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JUDITH T. TERRY Town Hall, 53095 Main Road
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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
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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.