page_title: West Meadow Beach Historic District
hierarchical_section_title: West Meadow Beach Historic District
caption_attribution_description: West Meadow Beach
context_page_description: West Meadow Beach Historic District is a peninsula of public parkland approximately 1.5 miles long and a national historic district located in northwestern Stony Brook in Suffolk County, New York. The district through much of the 20th century contained 120 summer cottages built along West Meadow Beach on Long Island Sound. Most were constructed during the 1920s and 1930s, under deeds provided as political favors.
  In 1979 a state court ruled that the cottages were illegal, as the underlying property was public parkland. All but four of the cottages were removed in 2004. The remaining ones are being adapted for public purposes.
context_section_description: West Meadow Beach Historic District is a peninsula of public parkland approximately 1.5 miles long and a national historic district located in northwestern Stony Brook in Suffolk County, New York. The district through much of the 20th century contained 120 summer cottages built along West Meadow Beach on Long Island Sound. Most were constructed during the 1920s and 1930s (although some are dated much earlier and others were rebuilt as late as the 1980s), under deeds provided as political favors. 
  In 1979 a state court ruled that the cottages were illegal, as the underlying property was public parkland. All but four of the cottages were removed in 2004. The remaining ones are being adapted for public purposes.
caption: The shoreline of the West Meadow Beach Historic District, with a few cottages
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