Dr. Hallock House

Dr. David H. Hallock came to Southampton after practicing in Moriches for 12 years. Records show he was “called” to the Village, which had no doctor at the time. This house built for Dr. Hallock in 1866 stands out on South Main Street with its steep center gable and distinctive fence. Dr. Hallock was known as the “horse and buggy doctor” as he made house calls. He remained in the village for 33 years until his death, when his funeral was said to have been “the largest attended funeral ever known in the history of [the] village, the deceased being one of [its] best known and highly esteemed citizens…” After his death, his son George Horace Hallock built a second family home on the property closer to the lake. That was long known as the Doscher house which was purchased in 2005 jointly by the Town and Village of Southampton.