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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM FOR OFFICE USE ONLY /0310, / CU-35
UNIQUE SITE NO.
DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY,NEW YORK (.518)474-0479 NEG. NO. /
YOUR NAME: SPL1A/ John E. Remsen 2nd DATE!—
YOUR ADDRESS93 North Country Rd. TELEPHONE: 941--9444
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ORGANIZATION (if any): Universalist Church, Southold, raw York
IDENTIFICATION William
1. BUILDING NAMI:(S):Wickham House
2. COUNTY: quffnlk __ TOWNICITY: Sni thr..Id VILLAGE:
3. STREET LOCATION: village
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h private
S. PRESENT OWNER Jnhn ADDRESS:Mme -
G. USE: Original: Present
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes 17 No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain only by invitation of owner.
DESCRIPTION
S. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone N f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other:_g y aslar foundation
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9. STRUCTURAL a, wood frame with interlocking joints Conn. river stone,similarto other foundations in
SYSTEM: b, wood frame with light members ® area.)
(if knuvn) C. masonry load bearing wall, ❑
d, metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent [ji b_ good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated El
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site F b. moved ❑ if so,when?
C. list major alterations and dates (if known).
The present main portion of the house is 3rd. period
Federa1, 18201s,added to original east end{lower dining
room and kitchen of 1790's construction.
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known KI b. zoning❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. ether:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn IN h. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d, privy El ,e. she
f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h, gardens ❑
L landscape features_`
j. other:
ICS. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land E b. woodland ❑
c. scattered buildings ❑
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g;, residential ❑
h.other: orchards, berries beaches
17. INTFRRELATIONSIIIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building; or structure is in an historic district)
House overlooks bay, set back from the highway.
Sweeping lawns from front ( bay) side , to bay.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
A fine late federal farm house ,very elegant interiors with
3rd period Federal moldings. Central hall has original
marbleized plaster walls, done by an italian workman during
the original construction.
SIGNIFICANCE
19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION:�1790 ' s with major addition in late 182013.
ARCIIITECT: Original section unknown, addition possibly by
William D. Cochran
BUILDER:
same
20- HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
Local tradition relates this home to other structures in
Southold built at the same period by W.D. Cochran.
The Wickham farm has been a working farm in the same family
since the 18th Century.
21. SOURCES: Interview with Mrs. John Wickham, JER ,Aprill4, 1978
at Cutchogue,N.Y. i •
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22. THEME: Buildings in the Southold area attributed to William ,
D. Cochran. Residential architecture of late Federal - Greek
Revival period on Eastern Long Island.
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SPLIA/ John E. Remsen 2nd
Additional Photo Sheet All photography by Me. Ellen Stevens,
Cultural Resorce Center, Greenport, New York.
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from South, Wickham Bay side.
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8-bay English type barn (ca. 1877) of unusual size.
28' x 101' , height to plate 15' 1" .
Vertical and circular sawn pine Frame. Braces half dovetailed,
spiked with cut nails. Pine rafters with ridge pole. Horizontal
cross beams only hewn oak elements. Hillside access to cellar.
3 -pre 1890 buildings.
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John Wickham: 7m a Farmer, My Roots Run Deep'
Standing six-foot-five, his eyes crystal and then critical water shortage problems, County Executive John V.N.Klein and now
blue, a half-century of work in the fields "pelts. Wickham and I operated for eight being utilized in Connecticut and other
reflected by his huge harass,John Wickham ybam in California.,.They overdrew their areas,meets this by providing for purchase
is Central Casting's version of a wise Long OD D� µher resource year after year, and the of development rights. Mr. Wickham has
Island farmer. pQer must bepaid,"saysMr.Wickham.He offered the development rights on 171 acres
But he's for real- n rdcalls the water table in the Salinas Valley of his land, 'including prime shorefront
He goes back to when all of Nassau and Q O D phimetling."it was a sure sign of the time property, to the county program. "1 feel
Suffolk were full of farms, to the original wFen the whole basin would beplthilusted. very strongly it should remain producing
English settlers of long Island - the TTi�tl was one of the facts of lffe which the toadforpeople,"says Mr.Wickham."I'm a
families who came to Southold in 1640.In his pcbple blithely ignored." farmer. My roots go deep."
71 years Mr. Wickham has farmed on the Not being taken as seriously as they
West Coast,in South America and here,on s d be farmers on Long Island(with its Mr.Wickham speaks of a study made by
land that was under cultivation for Son years som what he's not seen,his son Thomas, sone source underground water supply) is his alms mater,Cornell University,in_the
by the Idand'a Native Americans before ers in the Wickham's Cutchogue farm, E21
_indeed the overuse-of a variety of 1960s "showing conclusively that our
Mr,Wickham's a_naestors purchased it over °w seeing-m Asu1 as he prepares a book hemicals,pesticides,herbicides and summer residents were here" not mainly
Yo yearii o, on rice irrigation he has been commisslorted ,of which Temik appears to be the because of "the salt water recreational
r`"Despite the fact that this is the oldest to author by the Rockefeller brothers, Up of an iceberg. on this, Mr. Wickham ` aspectbut because of the rural natureof the
land in America,"Mr.Wickham was saying Land arid climate combine to make L1*g tales a defensive position, maintaining town." And "I cant express my feelings
last week, "it's still the best land in alslend land ideal for.laran ,Mr.Wickham g ug says,about an Fast End
m$ health and environmental authorities are strap enough,"he
America" and '`Wand to none"�u' is saying "'H`ecause Goif war-good to our =-shooting in the dark"in determining safe to Connecticut bridge. It would bring
world-"I've seenthec ss cultural forebearers. "the great glaciers swept levels. development "we could not control." and
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—says Mr.Wickharn.And out"of Massachusetts and Connecticut the Central to saving farmland,believes Mr. "ruin the East End."
deep,dark soil of which there is to much on Wi m,is"to separate the development
Long Island-what the U.S.Department of ri to tram the agricultural interests,"The
Agriculture rates as"Class i"and "Class Su alk farmland plan,initiated by outgoing KARL GROSSMAN
2"soils lout of 32 categories).
"`It was deposited here on Lang Island, -
and when the first English settlers arrived
they found it outstandingly good,in contrast
to the land at Jamestown and Plymouth.
1` Both of those colonies were abandoned.
'A - Southold started and kept on growing,"
notes Mr.Wickham.
Allowing the land's fertility to rise to its
N potential is the"oceanic climate"that Long
L Island is in. The ocean in which It sits
1 moderates the temperature, keeping it
i" significantly higher than that just a few
miles to the north,into Connecticut on the
mainland.
Further, "because of availability of
markets we're in superb condition," Mr.
Wickham is saying. Although almost all
that's left of the expanse of farms that once
y spread through Long island are the farms of
the East End,they're still enough to con-
tinue to make Suffolk County the top
agricultural-producing county in New York
State,to keep farming a$100 million a year
industry here. One hundred miles from
Times Square,from which the East Coast I
megalopolis extends north and south, is a
place where. food can be grown super-
abundantly. Bud because of closeness to -_
increased in recent years because of high-
ways extendin out - fie---een� of
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-opuDa2f6 , i is farmland threatened with
the kind of extinction which has blanketed
western Dong Island in blacktop,congestion
and general suburban blight.
Mr.Wickham,who chaired the Southold
Town Planning Board from 1955 to this year-
when
earwhen he was forced to resign because of age
limits(he's an outstanding example of why
such limits can be-idiotic)has been a leader
in the movement to preserve the remaining
eastern Long Island farmland.
He's been a key supporter of the Suffolk
County farmland preservation program and
of the state's agricultural districting plan
and was involved in Southold Town's
pioneering work in this field.
"(n the long ran,the people of the United
States and particularly the people of the `
eastern seaboard will have to face the fact `
Ih:il if thwv want 10¢narantee their anllr�`P nE—�
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