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Home My WebLink AboutMK-84 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY 84 BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM UNIQUE SITE NO. DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD NEIN YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY, NEW YORK (51 K)474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE:_ Fall 1985 Town Hall, Main Rd. YOUR ADDRESS: Southold, L.I.N.Y. TELEPHONE: 516 765-1892 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Town of Southold Community Devel ojampnt Office IDENTIFICATION 1. BUILDING NAME(S): Reeve house 2. COUNTY: Suffolk tOWN/CITY: Southold. VILLAGE: Mia . .i to -k 3. STREET LOCATION: New Suffolk Ave, ,,,,,. > I pL, Ar REt vr AU=_t `2rc2 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private 0 5_ PRESENT OWNER: Pim ADDRESS:New Suffolk Avenue 6. USE: Original: Residence Present: Residence 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes M No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain By appt. only DESCRIPTION 8. BUILDING a. clapboard EX b. stone ❑ c. brick '❑ d. board'-and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: lt. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ER SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members d (if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls El d. metal (explain) "e. other 10. CONDITION: a. excellent b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated 1 I. INTEGRITY: a. original site EX b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known)' Kitchen wing on weal added in 1800' x . _MW " 12. PHOTO: View from N/E 13. MAP: NYS DOT Msttituck Quad 27 t 4 , T } .•4� 9 �Vigh ,,aM SCh t, 25 + 3 x 7.7 rmtoolca 9 f O°•�• $1_ ` fake JE attl C n 11 1,iY 4 C - � r• l o �..xz a Illl � ; 4x '- •�r , , ` 2 +p 11 t!", w , n5 npYM , .,i _ 1.. r•• ++eIlk is nm • �`i R}I 11 Ip pN`z�li HP I `- -``• •- MK 84 N 1 t. THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ c. deterioration ❑ f. other: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑ d. privy ❑ e. shed KI f. greenhouse ID g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i. landscape features: j, other: Ib. SURROUNDINGS OF 'THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land ❑ b. woodland ❑ c. scattered buildings EX d.densely built-up '❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential CK Ii.other: 17. INTI-RRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Structure Sits on the NfW corner of New Suffolk Avenue and Reeve Avenue. The back of the house faces onto New Suffolk Avenue. This is a medium density residential area.. 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): The east wing, the oldest , is lj stories , 3-bays with single chimney, c. 18th century. Central section, 1820' x , is a Federal half-house , 2*-stories , and 3-bays . Entrance with sidelights and transom.)*iA;h modillions under eaves. Test wing, kitchen, originated as separate building. 12/12 SIGN WRAUV.S throughout. 11►. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: Mid 18th century, and 1820. ARCHITECT: BUILDER: _'Q. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL INIPORTAN( E: A handsome , well-preserved historic house that is widely admired . This was Florence Reeve in 1909. 21. SOURCES Map of Suffolk County, L.I . , N.Y. , J. Chace Jr. , 185b. The Boroughs of oklyn and Queens - Counties of Nassau and Suffolk, on s anNew York, 1609-1924. Hazelton, Henry . Vol. 1 , 1925 . P.710. Form prepared by Linda L. Harvey, Research Assistant . George Washington was defeated in the Battle of Long Island in 1776, and ;y subsequently all of the island was oc41 - 9 cupied by the British during most of the Revolutionary War, One British camp was located in r pP Mattituck during this period.It covered , �r4�bP— 20 acres along Main Road in the area of Marratooka Pond.Craven,in"A History _— - — w of Mattituck,L.L"writes: w PIM "A private lane,later known as Reeves Lane,led through the old Revolutionary �Fl camp lot' to the farm of Edward and �1 IrReeve." useT �-1 x V These two brothers, sons of James ltt 0 1 j Reeve VI, had jointly Inherited their _ lit ' W father's farm, on what must have been an outlying area of Mattituck hamlet. The main part of the village centered bd C?CD 0 around what is today Love Lane and the Presbyterian Church. , A On Irad's farm was his house--the left, or east,wing of the home sketched. It is the oldest part of the present house, of O tach Century construction, with ahand- twelve, small pane windows, a fine street having been built later.This may hewn oak frame,very wide floor boards walnut staircase and window and door account for the interesting orientation of 1-J W and wainscoting,pegged rafters,each of framing accented with turned rosettes. the house. Lfl CII which runs the entire width of the wing, Upstairs floors are wide random width, The Pims are doing the restoration of Go M tatt6tUtk. pfc-Rcvolutionary small original windows, two fireplaces but the downstairs floors are of carefully their house themselves, a sometimes and a random stone foundation. This matched widths of pine. This section of monumental task which has included a little cottage is typical of early Long the house rests on a foundation of cut jacking up walls and rebuilding stone fr. and Mrs. James H. Pim Island farm homes, and similar ex• granite. foundations. Much care is spent in amples may be seen still on the EastC+ End. The west wing,right,presently used as preserving the authentic character of the A central section was added to the a kitchen, was originally a separate periods—and centuries—involved. building which was joined to the main CD house in the 1820'5. 1n design it is a house in the 19th Century, ,Z Federal half-house, an architectural This house is on the northwest corner of C? . 0 style much admired on Long Island in the Reeve Avenue and New Suffolk Avenue early 19th Century.Clean,spare Federal 11 Instead of facing either of these streets, eF lines are seen in the entrance, its panel the house faces north, Into a woods Construction of the three � door surrounded by narrow, delicately across a secluded garden with a red brick 01 il�. decorated glass panes. Unusual care walk. SGGtI[1115 spanned tL1G went into the woodwork throughout this The owners, Mr. and Mrs. James H. I ry p section—tour classic carved fireplaces, Pim,have an 1873 map of the area,which 1 p i 1 �y t graceful paneling under the twelve-over does not show New Suffolk Avenue, the l 8th ally 19th Centuries � CD iy Zp m 11 • OD ti?