Benson House, Riverhead

Name: Benson House
Address: Riverhead, United States

#7 among attractions in Riverhead

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The Benson House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Wading River Radio Station, is a three-story, red-shingled wood-frame home in Wading River, New York, situated on the North Shore of Long Island, on a 150-foot-high bluff overlooking Long Island Sound. From 1942 until 1945 it housed an important World War II counterintelligence operation, designed to deceive Germany and Japan about Allied war plans. ()

Coordinates: 40°58'5"N, 72°50'26"W

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Wading RiverRiverhead United States

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Benson House – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Wardenclyffe Tower, Calverton National Cemetery, Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, Wildwood State Park.

3.3 miSW
Science museum, Tower
Wardenclyffe Tower, Long Island
85 min walk • Wardenclyffe Tower, also known as the Tesla Tower, was an early experimental wireless transmission station designed and built by Nikola Tesla on Long Island in 1901–1902, located in the village of Shoreham, New York.
2.9 miSE
Cemetery
Calverton National Cemetery, Long Island
73 min walk • Calverton National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the Town of Riverhead in Suffolk County on eastern Long Island in New York. The cemetery's street address is in Calverton but the property is in the adjacent hamlet of Wading River. It encompasses 1,045 acres and as of the end of 2008 had 212,000 interments.
3.3 miSW
Museum
Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, Long Island
84 min walk • The Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe is a nonprofit organization established to develop a regional science and technology center, museum and makerspace at the site of Nikola Tesla's former Wardenclyffe laboratory on Long Island, New York. The center had raised money through crowdfunding to purchase the property.
2.2 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Protected area
Wildwood State Park, Long Island
56 min walk • Wildwood State Park is a 767-acre state park located in Suffolk County, New York. The park is in the Town of Riverhead on the north shore of Long Island. The park includes a beach on Long Island Sound.
3.5 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Protected area
Brookhaven State Park, Long Island
90 min walk • Brookhaven State Park is a 1,638-acre state park in Wading River and Ridge, New York, approximately 74 miles east of New York City. Established in 1971, the park land was formerly the property of Brookhaven National Laboratory. Protecting a large amount of the Long Island Pine Barrens, the park also contains scattered wetlands.

Benson House, Riverhead

Facts and practical information

Benson House – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Wardenclyffe Tower, Long Island

Calverton National Cemetery, Long Island

Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, Long Island

Wildwood State Park, Long Island

Brookhaven State Park, Long Island