A Year In Residence Photos 2014

August 27 --Sitting inside the senior center at the Montauk Playhouse on Saturday, 89-year-old Eugene Beckwith pointed to a framed copy of the old fishing village on Fort Pond Bay. His family had lived on plot 90, in a small fishing shack that had one bedroom, a pot-belly stove and an outhouse. While his sister slept on a small cot in the kitchen, he slept on the living room couch. But it was a good life, a closeknit life, that Mr. Beckwith remembers and is eager to reminisce about. And he is adamant that others know about how Montauk’s early fishing village came to be moved made from Fort Pond Bay toward the ocean in the first half of the 20th century. While many attribute that move—both of the modest residences that lined the bay, and the restaurants and post office that served residents—to the Hurricane of 1938, Mr. Beckwith says that the hurricane was merely the first blow. It was the U.S. Navy that wiped out the village in 1942, Mr. Beckwith said.

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July 30 -- What is commonly called the “gallery” of the Ukranian-born artist David Burliuk in Hampton Bays has been on the market now for seven months. If you have ever driven north up Squiretown Road from the center of Hampton Bays, you have surely seen it, but you might not have known what you were looking at. The 1,000-square-foot structure, built in the 1950s, sits on almost 1 acre. The construction is unremarkable, with a rectangular floor plan, white masonry walls, minimal windows and a shed roof. If noticed at all, the structure might seem to serve some vaguely municipal purpose. The architectural style could be described as “bomb-shelter sturdy.”

Karl and Cat Eichenfeldt on their first day at Hither Hills. SHAYE WEAVER SHAYE WEAVER

August 20 -- Guy Davis of Davis Building Movers and Stan Kazel of Dawn House and Building Movers, two companies with a veritable monopoly on Long Island’s house-moving industry. Combined, they moved or lifted more than 200 homes last year, around 50 on the East End. Both Mr. Davis and Mr. Kazel are the fourth generation of house movers in their families, an impressive feat in a time when just 3 percent of family businesses make it that far. Dawn operates out of Yaphank, and Davis out of Blue Point. Both service the greater Northeast, and roughly 20 percent of their projects are on the East End.

August 20 -- Guy Davis of Davis Building Movers and Stan Kazel of Dawn House and Building Movers, two companies with a veritable monopoly on Long Island’s house-moving industry. Combined, they moved or lifted more than 200 homes last year, around 50 on the East End. Both Mr. Davis and Mr. Kazel are the fourth generation of house movers in their families, an impressive feat in a time when just 3 percent of family businesses make it that far. Dawn operates out of Yaphank, and Davis out of Blue Point. Both service the greater Northeast, and roughly 20 percent of their projects are on the East End.

A Monarch butterfly.

August 20 -- Guy Davis of Davis Building Movers and Stan Kazel of Dawn House and Building Movers, two companies with a veritable monopoly on Long Island’s house-moving industry. Combined, they moved or lifted more than 200 homes last year, around 50 on the East End. Both Mr. Davis and Mr. Kazel are the fourth generation of house movers in their families, an impressive feat in a time when just 3 percent of family businesses make it that far. Dawn operates out of Yaphank, and Davis out of Blue Point. Both service the greater Northeast, and roughly 20 percent of their projects are on the East End.

Ed Harris practices Jackson Pollock's technique during the filming of "Pollock" outside the Pollock-Krasner House in Springs. HELEN HARRISON

"Design in the Hamptons" cover image comes from ​Tom Flynn's home in Bridgehampton. COURTESY THE MONACELLI PRESS

July 2 -- After an extensive three-year renovation, the Rose Manor House in Quogue is back on the market for a whopping $15.5 million. Simon Rose, CEO of Dahlman Rose & Company, a boutique investment firm typically specializing in a peculiar mix of energy, metals, mining and transportation, bought the house back in 2010 for $5.4 million. At that price point, considering that the house had not seen any significant structural renovations since it was first commissioned in 1906 by the Greeff textile family, teardown seemed like the most economically viable option. “Thank God that there are people around like Simon Rose who want to restore architecturally significant houses like these,” said Enzo Morabito, a broker for Douglas Elliman Real Estate, as he toured the house along with a film crew. The interior of the house—and the exterior of Mr. Morabito—can be seen by a national audience on NBC’s “Open House NYC,” which features luxury homes from various highend real estate pockets across the country. Though Mr. Rose originally paid a hefty sum for an out-ofdate structure, the current listing price would suggest that the renovations were as much a shrewd real estate play as they were a preservationist effort. It is “one of the last remaining examples of the extravagant ‘cottages’ of the Gilded Age,” said Mr. Morabito.

Gingkos and boxwoods at Madoo in Sagaponack. KYRIL BROMLEY

Alejandro Saralegui, Madoo's director, stands in the Oriental Bridge, also known as the Bridge of the Bankrupt Painter. KYRIL BROMLEY

Colorful blooms at Whitemore's in East Hampton.

For free, we can witness extraordinary talent in the holiday windows along Fifth Avenue, Madison Avenue and Lexington. MARSHALL WATSON

Eric Kunz shows off the opening to a small, low sitting carnivorous plant in his greenhouse on Thursday, April 10. KYLE CAMPBELL

The Stephens family outside their chicken coop on their homestead in Hampton Bays. BY CAROL MORAN

The Stephens family outside their chicken coop on their homestead in Hampton Bays. CAROL MORAN BY CAROL MORAN

Round House and its gardens will be among the stops during Guild Hall's "The Garden As Art: The Green Landscape" tour on August 23. KYRIL BROMLEY

"Tipping Point XIX." KYRIL BROMLEY

Walking under the shade, the orginal property did not have any trees to allow for cool breezing to carry from house to house. MAGGY KILROY

Raccoons are common pests that can be invasive and aggressive.

Wood warms a cottage in Maine. MARSHALL WATSON

Junbe 11 -- Sagaponack will be the latest municipality to take up the debate of whether the peaceful enjoyment of one’s property outweighs the creation of such property for others, when it holds a public meeting this Saturday morning to discuss the suggestion of banning construction work in the village on Saturdays in summer. Most small villages on the South Fork, Sagaponack included, have some restrictions that shorten the allowable time for construction work on Saturdays and bar it entirely on Sundays. But Sagaponack would be the first to ban construction entirely on Saturdays as well, if it follows the suggestion that some of its residents have made to the Village Board.

Meg Smeal in her century-old carriage house, converted to a working potter's studio. The open top of one of her kilns can be seen in the left corner. CHRIS ARNOLD

Senior designer Lauryl Guse and fine art mover JC Newsome place a painting by David Miller in Gil Walsh's room at this year's Hampton Designer Showhouse. STEVEN STOLMAN

August 27 --Sitting inside the senior center at the Montauk Playhouse on Saturday, 89-year-old Eugene Beckwith pointed to a framed copy of the old fishing village on Fort Pond Bay. His family had lived on plot 90, in a small fishing shack that had one bedroom, a pot-belly stove and an outhouse. While his sister slept on a small cot in the kitchen, he slept on the living room couch. But it was a good life, a closeknit life, that Mr. Beckwith remembers and is eager to reminisce about. And he is adamant that others know about how Montauk’s early fishing village came to be moved made from Fort Pond Bay toward the ocean in the first half of the 20th century. While many attribute that move—both of the modest residences that lined the bay, and the restaurants and post office that served residents—to the Hurricane of 1938, Mr. Beckwith says that the hurricane was merely the first blow. It was the U.S. Navy that wiped out the village in 1942, Mr. Beckwith said.

July 16 -- Fun—animal prints, vintage photos, bold light fixtures, orange for pop and flecks for sparkleis all the rage in luxury vacation home design this year, if the annual Hampton Designer Showhouse is any indication. The showhouse highlights the work of more than 20 local and far-flung interior designers. Set in an large new shingle-style home built by Parmount Homes of the Hamptons at 408 Pauls Lane in Bridgehampton, it opens July 20 and can be seen each day until September 1 for $35, which benefits Southampton Hospital.

July 16 -- Fun—animal prints, vintage photos, bold light fixtures, orange for pop and flecks for sparkleis all the rage in luxury vacation home design this year, if the annual Hampton Designer Showhouse is any indication. The showhouse highlights the work of more than 20 local and far-flung interior designers. Set in an large new shingle-style home built by Parmount Homes of the Hamptons at 408 Pauls Lane in Bridgehampton, it opens July 20 and can be seen each day until September 1 for $35, which benefits Southampton Hospital.

Bays Mary Lambert's "Desincarnado."

July 16 -- Fun—animal prints, vintage photos, bold light fixtures, orange for pop and flecks for sparkleis all the rage in luxury vacation home design this year, if the annual Hampton Designer Showhouse is any indication. The showhouse highlights the work of more than 20 local and far-flung interior designers. Set in an large new shingle-style home built by Parmount Homes of the Hamptons at 408 Pauls Lane in Bridgehampton, it opens July 20 and can be seen each day until September 1 for $35, which benefits Southampton Hospital.

Bays

November 11 -- Licensed real estate salesperson Noel Love with a 2007 Ferrari F430 Spider, valued at $150,000. It’s not every day you can test drive a Maserati. But those who stopped by the 2014 Hampton Designer Showhouse on Friday got to do just that. Two Maseratis and a Ferrari sat parked in the pebble-infused driveway of the nearly 12,000-square-foot mansion on Paul’s Lane in Bridgehampton that afternoon, patiently awaiting drivers to plop into their leather seats for a spin. Vincent Horcasitas, one of the real estate agents from Saunders, said the brokerage decided to add the quirky attraction this year to get more potential buyers interested in seeing the residence. “[We] just wanted to try to have an attraction for the house,” Mr. Horcasitas said. “It’s kind of a classy car.”

November 5 -- A State Supreme Court justice has denied an injunction filed by Southampton Village residents contesting the height of an approved home to be built at 40 Meadow Lane. That means that construction of the house will be allowed to begin immediately. In the decision, issued on October 29, Justice Joseph A. Santorelli says an article 78 filed by neighbors Thompson and Caroline Dean of 20 Meadow Lane and Linda Hackett of 62 Meadow Lane is being denied because it fails to prove they will be harmed in any way by the construction of the 53-foot-high home on the beach. The justice also maintains that the proposed home is compatible with current village standards incorporating Federal Emergency Management Agency flood regulations into village height restrictions. Justice Santorelli also points out that both the Deans’ and Ms. Hackett’s homes were constructed using the same FEMA elevation starting points, in addition to the village’s 35-foot maximum, that they are contesting. Southampton-based attorney John Bennett, who is representing the owners of 40 Meadow Lane, said he was happy to see the law upheld in this case, saying it is obvious that the Village Board of Historic Preservation and Architectural Review and Jon Foster, the building inspector, followed village codes.

November 12 -- Curtis Bashaw, co-managing partner, Rob Coburn, project manager and Dot Capuano, assistant general manager at Baron’s Cove. After more than a year of renovations, Baron’s Cove Inn on Water Street in Sag Harbor is expected to reopen next spring. The former motel-slash-bar-slashrestaurant is slowly being transformed into an inn, complete with 67 guest rooms, a pool deck, and a new building to house a lobby, restaurant and living area. Construction began on the renovations more than a year ago, but the road to get there was not so straight for the owners of the property, KBR Sag Harbor, and the project’s developer, Cape Advisors, which is also heading the development of the Watchcase luxury condominiums and townhouses in the village.

Larry Jones shows some of the original timber beams on the second floor of the house.

July 2 -- After an extensive three-year renovation, the Rose Manor House in Quogue is back on the market for a whopping $15.5 million. Simon Rose, CEO of Dahlman Rose & Company, a boutique investment firm typically specializing in a peculiar mix of energy, metals, mining and transportation, bought the house back in 2010 for $5.4 million. At that price point, considering that the house had not seen any significant structural renovations since it was first commissioned in 1906 by the Greeff textile family, teardown seemed like the most economically viable option. “Thank God that there are people around like Simon Rose who want to restore architecturally significant houses like these,” said Enzo Morabito, a broker for Douglas Elliman Real Estate, as he toured the house along with a film crew. The interior of the house—and the exterior of Mr. Morabito—can be seen by a national audience on NBC’s “Open House NYC,” which features luxury homes from various highend real estate pockets across the country. Though Mr. Rose originally paid a hefty sum for an out-ofdate structure, the current listing price would suggest that the renovations were as much a shrewd real estate play as they were a preservationist effort. It is “one of the last remaining examples of the extravagant ‘cottages’ of the Gilded Age,” said Mr. Morabito.

The Shinnecock Hills train station in the early 1900s.

Patrick and LIam Kirwin with Luke on the porch of the train station. DANA SHAW