30 Clinton Academy Lane

On November 1, 1787, the Regents of the University of the State of New York chartered their first two academies: Erasmus Hall in Flatbush and Clinton Academy in East Hampton, a schoolhouse built three years earlier with funds raised by local subscription at the urging of Samuel Buell, minister of the town's Presbyterian church and the academy's first headmaster. It was named for Governor George Clinton, who contributed the bell that hung in its cupola, and it drew students from Long Island, New York City, Connecticut, and the West Indies to study Latin, Greek, and French a few miles from the ocean.

The academy still stands on East Hampton's Main Street, kept by the historical society. Its name traveled east to a sandy lane in Amagansett's Treasure Island section, where this cottage sits at number 30.

The neighborhood holds a second, stranger record. In 1902 the federal government built the Amagansett Life-Saving Station near the foot of Atlantic Avenue, off Bluff Road, and staffed it with local fishermen and shore whalers who pulled sailors out of the surf for decades. Just after midnight on June 13, 1942, a young Coast Guardsman named John Cullen walked out of that station on beach patrol and met four German saboteurs coming ashore from the submarine U-202, their explosives buried in the dunes behind them. Cullen reported what he saw, the FBI rounded up the network, and Amagansett's beach entered the war histories.

The station is still there, a museum now, a short way down Bluff Road from this lane.

The house itself dates to 1960, a two-story Cape of timber frame and wood siding under a wood-shingle roof, on 0.26 acres where the lane runs unpaved. The record shows a renovation year of 2000, when a great room with an office corner was added to the original footprint. Inside are 2,175 square feet: three bedrooms, two baths, a den that serves as a fourth bedroom when the house fills up, hardwood floors, a fireplace, and a laundry room, with central air throughout.

Brick terraces sit off the back, alongside a deck, a patio, and a shed for beach gear. The house is offered furnished.

Everything here trades on position. The lane sits in Amagansett South, below the highway, with the ocean beach moments away in one direction and the village's shops, restaurants, and farm stands a short ride in the other. The Amagansett station of the Long Island Rail Road is a fourteen-minute walk.

Quiet, unpaved, and named for the oldest school in the state: the record reads the way the street feels.

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