Searingtown, 39 Sunset Road South
Searing House, c.1788, Town of North Hempstead local landmark. Fully restored 17 room dwelling on 0.44 acre, entrance door with transom and sidelights, living room with hand-hewn beams, wideplank pine floors; 6 bedrooms, 4 baths including 1 original Victorian bath, 5 room kitchen suite, working fireplaces in living room, dining room , sewing/bar room, family room and bedroom; guest suite; period landscaping with fieldstone walkways and patio in front and brick walkways at side and back, and two car garage/ carriage house with loft apartment. For sale by owner. Call 516-484-5018 or 720-560-2946.

Watermill, 322 Rose Hill Road
Rosemary Lodge, Shingle Style main house built in 1884, designed by Frederick A. Stickney, A.I.A., kitchen wing completed in 1907 by the owner Re v. Henry T. Rose who also designed and installed the exceptional Craftsmen interiors. The property lies adjacent to a 32 acre preserve and contains 1 landscaped acre including a 15’x 60 ’ pool and pool house. Extensive photographs and research concerning the house are contained in the July 2000 issue of The Magazine Antiques. The house has 6 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. The first floor features a complex of rooms centered around a stair hall. Each room is paneled in a different wood, the stairhall in ash, an octagonal sitting room in oak, dining room in cherry, pantry/bar and back stairway in sycamore, a country kitchen in oak, each room has a fireplace. Many rooms have furniture designed and built by the Rev. Rose in an Arts and Crafts manner. Second floor contains 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. The master bedroom has a corner fireplace with ornamented wooden surround and a freestanding cabinet by Rose and the third floor 2 bedrooms and 1 bath. Several rooms also have furniture designed and built by the Rev. Rose. Updated in 1986, the house is fully insulated, and has new mechanical systems, including full AC, a two zone gas fired heating system and 200 amp electric service. All furniture designed and built by Rev. Rose is included in sale of house. Call broker Harald Grant, Sotheby International Realty/Southampton , 631-283-0600 or Peter Hallock, Allan Schneider Associates/Southampton, 631-283-7300.