Earle-Wightman House

The Earle-Wightman House is the home of the Oyster Bay Historical Society. Members of the North Country Garden Club planted this 18th century style garden in the back of the c. 1720 house and have been caring for it for fifty years.  The five geometric flower beds surrounding a sundial and stone paths were originally designed in 1974, redesigned in the early 1990s and newly refurbished during the summer of 2025. Improvements included a new picket fence, new pebbles on the paths and a new drip irrigation system. Aging plant material was removed and the beds were planted with chrysanthemums as place holders until new plants are added in the spring. The plan is to install a colonial physic (medicinal) garden, a potager (kitchen) garden, and a children’s garden with plants that can be held, felt, seen and inhaled.

The benches have also been replaced with new, matching teak benches, symmetrically placed at each end of the garden. Each bench has a plaque - one in the memory of Arnhilt Buelte, one of our longtime members who oversaw the Wightman garden for many years, and the other in honor of NCGC’s stewardship of the garden.