This villa was built in the mid-1980s as a residence for Henry McFarlane, an early Staten Island developer, and later served as the clubhouse of the New York Yacht Club from 1868-1871. The long, low house–a two-story, clapboard-covered, wood-frame cottage with brick-filled walls–was designed to resemble an Italian-Swiss villa, in a short lived style that was popular in the 1840s.