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Historic district in New York, United States

Saint James District

Saint James District is a national historic district located at St.

Saint James District
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The place

Saint James District is a national historic district located at St. James in Smithtown Town, Suffolk County, New York. The district includes 21 contributing buildings, two contributing sites, and one contributing structure. Prominent buildings within the district are the Timothy Smith House and dependencies, "Deepwells" (1845–47) and dependencies, St. James Episcopal Church and dependencies, the St. James Railroad Station, and St. James General Store. The newest structure, the 1922-built Saint James Fire Department was also included in the district, but was modernized in recent decades.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Saint James District

8 places 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
    Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages

    The Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages, known as the Long Island Museum, is a nine-acre museum located in Stony Brook, New York. The LIM serves the Long Island community by preserving and displaying its collection of art, historical artifacts, and carriages; providing educational and public programming; and collaborating with a variety of other arts and cultural organizations.

    3.6 km · art museum, local history museum, transport museum in Stony Brook, New York · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St. James Chapel

    St. James Chapel, now All Souls Episcopal Church, is a historic chapel on the east side of Main Street, 250 feet north of Stony Brook Lane in Stony Brook, New York.

    3.8 km · chapel in Brookhaven, New York · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Stony Brook Village Center

    Stony Brook Village Center is a colonial-style campus of businesses located in downtown Stony Brook, New York. Some 60 miles from Manhattan, the village center was the creation of philanthropist and businessman Ward Melville.

    4 km · shopping mall in Stony Brook, New York · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    First Presbyterian Church

    First Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church at 175 East Main Street in Smithtown, Suffolk County, New York. It was built in 1825 and the sanctuary is a rectangular, two story frame structure measuring 56 feet by 34 feet.

    3.7 km · historic building in Smithtown, New York, United States · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Nathaniel Longbotham House

    Nathaniel Longbotham House is a historic home located at 1541 Stony Brook Road, in Stony Brook in Brookhaven Town, Suffolk County, New York. It is composed of three visually and physically distinct sections that are joined gable to gable and diminish in height from east to west.

    3.5 km · historic house in New York, United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Smith Haven Mall

    The Smith Haven Mall is a shopping mall located in Lake Grove and St. James, New York, United States.

    3.5 km · Shopping mall on Long Island, New York, U.S. · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Spaceplex

    Spaceplex was an indoor amusement park and arcade opened in 1991 at 620 Middle Country Road, Nesconset, New York, United States. Gary Tuzzalo was a co-owner and the general manager, and James Manas was another principal in the parent company, Spaceplex Amusement Centers International Ltd.

    3.1 km · indoor amusement park and arcade in New York, US · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    William Sidney Mount House

    The William Sidney Mount House is a historic house at 1556 Stony Brook Road in Stony Brook, New York. Built in 1725 and enlarged in 1810, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965 as the lifelong home of artist William Sidney Mount.

    3.3 km · historic house in New York, United States · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Saint James District

Airports
John F. Kennedy (JFK), 59 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 61 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 88 km
  • New York → Saint James District
    4102 km · quickest by air, 10h 54m · $450–680
  • Newark → Saint James District
    4088 km · quickest by air, 10h 24m · $420–650
  • Hartford → Saint James District
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · $6–9
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Saint James 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 Saint James District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFerry services from Connecticut, Rhode Island and Block Island The Bridgeport and Port Jefferson Steamboat Company service from Bridgeport for passengers, motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses, and trailers.
  • Get inCross Sound Ferry service from New London for passengers, bicycles, motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses, campers, and trailers.
  • Get inViking Fleet Ferry from Block Island for passengers only and bicycles and surfboards are accommodated, no cars.
  • Get inFerry services to Shelter Island are unavailable during late night, so always check their schedules.
  • Get inNorth Ferry Company is available year-round and allows passengers, bicycles, motorcycles, cars, trucks, and commercial vehicles.

From Wikivoyage: Long Island, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-01.

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

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    26 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    500 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,627 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,635 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,754 km

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Around it

Next door to Saint James District

Saint James District is 59 km from The Bronx, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.