Suydam House is a historic home located at Centerport

Centerport, New York

Centerport is a hamlet in Suffolk County, New York on the notably affluent North Shore of Long Island. Formerly known as Little Cow Harbor about 1700, Centreport in 1836, and then the present Centerport after 1895...

 in Suffolk County, New York

Suffolk County, New York

Suffolk County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York on the eastern portion of Long Island. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,493,350. It was named for the county of Suffolk in England, from which its earliest settlers came...

. It was built about 1730 and is a rectangular, five-bay, -story saltbox

Saltbox

A saltbox is a building with a long, pitched roof that slopes down to the back, generally a wooden frame house. A saltbox has just one story in the back and two stories in the front...

 type building with a 1-story wing. It features a steeply pitched, asymmetrical gable roof, pierced by a brick chimney.

The house is located on Suffolk County Parkland on the southeast corner of Suffolk County Road 86 and New York State Route 25A

New York State Route 25A

New York State Route 25A is a state highway on Long Island in New York in the United States. It serves as the main east–west route for most of the North Shore of Long Island, running from the Queens Midtown Tunnel in the New York City borough of Queens at its western terminus to...

, across from the southern terminus of Little Neck Road. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

 in 1988.

The Greenlawn-Centerport Historical Association has restored the house and operates it as a historic house museum.

External links

• Greenlawn-Centerport Historical Association