Shelter Island Summer Home

A two-story waterfront getaway in Dering Harbor, a historic village on the north side of Shelter Island. The seven-acre site’s original 1960s saltbox was expanded per the environmental and building restrictions of the island resulting in a home that looks as if it were constructed in stages, over several generations. Distinguished by a grand bay window, a new wing containing the dining room reflects the vocabulary of the mid-18th century, when George II sat on the English throne. The center section, which includes the original saltbox, references neoclassicism under George III. And the bedroom wing, sporting a prominent pediment, is Greek Revival, a mode popular during the time of George IV—fervently so along the Eastern Seaboard. To all but the trained eye, these distinctions are noticed only subliminally..