{"nrhp_refnum":"93000707","name":"Shore Cottage","other_names":["Lawrence Grant White and Laura Chanler White Estate"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Harbor Rd., E side","address_restricted":false,"city":"Head of the Harbor","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":40.894323013000076,"lon":-73.17263643099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-08-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small waterfront summer house with a mid-19th-century barn, on a 1.7-acre site beside Stony Brook Harbor on Harbor Road in Head of the Harbor, Suffolk County, New York. Lawrence Grant White designed the house in 1913.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the property is significant in architecture, recreation and social history. It shows how the next generation of the Smith and White families developed the harbor, and it is the work of a prominent architect, Lawrence Grant White. Its harbor orientation, facilities for entertaining and revival-style design tie it to the larger Stony Brook Harbor estates, while its stucco and European-influenced detailing set it apart.","narrative":"Shore Cottage is a two-and-one-half-story stucco summer house with a slate roof, set on 1.7 acres at the edge of Stony Brook Harbor in Head of the Harbor. Lawrence Grant White designed it in 1913 as a guest house on his mother's Box Hill estate, and it became a wedding gift to him and his wife after their 1916 marriage. He added a north service wing around 1918. Casement windows, brick quoins, a Regency-style doorway and a screened waterside porch define the design, and the center-hall plan opens to harbor views. A board-and-batten barn that predates the house, possibly tied to an earlier shipyard, was converted by White into a stable. The property matters for its link to the Smith, White, Chanler and Emmet families, for the work of a prominent architect who later joined McKim, Mead and White, and for its European-influenced departure from the shingled houses typical of the harbor. It remains largely intact.","period_of_significance":"c1850-1918","architect_builder":"Lawrence Grant White","architectural_style":"Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Revivals","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Described as virtually unaltered from the period of significance; the barn has had minor changes that did not compromise its integrity. Current use is single dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.594231-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/93000707.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314989","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shore_Cottage_(Head_of_the_Harbor,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7501295"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/shore-cottage-93000707/"}