Lee Avenue
Lee Avenue is one of two principal streets at the southwest end of East Hampton Village's National Register district, with 1890s Shingle and Colonial Revival houses.
Lee Avenue is a residential street in East Hampton Village's summer-colony quarter, between the Ocean Avenue district and the estate lanes to the southwest. The 1988 National Register nomination names it, with Lily Pond Lane, as one of the two principal streets at the southwest end of the expanded East Hampton Village Historic District.
The avenue lies in the Incorporated Village of East Hampton.
What the record shows
The nomination cites two Lee Avenue houses. The 1898 Schuyler Quackenbush House, by Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz, is a Shingle-style house with Colonial Revival details such as Palladian windows and Tuscan porch columns; the Village's own 2008 account calls it one of the grandest Shingle-style houses in the Village. The 1899 William M. Carson House is cited as a well-proportioned Colonial Revival house with a Georgian gambrel roof and a Federal entrance porch.
National Register status alone does not bring local review. The question for any Lee Avenue parcel is whether it sits inside one of the Village's four local historic districts, is individually designated, or lies within 100 feet of a designated property, where the Design Review Board considers the effect on that property's setting.
Questions to settle before contract
- Is the parcel inside a local Village historic district or individually designated?
- Is the house one of the two named in the nomination, and does its present exterior match the record?
- Which Village zoning district applies, and what floor area and coverage remain?
- What route to the ocean does the owner have: a recorded right, or a Village beach parking permit?
Nearby
Ocean Avenue runs alongside toward Main Beach. Lily Pond Lane carries the ocean-side estates. The East Hampton Village guide covers the Village as a whole.
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Recorded sales
Recorded sales through July 2026
7 recorded arm’s-length sales of 6 distinct properties since October 2016 (7 house).
3 single-parcel house sales in 2023–2025 — too few for a range or median; listed below.
| Sale date | Address | Type | Recorded price | Beds (roll) | Built (roll) | Flood zone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 2025 | 54 Lee Avenue | House | $22,400,000 | — | — | X |
| Mar 11, 2024 | 43 Lee Avenue | House | $21,000,000 | — | — | X |
| Dec 15, 2023 | 57 Lee Avenue | House | $1,913,677 | — | — | X |
| Jun 30, 2021 | 57 Lee Avenue | House | $5,772,500 | — | — | X |
| May 6, 2020 | 19 Lee Avenue | House | $16,500,000 | — | — | X |
| Jan 29, 2019 | 37 Lee Avenue | House | $19,000,000 | — | — | X |
| Jan 8, 2019 | 10 Lee Avenue | House | $14,750,000 | — | — | X |
Sale date is the date of sale on the transfer form. Beds and year built come from the assessment roll where it records them. Source: New York State real property transfer record (form RP-5217, filed with every deed), arm's-length sales as flagged by the state. These figures are a separate series from the Roebling Index, which is built from published market reports. How these tables are built.
Flood and coastal exposure
0 of 23 residential and vacant parcels sit in FEMA’s 1% annual-chance flood area (zones VE, AE, A or AO), where a mortgage from a federally regulated or insured lender requires flood insurance on the building.
| FEMA zone | Parcels | What it means for an owner |
|---|---|---|
| X — minimal flood hazard | 23 | Outside the mapped flood areas. Flood insurance is not federally required. Flooding can still happen from heavy rain and drainage. |
Loans. In zones VE, AE, A and AO, any mortgage made, insured or bought by a federally regulated lender, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA or VA requires flood insurance on the building for the life of the loan. A lender can require it in zone X as well. A cash buyer is not required to insure.
Premiums. Since 2021 the National Flood Insurance Program prices each house on its own features (elevation, distance to water, cost to rebuild), so the zone is a starting point, not the price. Private flood policies are an alternative. An elevation certificate is the document every insurer asks for.
Renovating. In the 1% flood area, if work on a house costs half or more of the building’s market value, or a storm damages it that badly, the whole house must be brought up to current flood rules, which usually means raising it. Plan a renovation budget against that line.
Zone at each tax parcel’s center point; part of a parcel can sit in a different zone. Source: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (Suffolk County, map 36103C), retrieved 2026-11-12; flood insurance rate map panels effective Sep 25, 2009. A parcel-level determination needs the current map panel, any Letter of Map Revision or Amendment, and an elevation certificate. State coastal erosion hazard areas are mapped separately and are not shown here. Flood and coastal-erosion guide.
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What buying, owning or selling here costs.
Peconic Bay CPF, mansion tax, title, MRT.
NY transfer tax, commission, attorney.
Taxes, flood and wind coverage, septic, upkeep.
Sell now, or rent the seasons and sell later.
A summer rental against owning the house.
Federal, NY, NYC and the nonresident payment.
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