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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION
QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS.AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (518) 474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME:Tow>h of -Southold DATE:necember 2-3, 1.9$5
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road _TELEPHONE:516Z76 j-1892
Southoldp L. I. N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING NAME(S): Fanning-
2.
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3. STREET LOCATION: Main St-' nl1 Ai vT
4. OWNERSHIP: a- public ❑ h private ❑
.5.. PRESENT OWNER: Ben Smolenskl ADDRESS: Main Street
6USF: Original:Po,stOff i Ca (in 1898 * Present: Residence
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC. Exterior visible from public road: Yes No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain Private
DESCRIPTION
H. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f, shingles 99 g. stucco ❑ other:
V. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints
SYS,um: h. wood frame with light members
01' knuvn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good ® c, fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
1 I. INTEGRITY: a. original site 91 b. moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known).
Porch has been removed
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known FX1 h. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
1'. other: _
15. RLLATL D OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. harn❑ b. carriage house ❑ C. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features:
j. other:
16. 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. INTI-RR F.LAT IONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indjc3te 'f building or structureis in an historiS district) The house is situated on
a quiet street within the grid originally laid out by Ira
Tuthill (& others) in 1836 as a master plan for New Suffolk.
The houses around it are well spaced and surrounded by neatly
kept ,yards in the manner of the traditional American village.
I S. OTHER N01 ABI 1, FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
22 story, 3-bay1 side—entrance plan, gable roof Italianate
house
SIGNIFICANCE
11,. DATt_ OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: circa 1850
ARC HITLCi':
BUILDER:
10. HISTORICAL ANIS ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
This house was Post Office in 18981
Chace. Map of Suffolk County. 1858
21. SOURCES: Butterworth Marjorie M. The New Suffolk Story.
Greenport 1983- p. 25.
*Plimpton E. , Building-Structure Inventory Form,1974.
22. I'HEN117. Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, Research
Assistant.
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e-1909 This house is located on the south side of Main Street and Third and is owned by
tOltclled New Ben Sin olenski,Postmaster of New Suffolk from 1960 to 1981,when he retired.
[ertl Longi island Once the property of Daniel Griffiing who took over the office of Postmaster
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.
)n Third Street.
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the school was
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Er classrooms.
1907 to buy the
use.
War I Built between 1840 and 1850,the walls of this house are lined with Robins
William Ketcham Island bricks.Originally a Tuthill house,Fred Grathwohl bought it from George
John Binns Tuthirl in 1910 and lived there with his wife Elsie,daughter Ida,their twins
Oliver Horten 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 th-2re with his family and is restoring parts of the old
Lawrence Sullivan house on his own.
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Butterworth Marjorie M. The New Suffolk Story.
Greenport 1981.