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DIVISION FOR HISTORICPRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY,NEW YORK f ilk►414-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME; Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: Fall 1985
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, lfain Road. TELEPHONE: 516/765-1892
Southold, L.I. , N.Y. , 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Dev. Office
IDENTIFICATION
L BUILDING A (, Presbyterian Manse
2. COUNTY: Sur 0Y _ TOWNICITY: Southold VILLAGE: Laurel
3. STREET LOCATION: _ Oz-t. .6L
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h private
5. PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS:
b. USE: Original: rpsi dente Present: residen
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC. Exterior visible from public road: Ws-oxerNo
Interior accessible; Explain By appt. only
DESCRIPTION
k. BUILDING a, clapboard X] b. 'stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATI.:RIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f_ shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other:
1). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑
(if kmwnl c. masonry load bearing walls El.
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a• excellent X b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated
11. INTI=GRITY: a. otiginal site LA b. moved ❑ if so,when"
c_ list major alterations and dates (if known):
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known MI b.zoning❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. other:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn El b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g, shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features: picket fence lawn
j, other: structure close to street
16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land 1D b. woodland
c. scattered buildings [If
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑
h.other:
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
This structure sits on the junction where Old Main Road
and the newer Rt. 25 meet. To the east is the Laurel School .
To the west is Aldrich Lane.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
This handsome 2z'-story, 3-bay, side entrance plan Greek
Revival house has a 12-story, 3-bay gable roof wing with wide
facade dormer on west. 6/6 windows and corner pilasters on
main facade.
SIGNIFICANCE
1Q. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION:
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
_'0. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
See- CA-T- 18
�1. SOURCES: CN�'C6% MAP OF 5uFROLK [ovN-rry .
Form prepared by Linda L. Harvey, Research Assistant .-' !
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TOWN OP SOUTHOLD. 367
3fill TOWN of SOUTHOLD.
they give in they valued the body of the hoose at thirty-five FiBnklinville is a settlement of about forty houses, on the
pounds." The house in which courts are said to have been Middle Country Road, in the southwest corner of the town,
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previously held is still standing in the village of Southold, any' g p artl y in Riverhead. The L.L R. R. runs through
and forms a pati of a dwelling which was. new many years the settlement, and has a freight station for its accommoda-
lator though now sadly defaced by age. The old, church !
tion. Farming, gardening, small fruit raising, and the culti-
vation of root crops are the principal occupations of the peo-
probablT answered the purpose until the erection of new es of industry are extensively and
buildings and the removal of the county seat to Riverhead. pie, and these branch
The Hon. Ezra L'Hommedicu, one of the most useful and successfully carried on. A Fresbyterian church, pleasantly
enterprising man of his day, was s native and resident of situated in the midst of this settlement, was completed and
tdedicated in 1831. Franklinville Academy was erected in
his town. $e was born Ang. 30, 1T34. His grandfather,
1832, and the school opened the following year, which has
Benjamin was a native of Francs, settled in this town
been most of the time fairly sustained
in 1690, married a daughter of Nathaniel Sylvester, of
Shelter Island, by whom he had two sone, Benjamin Mattituck is a more ancient settlement, scattered over
and Sylvester, the first of whom was the father of Ezra. several square miles of territory, lying on the east and north
"He was called early into the public councils of the State, of)i ranklinville. Its thinly settled suburb lies in the north-
and for forty years without intermission his name is found west part of the town, adjoining Northville, while the main
associated with the prominent patriots and legislators of this centre of the village lies at the head of Mattituck Creek, about
State and the Union." He was elected to the Continental three miles from the western boundary of the town. The L.
Congress in 1779, and again in the years 1781, '82 and '83. L R. R. passes through the midst of this centre, and has a
From 1788 to within a short tim3 before his death he was depot here. The village cemetery, two churches, two stores,
almost constantly in the senate of this Mate. In 1784 he was a hotel, and a few shops are located near by. Mattituck
appointed clerk of the county,which office he held twenty-six Creek, or Bay as it is sometimes called,is a considerable body
years. He was one of the °'Regents of the University" from of water, extending from the sound, inland more than two
1787 till his death, which occurred Sept 27, 1811. miles,being nearly two thirds the distance across the penin-
sola From its sides a number of arms extend into the land,
This town presents almost a solid and continuous settle-
ment,from one end of its territory to the other. Nearly the forming a variety of irregular necks and points. A grist-mill
whole surface is oecupird by farms, and the settlements is located on the creek within a mile of the sonnd. This
joining each other in unbroken lines, are compact enough to water and its shores affords a field which is much resorted to
be pleasant, and still afford sufficient room for the convenient by the inhabitants of the neighborhood and sportsmen in
ls.-usecutiou of farming operation& pursuit of fish.clams, and wild fowL
Historical Sketches of Suffolk County
R.M. Bayles, 1874