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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
UNIQUE SITE NO. 1D 3-- 10 CU-17
DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (518)474-0479 NEG. N0.
YOUR NAME:Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: February 1, 1986
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE:516/765-1892
Southold Z. I. N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any):Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING NAMES}:The Old Schoolhouse
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CiTY: Southold. VTLLAGE:Cutchogue
3. STREET LOCATION: Main R ,��.71,4r Case 's La,
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private ❑
5. PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS:
G. USE: Original-, --Schoolhouse Present: Old SchoolHouse Museum
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes No
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
9. BUILDING a- clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles IN g. stucco ❑ other:
`). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints R9
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑
(if known! c. masonry load bearing walls❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
IU. CONDITION: a. excellent ® b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site D b. moved EX if so,when'' 1961
c. list major alterations and dates (if. known):
Restored to its original condition as a
schoolhouse.
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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 C❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i, landscape features:
j. other:
16,.SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open Land X1 b. woodland ❑
c. scattered buildings ❑
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g, residential K
h.other: Old Village Green
17. INTI-RRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
The Old Schoolhouse is part of a cluster of historic
buildings open to the public on the Cutchogue Village
Green.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
1-story, gable front, 3-bays central entrance jp� �
4 bays deep.
SIGNIFICANCE
111. DATE. OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: built 1840
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
'G. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
The schoolhouse was originally located behind the Presbite-
rian Church and used as a school until 1903 and then moved
back to accomodate the new school which is now no longer
standing. The restoration of this building is a reflection
of the concern of the townspeople for their past heritage.
Chace . Map of Suffolk County. 1858
21. SOURCES Begs , Comstock, Cline. Atlas of Long Island° 1873.
-,z, FH >,%! Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
assistant.
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ON AND ABOUT THE VILLAGE GREEN
�. THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE. This was Cut- later, to its recent site on the Middle Road. In the new
4 choguc's first district school and it dates back to the location it housed the workers on the Wickham farm.
r 1840'x.Between the vears when the}wilding had ceased to When it became known that the Council was looking
( function as a school,' 1903 and its present restoration, 1961 for an 18th Century its position was threatened by the
farm dwelling to set up on the
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tile a e schoolhouse had stood in the field at the rear of the Villa-e Green, and
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w Presbyterian Church and was used to house farm work- widening of the Middle Road, the William Wickham
ers. In 1961 it was donated to 'the Cutchogue-New Suf- family made it their contribution to the Cutchogue-New i
j folk Historical Council and moved to its present site on Suffolk Historical Council.
il the Village Green. Under the guidance of Mr. James Van
A1st, architect, the schoolhouse was restored to its ori- The fine Norway spruce, around which the carollers
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ginal appearance. Note especially the "blackboard", a gather during the Christmas season, is the gift to the
R' ruum-wide wooden panel, painted black, which was dis- community of I1+J'rs. James G. Dill as a memorial to her
closed in the work of restoration, the fine cove ceiling, father, the late George W. McKnight. The Village flag-
the platform for the teacher's desk, the chimney hole pole was moved from the J. Benedict Roache property
for the original wood stove, the hand-made wooden coat in New Suffolk and presented as a memorial to her
hooks in the vestibule. Among other collections housed husband by Mrs. Roache, Mr. Floyd D. Houston pre-
there are shelves of schoolbooks of that early period, sented the painted "cucumber pump", a rarity today but
a commonplace of every dooryard and barnyard from
contributed by local families.
the I870's to recent days. It was not so long agu that
S' THE,WILLIAM WICKHAM HOUSE. This house a cucumber pump in working order stood near the door-
originally stood on the Main Road at the west enol of v`ay of Mrs. Stewart W. Horton's house on New Suffolk
the village and was already on the property when, in Lane.
1790, John Wickham bought his farm from David
Horton. Several generations of Wickhams Iived there The red barn, which had formerly stood at the south
' and it was not until the early part of this century, when end of the Presbyterian parsonage property, was pur-
"Lawyer Wickham" built the large shingled house now chased for a nominal sum in 1'.964 and moved a few feet
(1955) occupied by Mr. Richard L. Woodhull, that the to the south end of the Village Green. It will be used
first house was moved further back on the property and for storage room and a workshop.
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