{"nrhp_refnum":"85002489","name":"Beaux Arts Park Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Locust Ln., Upper & Lower Drs.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Huntington Bay","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.90060794900006,"lon":-73.40823878399993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small residential historic district of five stucco houses with related outbuildings on Upper and Lower Drives in the village of Huntington Bay, Town of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, built c. 1905 to c. 1915.","why_significant":"The district is architecturally significant as a small enclave of distinctive Tudor Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival dwellings. They were part of the Bustanoby Brothers' planned Beaux Arts Park, which was meant to hold nearly one hundred residences but produced only these five. It is one of only two surviving planned residential communities of the turn-of-the-century development of Huntington Bay, and it marks a sharp departure from Huntington's conservative local building tradition.","narrative":"Five large stucco houses along Upper and Lower Drives in Huntington Bay make up this three-acre residential enclave on the north shore of Long Island. Built between about 1905 and 1915, the homes show Tudor Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival details, including steep slate or pantile roofs, towers, parapets, casement windows and wrought-iron ornament. Most keep their original carriage houses or servants' quarters. The houses were part of Beaux Arts Park, a development planned by the Bustanoby Brothers, New York City entrepreneurs, around an 1870s waterfront hotel and a 1905 casino, both now gone. The plan called for nearly one hundred residences, but only these five were built, and the developers appear to have lost control of the venture by 1917. The district is valued as one of only two surviving planned communities of its era in Huntington Bay, and as a clear break from the local building tradition. Its architecture, outbuildings and shoreline views remain largely intact.","period_of_significance":"c. 1905-c. 1915","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Tudor Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The five residences retain a high degree of architectural integrity, with few alterations and no intrusions. Many carriage houses have been altered for use as garages, and the original hotel and casino no longer exist.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.028524-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002489.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002489/3e7e214521-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002489/3e7e214521-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Peggydowling","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lower_Drive.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Peggydowling</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:Lower_Drive.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314907","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaux_Arts_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4877970"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/beaux-arts-park-historic-district-85002489/"}