STEPHEN FRENCH HOUSE – At 8 Union Street, on high ground, is an Italianate Victorian.
Owner Stephen B. French, a shipping magnate, was active in Republican politics. The house was known as the Summer White House when French's friend, Chester Arthur, was president and summered here. Be sure to read the plaque on the house. |
VAN SCOY HOUSE – Corner Jefferson and Main Street. Note the gambrel roof on the Van Scoy house and the ingenious arrangement of windows beneath. It was designed by Sag Harbor’s own carpenter/builder, Benjamin Glover, and occupied by Sag Harbor’s first daguerreotype photographer.
Photo credit: Michael Heller |
PETER'S GREEN – If you walk down Glover Street one short block to Green Street, you will see a sign at the end of Green Street commemorating Peter's Green, a busy commercial neighborhood in early sea-going Sag Harbor (1800s). Turn back to Main Street.
The marker reads: At the turn of the 19th Century this was a busy place - Peter’s Green, with Peter Hildreth’s spider-legged mill grinding grain into flour, Samuel L. Hommedieu’s ropewalk, where workers walked twisting yarn into riggings and cables, and Benjamin Wade’s shipyard - the Cove was deeper then and opened into the bay between Sagg Harbour and Hog’s Neck (North Haven). Erected by the Sag Harbor Historical Society |