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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION UNIQUE SITE N0.E j'7-16
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NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (518) 474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME:Town of Southold /SPLIA - DATE: November 7. 1985
YOUR ADDRPss: Town Hall, Main Road_`fI'LEPHONE: 516765-1892
Southold, L. I. , N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any):Southold Town Community Development Office
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IDENTIFICATION
I. BUILDING NAME(S): Jennings House
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGF:New Suffolk
3. STREET LOCATION: New Suffolk.7,,4) Old Harbor &v , :5, Side
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ E private
5' PRESENT OWNER: Mrs.Frank Hagen ADDRESS:
0. USE: Original: Home _ Present: Home
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC. Exterior visible from public road; Yes No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
H. BUILDING a. clapboard 91 b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other:
Q. STRUCI'IIRA1, a. wood frame with interlocking joints �
SYSTLM: h. wood Iranie with light members ❑
(if kn(wn) c. masonry load hearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
II). CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ h. good X❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated Cl
l 1. INTHM 1Y. a. original site IX7 h. moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list ntailor alterations and dates (if known):
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known Y b.zoning ❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑' e. deterioration ❑
f. tither:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage 21
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g.. shop ❑ h. gardens C]
i. landscape features: small shed ca. 5' high, origin-
!• other: Wally make be leve wYn m1
10, SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land ❑ b. woodland ❑
c. scattered buildings DO
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑
h.other:
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
The house is on New Suffolk Road, a 2-lane concrete, tree
lined ,rural, low density road.
18. OTHER NOTABLE. FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
li Story 3-bay gable roof, side entran�4.afiouse ; gable end
to street with paired round-topped windows in peak.
4/4 windows . Has brick oven.
SIGNIFICANCE
19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: circa 1850
ARCHITECT: vernacular
BUILDER:
20, IIISTORICAL AND ARC HI T LCTURAL IMPORTANCE:
This house is similar to others that were built shortly
after the hamlet was laid out. The paired round-topped
gable windows are a local. characteristic.
Surveyed by El. Plimpton, 1974.
21. SOURCES: Butterworth, Marjorie Moore, The New Suffolk Story.
Greenport, N.Y. 1983, P. 27•
Beers, Comstock. Atlas of Long Island, 1873.
22 1>-ifqT Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, Research
Assistant.
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ously lived in
Ouse ill 1858 The smaller part of this red shingled house,built on a stone foundation,is one
L Their daueli ter. of the oldest in New Suffolk,although the original owner or builder is unknown.
9.who was an In the early 1900'x,it contained a little candy store called Aunt Marv's. When
it mother's death Howard G.Tuthill owned it,Henrp Seymour lived there and drove the horses
n continued to and wagons stabled in the adjoining barn. He hauled the coal that was loaded i
Pied for its from the barges at the Neww Suffolk dock for Goldsmith and Tuthill. In 1925.
an wwlndows and the house was bought by Joseph and Anna "Case" Lechnlanskei. In. 1961,it
e family so the was purchased by the present owners.Newton and Joan Rubbins.
fei,his wife t
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The Jennings House on New Suffolk Road and Old Harbor Lane.John Acker,
father of Captain Frank Acker,married Ellen Tuthill. After his death his widow
Hain and Fourth married John Jennings and mored to his 1101.1se across the stfeet—the white clap-
lawc (leen built board house with Palladian windows and a dutch overt in the chirltney. Mrs. Ellen
er. UuBuse, the Tuthill Acker Jennings lived here alone for man} years after her second
in New Suffolk. 11ushand's death. The present owner is Mrs. frank Hagen.
Butterworth, Marjorie M.
The New Suffolk Story.
Greenport 1983