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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD o1 1
NEW YORK STATE PARKS ,AND RECREATION SERIES
A LITANY, NEW YORK (51 S)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.I. , N.Y. 11981
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community rev. Offices
IDENTIFICATION Old School Building
1. BUILDING h��(Sg
2. COUNTY: Lu1�I olk TOWN/CITY: o old VILLAGE: MattituCk
3. STREET LOCATION: ,44 4 .
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ private Cl
5. PRESENT OWN EP, ADDRESS:
0- L1SE: Original: C 4o Present: orage
7, ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC Exterior visible from public road: Yes & No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain By appt. only
DESCRIPTION
H. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: modern Siding
'). STRUCTURAL. a. wood frame with interlocking joints Pq
SYSTI:'M: b. wood frame with light members F](il' kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls 2
d. metal (explain)
e. other high brick first story
10. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good W c. fair ❑ d, deteriorated ❑
11. INTE(;RITY: a. original site R1 b. moved ❑ if so,when'?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
shed-roof wings added
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known ® b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration
f. other:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn El b, carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed 9P f. greenhouse ❑
g, shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features:
j. other: Ruland residence
10. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land ❑ b. woodland ❑
c. scattered buildings ❑
d,densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential 0
h.other: agricultural land
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Structure is back on the northside of Main Road next to the
Wines/Ruland house. The site is surrounded by many fields
under cultivation.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
The upper half of the middle section was the 1857 school.
-In 1867 it was raised and brick first story was built.
SIGNIFICANCE
I1r. DATI: OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: I R57
ARCHITECT: Ts2ar R_ Knwpll jr.
BUILDER: R T Corwin
20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
It is reported that blackboards still remain in the center
section.
21. JOURCES: M. Failey, Old School Houses Nassau and Suffolk 1976.
nterview - Mrs. William Ruland, 86
A History of Mattituck Long Island N.Y. Rev. Charles Craven,
1906.
Form prepared by Linda L. Harvey, Research Assistant
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Old School Houses Nassau & Suffolk Counties M. Failey, 197
Built 1857
No. t,
Route 25 on the Mill Lane Farm"
Mattituck, N.Y.
This strange-looking building is now being used as a storage place for potatoes, but the central portion
was a schoolhouse during the late 1800's.
The year the school was built could not be ascertained. However, Elmer D. Ruland, the grandfather of
the present owner of"Mill Lane Farm", attended school in the original building in 1887. At that time,
all grades, first through eighth, were taught in the school which consisted of two rooms, one big room
upstairs and a smaller one downstairs. Out in front of the schoolhouse, there was an area that
extended to the main road. This was used as a playground by the boys and girls. Sometime in the
1890's, a new school was built about a mile down the road and all the students were transferred to the
"new" school. The old school ceased to function as a place for learning.
After the school was vacated, the building was used as a storage place. The Ruland family bought the
property in 1913 and have stored potatoes there ever since. In 1920, a shed was added on the east side
(right side of the photograph) and in 1954, another shed was added on the west side.
from correspondence with Linda Ruland,
Mrs. William R Ruland, of Mill Lane Farm,
E. D. Ruland & Son owners, Mattituck,
N.Y.
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etcellettec and carrier! their pupils thr+ntgh higher grades, by the \Vines family. The present .;ch+Yo1-house was built ¢�
ill(fl�r o_ltt a lot purchased (,f 'Thmilas I:. Reeve, a part
the 1,atruna�*e +�f the _lradclur fell ul and it closed ill . � l ,
1S+)'. c,f the Revoluti(:)ttary "camp lot." In iFA)7 the building
]at rK'( to acre for a neer site for the 1I tut tuck was raised a store• hiLrllc'r. haven;; fotlr CY,Itllll+',dIMIS
sell+Y Y U ll1t' waslltlrcEaasc(l uI lial"11al,;lti Willes t+if 1-0(,111;, heated Ile' 'tc:altl• Silict' I+)it(, fmir" wachers liave
S275.00. This ]()t was next re s of the old sitc. T]Ie lice,, emplr,ved. The facnity f(Yr the presclit \ear, tg( )-7, P.
building evas erected tile Ircxt ecar, tllc plans bcittf� Made consists of Principal WIll. I. `wecnee, assisted by \liss ems+
,r Saidie J. Bailey, \liss \lar�arvt Nlcllenry and 'Miss 0
4 0'e Esther Leslie Reeve. Tile principal it,r telt e.ears preced-
ing lir. Sweeney was Mrs. \I. Alice "Taft, a woman of 0
• fitte character and remarkahlc devotion to tile interests
Of the sch(lrll. Cl1 health coml,ellccl her to rclituluish the P
Item°.- burden, and for a rear slue devoted her talents tY) a C+
small school at Niontauk. I., 1. `Ile is 11mv principal +zf Cf-
the Ilultlic school ;it (;;udctl C'itr• I.. 1. 1lrs. Taft 1 lain- 0
tains hcn>t'esi(.lence ill \I:tttitttck, slten(lin;� her vacations pp:''
in her cottage knoevn as "Jiirlc-a-wee.
lfattituck has :ill excellent private schrFr,l conducted t)
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by Mrs. Edward K. \T(wton. �
�- _After this little excnrsirm int(Y later years t+Y view the
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School as a whole, a-e rctlll•n to the days before the rail-
." road. p,elween Mill Lime and \la11Y,r Hill there were
then about as marry houses as today. West of :dill Lane P,
THE. SCH(X_i1 -H()1`,11':.
there every not utearly so nlatty as ttnee', Calvin Moore.
by Away L:. Ilowell. Jr., and Ills• contract f+Yr building the father of \liss Emily \lmwe. the present "Celipant, 4
bcin-g awarded to ll. T. Cm-win for $�r)t.00. `This, like lived in the ltultse at the head of \lannr Hill. 1•utltcr G. K
its predecesstYr. which yeas built in trim, "vas a single- Tuthill's house was built later• ht• his father. C�h:tnncev �
1-11- scltr�<-1-lu,ttsc, ;tut+1 served less til;lat telt dears. In 1V. Where George I. Tuthill's neer- llottsc stands was
ISG; it ryas raised 111(1 :t brick ha;ement was built 1111der the Immo ,,#Tis grauulfatbcr, lc;sc i lallncl: Tuthill, { ht
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it. T}tcrea€ter two r-oum were tilled, with two teachers. the south side of the road, a little west of IElijall`s Lane.
This bllildin was nccu lied until 18()C), and stands sante lived the Widow ( )n Garel per`s Neck. reached
(lista,,(( hard: front the Itigllevae (�1�prolterty repurchased I,v a long lalle. ttr,w T.octust street, was the hrYnle (,f t yen.
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