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Orient Historic District

The Orient Historic District is a national historic district in Orient in Suffolk County, New York, United States.

Orient Historic District
Orient Historic District · Wikimedia Commons
The place

The Orient Historic District is a national historic district in Orient in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The district has 120 contributing buildings and one contributing structure. They were constructed between the late 18th and late 19th century, the most common building type being a "Cape Cod type," a frame dwelling of one and one half stories sheathed in shingles or clapboard. It also includes a number of examples of popular 19th-century building styles, such as Italianate. The focal point of the district is Orient Wharf, established in 1740.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Orient Historic District

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Orient Long Beach Bar Light

    Orient Long Beach Bar Light is a lighthouse off Orient, New York. It was originally a screwpile lighthouse that was later converted to concrete caisson foundation.

    3.4 km · lighthouse in New York, United States · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Orient Historic District

Airports
Bradley (BDL), 94 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 98 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 136 km
  • Hartford → Orient Historic District
    974 km · quickest by air, 11h 8m · $390–560
  • Providence/Warwick → Orient Historic District
    1076 km · quickest by air, 10h 31m · $350–510
  • New York → Orient Historic District
    850 km · quickest by air, 10h 42m · $360–520
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Orient Historic District

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Orient Historic District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIn order to get onto this island, you must take either: North Ferry, +1 631-749-0139.
  • Get inAt the end of Wiggins Street, ferry traffic makes a hard right turn and continues turning right to enter the final staging area.
  • Get inThe ferry line takes you away from the ferry, around a loop, and back in line facing the ferry dock and passenger terminal.

From Wikivoyage: Shelter Island, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2021-05.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    90 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    430 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,629 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,641 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,753 km

If you know how people move in Orient Historic District – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.