Smith Estate, also known as Longwood Estate - Smith House, is a historic estate located at

Ridge A ridge is a long, narrow, elevated geomorphologic landform, structural feature, or a combination of both separated from the surrounding terrain by steep sides. The sides of a ridge slope away from a narrow top, the crest or ridgecrest, wi ...

Suffolk County, New York Suffolk County ( ) is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of New York, constituting the eastern two-thirds of Long Island. It is bordered to its west by Nassau County, to its east by Gardiners Bay and the open Atlantic Ocean, to its no ...

. It is preserved and maintained by the

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. The Longwood Estate is part of a huge parcel of land originally purchased by

William "Tangier" Smith William "Tangier" Smith (February 2, 1655 – February 18, 1705) was a governor of English Tangier, Tangier, on the coast of Morocco, and an early settler of Province of New York, New York who owned more than of Atlantic Ocean waterfront property ...

in the 17th century, which he called Manor St. George. The estate consists of a large, late 18th century main house (altered and enlarged during the 19th century), caretaker's cottage, a farm complex (of barns and sheds dating from the late 18th through early 20th centuries), the Smith family

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, and a small frame schoolhouse moved to the property in 1977. ''See also:'' It was added to the

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in 1981.

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