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The Pantigo Road Historic District is a historic district in the Village of East Hampton, on Long Island, New York. It is located on a segment of New York State Route 27 named Pantigo Road, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 21, 1988. [1] The Thomas Moran House, a National Historic Landmark, is included in the ...
East Hampton Beach in 1874, by Winslow Homer. In the late 19th century, after extension of the railway to Bridgehampton in 1870 by predecessors of the Long Island Rail Road, visitors began to summer, at first in boarding houses [11] [12] on Main Street, then in "cottages," which sometimes were substantial estates, built on former farms and pastures in the village.
This last building remains East Hampton's tallest occupied building, as zoning ordinances restricted heights of later buildings. The 30 or so buildings Fisher put up between 1926 and 1932 were designed in the Tudor Revival style . [ 27 ]
Long Island Native American settlements, and their neighbors. This area had been inhabited for thousands of years by wandering tribes of indigenous peoples.At the time of European contact, East Hampton was home to the Pequot people, part of the culture that also occupied territory on the northern side of Long Island Sound, in what is now Connecticut of southern New England.
Peter Michael Wolf, a fifth-generation member of the Godchaux-Weis-Wolf family, was born in New Orleans. [1] He is the author of several books, including the biography The Sugar King: Leon Godchaux, A New Orleans Legend, His Creole Slave, and His Jewish Roots and his memoir, My New Orleans, Gone Away – A Memoir of Loss and Renewal.
Maidstone Club. The club derives its name from the original name for East Hampton, which was Maidstone, named after Maidstone in England. It was founded as a 7-hole course in 1894 and expanded to 18 holes in 1899. [3] The club was the summer retreat of New York City’s most wealthy and socially connected families.
The area that is now East Hampton was settled in 1739, and was incorporated in 1767. The town's economy was at first largely driven by shipbuilding and related interests, centered at Middle Haddam on the Connecticut River , but these were in decline by the early 19th century.
East Hampton Village District is a historic district in East Hampton, New York. [2] [3]It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Its boundaries were increased in 1988.