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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM FOR OFFICE USE ONLY MK-16
UNIQUE SITE NO. 10310 GafZZZ 17
DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY,NEW YORK (518) 474-0479 NEG. NO
YOUR NAME: mown of Southold/SPLI,A DATE: Fall 1985
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Rd. TELEPHONE: 516/765-1892
Southold, L. I. , N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any):_ Southold Town Community Dev. Offices
IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING NAME(S : Cox/Forman Carriage House
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Mattituck
3, STRI+'T LOCATION: E corner of Breakwater and Cox Neck Road
4. OWNERSHIP: a. pyblic ❑ K private FK1
5. PRESENT OWNER: Henry Haan ADDRESS: Cox Neck Road
0, USE: Original: Carra.zge House Present: Residence
7, ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC. Exterior visible from public road: Yes ER No ❑
interior accessible: Explain By aPPt 11 only
DESCRIPTION
8. 11tlILDING a. clapboard 1E b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten TI
MATERIAL: e, cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other:
t). STRUCTURAL. a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: h. wood frame with light members EX
(if kntkvn) c. masonry load bearing walls 0
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent [A b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site b. moved ❑ if so\when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known): Restored in 1982
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known b.zoning❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. other:
IS. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn b. carriage house ❑ C. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed D f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i, landscape features: Cox Estate to south
j. other:
16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land ❑ b. woodland ❑
c. scattered buildings 7
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 next to the Richard Cox/Forman House on
the north of the property. The yard is beautifully landscaped
with large trees. Circle drive to S/W with small driveway
leading to the carriage house
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
Handsome Stick Style carriage house with ornate cupola, 1 -story,
multiple garbles with overhanging eaves and stick-work in gable
peaks. Stick-work banding panels on exterior.
SIGNIFICANCE
111. DATE-: OF INI'T'IAL CONSTRUCTION: 1880
ARCHITECT: hobert Bayley for 1982 restoration
BUILDER: Peter Stoutenburgy for 1982 restoration
'0. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
A most significant architectural landmark. Very few Stick-Style
buildings have survived unaltered. In 1909 this property and
Mattes house were owned by Forman.
21. SOURCES: Interview with Mrs. Mattes, October 1985
Beers, Comstock, Atlas of .Long Island, 1873.
Undated clipping from Queensborough Public Library.
22. rHF,%IE: Form prepared by Linda L. Harvey, Research Assistant
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Weekender August 26, 1982 Page 13 �
Attention to detail was carefully paid by original
owner who wanted his barn to serve a useful
purpose, but be beautiful as well. Ornate cupola
on roof serves as vent!Hating shaft for the interior.
by Maria Parson Photos by Judy Ahrens ;
When architect Robert Bayley drew up plans to restore the
quaint "gentleman's barn" he'd purchased in Mattituck, he
had two things in mind. One was to maintain the Victorian
charm of the exterior,an appealing mixture of clapboard and
board-and-batten walls accented by decorative trim on the _
windows and structural supports.The other was to renovate
the interior, which had been chopped up into five small
apartments,to create a comfortable contemporary home.He
began the work himself, but later was called away to design
the Philippines Pavillion at the Knoxville World's Fair, and
�� turned the job over to Peter Sto�ten�urgh of Environment
c East,a local company heavily involved in restoration work.
Built in 1 by a successful New York City businessman,
the structure was originally used to house a few dairy cows -- �-
and probably served as a carriage house as well. Great
attention to detail was paid in the construction of the barn.
Though created to serve a useful purpose,the first owner also -
insisted that it be visually appealing, since it was just a
stone's throw from his summer home,and his guests used it
to disembark from their horse-drawn carriages.
Architect Bayley, who spent most of his childhood
summers on Shelter Island, has restored other North Fork.
homes. "He collects buildings, things that other people
wouldn't take the time to look at,"says his wife,dancer Joan
Lombardi."To him they're beautiful,and architecturally he
just falls in love with old buildings -- though he is a very
contemporary architect." Ms. Lombardi recalls the
strangeness of their early days, when her husband was an
architecture student and she would leave for work from their
tiny New York apartment only to come home and find entire
walls missing. "It was highly illegal,"she adds,brown eyes
twinkling merrilly,"but I don't think Bob could help himself,
you know,the creative urge and all that.The worst part was
surreptitiously running up and down the apartment building
stairs all night long carrying out shopping bags filled with
what was once our walls!"
Ms. Lombardi, who has her own dance company in New
York City,recruited several of her dancers to work with her
husband on the barn in the early stages. Together they
jacked up the structure, replacing rotting foundation sills, �—
and restored the elaborate cupola on the roof. Besides being
beautiful, the cupola, topped with slate fishscale shingles,
acts as a ventilating shaft for the building and prevents the
build up of moisture on the interior. -T—
The exterior colors, an appealing aggregate of Victorian
blues accented with dusty mauve and cranberry, were
chosen by Ms. Lombardi, who picked them because they
blended easily with the sky and surrounding countryside,but
were a little bit different.
The house is currently for sale(the Bayley's already own a
waterfront home in Southold), but parting with it won't be
easy. Joan Lombardi Bayley looks at the grand expanse of
the main living room on the first floor and sighs, "It would
make a great dance studio... but my husband says no. After
all,you can't keep every house you fall in love with."
photos continued on next page
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