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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
UNIQUE SITE NO,
DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY,NEW YORK (518)474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME: Town Qf So dhold/SPLIA DATE: Fes?_ 1985
Town Fall, Mein Rd .
YOUR ADDRESS: Southold , L.I. +N.Y. TELEPHONE: .56 _765-1E
1.1971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING NAME(S): _ DPPetri e atomO —
2. COUNTY: Suffolk _ TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Matti tip rk
3. STREET LOCATION:Sound Ave.: N. , ),. e - Ar _LiPep fqt:..
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h private I
5. PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS:
0. USE: Original: Cornmere1a7 Present:
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC. Exterior visible from public road: Yes Nu ❑
Interior accessible: Explain -RIr t . () lam_
DESCRIPTION
S. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ i. shingles X7 g. stucco ❑ other:
1). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: b- wood frame with light members K]
(if kntwn) c. masonry load bearing walls El
d. metal (explain)
e, other
10. CONDITION: a- excellent ❑ b, good 11 c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTFGRITY- a. original rile ❑ b, moved EX if so,when? 1qBLane
c. list.major alterations and dates (if known): by Riley
Store fronts converted for residential use.
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known$l b.zoning❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. other: C,
15, RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features:
j_ other:
Ila. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land ❑ b. woodland ❑
c,scattered buildings$I
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial 12
f_ industrial ❑ g. residential C$
h.other:
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Building sits on Sound Avenue among several residential
and commercial structures .
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
2 story, low hipped roof, 3—bay commercial building with
cornice elevated to conceal roof angle . Building divided
into several apartments.
SIGNIFICANCE
11). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: Late 19th century
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
'R HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
A rare survivor of a typical old commercial building with
"false front" .
Interview with Donald Gildersleeve indicated building was
moved from Highway 48 when it was widened . ( ?) Another source
states that it was moved from Love Vane (west gide ) in 1930' s
by Geo.and Will Riley and converted by them for residential
use.
I. SOURCES: Interview with Mrs. Sheila. Wirsing Feb. 1986.
Interview with Donald Gildersleeve October 1985 .
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Form prepared by Linda L. Harvey, }research Assistant .
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The Har DePetrisfruit and stationery store oar the west side of Love Lane was a Mattituck
fixture for many years. Mr. DePetris was one of. Mat'ituck s I ling entrepreneurs; his enterprises
included a confectionery store, a trucking company and real estate interests.
across Lave Lane from the Gilder- "butcher shop gang"of 50 and more century.In 1903,according to one of a
sleeve Emporium, was moved many years ago played cards in the back group of old picture postcards Judge
years a odown the*slre"et and around room, is now Lois Barker's gift and Tuthill passed around at the meeting,
the corner to become J=Ws restau-, greetin sap. it wwas situated in a nondescript frame
rant. Its sizable secostory too "Mine host'n those days, the building on the southwest corner of
scene of concertsand dances at the judge recalled,,was Mr. Riley, pro- Love Lane and Railroad Avenue, the
prietor of the Mattitucx House and alternative name of that portion of
former location, became the meeting
place of the local Lions,Gun Club and competitor of .lack Zenzius in the Pike Street between the Lane and
other groups.)The one-time Reeve & livery business. They vented rigs to Westphalia Road.At varying times,it
Hail meat market, where the locals and to visitors, including was in the Gildersleeve stone and
"drummers" who came by train to Library Hall as well as sedera:' other
- Mattituck to make the rounds of their buildings on Love Lane.
customers. They also boarded other The library. started in 1903 with
1 I people's horses and once each year, 450 books and Elmer Tuthill as the
the Riley livery brought in two first librarian, moved three years
carlo -y-burners`° which later to Library Hall and is now
lex ... were offered for sale, ensconced in a modern building on
Successive federal admin- the Main Road where the Mattituck .
istrations, Republican and Demo- 2ubiic school stood €or-t�wears,
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cratic, have played hopscotch with Mattituck's first bank gestated-an Lib-
Mattituck's post office over the years. racy Hail, where cashier Ernest
It has been relocated at least a Corwin and a single teller served its
# half-dozen times since the turn of the patrons; some 60-odd years ago
I
K'ranx volae To Louise Schmidt,
�- Overbrook St., ROEnoke, $8,000.
Frank Schlegel, Jr. to Goodyear
Homes Inc., Sylvan Dr., Wading
t' River, $12,000.
and Love. Lane, in 19D7, is 0 Leo Bujnicki to Donald Buniski,
:lode the LIRR freight house { L 15 M 5259 (Tide Woods), $24,000
nd the James vethe James Ye r� Joseph. Manzi to Rockhall Con-
pota o pac cmg ware ot�se, Is W n RivIncer,
L 1200. M 1210
g' Wading River, $8:7�OQ. --