More From My Postcard Collection
More scans of old postcards I have collected of places I have lived and liked.

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Going east along the north shore of the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, Long Island, is the town of Stony Brook.

Stony Brook, NY - Page 5

"West Meadow Beach, Stony Brook Assembly. Stony Brook, L. I., N. Y." R. S. Feather, Photographer, Smithtown Branch, L. I., N. Y. This card was mailed from Stony Brook in 1923. Dr. John Carson, a Presbyterian minister, founded the Stony Brook Assembly in 1907 as a retreat.

"Auditorium, Stony Brook Assembly, Stony Brook, L. I." Here's the beach group again back at the auditorium. This is the John F. Carson Auditorium, built in 1910, and it is now part of the Stony Brook School (founded in 1922). The card was mailed in 1919.

The address is on the picture side so that the form could be on the reverse. It is addressed "Sterling Debenture Corporation, New York City." The view is of the harbor and the end of West Meadow Beach.

The Stony Brook Association was also called the Stony Brook Assembly. They bought property and built bungalows in Stony Brook. Some are still there, although most have been greatly modernized and expanded.

Many postcards were published with a message on the back, "Views at Stony Brook, L. I., where we have founded a summer colony and established an assembly."

"Thelma L. Diebel Real Estate, Licensed Broker, Route 25A, Stony Brook. Summer Cottages, Buy or Rent." This is still across from the railroad station to the east of Quacker Path.

"L. I. RR Station" about 1906. For an enlargement showing the signs on the tree, click here. This station is part of the Port Jefferson line and was built in 1888. Right: a view right after it was rebuilt in 1917. The station now has an elevated platform.

Left: the Stony Brook RR Station showing a chicken in the foreground and a steam engine pulling into the station. Mailed in 1910. Right: The station about 1905 from a dirt 25A. Most of the wagon tacks turn the corner to Cedar Street.

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