{"nrhp_refnum":"93000698","name":"Beachbend","other_names":["William H. Dixon Estate"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Smith Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Nissequogue","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.903011660500056,"lon":-73.18366022070094,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-08-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Beachbend, also called the William H. Dixon Estate, is a 19.4-acre estate district on Stony Brook Harbor in Nissequogue, Suffolk County, New York. It centers on an eighteenth-century Smith family farmhouse remodeled in 1924, with outbuildings and a landscaped setting.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is a rare, intact survivor of an eighteenth-century Smith family farmhouse that retains its settlement-era form and also shows the early twentieth-century estate period. The 1924 remodeling by Peabody, Wilson and Brown adapted the farmhouse for estate living with minimal change. The property also reflects the Smith family's long presence and the architect-client ties behind the Stony Brook Harbor estates.","narrative":"Beachbend is a 19.4-acre waterfront estate on Stony Brook Harbor in Nissequogue, New York. Its main building is a two-story, five-bay, center-hall farmhouse of wood frame and shingle construction, begun by the early eighteenth century and long held by the Smith family, descendants of Richard Smith, the Smithtown patentee. Locals knew it as \"Dick Nezer's Place.\" After Richard Herbert Smith died in 1920, the property left family hands, and in 1924 William H. Dixon bought it and hired the architectural firm Peabody, Wilson and Brown. The firm added Colonial Revival dormers and porches, enlarged the living room, and improved the service areas while preserving the old character. A barn, cottage, pump house, two sheds and a well cover, plus landscaped grounds, complete the estate. It was listed for its architecture and for showing both the settlement era and the estate period on the harbor.","period_of_significance":"c1700-c1924","architect_builder":"Peabody, Wilson and Brown (1924 remodeling); original builder unknown","architectural_style":"Colonial; Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Historic and current function is listed as single dwelling with agricultural outbuildings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.867439-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/93000698.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315013","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beachbend","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4875832"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/beachbend-93000698/"}