Dominy Home & Furniture Shop

The Dominy House was home to several generations of the Dominy family of East Hampton. It was a lean-to type of house built in 1715 on the west side of Main Street.

The first Dominy recognized for the carpentry and clockwork that the family is celebrated for was Nathaniel Dominy IV (1737-1812), the son of Nathaniel Dominy III (1714-1778) and the former Elizabeth Eyres (1717-1781). Nathaniel V served as sealer of weights and measures and as a town trustee. He also supervised the building of Long Island windmills including the Gardiner and Hook Mills and the mill on Gardiner’s Island. His son, Nathaniel (1770-1852), followed his father as a craftsman. A grandson soon followed, named Felix Dominy (1800-1868).

These three generations lived together in the house and worked in a shop that was added to the right side of the house in 1791. Later, in 1798, a clock shop was built on the other side. These workshops housed pieces of machinery and tools used to make the clocks and furniture that made the family well known beyond East Hampton.

(Source: The Story of the Dominy House | The East Hampton Star)