This building was built as a tenant house for Hicks & Eastman in 1911.

Later, the first floor was the house for converted for Raffles restaurant. It is now the location for the Thyme restaurant.

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Frederick Cocks Hicks (1872-1925) was born in Westbury, New York with the original name Frederick Hicks Cocks. Hicks changed his name when he was adopted by his relatives. He attended Swarthmore College and Harvard University. He was a president of Roslyn Savings Bank, member of the Hicks, Kip & Herrick stock brokerage firm, and a director of Floral Park Savings Bank, Glen Cove Insurance Co., Nassau-Suffolk Bond & Mortgage Guarantee Co., Nassau County Trust Co., and Sea Cost Realty Co.

From 1898 to 1925, Hicks also served as a United States congressman from 1915 to 1923. He was a supporter of women's suffrage. Hicks had been at the bedside of his dying wife prior to the final vote on the Nineteenth Amendment in 1918, but left at her urging to take part in the vote. Hicks provided the final, crucial vote, and then returned home for her funeral.

From 1898 to 1925, Hicks lived in a 53-acre estate in Sands Point. He died at the age of 53 years and was interned at Westbury Friends Cemetery.

Frederick C. Hicks