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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (519) 474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME:Tnwn of Southold,/SPLIA DATE:Noyemmbpr 15.1 5
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE: .516/765-1892
Southold, L. I. , N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
I BUILDING NAME(S); Tuthill Grathwohl Hous
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY- Southold VILLAGE: New Suffolk
3. STREET LOCATION: New Suffolk Rola w, side' n.• _ of George St.
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public U b. private
S. PRESENT OWNER: Grodski � ADDRESS:
6USE: Original: Residence Present: Residence
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes X No 7-1
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
8. BUILDING a. clapboard ;K] b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ 1. shingles ❑ g_ stucco ❑ other:
1). STRUCTURAL. a. wood frame with interlocking joints K
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑
(il known) c. masonry load bearing walls❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent K� b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d_ deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ h_ moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
Shutters are not original - porch balusters not
original.
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a,none known a b. zoning 0 c. roads El
d, developers ❑ e. deterioration
f. other:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn El b. carriage house 1:1c. garage El
d. privy 0 e. shed 9 f. greenhouse El
g. shop 1:1 li. gardens ❑
i, landscape features:
j. other:
16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land FXj b. woodland E
c. scattered buildings R1
d.densely built-up D e. commercial 0
f. industrial El g. residential El
h.other:
17. INTI,.RRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) One of the original
barns is called "Acker's barn" , after the man who originally
owned it. It faces the road north of the house. In the back
of the property, in a concavity, there is an old house with
outhouse, originally for the help. There is also a pond on
the property.
IS. OTHER NO'l ABI L. FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
2-L
,? story L-shaped gable roof house. Front porch with square
chamfered posts on square pedestals. 6/6 windows and 4/4
windows. Round wheel-patterned windows in gable peaks.
Brick foundation.
SIGNIFICANCE
11). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 18501s.
ARCHITECT.
BUILDER:
0 HISTORICAL AND ARCHITLCTURAL IMPORTANCL:
The house is lined with Robins Island brick.
Probably the foundation also is of Robins Island brick.
This house does not appear on the 1858 map.
21, SOURCES:Research in 1974 by Elizabeth Plimpton.
Beers , Comstock. Atlas of Long Island, 1873.
Butterworth, Marjorie Moore. The New Suffolk Story.
Greenport , 1983, p. 25.
Conversation with Mr. Grodski, Nov. 9, 1985.
Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, Research
Assistant.
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—1909 This house is located on the south side of Main Street and Third and is owned by
touched New Ben Smolenski, Postmaster of New Suffolk from 1960 to 1981,when he retired.
Islami Once the property of Daniel Griffing who took over the office of Postmaster
ern Long for a brief time from Jeremiah T.Tuthill during President Cleveland's adminis-
ed States. It is tration.using the west side of the house as the post office.
11 Third Street.
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William Ketcham Island bricks.Originally a Tuthill ho se,Fred GgrathwoW bought it from George
John Binns Tuthill in 1910 and live i here wii6 his wife Elsie,daughter Ida,their twins
Olivcr Horton Winfield and Wilfred,and son Calvin.On the north side was a croquet court,
Cornelius Hearn,Jr. the south a tennis court,and barns and livery stables in the rear.Grandson
Raymond Tuthill Peter Grodski now lives there w.th his family and is restoring parts of the old
Lawrence Sullivan d house oilhis own.
Butterworth, Ylar,�orie M.
The New Suffolk Story.
Greenport 1983.
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Real Estate ustrated
(Supplement to The Suffblk Times&The News-Review, August 29, 1985)
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AFTER: The Grodski Home, New Suflolk photo by Judy Ahrens
Restoration -- From the Bottom Up
By DEBORAH WICK Denise. "One problem led to another but we had to
It was warm childhood memories,such as romping keep on working." Almost every structural detail of
in the large hayloft of the old dairy barn or the many the house had to be restored or replaced.It was senti-
Sunday night dinners that his family enjoyed in the mental feelings coupled with the Grodskis'own com-
elegant dinning room of.his grandparents' (Fred and mitment to restore the house to it's original state that
Elsie Grathwohl)farmhouse in New Suffolk that drew pushed the couple to transform the house into a
Petery undertake the laborious task of re- showplace of their family heritage,
storing his nearly 140-year-old house.
But after two years,working single-handedly every The project,begun in 1982,proceeded from the bot-
day -- holidays and weekends included -- childhood tom up,"It took us the first three months just to clean
memories soon faded to the grim realities of renovat- out the cellar. And that only enabled us to walk
ing a dilapidated old farmhouse. through it," explained Mr. Grodski. With the debris
"If we had known the enormity of this undertaking, removed from the cellar, he soon realized that the
we would never have started," said Grodskt's wife, rotting tree posts supporting the house had to be re-