$450,000 bid accepted to restore Montauk's oldest house
The East Hampton Town Board accepted a $453,442 bid to restore Second House, seen in Montauk on April 21, 2016. Credit: Gordon M. Grant
East Hampton Town is moving forward with a plan to restore the oldest house in Montauk, an 18th century home used to house local shepherds.
The Town Board accepted a $453,442 bid on Dec. 20 from Ronald Webb Builder LLC of East Hampton to restore the structure known as Second House.
The property at the intersection of Montauk Highway and Second House Road is also known as “the house at Fort Pond.” It was built in 1797 to house sheep and cattle keepers who took the livestock to the hamlet from East Hampton and other areas to the west, according to the Montauk Historical Society website.
After the town purchased the house for $75,000 in 1968 from the David E. Kennedy family, it opened as a museum operated by the Montauk Historical Society the following year. It was closed to the public when the interior became too dilapidated to accommodate visitors, but the historical society is working to reopen Second House as a museum.
Vera Chinese joined Newsday in 2017 after working as an editor for the East End lifestyle publication northforker and a general assignment reporter for the New York Daily News.
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