Historic Vacation Rental Home in the heart of SOUTHOLD, ON THE NORTH FORK of LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK

Sympathetically restored, this traditional country home is one of only a few privately owned properties in Southold with Landmark status, commensurate with a Grade II Listed building. Centrally located in Long Island Wine Country, on a Peconic Bay peninsular between the sugar sand beaches of Cedar Beach and Goose Creek beach. The house accommodates 8 comfortably in 4 double bedrooms, with 2.5 bathrooms, several reception areas including a Keeping Room, formal dining and living room with fireplace, fully equipped, contemporary kitchen with all appliances, plus half and acre of garden for relaxing, reading, games, star gazing, bird watching and outdoor dining under an elegant shaded porch. Open all year round for weekly, monthly or seasonal rentals. First season discounts available until September 2008.

A house that is built by the hands of its owners is often the most celebrated - Mark Twain's home in Hartford, Connecticutt, Sir Walter Scott's Abbotsford, Robert Lewis Stevenson's Vailima in Samoa, artists Carl and Karin Larsson's much documented Lilla Hyttnas in Sundborn, Sweden, and Carl Jung's home in Bollingen, Switzerland. "The process of building, for all of us " writes architect and author Witold Rybczynski, "was a process of installing ourselves in a place, of establishing a spot where it would be safe to dream. We had to be old enough to recognize the particularity--and limits--of our dreams, but not too old to believe in them."

Such is the Deacon James Horton House, which evolved over the first 250 years of its life in the hands of one adventurous family who landed on the shores of Southold to find safe harbor amongst native Corchaug Indians some 368 years ago, and built the first frame house in what was to become New York. Retaining its sense of place in the early colonization of America, this home was built by the daughter-in-law of one of those courageous men, Barnabas Horton, and is now available for guests to enjoy a fun, relaxing and unique vacation experience in a home that also holds treasured memories for local descendants.

Laundry facilities, Cable TV and hi-speed wireless internet service, wood burning stove for cooler seasons. Gas BBQ grill, town beach parking permit, linens and towels provided.