{{short description|Historic house in New York, United States}} {{For|similarly named items|Shell House (disambiguation)}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = The Shell House | nrhp_type = | image = Shell House; East Island, Glen Cove.jpg | caption = The remodeled Shell House in November 2019 | nearest_city = Glen Cove, New York | coordinates = {{coord|40|53|52|N|73|38|3|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = New York#USA | built = 1910 | architecture = Tudor Revival | added = June 2, 1988 | area = {{convert|1|acre}} | refnum = 88000600<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref> }}
'''The Shell House''' is a historic home located at 26 Westland Drive on East Island in Glen Cove in Nassau County, New York. It was built as a guest cottage and home of the yacht captain on the Matinecock Point Estate of J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867–1943). The house is composed of a small, Norman style core dated to the mid-19th century, with a large Tudor Revival addition built about 1910. Also on the property are the remains of a pier and a poured concrete and cinder block wall.<ref name=nrhpdoc>{{cite report|type=none|url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319207 |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York SP Shell House, The|publisher=National Archives and Records Administration |author= Robert D. Kuhn|date= February 1988| access-date=November 9, 2025 }} ({{NationalArchivesNote}})</ref>
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.<ref name="nris"/> The house was rebuilt in the late-2010s.
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{{National Register of Historic Places in New York}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shell House, The}} Category:Glen Cove, New York Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Category:Tudor Revival architecture in New York (state) Category:Houses completed in 1910 Category:Houses in Nassau County, New York Category:National Register of Historic Places in Nassau County, New York
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