East Shore Road Historic District

East Shore Road runs along the east bank of Huntington Harbor in Halesite, a narrow, winding lane with steep wooded banks on one side and the water on the other. The district along it holds twenty buildings and a town park, spanning the mid-eighteenth century to 1926. Most of the houses were built between 1860 and 1900 for workers in nearby commercial and water-related businesses. They are modest two-story, three-bay shingle and clapboard dwellings with limited ornament such as bargeboards, wrap-around porches and exposed rafter ends. Three earlier houses, dated about 1800, 1830 and 1850, preserve settlement-period forms despite later additions. The district also includes the site of the Brown Brothers Pottery Works, now parkland, whose archeological potential has not been investigated. A 1916 garage and servants' quarters, the only remnant of a large estate, and a 1926 Colonial Revival house mark later development. The group is valued as a rare, largely intact working-class neighborhood in Huntington.