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Home My WebLink AboutMK-19 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY .r BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM UNIQUE SITE NO. JU'�- 10- OW ��-1 g DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD _ NEW YORK STATE PARKS .AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY, NEW YORK (518) 474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: _Fall 1985 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Rd- TELEPHONE: 516/765-1892 Southold, . , N.Y. 1.1971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southhold Town Community Dev. Offices w w * w * + • * . * * * w * * * * * * w * * w * * * * * * * * * * * w IDENTIFICATION 1. BUI LD1 NG,Nl: 1 Z. COUNTY: O k TOWN ICITY:_ VILLAGE: a ituC 3. STRI '.T LOCATION! bill PrJ;.jYM8111 MCA C,r'6Fk_ 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h. private X) 5. PRESENT OWNER: Cllm i l co (1Qr13 ADDRLSW,_� j . 6. USF: Original: `Pirie Mill Present: 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC Exterior visible from public road: Yes 30 No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain yes DESCRIPTION 8. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles M g. stucco ❑ other: `1. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints SYSTEM: b. wood Irame with light members [� (if kncrwvn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e. other 101 CONDITION: I. excellent El b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d, deteriorated ❑ 1 I. INTEGRITY a. original site K b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list ma.lor alterations and dates (if known): A porch on the N/E was added later. LITH 3/7 NYSDOT- Ma tituck Hills Qua 12• PHOTO:View from N/�W 13. MAP: Ugh ��` Jetty �,._. . CAas No fff 1y '. �y Promrty ' 0+1 �yti'.hsP ••. p Jll �- moi+, 84 63 APT .• rM!!Ul r � � •• I� M .......... O P Tawe"84y Shbre 01,1F JIM A 54 84 • � • v 4 A � �[ • •: ''fir£ 6 ~` r ♦•�*• r;l'+,� f 3� M K-1 9% s 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known b. zoning❑ c. roads ❑ d, developers ❑ c. deterioration f. other: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS .AND PROPFRTY: a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑ d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i. landscapa features: marina j. other:. base of win mi Ii IG. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land ❑ b. woodland '�l c. scattered buildings ® - d.densely built-up ❑ e, 4otnrnercial. ❑ f. industrial ❑ r sjdentia h.other: on M ttitucCreek 17. INTI-RRELATJONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an 1iistoric district) The building is situated on -the west side of the Mattituck Creek.k. A marina is to the south with several miscellaneous buildings on the S/W side. 18. OTHER NO'I ABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): This was a tide mill - an espe.cjally interesting type of mill. SIGNIFICANCE I'). DA] L OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: l 82i ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 20. iIISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: This building was described as "a relatively rare engineering structure'";. by the Historic American Engineering Record. Tt was built by 'Richard Cox trur ng the 1820 s and continued ter grind grain for many years,* - 'A bridge that once was-,,to the sou't'h of of the mill was•.de st royed in '195.5 t 21. SOURCES: 6uffolk Times, "NAttituck' s (old Dill Is In Exclusive Category", May 22, 1985. ; Craven, Rev. Charles, E. , A Hister y , of Mattituck, Long Island, Long Island, N.Y. , 1906. w )2. •rHz nor: Form prepared by Linda L. Harvey, Research Assistant 3 4 Collection of Nassau County Historical w './e 41.x"--• -•"'� - h_.,- +� �.,. Korten Photo • • + m cB cs� 216 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCr{. ` I Geo, W. Howard, was then 'owned and occupied by his G1 uncle, Bethuel. C.-q_ W. TT—•nrd'�t;rct residence in Mat- � I` � tituck was the house at the foot of the hill, at the turn of j est Cox's Lane, nwv by Will;^m '.-',y. This was originally the house of Capt. Gilbert Davis,_near the t mouth of the Creek. Mr. Howard bought it, took it apart, hauled the pieces from the Sound, and rebuilt the .1 c house in its present position. Where Luther B. Cox .. lives was Lewis Goldsmith, grandson of the Rev. Benja- min. Most of Cox's fleck was owned and occupied by the sons of Richard Cox,* who built the mill in 1821. The "Oregon" road was opened as an approach to the ti tide mill from the east. From Cox's Lane in Peconic to N "Tusten" it was laid out in 1832, probably along a farm ' 'The author is indebted to Mr. G. W. Cocks, of Glen Cove, P L. I., for the following abstract of the Cox family genealogy. O The first of the family on Long Island was James Cock, who F-a owned a lot on the Town street In Southold prior to 1659. (see Southold Printed Records, Vol. I., p. 206, where the name is Er 4 misprinted Cook). He removed to Setauket, and In 1662 to ! 0 Oyster Bay, where his descendants still abide and whence his Z great-great-grandson Richard came to Mattituck. He died In +11.� 1689, leaving children, Mary, Thomas, John, Hannah, Sarah, James, Henry and Martha 2d James, the third son, was an- �+ cestor of the Mattituck family. He married a daugbter of John and Elizabeth (Prior) Feke, and had flve sons and five y daughters. The eldest son, Samuel (1402-1741), married Martha Alling, and had two sons and three daughters. The eldest son, T O 2d Samuel (1725-1819), married Jemima Powell,and had children, Richard, Mary, Isaac and Elizabeth. Richard (1766-1851) mar- ried Abigail, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Frost) Underhill, a O Ste+ descendant of the famous Capt. John Underhill. Richard was a farmer and drover, and frequently passed through Mattituck C " buying cattle. The region attracted him,and he bought the mtil site. Of the eight sons who survived h m, Samuel. Jolftn, ep ren and Allen settled In Mattituck, Daniel at oyster Bay, ---i Peter In the town of Flushing, and Charles and Isaac remained on the homestead at,Brookville. ti May 22,1975 May 22, 1975 i� 7LtIIkS 1�.�£ c . 1via ttitu z; " ONG iv"LUN Is IF? ExcluMilfe Category by Maureen Corkery (Ed.Note: This is one of a series concerning "Long Island has more surviving old grist windmills than anywhere else in the United States. ... There are also the six historic engineering and a remarkable number of surviving water wheel mills. Fourteen were visited and recorded by the Inventory, in- tethnological structures contained in an eluding four tide mills, which are relatively rare engineering structures." inventory of Lang Island's sites published EXCERPT FROM LONG ISLAND: AN INVENTORY OF HISTORIC ENGINEERING ANO INOUSTRIALSITES. reeaatly by the U.S. Department of the :nteriar,co-s iiso,-ed b the Society for the :. T`- ":` ' :"` �• po y S A.b q,I P'reservstion of Long Island Antiquities and the Historic American Engineering _ Record.) r, s Inclusion of Mattituck's Old Mill in the Long Island Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites published recently by the Department of the Interior places it in an exclusive category.Only four existing tidemills are classified as �4 "relatively rare engineering structures • � according to the author,John A. Gable, Ph- D., a professor at Briarcliff College. Dr. t~' Gable, during the fora`-month period from �` January to April, 1974, researched, visited, photographed and recorded a total of 150 engineentig`andiecluw1ogical sifes on Lang F. 0—Wan3-5dating before 1920, which are still in Y_ operation. They have become part of the ' ►"} r =a r I �}► . ,v; records of the nat ion:s past housed in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C< 77 rral lr ors ee�'P of Mittituck' in - researchittg the Ol s pas ,o ferMffiis information taken from an article in 'The M � ales � �: '� �•'- `a.i l3 -;'� rooklvn Times in 1900_"To a few,and very -� few, there are memories of the days when the Old Mill was an honest-to-goodness grist d><. r mill, when the farmers brought their grain 1a�r to be'ground into flour by the venerable - ` ' S ,-,� •^ miller, 'Uncle Josh"Tem`,who served his } .� ,4 " customers for over half a century._Quoting `;': ' the article, Mr. Gildersleeve says of the miller...-He is hale and hearty and will z - t doubtless end his stewardship in this, his chosen occupation, unelss the en - c:oachments of m aaprr r'z•,s re..uve .he ,Ol,pj hIIi.I.ih EARL i'TIMES.above,was a two-story,square-shingled building facing the rude wooden bridge which crossed water mill from its present position and the creek,almost from the south door of the mill. The bridge was washed away by a storm and a high tide around 1906.Shortly after leaves the grand old piece of antiquity only a that the Southold"Town Board purchased a second-hand bridge which was placed on the site of the former one.Operating like a tarn- - rnemo:y. Such a step, should it come to table,the whole bridge could be swiveled to allow boats to pass through,and required the services of a bridge tender.It remained them pass, rill create many a sigh among those until 1955,The:dill bridge was eventually demolished in 1955. � who have stood by the mill, searched its ; h •;g,tt t. I y�{r heavily rafted granary on the second floor, �. t ... 'Lt;7 r '�' ''-' ,€� * R 0 4-lit 7. = � ' viTitten his or her nam es on the rough,broad /� ' Q0 walls or leaned for hours over the bridge r v Brooklyn I inies to 19m. -To a few,and very c } few, there are memories of the days when the Old!Lill was an honest-to-goodness grist ` g a ' mill,,when the farmers brought their grain to be grouid into flour by the venerable miller,"Uncle Josh"Terry,who served his t` customers for over half a century. Quotir_g - the article, l<ir. Gildersleeve says of the miller_.."He is hale and hearty and will } doubtless end his stewardship in this, his chosen occupation, unelss the en- croachments of modern days remove the THE OLD MILL IN EARLY TIMES,above,was a two-story,square-shingled building facing the rude wooden bridge which crossed water mill from its present position and the creek,almost from the south door of the mill. The bridge was washed away by a storm and a high tide around 1906.Shortly after leaves the grand old piece of antiquity only a that the Southold Town Board purchased a second-hand bridge which was placed on the site of the former one. Operating like a turn- memory. Such a step, Should it come to table,the whole bridge could be swiveled to allow boats to pass through,and required the services of a bridge tender.It remained there pass, will create many a sigh among those until 1955.The Mill bridge was eventually demolished in 1955. who have stood by the mill, searched its heavily rafted granary on thesecond floor, � t T v 1 ;�. written his or her names on the rough,broad �. walls or ieaned for hours over the bridge ✓ railing and watched the clear, cold waters as t_be•: reached and with powerful force, _ �(; �••; �; y P' tore through the gates and propelled the } monster wheel whose revolutions in turn set r the rude and simple machinery in motion for grinding the grain".There are now (in 1940) few of these old-fashioned mills left on Long _ i ventions rendering it 3 Island, up-to-date n n i t _ - racticaily impossible for these slowing- x 1 -- '—._� -,— -- g g p t „ l _ ,_ : i+ �, 9� cin old lams to turn out sufficient work to ..,._ ,.... -•• - earn an existence for the humble miler. �� III FIB _ "The fact that these mills operate only t' when the tide is right, allows but scant working time, which adds to the loss, and �- '""'°'�^"': *�" a, '',•+ �� °, but for the the little farm which adjoins Uncle Josh Terry's home on the bucks of - .Mattituck Creek, the latter would no doubt be forced to seek other means for earning a livelihood.., Mr.Gildersleeve recalled that around the century's turn Uncle Josh had to sell the _ ancient edifice and that, for a time, there _'�- -' _ ""�"i"'"`=-- ~�'�'. `' - =_'+ were chuckles from some of the natives to F the effect that '"Ibe old grist mill was about to become a gin mill".Mr.Gildersleeve was THE OLD MILL TODAY Is a restaurant and tourist attraction on Mitl Road,facing the creek,in Mattituck_Hand-hewn beams and the gear wheel from the original structure,which has achieved distinction for its historic engineering value,give the restaurant's interior a rustic and quaint flavor.For the past fourteen years the Old Mill Restaurant,has been managed by Fran and Dick Holmes. It opened Tuesday for the summer season. photo by Scott Harris present at the public auction when the mill time later a porch was added where cnealc is on.'.'.-Play u, Lite tap room of the Old was put under the hammer and s9ys t-h9t the are served.Under the management of Fran Restaurant where handhewn beams a purchase price was $300. and Dick Holmes since 1956, the Old Mill rustic touch to the pleasant atmosphe He says the first man to put the Old Mill on Restaurant, which opened Tuesday for the the map as a restaurant was Otto season,is a popular tourist attraction known Magdefrau, who won many friends with for excellent food and drink. It can ac- both his culinary skill and happy disposition. commodate 175 persons at one time in the .•: '*� A brick chimney was installed on the west dining rooms during the season from 11iay side, bearing the inscription "Old Mill, through New Year's Day. 1621", making it 154 years old today. Some An old gear wheel from the original wheel Q0