Quogue Street

Quogue Street is the old main road of the Incorporated Village of Quogue. The National Register registration form for the Quogue Historic District explains that Montauk Highway once followed Quogue Street. When the highway was straightened in the mid-1890s, Quogue Street was left as an arc that dips south of it. The district boundary straddles that arc, and most of the district lies south of the highway.

The form treats Quogue Street as the dividing line of the village's housing. To the south, streets laid out in the 1870s and 1880s carry larger lots and the substantial summer houses, closer to the bays, creeks and ocean. To the north, the houses are smaller, many built for people who worked in the summer economy. Quogue Street carries the oldest houses itself.

What stands on the street

The form singles out a "significant cluster of settlement period houses situated along Quogue Street" that remains intact, along with:

• The Presbyterian Church at the corner of Beach Lane, built in 1870 and enlarged in 1901, when a corner tower was added and the entrance reoriented.
• The Church of the Atonement, an Episcopal chapel of 1884 designed by the New York architect Sidney V. Stratton.
• Jessup's Store, about 1871, at the corner of Jessup Avenue, part of the small commercial group running north on Jessup Avenue toward Montauk Highway.

The street also lost buildings. Quogue's Victorian hotels were built mainly along Quogue Street, and the form says none survives intact. The mid-eighteenth-century "First House," built on Quogue Street for Capt. John Post, was moved to Ocean Avenue around 1908.

What the designation does

The district was listed on the National Register on February 2, 2016, with more than 250 contributing structures. The Village's official district map, dated February 11, 2026, states that Quogue "has not adopted local zoning or other regulations regarding" the district. A 2013 account of the nomination effort describes the listing as carrying no restrictions on owners.

The Village does now ask. Its historic district page says every department, board and committee requires applicants to state whether a project is in the district and whether the site contains a contributing structure. General Village zoning, building and Design Review Board rules apply either way. Full detail is on the Quogue Historic District page.

For a buyer, the practical effect is that on Quogue Street much of the protection for an old house comes from owners rather than from the law. The house next door is not protected either.

Beach Lane is two different streets

Quogue's Beach Lane meets Quogue Street at the Presbyterian Church. It is not the Beach Lane in Westhampton Beach, which crosses the Quantuck Canal to Dune Road on a county drawbridge; see Beach Lane, Westhampton Beach. Addresses, tax maps and search results confuse the two.

Questions to settle before contract

• Contributing or non-contributing in the registration form inventory?
• South side or north side of Quogue Street, and how close to the water? That decides the comparable set.
• Any recorded preservation easement or prior state or federal review?
• Village Design Review Board history for the house and its outbuildings.
• For settlement-period houses: what is original and what dates from later moves, wings and restorations?

Nearby

Quogue covers the village as a whole, and Dune Road the barrier beach. Westhampton Beach is the next village west. The coastal framework is in the oceanfront-property guide.

Considering Quogue Street?

Request a private pricing review of a specific Quogue Street property from The Roebling Research Desk. It covers contributing status, which side of the street and how near the water, the house's alteration history and the comparable village sales.