{"nrhp_refnum":"12001037","name":"Cold Spring Harbor Beach Club","other_names":["The Casino"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"101 Shore Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.878305123000075,"lon":-73.46958661799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-12-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A private waterfront beach club complex at 101 Shore Road in Cold Spring Harbor, Suffolk County, New York. Its centerpiece is a clubhouse built in 1888 as a casino for two resort hotels, and the complex also includes a boathouse, caretaker's cottage, pump house, tennis courts and piers.","why_significant":"The 1888 casino is the last surviving structure from the Glenada and Forest Lawn hotels of the Summer Resort Era. It was reused when residents founded the beach club in 1921, and the complex has provided recreation and entertainment continuously, first for hotel guests and then for the local community. The club also reflects the postwar growth of Cold Spring Harbor as a suburb.","narrative":"Cold Spring Harbor Beach Club occupies about 8.72 acres on the harbor waterfront on Long Island's North Shore. Its main building, a two-story stripped-Victorian clubhouse, was built in 1888 as a casino for the Glenada and Forest Lawn hotels, which were run by the Gerard family. The casino offered dancing, billiards, bowling, boating, swimming and tennis to summer visitors from New York and Brooklyn. The hotels were demolished after the Gerards sold the property in 1901, but the casino survived and remains the last extant structure tied to those resorts. After World War I, a group of residents in the growing suburban community formed the club, fully established in 1921, and reused the casino as its clubhouse. They added a boathouse, a relocated caretaker's cottage, a pump house, tennis courts and finger piers. Despite later alterations, the complex has offered recreation continuously, which is the basis for its recognition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"J.B. Lefferts, builder from Huntington (hired by William Gerard to erect the casino and other buildings)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian; No Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a beach club; the form describes the clubhouse as a well-used space and notes alterations over time.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.229359-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/12001037.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12001037/3c66111f26-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12001037/3c66111f26-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Muncharelli","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cold_Spring_Harbor_Beach_Club.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Muncharelli</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cold_Spring_Harbor_Beach_Club.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322065","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Spring_Harbor_Beach_Club","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137302564"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/cold-spring-harbor-beach-club-12001037/"}