Beachbend

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.