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Home My WebLink AboutMK-1 f30 HISTORIC AND NATURAL DISTRICTS FOR OFFICE USE ONLY INVENTORY FORM ,310,001178 UNIQUE, SITE ND. I DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD. NEIN YORK STATE-PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES -ALBANY;-NEW YORK (518)474.0471 NEG: NO. YOUR NAME: Town of Southold'ZSPLIA DATE:—�1 1985 Town Hall, Main Rd. YOUR ADDRESS: Southold , L.I . ,N.Y.11.771 TELEPHONE:-516 765-1892 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office 1. NAME OF DISTRICT: Hamlet of Mattituck 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOwNICITY _Southold VILLAGE: Mattituck 3. DESCRIPTION: Mattituck is a rich agricultural Prep. lying at the western end of Southold Town and extending in a narrow strip to the Riverhead Town line along the L.I .Sound shorefront. The hamlet of Laurel =adjoins it on the southwest. Elsewhere Mattituck is bordered on the south by Peconic Bay, on the north by Jong Island Sound and on the east by Cutchogue. Mattituck Creek or Inlet is an estuary extending two miles inland from the Sound to the center of the hamlet. Mattituck covers between eight and nine square miles. The bordering continued : 4. SIGNIFICANCE: Mattituck was the site of an ancient Indian Village. It was settled soon after the purchase of the territory from the Indians in 1649. In 1874 the hamlet , including a rambling settlement around Mattituck Creek, contained a population of about six hundred - mostly engaged in farming, as they still are today. The historic ambience of Sound Avenue , Oregon Road , and Main Road has long been recognized . Long Island Landmarks , published in 1969 by the New York State Of ofPla nnnl gCoordination mentions the "distinctive rural mood" of Route 25 and describes it as the Route 25 Area, "lined with architecturally important buildings." continued : 5. MAP: NYS DOT Mattituck & Mp.ttituck Hills Quads. HP-2 Nei-1 6. SOURCES: H.V. Taves , The Barns of L.I . , 1981. (Typescript) R.M. Bayles, Historical e c. es of Suffolk County, 1874 Rev. Chas.R. Craven, Historyy of attituck, 1906. W.W. Munsell, History of Suffoik County, 1882. H.I . Hazelton, fong Island-Bor&u--gliq and Counties , Vol.II , 25 . N.S . Prime , Histoa of Long Island , 1845 . R.F. Welch, The Gravestones o arty Long_Island , 1983 7 . THREATS TO AREA: BY ZONING ❑ BY ROADS ❑ BY DEVELOPERS ❑ BY DETERIORATION ❑ OTHER ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: 8. LOCAL ATTITUDES TOWARD THE AREA: 9 PHOTOS: See Forms MK-2 - MK-94 and OR-1 QR-9. J Historic and Natural Districts Inventor Form Hamlet of Mattituck 3. Description continued : hamlets of Cutchogue and Laurel are about three miles apart. The ancient Kings Highway (now Main Road , N. Y.State Route 25 ) crosses the hamlet from east to west. It is paralleled by the Long Island Rail Road , and a bit north of that a new four-lane divided highway, CR-48. The hamlet is mainly farmland but there are modern residential areas along the Peconic Bay shorefront , along the Long Island Sound bluffs , and around Mattituck Inlet. 4. Significance continued : The Long Island Sound Study-Cultural Inventor Subre ions 67 9, publis�d by theNassau-Suffolkegiona Planning Board , July 20, 1973 , comments on Oregon Road and Sound Avenue . Of Mattituck' s many pre-revolutionary landmarks apparently the only one that is still standing is the Fells/Howell house (MK-51G) that was built in 1766 in the heart of. Mattituck nearly opposite the famous Octagon building. Howeverthere are a. number of old houses dating from the early Ao0' s and quite a few that were built in the latter part of the 19th century. While farming continues to be the major industry, the arrival of summer residents in the latter half of the 19th century introduced a new element. A few fine residences that were built as summer houses are still standing. One, the Forman/Mattes place on Mill Road , is on the National Register of Historic Places. Another that might well be considered eligible for the National Register is the Frank Lupton/Norris residence on Peconic Bay south of New Suffolk Avenue . r i #3. DESCRIPTION The Mattituck Historic District is at the geographic center of the Village of Mattituck. Because of its strategic location, the iNfattituck �iistoric District KR bemay be considered to be + North Fork. Main Road, State Highway 25, enters the district from the southwest, as does the Greenport branch of the L ,R which was built in 1844. Before striking eastward to connect with the ea2tcrn towns of the North Fork Wn :-toad forms a wide juncture at the center of the district. with Sound avenue, another mator highway, once called the Kings highway, con- verging from t1 e west, and Love Lane, the busy, commercial street of the village snterir_g frcm the north. At a corner of this wide mento rsection, the mid-19th, century Pattituck Pre.3b.-terian Church, a fram structure with a ta!J zj'1rol stonda ac a !L1._'7,a k. 3"tivatad ciannally opposite, on the n02thea4t n _''der, ztun;s the ELttitu k `ctaFon, an octagonal, board and batten structure surmourted with an octawnnal cupola which was built in 1851. The main highway is ;:ordered for the mast part by free standing 2L story 1 th century frame structures. Vost of these were originally late 1?4h century residences and, although still used as residences with their basic structure unchanged, many new have a commercial component. a group of twentieth century shops borders the highway in one area.. Ample yards, large trees and plantings unify this road visually. The short, narrower commercial street of the village, Love Lane, is planted with fine trees and is flanked by one-story 20th century crick stores. The town's earlier 1;th century board and batten post office sits among these. The area to the west along Sound avenue is nor.-commercial, dominated by three 19th century church structures and a large, ;cell-maintained cemetery which is surrounded by a long white picket fence. This area of the district with its large trees and many shrubs is almost rural in aspect. There are three board and batten buildings in this district, a number of simple vernacular Greek Revival structures, and one 13th century house. r MK-2 S AQr 1 K 1 1 Howell/Kujawski House before restoration Collections SPLIA Photo by Henry Bookout Jr. , 1976