase taught at the school in the summers until it closed in 1902; Chase used the house until his death in 1916. The property was listed in the New York and National Registers in 1983. Bathing Beach Road leads northwest from Canoe Place Road through the dense woods to the private property. The house and a garage still stand on the 2.5-acre lot.

William Merritt Chase Homestead

Stanford White worked on the James L. Breese House from 1897 until the day he was murdered in 1906 by Harry K. Thaw, the millionaire jealous husband of White's former flame, actress Evelyn Nesbit. Ironically, White was murdered while watching a musical in Madison Square Garden, a New York City building he designed. White - deemed the quintessential Beaux Art architect of his time - was all about the opulence when designing homes for wealthy clients. The two-story columned piazza along the front of the mansion is said to be modeled after the piazza along the rear of George Washington's Mount Vernon mansion. White's last project may have been the "Music Room" in the Breese mansion, a 30-by-70 foot space with tall walls covered in mahogany, a coffered ceiling with hand painted decoration, and a monstrously large fireplace. An Aeolian pipe organ on the north end of the Italian Renaissance styled room survives; the walls were decorated with moose and buffalo heads and a tiger rug covered part of the floor.James Lawrence Breese enjoyed the 32-room house in Southampton in the summertime through 1925. Breese was born in New York City in 1854. He married Frances Tilston Potter in 1880; the couple had four children: Frances, Sidney, James, and Robert. Breese was a partner in the brokerage Breese &amp; Smith. After Frances T. died in 1917, James L. married Grace L. M. Gates in 1919 but they later divorced. James L. enjoyed photography and building and racing cars as hobbies; he was a founding member of the Southampton Club in 1899. James L. died in 1934 at age 80 at his home elsewhere in Southampton and was buried in Southampton Cemetery.Charles E. Merrill bought the house and a subdivided part of the 30 acre tract in 1926. If his name sounds familiar, it's because Merrill was one of the co-founders of the financial firm Merrill Lynch &amp; Company in 1915 with his firend, Edmund C. Lynch. Merrill owned the home for three decades. Merrill had three children: Charles E. Jr., Doris, and James. Merrill attended Amherst College for two years before studying law from 1906 to 1907 at the U. of Michigan. Before his death, Merrill donated The Orchard to Amherst College in 1951, who then sold the property to a private school. The Nyack School for Boys used the mansion as a dormitory, offices, and classrooms until it closed in 1977. Owners of the condo units in the current Whitefield complex can rent the Music Room for private events. The interior grounds of the property, behind the asymmetrical U-shaped mansion, feature an in-ground swimming pool, tennis courts, and a brick-walled rose and hydrangea garden.

The James L. Breese House also was known as The Orchard and is now part of the Whitefield Condominium complex. The core of the building incorporates the original 1858 cottage from this property, once owned by a sea captain named Drake. The sprawling, U-shaped house was designed as a summer home and built between 1897 and 1906 on a 30-acre tract. The house is one of the largest homes ever built on the east end of Long Island. A famous architect, Stanford White of the firm McKim, Mead &amp; White, designed the house for Breese, a Wall Street broker and good friend of White's. Spectacular gardens graced the rear yard. The next owner, Charles E. Merrill, left the house to Amherst College in the 1950s. A later use of the property was the Nyack School for Boys, which closed in 1977. A developer purchased the vacant house in 1980 and created five condominium spaces within the mansion and built 24 townhouse condos along a curved drive near the 16-acre property's edge. The James L. Breese House was listed in the National Register in 1980.

James L. Breese House/ The Orchard

Pyrrhus Concer was born into servitude in 1814 and lived until 1897. He was the legal property of the&nbsp;Pyrrhus&nbsp;family and pressed into servitude and forced labor until slavery was gradually but formally abolished in New York State. Pyrrhus continued to work five more years for the Concer family of Southhampton (Van Zandt, 1984). The reason for his decision to continue laboring for his former owner is unknown but also not uncommon given the lack of mobility and other options for many formerly enslaved people. He eventually ended his service to the Concer family and worked on whaling vessels. Maritime trade led to employment for many free Black&nbsp;men in the era, but also presented risks as it was not uncommon for a free Black sailor to be captured and sold into bondage by unscrupulous shipmates and privateers.&nbsp; &nbsp; Following a few years of his working on a variety of ships, Pyrrhus eventually secured a position aboard the Manhattan, an American whaling ship. His time with the crew of the Manhattan was notable, as it became the first vessel of American origin to travel to Tokyo at a time when few American vessels were allowed to travel and dock in this part of the world. The Manhattan, a ship out of Pyrrhus's native New York State, set out on approximately a two year voyage in 1843. More than a year into this excursion, Pyrrhus, Captain Mercator Cooper and the rest of the ship's crew came across a total of 22 shipwrecked Japanese sailors in the waters of the&nbsp;Bonin Islands&nbsp;(Van Zandt, 1984). Despite no American vessel ever having previously been given permission to port in Japanese waters, The Manhattan sailed towards Tokyo (then Edo) with hopes of returning the sailors to their homeland.&nbsp; On April 18, 1845, after sending some of the Japanese rescues with a message of intent to repatriate the remainder, the Manhattan was given permission to enter Tokyo Bay (Van Zandt, 1984). Upon examination of the vessel, as would have been customary for such an atypical arrival, Pyrrhus's appearance, as the only African American on board, was made of special note. Pyrrhus was the first man of such darkly colored skin that anyone in Japan had ever seen, and they were intimately intrigued. It is notable that the captain and other sailors have been lost to history while the presence of Pyrrhus was recorded in contemporary records. Towards the end of his life, the former slave was interviewed and shared his experience as one of the first Americans to be allowed to enter Tokyo by the Japanese shogunate.&nbsp;

Dedicated in 2015, this historical marker preserves and shares the story of Pyrrhus Concer, an enslaved man who became free when New York's gradual end to legal slavery allowed for his freedom. He worked a variety of jobs and is best-known as the first African American to visit Tokyo during his service aboard the whaleship Manhattan. Towards the end of his life, he also established a homestead at this location. The inscription on his gravestone begins "Though born a slave he possessed virtues, without which, kings are but slaves." 

Pyrrhus Concer Marker

The mansion stayed in the Rogers family for over two centuries.&nbsp;Jetur Rogers, a whaling captain, was the last of the family to own the property. He inherited the house in 1854 and sold to physician&nbsp;John Nugent in 1889. Today, the home is a local history museum that&nbsp;features&nbsp;a variety&nbsp;of permanent exhibits as well as seasonal exhibits. The mansion grounds offer a glimpse at many historic buildings that are now part of Old Southampton Village - a recreated model village composed of many historic structures collected from different areas of Southampton that were brought to this location. The village includes a 19th-century paint store, a Blacksmith’s shop, a cobbler’s shop, a one-room schoolhouse, and a colonial era barn that was seized by British soldiers to lodge their horses during the Revolutionary War. 
 The organization also operates Thomas Halsey Homestead, located one half-mile south of the museum.&nbsp;

This museum is located in the historic Rogers Mansion, a home that has been moved many times and expanded significantly from its first construction in 1648 for the family of William Rogers and Ann Hall Rogers. At that time, many of the inhabitants of what would later become Southampton were religious settlers who had arrived at Conscience Point in 1640, The museum combines historic homes and artifacts with interpretive exhibits and an extensive research library and archives dedicated to the history of Southampton and its surrounding areas. The library currently contains over 800 volumes and the archives include a wide range of subjects from account books to family memorabilia.

Rogers Mansion, Southampton Historical Museum

Southampton's Balcastle was built in 1911 by local craftsman J. Edward Elliston for a wealthy Russian immigrant. The home, which is unusual in a community that consists almost entirely of frame structures, is considered a rare and impressive example of America's Gothic Revival style. Balcastle was reportedly inspired by an Irish castle. At the time of the home's construction, Southampton was already an established summer getaway for well-to-do New Yorkers. Homes built in Southampton during the late 1800s and early 1900s were designed in a variety of styles, but even amid the eclectic styles in the town, Balcastle was undoubtedly an oddity, both in size and architecture. Nothing is known about the owner of Balcastle, but the designer, Elliston, was well-known in the area. Elliston designed a number of homes in Southampton during its development into a summer resort area, but none of them are similar to Balcastle. The most distinctive feature of the home is its two-story brick and limestone tower which houses the master suite. The property itself is small, however, at slightly less than half an acre. The home itself is 2,900 square feet. In addition to the home, the property also has a swimming pool and a glassed-in gazebo that has been used as both a pool house and guest house. One former owner, a Bulova heiress, reportedly housed bear cubs in the structure. In 1998, the designer William Sofield purchased the home, which he described as an "eyesore" at the time. Sofield spent years renovating the home and listed it for sale in 2010 for $4.2 million. The property was eventually taken off the market but was listed again in 2018 for $3.7 million.

Charles Goodale was a prosperous local sea captain who bought the land for his new home on Hampton Road in 1873. The architect and builder of the large, five-bay, 2.5-story clapboard dwelling with a projecting central entrance pavilion are not known. In 1845 during the height of the whaling era, Captain Goodale was the master of a whaling ship named the Tuscany, one of 63 whaling ships sailing from Sag Harbor that year. Goodale was among the locals elected to a committee to plan Southampton Village's Fourth of July celebrations for the U.S. centennial in 1876. Goodale was on a special committee on the Liberty Pole, along with Captain George G. White and Barney Green; the day was to close with a clam bake at Shinnecock. Captain Goodale was injured in a threshing machine accident in early September 1878 and died a week later in Southampton from lockjaw; he was only 63 years and 8 months old. His widow, Eliza, continued to live in Southampton until her death in February 1897 at age 70 years, 4 months.Several rooms in the house were rented out by the Goodale family from the late nineteenth century to 1912 for use as a community medical emergency facility. Hampton Road has been a major thoroughfare through Southampton heading toward Sag Harbor since the 1800s, with the Goodale House to the east of the village core. The house's street address was 219 Hampton Road in an older numbering system, as seen on the 1916 and 1926 Sanborn map image. The house lot included a number of wood frame outbuildings in the rear yard in 1916 including an auto garage, sheds, and a stable. The neighborhood in 1916 was primarily wood frame dwellings - some with hen houses in the rear yard - and an automobile repair garage. When the Captain C. Goodale House was documented for New York and National Register eligibility in the early 1980s, the house retained much of its original interior trim and decorative fireplace mantels. The house was on a smaller lot than shown on the 1916 map, in a mixed-use non-historic commercial and residential neighborhood. A small privy from the nineteenth century, clad in vertical boards, was still standing in 1983, along with a grassy lawn and mature plantings. The privy was considered a contributing building to the property's significance. Local tax records indicate the building was classified as a single-family year-round residence from 2013 to 2015 and as an office building since 2015. The building with its historic and modern additions now contains over 3,600 square feet of office space on a 1.2-acre lot and was last sold in 2017.

The Second Empire style mansion at 300 Hampton Road with the distinctive Mansard style flat roof with dormer windows is the Captain C. Goodale House. The house was built in 1875 and two small rear wings were added in the late nineteenth century. The Goodale family owned the house until 1920 when it was purchased by the Vanderveers. Others owned the house by the 1930s and turned it into a boarding house catering to the region's growing summer visitation. A modern, two-story addition abutting the rear of the building was constructed in the 1980s or 1990s, adjacent to a parking lot. The Captain C. Goodale House was listed in the New York and National Registers of Historic Places in 1986 for its architecture. The building now holds commercial offices, including those for Cook Maran, an insurance firm.

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