Beach Road Historic District
The National Park Service has not published a boundary polygon for this district; the map shows the listed properties inside it and the district's reference point.
Why it's listed
Beach Road in Southampton Village runs along a barrier beach between the Atlantic Ocean and Shinnecock Bay, and this district preserves a short row of oceanfront estates built there in the 1920s and 1930s. Five large properties sit on generous parcels of natural dune and scrub, with stylish mansions set well back on the crest of the dunes and smaller outbuildings clustered near the road entrances. Each main house follows a different style: a Mediterranean-inspired villa, a Georgian Revival brick mansion, English-style stucco houses, and a rambling Norman-flavored complex with round towers and half-timbered upper floors. Families including the Mellons, Duponts and Ladds built them as summer retreats, and New York City firms such as Cross and Cross and Peabody, Wilson, and Brown designed several. The district counts nine contributing and four non-contributing buildings. It matters as the first substantial residential development of this barrier beach and as a record of Southampton's fashionable resort growth.
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| Styles | Eclectic early twentieth century revival styles, including Spanish Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival, Tudor Revival, and English and Norman vernacular farmstead types |
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| Areas of significance | Architecture |
| Acreage | 45 |
| Boundary source | not published |
| Full listing page | Beach Road Historic District (property record) |
What listing means for this property
This is a historic district. Buildings within its boundary are either contributing (they add to the district's significance) or non-contributing. Owners of contributing income-producing buildings can claim the 20% federal rehabilitation tax credit; homeowners should look at state credits. National Register districts impose no design review by themselves; a local historic district ordinance, if one exists, does (the difference explained).
General information, not legal or tax advice. Rules change; confirm with your State Historic Preservation Office or a qualified adviser.