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Home My WebLink About08/1996 ' SPECIAL PF,' ENTATIONS: 7:30 P.M., AUC', ,T 20, 1996 Following is a_list of current (as of August 1 , 1996) landmark property owners and house 'names] nicknames or identifying features for��Orient;.- Greenport and New Suffolk. These owners have been invited to the August 20th Town Board Meeting 4t 7:30 p.m. to receive plaques. ORIENT Mr. William Matassoni & Ms. Pamela Valentine "The Shaw House/Revolutionary 78 Logan Road Cottage located on Village Lane, New Canaan, CT 06840 Orient Mr. 8 Mrs. Ralph Williams "Terry-Mulford House" 30675 Main Road Orient, NY 11957 Ms.' Diane Alford, Hope Gillispie, "Terrywold" Constance Terry 36505 Main Road Orient, NY 11957 Ms. Elinor Williams, Curator Oysterponds Historical Society Oysterponds Historical Society Properties P.O. Box 844 Orient, NY 11957 Mr. Jeffrey High & Mr. Burton Thiel Federal House on Main Road-near P.O. Box 6 old Buttonwood tree (3rd house Orient, NY 11957 west of tree) (This house is in the process of being sold) Ms. Mary Lee Shanahan "Gideon Youngs House" 1725 Village, Lane Orient, NY 11957 Mr. Nathan B. Seidman Late 19th century vernacular 343 East 9th Street farmhouse on north side of Main/ New York, NY 10003 North Road across from Narrow River Road. GREENPORT Mr. Gerald Doroski 'Old Steam Inn 210 Broad Street Greenport, NY_ 11944 Mr. Frank Coyle , Very early house 675 Champlin Place Youngs-Guerlain-Coyle House" Greenport, NY 11944 Mr. Frank McIntosh Very early house now incorporat 235 East 57th Street into Stick Style Victorian on Nor New York, NY 10021 Road (thought to have also been Museof the same early Youngs House as the "Youngs-Guerlain- Coyle House above) e NEW SUFFOLK Mrs. Janet McGowan Methodist Mission 405 King Street New Suffolk, NY 11956 Mr. & Mrs. William Finkelstein Old Harbor House c/o Altman Greenfield Selnoggi 11766 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 1610 Los Angeles, CA 90025 NEW SUFFOLK DESIGNATED LANDMARKS - TWO (2) IN TOTAL 117.-7-9 Methodist Mission/ King Street NS-36 November 18, 1986 Prior to 1858 & New Suffolk School (1135 Third St) owner: Mrs. Janet S. McGowan King Street,New Suffolk, NY 11956 This house is easily recognizable by its unusually high stone foundation. This structure, which is now a private home was built by Benjamin Webb and intended for religious use. Webb presented the building to the Methodist Society for use as a Mission by itinerant Ministers on the circuit as a place to hold prayer meetings and Sunday afternoon services. After New Suffolk's school was destroyed by fire, the school district rented the Mission for $10. a year. At this point in time only the basement of the building was complete. After the building was completed classes were held upstairs. Eventually the New Suffolk School District bought the building for $350. and held classes there until 1907. The house still has its original tin roof. 117.-5-2 Old Harbor House 220 Old Harbor Ad NS-18 November 18,1986 c. mid 1700, 1747 owners : Barbara & William Finkelstein, mailing address, C/o Altman Greenfield Selvaggi Suite 1610 11766 Wiltshire Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90025 While it is known that this 1 1/2 story gambrel roofed house was once at the foot of Old Harbor Rd and moved to its present location by Miss Sarah Acker more than a century ago, other rumors and.mysteries surround this house. One account says that this house was built in 1743 by a seafaring Captain while another theory suggests that the main part of the house was a barn brought from Southold. Supposedly, at one time the beams separating the livestock's stalls were visible in the dining room of the house. There is also conjecture that David Tuthill (see David Tuthill Farmstead, Cutchogue) once lived in this house as it, and the village of New Suffolk, occupy land which was once within the domain of his farm. Posts, beams, and small windows typical of the 18th century support its antiquity. Whatever its actual progeny, the house predates the laying out of the village in 1838 and can easily be called the oldest house in New Suffolk. GREENPORT DESIGNATED LANDMARKS - THREE (3) IN TOTAL 12.-5-11 Fanning—Doroski House 210 Broad St November 16, 1986 c. 1810 owner: Gerald Doroski, mailing address same as street Built about 1810 as an inn at Steamboat Junction, this large structure was moved two blocks west about 1890. It is an important relic of Greenport's days as a thriving steamship harbor for passengers as well as fish and cargo. Post and beam construction blends hand sawn and pit-sawn elements. This is the only(known) use of the gambrel roof in Greenport at the time of construction and it shows an innovative ,practical adaptation of the local architecture style by the builder. The gambrel roof allowed for the full use of the attic story as income producing inn rooms for travelers. The old inn shares architectural elements very common to Greenport such as the use of a square shape structure three bays wide with a side entrance. The striking entrance consists of two pairs of Doric columns, a pair of freestanding Doric columns flanking the doorway and an engages pair at the extremes of the doorway. Sidelights separate the two pairs. Take a look and you'll find similar doorways in and around the heart of Greenport. Probably built by Joshua Fanning., this house has been carefully restored with a lovely porch that was added sometime after 1890. 39.-3-30 Frank (Sparky) Coyle 220 Champlin Place/ GR-21 Hay 30, 1995 foundations late 17th Youngs-Guerlain-Coyle House a.k.a. 675 Champlin Place owner: Ms. Barbara Ebeling, (daughter of Sparky) 145 Schooner Drive, Southold,NY 11971, Daughter of Frank"Sparky" Coyle The Champlin Place structure was once part of the home of Col. John Youngs, son of Southold settler Pastor John Youngs. There are at least two versions of its history. One, by former Town Historian Wayland Jefferson, indicated that it was part of the 1638 Jackson house on the bay in Greenport; the first English house in New York. It was later trisected, and one part moved to Champlin Place. But another history seems to have consensus backing. That version has it that the house was originally erected 1688 at the head of Sterling Creek, part of the large homestead of Col. John Youngs. Passed down in the family, it was eventually divided, literally, by two of the five sons of Deacon Thomas Youngs. A brief history in the possession of Sparky Coyle, a longtime owner of the house (1936- 1995) cites a letter of August 29, 1827 , which included the line, "Brother Joshua began sawing the house today." Half the house was moved to 2345 Main (North)Road in Greenport, adjacent to Brecknock Hall. This half of the building owned as of this date (June 1996) by Frank McIntosh is also on the Town's register. ' Mr. Coyle and his late wife, Ruth, bought the house in 1936 . "I found a thatched roof up in the attic, so I figured it was pretty old," said Mr. Coyle. Over the years the longtime president of the Stirling Historical Society pieced together more of the house's past. In the basement.stand oak timbers still bearing bark. The Coyles kept the house historically intact. It contained one oil and one coal stove for heating back in 1936. During World War II , ' when metal was going into tanks and not heating systems, they installed a furnace taken off a yacht in dry-dock in Greenport. It stayed until 1958. Eventually the interior was updated., baseboard heaters added and windows decayed (two of the original remain). The roof has been reshingled twice, the last time costing $3,500 which is $500. more than the Coyle's paid for the property back in'36. Otherwise, the exterior is unchanged. There are also accounts by the Guerlain family of their late 19th century - early 20th century life in this house. These accounts are full of fond reminiscences of summers on the porch, peach pies made from fruit grown on the premises and afternoons spent in the hammock. Several photos of the house from this period show that the house's appearances has not changed much in over a hundred years. 2 35.-1-27.1 Frank J. McIntosh Residence 2345 Main Road GR-24 May 31, 1994 foundations late 17th "Miss Grace Floyd-House" "Favorite Place" Oil owner: Frank McIntosh, mailing address 235 E. 57th Street New York, NY 10000 Appearing today as a grand Victorian cottage, the interior of the house reveals framed major timbers in post and beam fashion which is characteristic of the 17th and early 18th centuries. Yet all is not in its original configuration. The earliest structure was only 1 1/2 story and at some point a second story was sandwiched in between 1 st floor and the roof. The key to the house's history may possibly be found in historical writings generated over the past several hundred years These sources pinpoint the location of a substantial post and beam house at nearby Sterling Creek built by John Youngs a son of Rev. John Youngs, a town founder, in 1688. By 1826 this substantial home was said to be sawn asunder by the four sons inheriting the property. One section is said to be moved intact to the farm of Joshua P. Youngs at the head of Sterling Lane(now Manhasset Ave) and Main Road. If this house is the western most portion of the McIntosh house then it should bear close similarity to that portion of the house which was left at the head of Sterling Creek until 1901 when it was moved to its current site at 220 Champlin Place (Youngs-Guerlain- Coyle House). A close examination has revealed consistencies but also inconsistencies. Nevertheless, detailing and workmanship are similar. Perhaps two sections of the attic were built separately(and at separate times!) around a long demolished central chimney ORIENT DESIGNATED LANDMARKS - EIGHT (8) IN TOTAL 24.-2-24 Shaw House/ 1970 Village Lane H.D. -OR-108 November 18, 1986 c. 1730 Revolutionary Cottage owners : Matassoni, William & Valentine, Pamela 78 Logan Road, New Canaan, CC 06840 "Revolutionary Cottage," also known as the"Shaw House,"was built about 1730 by Richard Shaw, who later built and operated a wharf nearby. Augustus Griffen, whose father lived here for a time, described this house in his famous Griffen's Journal as "a two story double house, that is two front rooms on the road, yet not more than twenty feet rear or wide;very inconvenient as much too narrow for a kitchen...' A large central chimney with many hearths was removed sometime after 1917. When the house was renovated after the 1976 American Bicentennial, a front porch which was not present in early photographs was removed. Also since 1976 the central chimney has been reconstructed. "Revolutionary Cottage" bears an historic marker recounting how Griffen's father escaped from British soldiers one rainy night in 1777, and the legendary episode of one "Widow Shaw" whose funeral service turned out to be premature. 3 14.-2-1.2 Terry-Mulford House 30675 Kings Highway/ oR-35 November 19, 1996 c. 1665/1639 Route 99/R6ute 25 North Road owners; Ralph & Elinor Williams, same as mailing address with zip 11957 NY 25, Orient. Colonial shingled residence with saltbox profile; built late 17th century; c. 1700 rear lean-to and other additions and alterations in the 19th and early 20th centuries . Includes well cover and small shed on six acre property. 02 . 07 . 1984 From The National Register of Historic Places in New York State. Interesting clues to the house's long history were revealed during renovations and archaeological excavations. It is now thought that the house may date to as early as,1639. In his doctoral thesis, Stony Brook student Frank Turano presented the curious hypothesis that, in its earliest years, the house may have been the headquarters for a logging company. Perhaps it was part of the Massachusetts ` Bay Colony's endeavors in the Triangular trade between New England, the Madeira, Azure and Canary Islands exchanging white oak - for barrels of wine, then shipping those barrels to England, picking up supplies and English goods and then returning to America. Interior archaeological examination of the structure provided evidence that it had been abandoned for some time when it was renovated for residential use in the early 18th century. The original part of the house has never been electrified. It has remained in the Terry family since 1713. Further attesting to the early building date is the presence of White Oak siding. White Oak was used less and less for anything but structural members as the supply of this strong wood quickly diminished. Roman numerals are found on some boards. Archaeological expeditions by SUNY at Stonybrook indicate that "the cut out shadow of the original casement windows remains and lead kaming (caming) has been recovered during the 1990 excavation season." Various ceramics have been uncovered at the site- nearly 5000 shards were found in one season. 1805 land sale deeds describing the farm when superimposed on the 1838 coastal map indicate the configuration of the farm which included the house, carriage shed, utility building, bank barn with extension and two servant/slave quarter buildings. These two structures have been located by resistivity survey but neither has been excavated. In 1821 when Elisha Mulford II rebuilt the existing unstable chimney stack, he apparently partook of the ancient English Tradition of hiding an old boot and a smoked cat in the wall of the parlor next to the fireplace. 4 • 20.-1-2.1 "Terrywold" 36505 Kings Highway OR-48 November 18, 1986 c. 1730 Johnathan Terry Mouse Rote 48/Route 25 owners : Diane Alford, Hope T. Gillispie, Constance J. Terry same as street address for mailing Hope T. Gillispie accepting plaque Although this house has lost its original doorway, the east wing dates from 1684, and the main section from 1700. The east wing is believed to be the second oldest structure in Orient after the Terry-Mulford House. The earliest Terry on record is Johnathan Terry, Sr. who died in 1732. "Terrywold" is currently owned by tenth generation members of the Terry family and it has never been out of the family. However, some historians consider the main section(only)to have once been the Joshua Curtis house of 1700. Forty acres of property are still being farmed. This is part of the original Terry Farm House which included 100 acres of land that was later divided into thirds for family members. The house once"had a large quilting room which was moved to the Orville Terry property to the east and now used as a barn. The attic reveals pegged, hand hewn beams, wide floor boards, some H&L hinges, and ia dado/wide chair rail. There is a small field stone cellar under dining room at east end (what is considered the oldest part of the house). Some 9/6 windows sashes have survived with imperfections in glass which suggest that it was hand-blown. While some fireplaces have been removed the mantels remain. The south wall in the kitchen has its original dado paneling. In the center of kitchen floor is trap door opening onto hole with a 7' diameter. It is lined with metal and its original use is unknown." 25-3-16.1 Village House 1555 Village Lane H.D.-OR-104 November 18, 1986 0.1790 owner: Oyster Ponds Historical Society at same address Mary Lee Shanahan accepting plaque This building is now the headquarters and principal museum of the Oysterponds Historical Society. Augustus Griffen, Orient's early historian, lived here during most of his mature years operating a tavern in this Federal era house. The tavern was a stop on the Long Island stage line but the building also operated as a school and a store as well. In 1807 the building was enlarged and a second story added in 1832. Griffen died at age 90 in 1856. The house was sold to Samuel Gilson Vail in 1853 and enlarged upstairs and downstairs in the 1870's and acquired its present graceful proportions and picturesque ornamentation. Village House remained in the Vail family until its purchase in 1944 by the Oysterponds Historical Society as a museum for displaying the Society's most precious and perishable possessions. 24.-2-13.1 Webb House/ Poquatuck Park OR- November 18, 1986 c. 1740 once at head of Sterling Creek Constance Booth Inn 1440 Village Lane owner: Oyster Ponds Historical Society at same address Mary Lee Shanahan accepting plaque Moved here in 1955 from its second location near Sterling Harbor in Greenport. The house is much larger and contains more bedrooms with fireplaces than its mid 18th centuryNorth Fork which greatly supports the belief that this was indeed an inn. Augustus Griffen"s journal tells of Colonel George Washington, enroute between Virginia and Boston, visiting the tap room of this house when the structure was located in Greenport and called Constance Booth's Inn. Later the house became known as the Orange Webb House. Today it is authentically furnished and maintained by the OysterPonds Historical Society. 5 25.-3-8 Gideon Youngs House 1725 Village Lane F{ D.-OR-98 November 18, 1986 c. 1701 owner: MaryLee Larsen Shanahan at same address for mailing The dormers and bay windows,which were added in the late 1800's, tend to obscure the fact that this is quite likely the oldest existent house in the Orient Historic District. Certainly it is the best documented.• originally deeded to Johnathan Youngs by L.T. Gideon Youngs in 1701, successive deeds trace the ownership through six generations of Youngs until 1962. Structural evidences of antiquity includes a large Georgian mantelpiece, hand hewn beams - some boxed, uses of buttermilk paint, a succession of roofs from wood shingles to tin, to the present asphalt. In 1996 the building was renovated once again. The Methodist Church was organized and held meetings in this house prior to the building of its church in 1836. 17.-4-25.2 High/Theil House 22135 Kings Highway November 18, 1986 c very late 18th C or early 19th C. owner: Jeffrey High, Burton D. Thiel, P.O. Box 6, Orient NY 11957 NOTE: This house is under contract to be sold as of 7/1/96 This house is the outgrowth of a structure described in Griffen's Journal as "a low double house" (later) "enlarged and raised to that 2- story." It was built in 1790 on the site of a 1646 house which was one of the five very first houses in all of Orient. Griffen remembers seeing General David Wooster's troops -who came over from Connecticut to train in Orient - parading here in 1775. The handsome style of the house was built into it in the middle 1800's. 13.-2-9 Nathan B. Seidman 29215 Main Road 1989 form (no #) May 31, 1994 post 1872 Residence owner: Nathan B. Seidman, 343 East 9th Street, New York, NY 10003 At first glance the Nathan B. Seidman House, named so for its present occupant, appears to be simply an example of the North Fork's mid to late 19th century vernacular architecture. Yet, the influence of the picturesque and American Villa movement, inspired by Andrew Jackson Davis in mid century is clearly evident in the design, scale and proportion of the house as revealed by the roofline, wings and such elements as the Gothic lancet windows. Another indication of its link to the picturesque movement is that the house is not symmetrical but rather"balanced." The eastern and western sections of the house are different but combine to form a coherent, unified whole. This concept of"balance" sought to work in the same way as nature to produce an eye pleasing connection between architecture, man and the natural world. The porch, which also had its American beginnings at this time was supposed to provide a comfortable place for observing and connecting with the natural world. The Seidman residence has a large wrap around porch serving this purpose. This structure also exhibits balloon framing, millwork technology and industrial production methods which developed in mid century and allowed carpenters a wider range of possibilities to express themselves. This kind of design is in sharp contrast to the rigidly symmetrical five bay, center hall Georgians which were once very common to the area. When it was first built it must have stood out from all the other homes in the area making it an important addition to the architectural mix of orient and the North Fork. In what seems to be a common occurrence in old homes on the North Fork, However, the small cellar, located under the dining room and center hall portion of the house is constructed of field stone which suggests a much earlier construction date for the cellar and a previous dwelling on the site. 6