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Tick Hall was a historic house in Montauk, New York, originally built by
Stanford White Stanford White (November 9, 1853 – June 25, 1906) was an American architect. He was also a partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, one of the most significant Beaux-Arts firms. He designed many houses for the rich, in additio ...
. It burnt down in 1997, with only the chimney left standing, and rebuilt by its owner Dick Cavett. It was reconstructed without written plans or formal architectural photos. A documentary film about the rebuilding was directed by Scott Morris, called ''From The Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall''. It aired in 2003. Tick Hall was one of a group of seven houses designed by the architectural firm of
McKim, Mead & White McKim, Mead & White was an American architectural firm that came to define architectural practice, urbanism, and the ideals of the American Renaissance in fin de siècle New York. The firm's founding partners Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909), Wil ...
in 1879. The entire district was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1976.


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