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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNathan B. Seidman Residence VOL JUDITH T. TERRY Town Hall, 53095 Main Road TOWN CLERK ® P.O. Box 1179 REGISTRAR OF VITAL STATISTICS cam® Southold, New York 11971Fax (516) 765-1823 MARRIAGE OFFICER e ° Telephone (516) 765-1801 RECORDS MANAGEMENT OFFICER FREEDOM OF INFORMATION OFFICER OFFICE OF THE TOWN CLERK TOWN OF SOUTHOLD THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION WAS ADOPTED BY THE SOUTHOLD TOWN BOARD AT A REGULAR MEETING HELD ON MAY 31, 1994: RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Southold hereby designates The Frank J. McIntosh Residence, Main Road, Greenport, N.Y. and The Nathan B. Seidman Residence, 29215 Main Road, Orient, N.Y. as Southold Town Landmarks, all in accordance with the recommendation for designation by the Southold Town Landmark Preservation Commission, and acceptance of designation by Frank J. McIntosh and Nathan B. Seidman. Judith T. Terry Southold Town Clerk June 1, 1994 TOWN OF SOUTHOLD I top'tc Lon �y • r ty `Ihe,.� Nathan-, 13. Seidman., Residence designated a This structure has been desi . g Landmark that contributes significantly to -the heritage of the Town 1. r • C .. hy Town of Sou old, e ork zffz. Landmark Preservation Commission Supervisor 1s May 31, 1994 .s" -ter The Nathan B. Seidman Residence 292-15 Main Road, Orient,New York The Seidman residence is a large prominent two story wood frame Victorian eclectric style house located on the north side of Main Road (Route 25) nearly opposite the junction of Narrow River Road with Main Road. It sits majestically on its site flanked by several large weeping beech trees. Behind the house is a large mortise and tenon barn with a stone cellar and an adjoining carriage shelter also built in the Victorian era. There is a more recently constructed rental house also located behind the main residence and slightly in front of and to the west of the barn. The main structure is basically rectangular measuring about thirty by forty feet with its long side facing Main Road. It has a gable roof with two asymetrical dormers intersecting the roof and projecting south towards the road. The classical dormer to the west extends up two stories and is capped by a massive broad pediment. The dormer to the east projects out on one story only into an engaged partial-wrap- around,classically-detailed porch at grade. This dormer is echoed on the second floor by two Gothic style windows capped by a steep narrow pediment. Such exuberant asymetry with strong angular plane intersections and a blending of detailing styles is characteristic of the last quarter of the Nineteenth Century when balloon framing, millwork technology and industrial production methods allowed carpenters a wide range of possibilities to express their skills. The house is entered in the center of the partial-wrap-around porch. A grand center hall measuring about eight feet by twenty-three feet divides the main house into a living room to the west and a dining room to the east. A spacious stair at the back of this hall takes one to the second floor bedrooms. To the rear of the hall and dining room are additions of more recent vintage functioning as kitchen,studio and bathroom. There is another addition to the west of the living room serving as a bedroom. Curiously the two principal rooms, the living room and the dining room, have different trim detailing, proportions and window treatment yet they each have elaborately detailed fireplaces on their outside walls with identical detailing which reinforces the argument that these two spaces with a grand hallway and stairway between leading to bedrooms above comprised the original house. However,there is a cellar only under the dining room and center hall portion of the house and the cellar walls are constructed of field stone not cut granite or brick suggesting a much earlier construction date for the cellar. The Seidman house appears to be adopted to this cellar. A check of a map dating 1872 which probably predates the present house shows a house at this site with the name "J. H. Young". Further investigation of this thesis would be interesting.