East Farm

East Farm is a 31-acre waterfront estate in Head of the Harbor, overlooking Stony Brook Harbor. Its core is a wood-framed farmhouse dating to about 1710 and associated with the Smith family, early settlers of the area. In 1910 the architect Archibald M. Brown bought the house and enlarged it as his own country residence, finishing the work by 1914. He kept the original five-bay block with its massive center chimney and added smaller wings, a large dining room with harbor views, a kitchen wing and guest rooms. Colonial Revival detailing was chosen to harmonize with the older house. The grounds hold a formal garden, specimen plantings, a tennis court and dock, plus eighteenth-century outbuildings including a barn, a milk house and cottages. The property was listed for its architecture and for the way it layers an authentic Colonial farmstead with early twentieth-century estate design, all on a parcel that remains intact.