HomeMy WebLinkAboutLL-3NEW YORK STATE HISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE INVENTORY FORM
For Office Use Only--Site Identifier
Project Identifier Linda L. Harvey
Your Name Town of Southold/SPLIA
Address Town Hall; Main Road
Southol~ L.I?, ~Y. 11971
Zip
Organization
Date' Fall 1985
Phone (51~ 765-1892
(if any) Town Community Develop,ment Office
1. Site Identifier(s)
2. County Suffolk
Reeve/Cain House - Selah B. Reeve House
One of following: City
Township ~ou%h01d
Incorporated Village
Unincorporated Village or
Hamlet Laurel
3. Present Owner Victoria De
Address
e
Site Description (check all appropriate categories):
Structure/site
Superstructure: complete__partial collapsed not evident X
Foundation: above below '(ground level) hot evident X---
Structural subdivisions a-~parent ___Only surface traces %~sible
Buried Eraces detected
~-~st construction materials (be as specific as possible):
Grounds
X Under cultivation Sustaining erosion Woodland
Never cultivated Pr---eviously cultivated __--Floodplain
Soil Drainage: excel'lent X good fair poor
Slope: flat X gentle moderate -~teep__ --
Distance to ~arest w~-6er from structure (approx.) N/A
Elevation:
__Upland
Pastureland
Site Investigation
Surface--date(s)
Site Map (Submit with form*)
---Collection
Subsurface--date(s)
Testing: shovel coring other
no. of units
(append additional sheets, if necessary):
Excavation: unit size
(Submit plan o---~-~its with form*)
* Submission should be 8½"xll", if feasible
Investigator Linda L, Harvey
Manuscript or published report(s) (reference fully):
(Submit plan of units with
no. of units
unit size
form*)
Present repository of materials ~0ne known
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Site inventory:
a~ date constructed or occupation period early 19th century
b. previous owners, if known
Reeve & Van Wyck
c. modifications, if known '
(append additional sheets, if necessary)
Site documentation (append.additional sheets, if necessary):
a. Historic map references
1) Name Date Source
Present location of original, if known
2) Name Date Source
Present location of original, if known
Representation in existing photography
1) Photo date Where located
2) Photo date Where located
c. Primary and secondary source documentation (reference fully)
The White Pine Series of Architectural Monographst Vol. V, No.
page 7.; Vol. VIII, No. 6, pp. 15 & 16.
d. Persons with memory of site:
l) Name Address
2) Name Address
8. List of material remains other than those used in construction (be
as specific as possible in identifying object and material):
If prehistoric materials are evident, check here and fill out
prehistoric site form.
9. Map References:
Map or maps showing exact location and extent of
site must accompany this form and must be identified
by source and date. Keep this submission to 8½"xll",
if feasible.
USGS 7% Minute Series Quad. Name NYS DOT MATTITUCK QUAD
For Office Use Only--UTM Coordinates
10. Photography (optional for environmental impact survey):
Please submit a 5"x7" black and white print(s) showing the current
state of the site. Provide a label for the print(s) on a separate
sheet.
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MA~,DALINE GOODPdCH
Town Hfstorian
683 Bayshore Road
Greenport, New York 11944
October ~ 1980
(516) 477-2090
Barbara Van Liew
Eaitor, Preservation Notes
93 ~;orth Country Road
oetauket, New York, 11733
Dear bis. Vun Liew:
In answer to your
that may help.
letter of October 3~ 19~0~
I have some information
According to the records in the Assessors Office~ this house in Laurel
was on the bo,mndary of Southold and Riverhead Towns. It was located
east of the Laurel Post Office on the north side of the Main Road. In
1975 the house an~ ~ences burned ~ leaving only the old barns. On January
5~ 1976 the house'was demolished but the barns still remain.
This property is owned by Victoria M. DeSalle.
I ho~e that this information will be of some help to you. At least you
will not be trying to locate it as it has ceased to exist.
Sincerely .
(Mrs) Magdaline"Mitzi" Goodrich
$outhold Town Historian
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Vol. VIII DECEMBER, t922 No. 6
FENCES AND FENCE POSTS
OF COLONIAL TIMES
By ALFRED HOPKINS
While bractisi.g a~ ,In arclntect In New York lot many year~, Htr, ttopbins ha~ dts~ned public buildings,
banks and country homes, and bas taken time to make a particular study a/aericultural work. He bat aebiewd
muck success tcitb bis farm buildlngs, for be bas given them a proper archl'leddral ckaracter. His book on 'Farm
Bul'ldingF ami bis writings on this and other sub/cots are well knou,n.--Rm*o*'~ Now
WrHEN Mr. Whitehead asked me tn write
an article on old picket fences for the
very interesting arid instructive IFhile
Pine Series of .4rchiteclural Afonographs, I ac-
cepted the task wit~ alacrity, because ~t gave me
an npportunity of ,,enting in public print a view
which [ have frequently had to repress in private,
that of all the various problems submitted b_v the
layman to the architect for his suggestion, the
subject of the fence, as it is generally presented,
is the most inane and uninteresting. Every
architect, I take it, can recall the incident of the
smiling and vain-glorious purchaser of a piece of
country real es-
tate b~:eezing into
hisoffice, and,with
a self-sufficient air,
saying that he has
secured a wonder-
ful site, that he
wants to do the
perfect piece of
architecture, some
day,--but not
now--and that he
is very anxious to
discuss iust what
typeof fenceought
to be put up in the
interim. It is then
that I wish breezy
people would not
think about fen
ces, and would
cupy my mind with thoughts which better please
my fancy.
But, in looking over the Editor's delightful
cnllection of photographs of Early American
fences and fence posts, man5' of which have been
selected to illustrate this article, it is very easy
to be led into a discussion of them, and a first
impulse is to incline one to the opinion that all
the possible fnrms fnr the American fence have
been devised, and that it is only the province nf
the present-day architect to make a judicious se-
lection; this certainly is the view evidenced bv
the most casual student of furnitnre design.
do not have time
in our hurried life
to take palnswitfl
the little things,
and that is the pti
cipal reason why so
much of our mod-
eFn architecture is
crude and ill<on-
sidered.
There is perhaps
not so much to
learn from Europ-
ean countries with
respect to fence
design as there is
from our own Col-
onial period,which
was rich in tbls
particular, Eng-
land has given us
excellent examples
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THE WHITE PINE SERIES OF ARCHITECTURAL MONOGRAPHS
entire economic historyof American agriculture in
the feat'es that surr, mnd lhe American farp~
tory of American architecture in thc F'cnce Pusts
of Colonial times. For is it not true that such
primitive and economical fences as that in the
holl,fe,.~,_l,~u, rel, Lonff Island are quite as typical
of the gene~ ~d~sg Of~hod~~ck
woods fa~er as are the splendidly designed
gate posts of the Oliver House in Salem, a typical
example of what the conscientious architect
would wish to produce, even under the most un-
satishctory conditions, and which fortunately he
can produce on those happy occas OhS when the
r/~bl ,~npdili,m~ r~re~ent hemst: ?e~ ~
ple~ ~hown in this issue of the Monugka~h Sdl~a~,
and that is the happy faculty possessed by the
Colonial architect of breaking up the monotony
of his work by a few well chosen spots of orna-
ment. The illustrations show us, too, how the
Colonial architect heeded the admonition of an
early writer on architecture who in the middle of
the 17th century expressed the warning to his
readers, "to use, and still be sparing of antik
ornaments."
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