Shinnecock Hills and the Art Village

Shinnecock Hills is the rolling, glacially shaped area just west of Southampton Village, north of Montauk Highway roughly between Tuckahoe Lane and St. Andrews Road, and it is the most architecturally interesting pocket in the town outside the estate section. Farmers once grazed cattle on these hills. From 1891 to 1902 William Merritt Chase directed the Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art here, and the shingled Colonial Revival and early Arts and Crafts cottages built for the school, several designed by his former students Grosvenor Atterbury and Katharine Budd, still stand as private houses in what is known as the Art Village, designated a Hamlet Heritage Resource Area by the Town in 2012. Chase's own 1892 house and studio on Canoe Place Road, designed by McKim, Mead and White, has been on the National Register since 1983. The rest of the housing stock ranges from modest older houses to large modern builds, with bay-facing properties at the top. Most of Shinnecock Hills sits in the Tuckahoe school district rather than Southampton's.