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Home My WebLink AboutCU-7 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY S BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM CU-7 UNIQUE SITE NO. I d'3 DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY,NEW YORK (518) 474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: lithol d Town /SPIJA -- DATE: February 1, 1986 YOUR ADDRESS: Town HALL, Main ad TELEPHONE.516Z76 5-1892 Southold, L. I. N.Y. 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any):Southeld Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION 1. BUILDING NAME(S):_Andrew Gildersleeve House _ 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Snuthnld VILLAGE- Cutcho�zue 3. STREET LOCATION: JM,. r _n a side..%--! 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private S. PRESENT OWNER: Joan RowlandADDRESS: 25235 Route 25 6. USE: Origin. --Residence � Present: Residence 7. ACCESSIBI I I I Y TO PUBLIC' Exterior visible from public road. Yes 2J No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION H. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. Stone Ll c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ F. shingles ® g. stucco ❑ other asbestos stone Foundation 1). STRUCTURAL. a. wood frame with interlocking joints SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑ (if kntwn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e. other Its. CONDITION: a. excellent W b. good F-] c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site R1 b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): Porch not original..,.Rebuilt since, 1938 hurricane. Additions in rear, 12. PHOTO: CU—rsm VI-8 (FRgaL 13. MAP: N.Y.S . DOT Southold Quad From the south Enlarged. Cutehogue c � �S Sc G`o��ea•• CUtC130gt ``' ti� • Po BM 32 . 25Cutchol"ue 2, s v n n °'. North Fork "• •�y p Country Club vr — CU-7 14, THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known 10 b. zoning El c, roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration F-1 f. other: 15, RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn R b. carriage house D c. garage 13 d. privy 0 e. shed 52 f. greenhouse 1:1 g. shop El h. gardens E i. landscape features: Rarr—hoard—and 'hattpr j. other: shed—vPrti(,,q.l boarding 10. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land 0 b. woodland EN c. scattered buildings 0 d.densely built-up El e. commercial El f. industrial EJ g. residential 12 h.other: 17 INTI-RRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) This is one of the historic houses that line the Main Road on the approach to the Village of Cutchogue. The Main Road (Rte. 25) is a two-lane, low density state road. The rear of the property borders on a wooded area. Iy. M I IER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features it'known): Large 221 story, 3-bay side entrance plan, gable roof house and 12 story, 3-bay wing on west. Stone foundation. 616 windows and side lights at front door, SIGNIFICANCE 11). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION ARCHITECI BUILDER: Andrew Gildersleeve HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE This house was the residence of Andrew Gildersleeve, th builder of the Cutchogue Presbyterian Church and the Octagon House in Mattituck. Chace . Map of Suffolk County. 18 8 &4R.CF-S: Suffolk Times. uc-cagon House Builder An Old School Carpenter. May 23, 1974, pp. 22a. *Interview with Mrs . Joan Rowlands, 1/31/1986. THEN117. Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt , research assistant. C . U. 131 tq7z 0ctagon . Housel, Builder An Old School Carpenter by Warren Hall , �- `I�Wi Andrew Gildersleeve who co urn Is nd to anything 4 t�1�&ELL left many monuments, among r ' them the Presbyterian Church in Cutchogue and t e c a on House in Mattituck. But the one un er const era ion ere was his proudest because it was his first. It's a modest two-story home on Main Street in Cutchogue behind Ali which is an antique shop known as the Red Barn. +• r + t About his work he wrote much . ' later in life: "I never used any machine- worked or mill-worked stuff as &A _. long as I was in the carpenter THE FIRST HOUSE Andrew Gildersleeve built fin 1839) now.has the business (22 years?. Worked all + ` the floor boards and plank by Red Barn antique shop hi ks barn.Left,in its earlier days;right, as it will k hand.Worked all the moulding of be pictured in the New York State files. ' every kind by hand.Made all the sash and doors and blindsHe spent $70 of that for a tailor bhinyard worker, produce intersection and has become not maiden sisters, Margaret and :5 Andr`ew;-b�mlin 1Middle Island made broadcloth suit and the rest marketer and coffin-maker only a landmark but almost a Anna, lived there many years. r in 1915,was driving a double yoke for tools.During the remainder of (plain, $1; fancy,$4). trademark. About 1940 it was bought by Mr. - of oxen when he was 12, did his long and busy life, he was at After two years in Cutchogue After the Gildersleeves left, and Mrs. Kenneth Cadugan, who { ,� tanning and shoe-making until he various times a farmer, as a carpenter, Andl cw in 1838 their home underwent many set up an antique business there. was 17,then nut in four Years as a storekeeper, lumberyard owner, married Anna, the daughLe — changes. An addition was built, They wete replaced in 1959 by ` carpenter apprentice for which flour-mill operator, wagonsmith, Deacon James Wickham Reeve and even an addition to the ad- Mr.and Mrs.Walter F,Rowlands he received $110 in a lump sum. machinist, house-mover, an a oilowing year built her a dition. Porches were added and who had been in tha-same 4 house a few hundred feet west of removed. But it still retains, business in Huntington.Out came Alvah's Lane (which didn't then inside and out,the indelible signs the Cadugan antiques and in SAMUELKATZ exist).They lived there until 1854 of early and honest craft came the Rowland antiques and and Andrew,dabbling in his other manship. old Andrew's ghost probably just Licensed Real Estate Broker pursuits, kept his carpentry There were many changes in smiled. 736 Main St., Greenport, L.I.,N.Y. headquarters there. Oddly ownership, too. An 1858 Cut- Tel. 516-477-2468 enough, the husband of his chogue map lists it as belonging. Ten years ago Mrs. Rowland granddaughter, Mrs.. Corwin to Nancy Griffin while an 1873 organized the first Cutchogue RESIDENTIAL,COMMERCIAL,WATERFRONTACE Grathwohl, until recently map labels it the Congregational Fourth of July antique flea FARMLAND,INDUSTRIAL maintained a carpentry and parsonage. France's Post market on the Village Green, contracting shop only a plumb Wickham owned it in the early which 'has become an annual SALES and RENTALS bob's toss away. part of this century and rented it fund-raising activity of the The last building Andrew to Charles P. Tuthill, Cutchogue Cutchogue-New Suffolk erected before leaving Cutchogue plumber, whose son and sue- Historical Council. And now the was the Presbyterian Church in cessor,.W. Prentice Tuthill was historical council is adding Mrs. 1853 and his fit§t--bufldirfg in- born there.She sold it in 1911 and Rowland's home to the list of old n vwoMs Or.ru� s,b-Ta4-ssr, ' Mattituck was the Octagon the Tuthills moved, buildings it is preparing for the-,. FRED W. KAELI N. INC. House, which stands at the main William McCarthy and his ' state. Small world, Cutchogue. 1 REAL COTATE - INSURANCE �� MAIN STREET - CUTCHDOUE. L. 1.