Wainscott Windmill

Wainscott Windmill is an historic windmill on Georgica Association grounds in Wainscott, New York in the Town of East Hampton. Georgica Association grounds are both within Wainscott and the Village of East Hampton to the east.[2]

The Wainscott Smock Windmill with fantail
Wainscott Windmill
LocationWainscott, East Hampton, New York
Coordinates40°56′1″N 72°14′16″W
Built1813
ArchitectSchellinger, Samuel
MPSLong Island Wind and Tide Mills TR
NRHP reference No.78001915[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 27, 1978

The windmill was built on mill hill in 1813 and added to the National Historic Register in 1978. One of the most moved windmills on the east end, it was built in Southampton town in 1813. The first move was to another site on mill hill, Bounded by Windmill lane and Hill street in 1841. In 1858 it made its next move to Wainscott between Bridgehampton and East Hampton where it remained for 50 odd years. The Wainscott Public Library occupied it in 1912, with the sails and fantail intact. It was then moved to Montauk in 1922 to a cottage on the cliffs west of the Montauk Lighthouse, finally making the move to Georgica road in Wainscott in 1942.[3][4]

Owners

Built 1813 on Mill hill to replace mill burnt the prior year, (became Mill Hill II), 1841 purchased and moved next to Mill Hill I by owner Barney Green, who owned I & II, 1858 moved to Wainscott by Cornelius Conklin where it remained for 50 yrs, changed owners 2x, 1912 became the Wainscott Public Library. Lathrop Brown purchased the mill in 1922 and moved it to Montauk just west of the Lighthouse where it merged into a cottage, the US Gov't took it in 1942 and Brown gave it to the Georgica Beach Assoc., They moved it to Georgica Pond in the 1940's

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Raymond W. Smith (September 1978). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Wainscott Windmill". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2010-02-20. See also: "Accompanying three photos".
  3. https://www.danspapers.com/2018/05/2018-east-end-anniversaries/
  4. Hefner, Robert, "WAINSCOTT WINDMILL HAER No. NY-144." Written Historical and Descriptive Data, Historic American Buildings Survey, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 2009, page 1-3. From Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (HAER NY,52-WAISCO,3-); http://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/ny/ny1200/ny1274/data/ny1274data.pdf accessed Sept 26, 2018
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