Hawkins Homestead
historic house in New York, United States
Hawkins Homestead, also known as the Zachariah Hawkins Homestead, is a historic home located at 165 Christian Avenue in Stony Brook in Brookhaven Town, Suffolk County, New York. It was built originally about 1660 and is a saltbox-form dwelling. It has two principal components: a mid-17th-century 1+1⁄2-story house to the west and a large mid-18th-century (c. 1720 and 1750) and early-19th-century (c. 1812) 2+1⁄2-story addition to the east.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It is south-west of the Bethel–Christian Avenue–Laurel Hill Historical District at 165 Christian Ave.
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