Southampton Village Historic District

Southampton Village Historic District takes in much of the village on eastern Long Island's south fork, from the Main Street and Jobs Lane business district to the oceanfront estates of the summer colony. It holds 374 contributing buildings and six contributing sites. The village was settled in the mid-seventeenth century, and the district keeps twelve dwellings built before 1770, including the Thomas Halsey Homestead of 1662, described as the oldest English frame house still standing on Long Island. Later houses show Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival and Italianate styles. After the railroad arrived in 1870, wealthy New Yorkers built large summer houses in Queen Anne, Shingle and later Colonial Revival and other styles, many designed by prominent firms such as McKim, Mead and White. Mature trees, tall privet hedges, Lake Agawam and the ocean give the area a cohesive, picturesque setting. The district traces the village's change from a farming community to a stylish resort by about 1930.