Shelter Island Historical Society
House Tour
Saturday, July 18, 2009
12 noon to 5 pm
7 contemporary, non-traditional houses
$35 member of Society; $40 non-members in advance; $50 at the door


Designed by Stamberg Aferiat, this 1996 house sits on 2 acres overlooking Menantic Bay. The owners wanted a house that would be "easy, open, gracious and comfortable." They appreciate the "distinctly different feelings in the garden/pool/guest house area to the house to the porch to the dock. Mix of tropical and clean modern."

This house, designed by Cary Tamarkin and finished in 2008 is on a .68 acre lot overlooking Peconic Bay and is in the Silver Beach area of the Island. The left side of the upper floor houses the great room with fireplace, and the right side is filled with a sitting area, the two children's bedrooms and bath, and the master bedroom and bath. The lower level includes two additional bedrooms, a bath, and the laundry room.

This house, designed by Ali C. Hocek is based on the experimental Case Study houses of the 1950s, which were an effort to design and build inexpensive and efficient model homes for the housing boom following World War II. It consists of three rooms -- a great room, master bedroom and library -- and two baths, and is only one room deep. There is also a guest house with two rooms and a bath.

Built in 2000 on .36 acres in The Heights, Robin Drake's plunge into architecture is a departure from his regular commissions in the commerical world of design.
This house features a great room with a galley kitchen on the first floor which opens up to two decks. On the second floor are two bedrooms and a bath.

At first the owners considered a Case Study house but soon realized that the Island climate was not suitable for what they had in mind, and so they settled on a Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian influenced house and asked James Mohn to design it for them on this 1.8 acre lot in the middle of the Island. What they appreciate most is the light.

Norman Jaffe designed this house in 1970. It is one of three all built by friends on a 7 acre lot which they subdivided. There is a great room on the first floor with a three bedroom wing. On the second floor is the master bedroom, bath and studio. It faces Gardiner's Bay and is in the Hay Beach section of the Island.

William Pedersen designed this house which sits on Little Ram Island facing Gardiner's Bay. In many respects it is like a ship, sleek and narrow. It is anchored by the stone chimney that rises like a mast at the apex of a V. Upstairs is the great room with fireplace and a terrace which runs above the three bedrooms below. The landscape is natural.

Purchase tickets at the Historical Society
631-749-0025 • 16 South Ferry Road • Box 847
Shelter Island, New York, 11964
Advance sale tickets must be paid by July 15 by check, cash, or credit card.