I have recently become acquainted long distance through the efforts of a web site reader with Robert F. Muse, longtime owner of one of the original homes circa 1850 from the Lawrence Estate

Bob's parents Fred and Emilie, purchased it in 1948 and as you can see by these photos taken from August - November that year, it was a genuine fixer upper....which is far better than a "tear her downner" which was the fate of far too many Mastic area dwellings back then. Well fix Fred Muse did and the house stands today as a jewel on the Mastic Beach landscape. I think the former owners, Charles Jeffery Smith(?) the Lawrences 1850-1916 and the Knapps 1916-1938 would be proud of what became it. What started out as place to park their carriage's and provide cold storage for the game they hunted, has been dealt a far better hand than their mansion up the road ever was.