Sag Harbor Whaling Museum

Designed by Minard Lafever, the house is an elaborate Greek revival structure with a temple-front portico and fluted Corinthian columns.

In an unusual homage to the source of Huntting's fortune, Lafever edged the roof line with a row of decorative crenellation in the form of alternating flensing knives and blubber spades.

In 1945 the building was bought by the Whaling Museum; the upper floor is still used by the Freemasons.

[1][3] The museum is filled with the equipment of the whaling ships: guns, try pots, flensing knives, blubber spades, figureheads, and a large collection of scrimshaw carvings etched on whale ivory.

[1] The museum owns the entire building, allowing the Masonic Lodge to meet upstairs.