Wetherill, Kate Annette, Estate

Overlooking the southern end of Stony Brook Harbor in Head of the Harbor, this 26.75-acre estate was built in 1895 for Kate Annette Wetherill. Stanford White, her brother-in-law, designed the shingled octagonal house, with gabled faces, a one-story porch on fluted Ionic columns, and an octagonal central hall lit by a skylight. A service wing extends east and was later raised in height. The grounds retain a sloping lawn, an octagonal pump house of glacial stone, stone gate piers with iron gates, remnants of an octagonal rose garden, and a stone arch bridge. A polygonal carriage house, also by White, and a superintendent's residence across the road are included. The estate is recognized for its architecture, as an unusual work within White's country house designs, and for its link to the Smith family circle that shaped the harbor's estate era. Wetherill descended from Richard Smith, founder of Smithtown.