Furman Building (2 South Ocean Avenue) is a classical two-part commercial block building. Second story windows are highlighted by masonry half-rounds and toothlike dentil molding runs below the roof. A box window faces the Four Corners above the building’s name. An entry door on the South Ocean Avenue elevation has ornamental pilasters and a triangular pediment. The Furman building was built in 1935, replacing what the Patchogue Advance called “a group of unsightly old frame structures”, visible in a few of this tour’s postcards. Earlier inhabitants were Ginocchio’s Fruit and Confectionary Store (1890), Grand Army of the Republic, Veterans of the Civil War Meeting Hall and Budd Brothers Liquor Store. Budd Brothers sold ales and “dark brewn beers bottled fresh daily”. Earlier a cemetery stood on this site.

Stop in front of the Furman Building and look across West Main Street