National Historic Landmark-Rudolph Oyster House

National Historical Landmark- Rudolph Oyster House

The Rudolph Oyster House is a substantially unaltered marine industrial building overlooking the Great South Bay on Long Island, New York. While most successful seafood processing plants underwent a series of alterations and additions throughout their operation, the Rudolph structure is a rare surviving example of a relatively unaltered early-20th-century seafood packing plant.

Today, the structure is part of the Long Island Maritime Museum's interpretation of the commercial oyster fisheries of the adjacent Great South Bay.

The Rudolph Oyster House is the known surviving structure from the Great South Bay Blue Point oyster industry dating from the turn of the century.

The structure is still located in West Sayville on the water just off Great South Bay, approximately 600 feet from its original site.

Courtesy National Park Service National Historical Landmarks