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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM MK-38
r DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION UNIQUE SITE NO.
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, L. T. , N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Dev. Offices
IDENTIFICATION
1. BIJILDING_NA E( ): Capt. Ellsworth Tuthill, House "Iris Acres"'
2. COUNTY: u o k TOWN/CITY: Southold—VILLAGE: Matt it uck
3. STREF?T LOCATION: !Ckham Ave. 1 N, sanir W . Of ytit(_ LI9,
4. OWNERSHIP: a. pOlicC,� b. private
5. PRESENT OWNER: r. eorge Semmer ADDRESS: _
0. USI:: Original: oat e arm Present: Horse arm
7, ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes 13 No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain By appt. only
DESCRIPTION
H. BUILIAM. a. clapboard ® b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten
MA IF.RIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ d. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other:
11. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members
(1' kn(avn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e. ether
10. CONDITION: I- excellent Cl b. good ® c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ - -
11. 1N'lI•.(iRI11': a. original silo :Kl b. moved ❑ if so,when'
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
Built prior to 1873, later remodeled.
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known ® b.zoning❑ c. reads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. other:
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: horse farm — 21 horse
j. other: icehouse
16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land M b. woodland ❑
c. scattered buildings ZI
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential 0
h.other:
17. 1NTF.RRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Wickham Road is a local 2-lane road through a major farm
area.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
22-story, multi-gabled ween Anne house with octaganal tower on
east elevation and 1-story octagonal pavilion with cone shaped
roof on west . Shingle) balconies on north side. Mainly 2/2
windows. Varigated shingles on gables, bays, towers and bal-
conies. Front porch with turned eave brackets. These brackets
SIGNIFICANCE are also found on 1-story extension on north.
19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: Prior to 1873 and later enlarged
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
Inter-relationship with community:
Ellsworth Tuthill was a well-known ship ' s master. Judge Ralph
Tuthill, a Justice of the Peace, held court in front room.
Judge Tuthill gave Wolf Pit Lake and surrounding land (at foot
of hill on which the house sits) to Hamlet of Mattituck in
1953.E N.S. Tuthill in 1909.
Beers, Comstock, Atlas of Long Island, 1873.
21. SOURCES: Judeg Tuthill ' s records and photographs (1865 photo
shows a 2-story house ; 1900 photo shows present Victorian House) .
A History of Mattituck, Long Island, N.Y. , Rev. Charles E. Craven,
pages 35, 46 and 227.
fHE SIE: Form prepared by Linda L. Harvey, Research Assistant }
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A II1S'TORY OF MATTITUCK. 227 ftp j
in t 86o, New York's population had more than doubled, '
and Brooklyn's had increased fourfold, the two cities
holdin- more than a million people that must be feel.
I:r-eil this Avonderful increase in population does not give
an adequate idea of the rapid increase in the demands of
the city market, for the increasing wealth and purchasing
power of the cities advanced even more rapidly than the
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RESIDENCE OF CAPT. ELLSWORTH TUTHII.L AND HIS
SON, tiATIIANILL S. TUTHILL.
papulation. Such a tempting market necessarily led the
farnx-rs of eastern Long Island to turn their attention
Ics� t) the old standard crops and more to the cultivation f
cif vc-etables for cit}i consumption. It was then found
that the soil and climatic.tcr>nditions of eastern Suffolk
Comm- afforded peculiar and unsuspected adaptability to
the raisiog of certain vegetables, such as potatoes, aspar-
' A History of Mattituck Long Island N.Y. Rev. Charls Craven,
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1906. ;
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. Southold 'town Landmarks Preservation Commission Town Hall, MK-38
Southold.
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SEMMER HOUSE OVERLOOKING WOLF PFT LAKE
Wickham Avenue, Mattituck
IRIS ACRES
Dr. and Mrs . George Semmer, owners
Barbara Jacobs, farm manager, 298-3239
House has 23 rooms : 12 rooms and bath - 1st floor
3 rooms and bath = 2nd floor
master bedroom & bath - 3rd floor
2 bedrooms and bath - filth floor
watch tower and attic - 5th floor
FIRST FLOOR
Entrance octagonal off circular driveway
Living room massive hardwood moldings
hardwood mantle with fluted columns with Ionic capitals
and plate glass mirror, in parlor
parquet floors
elliptical arches separating parlor from dining room
and alcove
alcove or sun room {once used as a courtroom by Justice
of Peace Ralph Tuthill, a former owner
small octagonal tearoom, now a kitchen
several older rooms belonging to the house when it was a
double home housing two Tuthill generations
butler' s pantry
woodwork throughout : door lintels with rosettes at either
end ; jambs with vertical molding; charming balustrade:
with intricately turned balusters
Cellars round cellar with brick walls and concrete floor
brick lined square cellar furnace room
Other floors
2nd floor: 3 becrooms, full bath
3rd, 4th & 5th floors are half-floors :
continued
Southhpld Town Landmarks Preservation_Commission, Town Hall , MK-38
Oouthold .
Semmer house , page 2
3rd floor : up a half-story (note ornate turned balusters)
master bedroom, bath with interesting turn-of-
century tub and marble lavatory
elliptical arch sets off parlor
carved hardwood mantle, oval mirror
fireplace (closed off) with ornate iron shield
many windows
4th floor (another half-story)
corners of plaster walls highlighted with
decorative woodwork
two identical bedrooms
small room (or closet) off one bedroom called the
"ghost room. " The ghost is said to be Nat
Tuthill, who plays the flute and makes small
noises.
5th floor widow ' s walk
octagonal tower; three windows with different
views
ceiling and walls sealed with narrow paneling
old chimney flue exposed
iron fireplace shield - low relief decoration
parquetry on floor
Elsewhere on the 70-acre property is an ice house and a large modern stable
Once this farm supported 150 cows . Barns burned 13 years ago.
Has been a horse farm for the past 3 years - today the farm includes
21 thorobred race horses .
PREVIOUS OWNERS
Captain Ellsworth Tuthill c . 1865 Moved here from Wading River
Was a ship 's master and cattle dealer
Nat Tuthill c . 1901 Capt . Tuthill ' s son
Nat remodeled the house, adding the
top 3 floors, c . 1900
Judge Ralph Tuthill 1950 No relation to the above Tuthills
Judge Tuthill was a Justice of the Peac
held court in the house ' s sunroom
In 1953 Judge Tuthill gave Wolf Pit
Lake, surrounding parkland and
road , to Mattituck and the Town
George Dickerson
Dr. & Mrs . Semmer
Note : Judge Ralph Tuthill has two photographs of this house worth noting -
One, taken some time after 1865, shows the house as a 2-story home
The second , taken in 1901, shows it remodeled into a Victorian mansic
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t 46 A HISTORY OF MATTITUCK. A
Thomas Terell Mason doe acknolledge that William twin tract or Pat
Revs desesed did formorlly purchas a pasell of saltte Buildings and T
medow of me that did formorlly belong to part of the Towt
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me but was within his the above said Reevs Range be- b hounded the Pond.. til
tween the wollfe pit swamp and his froont bounds."*
The wolf it swamp,-now a beautiful lake on the prop- road, near the
in
erty of Capt. EIlsworth Tuthill, locates the range of house, the same
William Reeve. This tract or part of it seems to have
been owned by a Daniel Reeve in 1736, but there is no
further trace of ownership until 1788 when Obadiah s
Hudsont appears as owner, mortgaging this property to
Jared Landon and John Wells, Esquires, for the large
sum of 19m In the mortgage it is described as "a cer-
*The above is quoted from the original paper in possession
of George R. Reeve, of Mattituck. An abstract, with more
orthodox spelling, is in Southold Printed Records,Vol.II., p. 147.
tObadlah Hudson was probably a "son of Richard, son of
Jonathan, of Shelter Island. Richard was an elder brother of
Samuel, who was the grandfather of Deacon Joseph, of Frank-
linville, the great-grandfather of Wm. M. and Jos. B., of Mat-
tituck. Obadiah left several children, and his descendants are
many and honorable, but none is living in Mattituck. Like `
others of the revolutionary refugees, he suffered financial losses
from which he never recovered, and his fine estate was sacrl-
ficed. He died in 1791. His son, Obadiah, who married Chloe, THE JA3
daughter of Jonathan and Chloe (Gardiner) Pike, lived for a
time in the old house near the Lake. 2d Obadiah is said The home
to have died at Commac, L. I., in 1846. 3rd Obadiah, born
at Mattituck in 1797,was grandfather of Miss Emma 1. Hudson, Reeve in 1825.
of Peekskill, N. Y., to whom the author is indebted for much been improved
interesting Information concerning the family. A grandson of
3rd Obadiah Is Commander William Henry Hudson Souther- way was inovei
land, U. S. Navy. He performed conspicuous service in the is lost again a
late Spanish war, in command of the "Eagle." Joseph, a
younger bon of 1st Obadiah, baptized In Mattituck in 1797, bad a Joseph P. Wick
distinguished son, Captain William Leverett Hudson, U. S. 1820.
Navy, who commanded the "Niagara," the ship that laid the
Atlantic cable In 1858. He died in New York In 1862. For a fele L'
Rev, C.E. Craven, History of Mattituck 1906
1940 Landmark Listing
MATTITUCK (Continued) - CUTCHOGUE
JONATHAN HOWELL. Patriot. STRAWBERRY NECK.
Western Mattituck. Route 25. Robinson's Hill. East of Village. Route 25.
JUDGE JOHN WOODHULL'S HOMESTEAD. FRESH MEADOWS.
Western Mattituck. Route 25. East of village. Route 25.
OLD MATTITUCK CEMETERY. WICKHAM'S CREEK.
At Crossroads in village. INDIAN CAMP. Of fifteen of them about town, this one,
SITE of the OLD TAVERN.. seat of the Sagamores, is the principal camp.
Village center. Route 25. Lower part of John Downs' farm.
JOHN CLARK. Ran the Old Tavern. THE SWEATING CAVE.
Village center. On new road through the back lots.
DAVID GARDINER. THE INDIAN FORT.
Eastern Mattituck. Near Manor Hill. Opposite Eli- Fort Neck.
jah's Lane. Route 25. MAPES' SCHOOL. Still Standing. o
DR. JOHN GARDINER. Eastern Cutchogue. Route 25. ►J
Eastern Mattituck. Near Manor Hill. Opposite Eli- JAMES LANDON SCHOOL.
jah's Lane. Route 25. Route 25. hd
THE REEVE HOMESTEAD SITE. THE OLD HOUSE. Dedication, during the Tercentenary
Village center. Route 25. Celebration.
BARNABAS WINES — 2nd & 3rd. Cutchogue Village. Route 25. t_4
Eastern Mattituck. Route 25. Eimer RuIand's prop-
erty. NEW SUFFOLK
IVY HOLLOW. DAVID TUTHILL'S FARM.
Northville Turnpike. West Mattituck. All of New Suffolk.
JOSEPH GOLDSMITH. Blacksmith. Here John P. Holland perfected his submarine.
Village center. Opposite church. On Waterfront. Goldsmith & Tuthill's docks.
DEACON THOMAS REEVE. THE DAM MEADOW.
Village center. Corner of turn. Route 25. Off New Suffolk Avenue.
HOME SITE of BARNABAS TERRILL.
Village center. Next to Reeve Homestead. PECONIC
HOME of MATTITUCK'S FIRST SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Frank Tuthill's property. Route 25. "THE CASTLE." Colonel Samuel Hutchinson.
GARDINER'S or DEEP HOLE CREEK. West of Peconic Lane. Route 25.
New Road through back lots. INDIAN NECK. Orchard of the Indians.
THE OLD CORWIN HOUSE. On Peconic Bay. South of Route 25.
Eastern Mattituck. Route 25. GOLDSMITH'S INLET and GRIST MILL.
JABEZ MAPES. On Long Island Sound.
Mapes' Neck. Western Mattituck, off Bay Boulevard.
COX'S NECK. PETER DICKERSON.Borders Mattituck Creek. Skunk Lane.
THE COLEMAN LOT. SOUTHOLD
Eastern Mattituck. PHILEMON DICKERSON. Master Tanner
WOLF PIT LAKE, Where wolves were baited. West end of village. Route 25.
Small lake at Nathaniel Tuthill's place.
SITE of the KIDD OAK. WILLIAM FURRIER. Formerly of Hashamommock.
Near Breakwater. On Long Island Sound. West end of village. Route 25.
MARRATOOKA LAKE. THOMAS MAPES. Formerly of Hashamomrnock. Town
Route 25. Surveyor.
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In Retrospect
The Legend of Wolf Pit Lake
- ' they had to pass through.
4 v`:As iyk'' As often happens, the children finally had their way.
r_ - �';�•� By 11 o'clock-they were running joyously toward the
woods,with Bion barking at their heels.
As the woods closed around them,and a kind of green
twilight settled, Bion's barks became a growl. His neck
hairs bristled, and he placed himself in front of the
children,and refused to let them pass.
+� The underbrush quivered, and two yellow eyes
appeared, followed by the grisly head of a wolf. The
dramatic events that followed were sensational enough
to give the lake the name it still bears today, 190 years
later-Wolf Pit Lake.
r If you would like to know what happened next,you can
read the rest of the story in detail in a little flier
researched by Judge Ralph Tuthill Sr, and available at
the Mattituck Hisforical Society on Main Road in
By JOY BEAR Mattituck.Sheila Wirsing is the president of the society.
The year was 1793. The Revolutionary War had been «
over for 10 years, and the British and Hessian Is the story true?
encampment by Lake Marratooka in Mattituck was a "I don't know," says Judge Tuthill, who knows the
fading memory. history of Mattituck intimately. "It is said, however,
About two miles north of Lake Marratooka is a that the last wolf in the area was shot in 1793, near Wolf
smaller a 111, w c in o en ays dtr Pit Lake,which at that time was close` toaarest."
the area desirable for a homestead.William Purrier had
settled there on part of a land grant which` d once been
owned by one of his ancestors back in 1675.
In 1793, Purrier was planning a business trip to New . -
York City. Because of the difficulties of travel in those
days, the trip would take a month or longer. His two
older sons, 17 and 19, were eager to go with him, but
Purrier was reluctant to leave his wife and two"younger
children-Esther, 11 and her younger brother Sidney-
alone for so long. �p
"Please do take the boys and go,"his wife urged. "We
will be perfectly safe. We have Enoch and Auntie
Hagar"-here she smiled at the two old slaves-"and of
course we have Bion." The big dog heard his name and
wagged his tail.So it was settled.
The men had been gone for about three weeks, and
were sorely missed. Old Hagar had fried doughnuts in
the shape of little men for treats. uncle Enoch had Judge Tuthill once owned Wolf Pit Lake, and lived in
caught a young fox and was trying to tame it as a pet for theig—house on the hill overlooking it.He later gave the x,
the children. Time hung heavily... but there was one lake and surrounding land to the Mattituck Park
bright spot in the week-a Sunday School to be attended District.Today skaters and ice-hockey players in bright—
every Saturday afternoon. jackets glide over its ice in winter, and old and young
Dame Phoebe Wickham had started the Sunday enjoy its sunny banks in summer.
_-71 School in-Tier home near Lake Marratooka, in 1793.
A Mat stuck c n atten e i le stories
About the house the Perrier children were walkn to
were wonderful, and it was good for isolated youngsters when they encountered the wolf,Judge Tuthill was more
to be with so many children. Esther and Sidney could
hardly wait fq-Saturdays-the highlight of their weeks. positive.
I remember it before it was torn downiz�1920�" he
But on this Saturday, fate intervened. Uncle Enoch
was sitting by the big kitchen fireplace with a swollen recalls."It was an Main Road, 'est west of the Mattituck
thicountr�s first sundae
foot propped up and swathed in bandagds.Enoch always High School, ani ane of Xschools was organized in it. -
accompanied the children on the two-mile walk to Dame
e oore Wickham, who opened the
Phoebe's. But on this weekend it was not to be. The Sunday School in 1793, was the 17th child of Micah
Esther had persistently urged her mother to let them
children were steeped igloom. Moore,and had been married to Joseph P.Wickham for go alone,with their big dog Bion for protection,but Mrs. only two years when she started her Sunday School...
and Sunday schools have continued in Mattituck - and
Furrier kept thinking of the mile of deep,dark woodland over the world-ever since!"
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Bred To Run With The Best
MATTITUCK— Running with Fillies show off their running ability at the Iris Acres
the look of the champions they standardbred farm in Mattituck.
P _ may one day become, the four
young fillies at Iris Acres showed
their stuff the other day. They
ran,darted and kicked in a playful
exhibition, seemingly unaware of
the serious work that lay ahead in
their lies as racehorses.
The fillies, all one-year-old ` ”
standardbreds, or yearlings, will
begin to learn this year the
technique of pulling a two-wheel- l,^ :.. j` ' ! F7,
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ed manned cart around a race-
track.As either trotters or pacers,
depending on the footwork they
use, they'll soon enter the world
of harness racing.And along with
other young horses still grazing .
and frolicking in other pastures, s,�, ,
they'll compete for millions of
dollars of prize money in a sport
that, more and more, is touching 1
the open fields of eastern Long do
Ishwd. �.
l Iris Acres, a 70-acre sprea State, there are about six stand- highest county in the state).
tha once elonged to .fudge ardbred farms throughout Long And because of more races and
Ralch Tuthill, a former town Island; together with the more bigger purses, New York State
ust�c" eTs one of three standard-
, numerous thoroughbred farms, itself is among the country's
br s 'to open on eastern they make Suffolk County of New horseracing leaders. It has been
'Long I u7 recent years. York's most horse-populated re- able to attract more than its share
coor ing o e-Harness-Florse- gions. (Of thoroughbred farms, of champion stallions, state rac-
breeders Association of New York Suffolk's 41 make it the second v
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Bred
Moreover,Long Island is an easy A separate washdown area has potato•growers in particular have
J� (,Z drive from sire stakes in New both hot and cold running water been in a serious financial de-
(90tinued from Page 1) Jersey, where the cash winnings to allow wintertime bathing. On cline.
1:4 officials say, which in turn are also big. The winner of the the sliding door to each stall "Just put up a barn,and you're
attract more -breeding farms. Woodrow Wilson Pace for two- hangs a purple bucket, above in the harness business—still
"New York is either the largest year-olds, for instance, takes which is a hand-made iron grat- grow potatoes too," he says.
[in breeding standardbreds], or home 50 percent of a $2 million ing. 71te barn, says Richard Tar- Then of course there is the price
the second largest to Illinois," pot. And then there's the Sl antino, who manages the farm, of a racehorse, which, depending
says Charles Knauss, executive million Meadowlands Pace for was basically uilt for looks, but on how much one wants to spend,
director of the Agriculture and three-year-olds. One-of the four also for convenience and comfort. can range between a few hundred
New York State Horsebreeding Yearlings at his Acres, Princess 1, Tarantino, a 24-year-old horse dollars to several hundred thous.
Fund, an agency that promotes who was sired by B.G.-'s Buddy in trainer and breeder who has been and. —Paul Demery
horseracing. New Jersey,will probably try out in the business half his life, says
Since 1960,when standardbred for the Woodrow Wilson next he is prepared to board several j]� ��r
racing and breeding in New York year. more horses immediately, even if -R
became organized,the number of Iris Acres, a picturesque place it means building another barn. (Cant' ued from ge 1)
statewide broodmares has risen fenced pastures that In the meantime, as he lives on la is alre y subdivided to
from 247 to over 4,000. In lead to Mattituck' Sound b s his Acres with his wife, Donna, nee/ ors would joy a
addition,prize money has jumped m eventually have as many as and four-month-old daughter, . bona/bed', tr-wildest
from a total of 5245,000 in the 30 to 35 horses. In addition to the Tracy,he'll go about the chore of dreak control of
first "sire stakes" standardbred four yearlings, which the owners fencing in the still-open half of the ad on whic�intend to keep as their own the 70 acres.races of 1961,to over S7 million in cabingle-f rfily
2982, In more recent years there racehorses,it now has five brood- Hailing fmm suburban New omesbu' Onehas been separate money for mares,three of which are expect- Jersey,the Tarantinos are having membtttee has
breeders too-10 percent of the ed to give birth this spring. to adjust to life in an area as rural also of
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y of those in.
winnings or up to $1,000. Operating as a broodmare sta- as the North Fork. "It's a wilder- o ition tupzoning
With the addition of the Mea-
tion—the mares are trucked up- Hess sees," Mrs. Tarantino said ably have s in lid that
dowlands racetrack in New Jersey state to be artificially insemin• last week,as her husband, dress- is not ye subdivided./'
to the several other facilities in ated—Iris Acres cares for its ed in creased black slacks and a Acc ding to a c(u"ty planning
metropolitan New York, this mares during and after preg- purple velour shirt,walked quick- "'al, however; the effect f
surge in the industry has appar- nancy, and for alts and fillies ly behind the family's own plea- zoning is ;rot neves 7y"
ently yet to peak. "There's until they reach the age of one sure horse, "Shenanagins," as one of deva g land,a east not
always roam for more horses," and a half, at which time they're he prodded it to trot.
sent off to be trained and sold as As a family in the horsebreed- over the I term. Arthur Kunz,
says Knauss. assista,# director,/of the Long
And the place where more and racehorses. ing business, the Tarantinos ap- Island'RegionaVPlanning Board,
more horses are being bred is The farm was resurrected from pear to be due for more companyXa thatast uupzoninA the
eastern Long Island. "Long Is- former potato land last year by of similar interest,as the increaseEnd alt s traditions "result-
land is developing into a great Dr. Jerry Semer, a psychiatrist in horse farms on eastern Longm gher land dues The
horsebreedin indust from Nass'�at�ounty, and his Island continues. According to
[ gl industry." says. re al la_nnin i pard supports
Charles Russo, executive secre- wife, Iris. Its focal point is a new Russo, of the Horsebreeders As- �omng eff sin Southold and
white barn with IM le m, a sociation, an even sharper itt-
tary of the Harness Haesebrced- � o et t d towns as a o
ers Association. c assy mo erne t ce t at steals crease could occur if existing o iesse a vele nt pres-
The Island's advantages to the glory away from the once farmers here were to take after sure n farmland, ;even thouinh
breeders, according to Russo and ma ill farm house,r many of their colleagues in other nz admits t t upzoning
the deteriorated walls of w tc parts of the state.
Knauss, are its'mild winters and 'could (eve ally) encourage
good pasture land, not to mention are half encircled by a weedy and The beginning of the standard- more buil g."
its proximity to tracks. cracked cement path instead of bred era,he said,was spurred on
Although standardbred breed- the canopied driveway of long after troubled dairy farmers were notes that in st Hampton
ing farms have not developed as ag°' convinced to transfer all or part of �,s Hither Is I rea,,.#he
quickly on Long Island as thor- The custom-made barn has a their land to the breeding of saint two-ac parcels that used
oughbreds, which include among dozen highly varnished 12-sq.-ft. racehorses. Nearly all standard- to.sell fo about 560,060 uncle
their ranks the'"Big E"in Laurel, cedar stalls,eight of which can be bred breeding farms upstate, he half-a zoning now go for ut
standardbreds are expected to opened up to•four of double size adds, are somehow related to $75 under two-acre 7dning.
blossom.A primary reason is the to accommodate mares giving dairy farms—many of them still outhold's'two-acre zb(ning prgr
state's sire,stakes, which grants birth. At the barn's middle is a coexisting on the some property. posal was introduced twos
entry only to'those horses who . uncemented brick-floored aisle Russo suggests the same could ago Y Councilma�John N3�ckles,
were sired by a New York stallionilluminated by a center skylight, happen on the East End, where alar a local r tar, '',Peo stipu-
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