If checked, this site is within the Fire Place (Brookhaven Hamlet) Historic District

19-Initial Const Date: said to be about 1776

19-Architect:

19-Builder:

[This structure is arguably one of the oldest in Brookhaven Hamlet, perhaps being the original homestead of the Seaman family. Archological forensics is required to confirm this hypothisis.]

For a time, it was the summer residence of Margaret Anderson and jama heap [sic, Jane Heap], who published a literary review; then by Carol Robinson, a pianist.

William Preston Smith, a descendent of the Seamans by his mother, moved the "Seaman" place when Anderson and Heap lived in the little house. Interior of detached privy was painted by daughter of Enrico Caruso. Mrs. Caruso (Dorothy) was a great friend of Carol Robinson.

[Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap founded and edited the literary magazine The Little Review which published avant-garde writers, 1914-29. Carol Robinson was a friend. They and other artists of the day were known as the "moderns."]

[Glenda Dawn Goss, in her biography of Carol Robinson, Music and the Moderns: The Live and Works of Carol Robinson, describes the cottage:
"Robinson inherited the charmingly primitive farmhouse at Brookhaven, Long Island, with no electricity and no running water, that Anderson shared with Heap … the three women enjoyed many close mutual friends, from [novelist] Kathryn Hulme and Dorothy Caruso [Enrico's wife] to [singer] Georgette Leblanc and Ezra Pound."]

Original by Stephanie Bigelow, revised by J. Deitz