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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALIIANY, NEW YORK (518)474-0479 NEG. N0.
YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: November 20, 1985
YOUR ADDRESS. Town xall,Main Road TELEPHONE: $16/765-1892
Southold, L. I. , N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any):Southold Town Community development Office
IDENTIFICATION
I. BUILDING NAME(S): LOEW Estate, carriage house. _
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWNWITY• Southold VILLAGE:New Suffolk
3. STREET LOCATION: Jackson St., s+Y),. , �6T r- +t=��
4. OWNERSHIP: a, public ❑ h private l
S. PRESENT OWNER: Quinn 1971 ADDRESS:
h. USI•.: Original: Res ddnce Present: 2 ouSe
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC. Exterior visible front public road: Yes X1 No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
8. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick El d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles '❑ g. stucco ❑ other: vertical boarding
't. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members PP
(if known) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e, other
10. CONDITION: :t- excellent 14 b_ good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
1 I. INTI:GRI TY: a. original site ❑ b. moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
The only LOEW structur6sthat remain are the
carriage house and the gate posts of rusti-
Barn- Gated concrete blocks.
12. PHOTO. Front-from the north 13. MAP: N.Y.S. DOT Southampton Quad
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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 b, carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features:
I. other:
Ifi. 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 ❑
h.other:
17. 1NTI-RRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
In New Suffolk Historic District. A low density waterfront
residential area.
18. OTHER NOT ABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
&rriage house is 11 story, with simulated thatched gable
roof and dormers. Sliding barn doors have articulated
stick style design.
SIGNIFICANCE
IQ. DATL OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1899
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
The Loew Estate was one of the important landmarks in New
Suffolk before it was torn down. The remaining features
are important in one phase of New Suffolk history.
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21. SOURCES: Butterworth Marjorie M. The New Suffolk Story.
Greenport 1983, pp. 19,20.
The Suffolk Times 9/2/71
22. Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, Research
Assistant
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The Turret Tumbles "haunted house" as people,
mindful of the money rumored to
have been buried there, tried to
ferret out its secrets.
_ No one ever found any money
or secrets- But it was observed
that Lulu's financial manager
lived very comfortably.Over the
years as the grass and shrubs
grew into a tangle on what were
once velvety lawns the house took
on a forbidding look.
p
But it was its stately proportion
Hugh Quinn fell in love with. He
bought it, sixyearsago. A retired
building code engineer for New
York he had some ideas and
1 consulted architectsonhow best to
P restore it.
1 / With 12 bedrooms and to
R j`�lai fireplaces it would have been
Y " *k3 prohibitive to maintain and Mrs.
travagance. She clamped down Quinn shuddered at the
by Ronnie Wacker on family expenditures, even housework entailed. Mr. Quinn
Like many other people, Hugh stepping in to prevent the judge thought he might explore the
Quinn admired the turreted, from slipping, a carpenter a possibilities of eliminating the
brooding mansion atop the hill quarter tip." The family in- 2nd and 3rd floors, reducing the
formed by Jackson and New creasingly shut itself away from building to its granite-faced stone
Suffolk Avenues in New Suffolk. the world. first floor. But it soon ecame
He thought, as others had before Miserliness was so ingrained in evident that it could not be
him, of the satisfaction it would the children that they continued successfully redesigned because
be to restore it to its Victorian the same Spartan life avers after doors and windows couldn't be
splendor. they inherited all the family changed in walls that were 16
&at - unlike the others, - Hugh wealth. inches thick.
Quiian bought it.And thus set off a Neighbors tell of Lulu's at- Looters looking for hidden
r six+ear adventure that took him tempts to save pennies by treasure became bolder, walked
i through an architectural cooking cauliflower 'ieaves as off with.the French and ltalisn
labfrinth of plans-and blueprints vegetables and hoarding peanut furniture, the Tiffany than- !
and.finally to the sad decision to shells for kindling. deliers, and imported rugs. Mr.
` to it down. One year when repaars to the Quinn said he has even seen a
Veen Mr. Quinn bought "the house had accumulated to the chandelier in a nea4hed
ome.
calle" as his 14 grandchildren point that they couldn't be put off
call; it, many stories were told any longer, Miss Lulu asked her Then one day whe was
about it around in New Suffolk. It trusted family friend, Mr. checking over theunds he
wa4 supposed to have $5 million 'fluston, if he would advise her, found a spoon withence of
buried somewhere in its many Mr. Houston suggested that the drugs.
secret places. weeds which had grown up. "That did it for he said
Judge and Mrs. Frederi around the house were a fire and he called in theckers.
Loew had built it in 1899 as their hazard to be taken care of before What he plans nowo build a
A mme me. They also had anything else. trim 3 - bedroomuse for
hordes in New York City, Paris He sent his handyman to the himself and his wife. ill keeand Cairo, when the only thing house. In a few minutes the poor the barn with its oril edmast people knew about Cairo man returned swearing he'd oors an renovateor eirwas that it was the capital of a never work in that place again. foot grown children want tofaraway place called Egypt. Miss Lulu had given him a scythe use it and redo theetaker'sLife was lavish in the elegant and sickle and cautioned him houseintoal?gYr e
homestead that looked down over against sharpening thea because grandchildren.
— the bay. Neighbors vied for in- this would wear them out faster. It was a dream castle, Mr.
vitations to the splendid parties. "And so the fashionable home Quinn now says--and it's hard to
There were a coachman and became New Suffolk's strange build ontosomeone else's dreams.
footman to help the handsome house, and inevitably the area
dressed ladies alight from their
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Fitzpatricks also main
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summer house at the
well as the original ho
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t home.
,.... Along Jackson Stre
' number of houses, soa
more recently built of
At the foot of Jack
Stuart H. Moore and l
. in 1900. Their plan w
11, and a clubhouse t,
noon teas and eveninj
! house, also including
porches and a dock ju
completed several yea
group of artistic and c
consisting of six or nij
The bungalows were f
Nokomis, Minnehaha
i By scrambling the led
was born and Kimoge
I Last Days of the Loew Hoose. then on.
Lulu and Charlie lived on for many years in the servants' wing of
the house with innumerable cats. Their car was used only to go to
church,elsewhere they rode their bicycles. Charlie was hit by a car
while riding his bicycle and died as a result, leaving Lulu to finish her
secret life alone, possibly dying from the effects of malnutrition
since their miserliness was well known to everyone, The final years
of the house were obscured by legal entanglements. When it was
offered for sale, eager and interested buyers were tumed away for
some mysterious reason. Though boarded up, the house and its
contents were vandalized before it was eventually torn down in
1972, leaving behind many unanswered questions and a legend of
bygone days. In 1920 the Kime
No longer in existence is the Victorian nous. built by J. Bene- Moore family sold th
dict Roache on the corner of Fifth Street and New Suffolk Brooklyn, whoa
Avenue. His wife was a McLaughlin, a family prominent in Brook- mately $245sea ohad r
lyn politics, and his sister, Carrie, was known for her showplace of these original buys
garden across the street. nity, additions and it
In 1883, James and Margaret Fitzpatrick built a house on the years, but the ex
Fourth Street, facing south on 200 feet of Peconic Bay, with a large built. The well-tende
carriage house on the northeast corner of the lot. The full-sized time
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Butterworth, Marjorie M.
The New Suffolk Story.
reenpor .