Trustees Rd., Stony Brook, New York. County/parish: Suffolk.
Removed from the National Register of Historic Places June 24, 2025. NRIS 04001195.
120 contributing buildings.
West Meadow Beach Historic District is a peninsula of public parkland approximately 1.5 miles long and a former national historic district located in northwestern Stony Brook in Suffolk County, New York. The district through much of the 20th century contained 120 summer cottages built along West Meadow Beach on Long Island Sound. Most were constructed during the 1920s and 1930s (although some are dated much earlier and others were rebuilt as late as the 1980s), under deeds provided as political favors.
In 1979 a state court ruled that the cottages were illegal, as the underlying property was public parkland. All but four of the cottages were removed in 2004. The remaining ones are being adapted for public purposes.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322309