Sag Harbor Whaling Museum preserves the port town’s place in the American whaling industry within an 1845 Greek Revival mansion built for merchant whaler Benjamin Huntting II during Sag Harbor’s maritime peak. Designed by Minard Lafever, the house combines high-style architecture with maritime details such as roofline ornaments shaped like whaling tools and whale jawbones at the entrance. Its collections include whaling equipment, shipbuilding tools, scrimshaw, figureheads, and paintings of whale hunts. Later owned by Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage and then used as a Masonic Temple, the building has been open to the public since 1945, connecting Sag Harbor’s seafaring history with one of Long Island’s finest Greek Revival houses.

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