J.R. Dayton House

J.R. Dayton House

This is the home of J.R Dayton. He was a farmer who lived in this beautiful home with his wife Ada. The couple had no children. The house of Italianate design was formerly owned by Captain Nathaniel Dickerson. Dickerson was the owner of the locally famous trotting horse Echo. After the Daytons, the home became the Echo Hotel where the basement was used as a “Railroad Hotel” for the trainmen of the Long Island Railroad. Today, the house is the Echo Arms adult home. It is one of the only two remaining stately homes that once graced the streets of the Echo/ Port Jefferson Station area in the first half of the Twentieth Century. The second existing home is the Wielandt House which is now the Moloney Funeral Home.

Photograph courtesy of the Kenneth Brady Collection

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