"Ebo Hill"

 residence, LIGC - Long Island Gold Coast, historic remains

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Farmhouse built c. 1846 with property that extended to the Nissequogue River. The land once belonged to Obadiah Smith, a great grandson of Smithtown founder Richard Smythe. When Obadiah passed away, his grandson Lyman Beecher Smith inherited the property. During Ethelbert and his wife Emily's residence, the house was moved from the northeast corner of Edgewood and Landing to sit further back on the property. Their son, R. Lawrence added the columns and large room on the east side of the house when he resided there after 1918. Some of the fixtures were manufactured by Bradley & Currier. It is believed that the estate had one of the first walk-in box refrigerators on Long Island.

According to Harris, R. Lawrence was also a philanthropist. During the polio epidemic in 1916, he helped to establish a hospital on Darling Avenue, and he donated a house on Jericho Turnpike to the Red Cross to use during World War I. R. Lawrence's brother Marshall lived in the home after his sibling. The former residence stood vacant awaiting restoration until it finally burned down in March of 2018. However, an exact replica was erected using some of the salvaged elements shortly afterward.