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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHanlon 001' Uniqo, U'T y kodo 0 7 " iVAr&fit APPLICATION FOR LISTING ON THE SOUTHOLD TOWN REGISTER OF DESIGNATED LANDMARKS Date of application: � �" �-21-6 Owner's Name: 6n� Owner's address: Z� 714'--I-�AIn/ /?,o zip , Owner's phone# 0/ Owner's email PROPOSED LANDMARK DETAILS Address: �� Oi9//v kCQ413 ��f</1lT' �Jl� zip otapie features of building and site. i A M iZ7- /" � e,0n. 1W . Torr 104, r „ Why should this property be designated a Southold Town Landmark? w el pr HPC LANDMARK STATUS INITIAL APPLICATION Page 1 The following additional information would be helpful if known: IP6 V 05 pq IV410 Date(s) of initial construction: Name of architect: t'w Name of builder: Architectural/historic importance: Signature of Applicant: Date: 7-6 -�6 This completed form should be delivered or mailed to the HPC Administrative Assistant, Building Department,Town Hall Annex, PO Box 1179, Southold, NY 11971 Date received by admin: HPC LANDMARK STATUS INITIAL APPLICATION Page 2 Dwyer, Tracey From: tedwebbl <tedwebbl@optonline.net> Sent: Friday, July 03, 2020 6:38 AM To: Dwyer, Tracey Cc: Burke, John; Robert Harper Subject: FW: Our house Attachments: Notes on Young Farmhouse2.doc Tracey, Please print out this memo, and the attachment, to add to the Hanlon file. Thanks, Ted Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Robert Hanlon <robertehanlon@gmail.com> Date: 7/2/20 12:49 (GMT-05:00) To: Ted Webb <tedwebb 1 @optonline.net>, Robert Harper<rharperl @optonline.net> Subject: Our house Thanks much for your time and interest in helping add our home to the historic register. Listening to you as we inspected was illuminating. Attached is a revised version of our house notes, including things we have learned since 2011 and some of your comments. Bob & Jessica Robert Hanlon robertehanlon nnnil,corn (631) 765-8364 (H) (917) 951-4944 (C) Notes on the George Young Farmhouse* The house was built sometime between 1850 and 1870 by one of the many offspring of the Young family, an original North Fork settler clan. It was a basic foursquare farmhouse—four rooms downstairs (front and back parlors, dining room and small kitchen; probably had a center hall connecting all) and four bedrooms rooms upstairs. Several stoves fed into a central chimney (now closed up) that heated the house and may have been used for cooking. The house was the hub of a farm that encompassed a significant area on both sides of Main Road. There was a barn and other outbuildings behind the house. These were still here through the 1960s as can be seen in aerial photos at historicaerials.com. Sometime between 1905 and 1915, the house was "modernized," from farmhouse to neo-colonial. The center hall was removed, and an elegant curved wall shaped the dining room. The front and back parlor were joined into one large living room. The main staircase was redone (but still too small to navigate a queen-sized box spring). Central heating, knob and tube electricity and a new fireplace were added. New windows were installed throughout, including new-fangled storm windows on hooks. A porte-cochere was tacked on to the western side of the house, the kitchen was expanded, and porches were added to the back. The floors were redone on both levels, oak strips in a decorative pattern downstairs and maple upstairs. The house was probably jacked up and a concrete foundation poured over and around the original fieldstone base. These were the days before plywood, and the imprint of wooden planking can be seen in the basement walls. A few changes were made in the 1950s or `60s, and a library/piano room/family room (depending on your sensibilities) was added behind the living room. Around 1999, the house was bought from the Young family and modernization, Round Two, began. The new owners added additional support beams, replaced all the old wiring and plumbing, added insulation and undertook a massive landscaping project. Additional improvements were made to the upstairs bedroom areas, adding a walk-in closet and an en suite bath. But throughout they preserved the old moldings, windows and doors, maintaining the style of the early 20th century. Since arriving, we have made a few small changes, adding a mudroom and a full bath on the main floor, some lighting fixtures to reflect the era(s) of the house, restoration of push-button light switches (but up to code), a kitchen island. We hope any additional changes will add comfort but continue the charm that is an old house. The remaining property is just short of two acres. What was given up in land was regained in great neighbors, both families and farms. These notes are bused on information vd,e have gleaned in the years we have owned this house, and are founded on questionable sources and our oven imagination. We welcome corrective input ftom anyone who knows better. July, 2020 \MM\ \\ A \yA� MOMW` \ SAM s z _ .7 _ :?-:. ���k ..................... \ \\ \ \ \ v v vv v v w A A V \ \ IF