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� R BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM Mk-55
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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKSAND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY,NEW YORK (518)474"Q479 NEC;. NO.
YOUR NAME:Tcztntn of Southold/SPITA DATE: Fall 1985
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Rd. TELEPHONE: 516/765-1892
southolff—q-.15.1. 9 N.Y. 11981
ORGANIZATION (if any); Southold Town Community rev, Offices
IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING NAME(S): W-TI, Rolltct)er Nn,ica
2. C 0UNTY: Sufi TOWN/CITY: VILLAGE: Mattituck
3. STREET LOCATION: Plfa-i n Rd.,
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private E2 V''
5. PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS:
0. USI.: Original: Besiriej2rsa Present:
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public roa% Yes No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain Y appt• only
DESCRIPTION
8. BUIL.DINC; a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL.: c. cobblestone [) f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: modern Sid ing
ll. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members A
61" known) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent Q h. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTI-'(;RITY: a. original site 0 h. moved ❑ if so,when"?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
Aluminum siding,
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known FX1 b. zoning El c. roads E
d. developers El e. deterioration F_)
f, other:
15. RELAJ 1.1) OL11WILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn 0 b- carriage house 12 c. garage El
d. privy ED e. shed El f. greenhouse
g. shop El h. gardens 0
i. landscape features!
j. other:
10. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land 0 b. woodland F1
c. scattered buildings R1
d.densely built-up El e. commercial ❑
f. industrial E g. residential 151
Ii.other:
17. INTI,RRELATIONSILIPOF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Structure sits on the north side._ ofMain Road between Wickham
Avenue and Maple avenue. Main Road (RT25) is a two—lane low
density, tree lined state road.
I K. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
2i—story, 3—bay, L—shaped gable roof house with gable end to
street . 2/2 windows and window with pointed top and decorative
shingles in gable. Semi—wrap around porch with turned posts
and sawn spandrels. Original entrance door with Tuscan glass
panels..
SIGNIFICANCE
11). DKIL01 INITIAL CONSTRUCTION:— late quarter of 19th century
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
'0. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITITTURAL IMPORTANCE:
This house contributes to the historic character of this
main highway.
21. SOURCES: Atlas of Suffolk Count Vol. Two : North
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lO 44 A HISTORY OF MAT'rI•ruCK.
i7, was succeeded by his only son, Thomas, who died - y
there in 17(,)o. This Thomas was succeeded by his son
'Phomas, who, dying in 1823, left the tipper half to his fF.
con ],ctljamin, and the lover half to his son Luther. A
Luther lived in the old homestead until his death in
1842 and was succeeded bn- his widow Elmyra who lived s Y
to be ',-'6 xears (-)f age, siring in iMo. The widow EI- -
mvra Reeve and her son Thomas scald this land in mane 31
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parcels ranging from r to 45 acres, about 184 and f
1855. Benjamin built him a house on the north road, II
and hitt grandsrnl Thus. Il. nrnv lives on land that bas
beets occupied by his family for about two hundred years. _
As early as 17ti8 the llliciclle farm, oil the sn„thern -
cnd of which WIn. 11. Pike lives. Nvas in posscssion of O .V
Barnahas "1 crrcll. l:ssl. Ills title cannot be traced, but
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presutna y he inherited as a 1\,Ce% descendant for t11e
first of the Terrells in tinuthold, f horuas, ntarr"I Bary°
the daughter of 1st 'Thomas Reeve. Barnabas Terrell;—,
Es diet] in t- t
an( appears to have been suc.cee�:le '<, l
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in ownership of the lower portion of this lot by his
Tanchlaughter Kcziah ( I lorton) R� ' She and her .r
husband, Dcacon Jnlhn Reevc,_Snit1 ,.1 t8o�to William
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the -randfat}1er of the present owner. Tile up-
lacy portion has changed hands many times and has been _
divided into very small holdings, inciuding the farms
of Patrick Drum, ferry S. Robinson, John Muttit, Pat-
rick 'Mctiulty and the late 'Michael GarveN.
The eastern part of the Reeve lot was owned wholly
or in part by William Reeve, who died in 1696, a son of
Ist Thomas. This appears from a release given by a
Thomas Terrell ill 1704 in the following terms: "These Ul �
may certifie to all persons to whom. It may come that I H