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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCU-56 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM CU--56 • UNIQUE SITE NO. J6 '10-69 57 DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD �j NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES 1�` E D ALBANY, NEW YORK (519) 474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME'Town of Southold / SPMA DATE: March 12, 1986 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE:516,/765--18 '2 Southold L. I. N.Y. 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION Col, Benjamin Case I. BUILDING NAMPJS):_- 2. COt7NTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE.-Cutchogue 3. STREET LOCATION- Main RJ, ej �� o.�, ; opposite Skunk La._ . M 'C 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h private 21 5. PRESENT OWNER:. Sturcken ADDRESS: same h. USE: Original: Present: Residence 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC Exterior visible from public road: Yes ® No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION H. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: mn(jern si di ng 1). STRUCTURAL. a- wood frame with interlocking joints LRJ SYSTL.M: b_ wood frame with light members ❑ (if knlwvttl c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e_ other 10. CONDITION: a- excellent EX b. good ❑ c. Fair ❑ d. deteriorated 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site I,I b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known) Many windows have been replaced,but not the magnificent New entrance porch. dormers. CU-rsm IX-16 PHOTO: From south 13. MAP: N.Y.S . DOT Southold Quad Front fagada and Enlarged wast Alovation 4 tea, 0 25 `a?a BM • v I t:, ` 0 ® 0 �N¢ • � 'East D • 0 •' 6u'tCl' o ue. ,r CU-56 14, THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known 13 b.zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. ether: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn(?S b. carriage house ❑ c. garage d. privy ❑ e. shed ® f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i. landscape features: j. other: Ib. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land 9 b. woodland ❑ c. scattered buildings ❑ d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑ h.other: Trep 12 Sr pry on property Hedge on road side. 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) The house is on Route 25, a dual lane, low density state road, which once was the historic King's Highway. It stands at the juncture of Skunk Lane , amongst a highly historic cluster of buildings. Rte 2.5 at this point is called "Blubber Row" , after the many ships ' captains who lived there. 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features it known): One of the North Fork' s most important architectural land- marks. 12-story, 5-bay, gambrel roof house. Handsome original gable roofed dormers with original window sash with inter- locking muntins in the classic Federal style. SIGNIFICANCE 11). DA`I L OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION:_ ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 'f-I. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: This house is one of the North Fork' s most important architectural landmarks. The handsome dormers are similar to those on houses in Laurel and on New Suffolk Lane (N.Suffolk Rd. ) in Cutchogue. The house was included in the 1974 survey by the Cutchogue-New Suffolk Historical Council. 1. SOURCES Chace. Map of Suffolk County. 1858 Currie Bell. Guide to Historic Markers. 1960 ,. l-H �If Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritta research assistant. fcaptaincy ' Mather's Refugees of undoubtedly has greater age. Col, Benjamin Case was Cut- though Mases Case received a ken f(as Lieut. Moses Case. drogue's first Postmaster, assisted by his brother Ebenezer. 1776T he sees always to be spcolonialoken He kept a country store. He was a colonel in the War of 1812. The forepart of the house shows another od staircase and P eat beauty and a handsome p The late George Case, grandson, stated his grandfather pos- sessed the house sometime after his marriage with Lucretia archway in the entry Goldsmith 1810. Architectural features are found in this house -pll��'Goodale, Carmen 'Terry, William Edward Regan as randfather of Miss Hazel of early and later colonial periods. The dormer windows, oldlater 19th center leowners; last, l_�ecent a • cellar, doors, are notable, and some of the carved woodwork implies that this was the home of a sea captain. Of especial 60. THE OLD CASTLE circa 1724 beauty is the doorway with its leaded glass fanlight and one Col. Samuel Hutchinson of the four fireplaces has a mantle of fine carving, (John Bauer, Main Road, Peconic) Captain Henry Green of Sag Harbor, famed Commodore dows (twelve of the East End's Whaling Fleet, purchased the homestead in This fine oldan hof lass, carriedsthe namenof "The Old 1851. He retired from the sea after a last voyage, 1849, to the over twelve panes of g ) ears. The oldest part California Gold Coast on his shipSabina which sailed with "Sabina"Castle" of the built nsons for many y g and the 26 argonauts from Southold, Greenport, and Sag Harbor. He later enlarged;eased by Was probably built by Matthias; dings came to Peconic with his Iarge family to settle down on a farm, properties incr h nson familymemberjah scove various areas of as many retired captains did. "Elubberville" was the name of the g South Harbor, Indian Neck, and westerly into the Cvrc au applied P this stretch of road where the whaling captains division. Many acres of fertile lands and woodland running lived. Ca tains Theron Bunker Worth, amps M. North, Jamcs from Bay to Sound surrounded The Old Castle". Samuel Edwin Horton and others, were near neighbors ghbors of Capt. Green. Hutchinson was a man of prominence, ability(eight ane1 influence. The beautiful_18th century entrance_, ff P the 62. BUCKINGHAM HOUSE c. 1845 bordered ant is and woodwork,wint he.`ow butts.the unine u ua1 Three 18th and 19th Century Foundations interior storage signified o ulent family living. Three daughters Daniel and Wm. Chatfield Buckingham storage room= sign P Martha, who (Albeit W. Richmond, Main Road and Skunk Lane, Peconic}'- ��T. Elijah and n,Mary hYho marriedsLieu�t. Moses Case. Jared Landon, . Buckingham House has its name because of Daniel Buck- and E d J in ham who presumedly built much of it, 1845, and his nephew, Buck- and Elizabeth,who married Abraham Davids. "The old Castle` was allotted to Martha and was held by Landons, eventually William Chatfield Buckingham, who was deeded it, 1849. The Passing into the hands of memberHortons. Henry D. Horton and his latter was a blacksmith of wide reputation. His shop stood wife Miriam Osborn are remembered as living there with their aloe the hi Children, Philip H. and Thomas Osborn Horton. HHenry D. side of the gold aGilbert Howell a bit west of Bhouse—the House, j other Horton and Eliza Davids wst(daughter there and the Howell house moved around to Skunk Lane was the son of Thomas J. (Bay Avenue). Of Samuel Davids and Nancy Wickham) art of the "The Old Castle" on the Main Road ('n the old p Jonathan B. Horton figures in earlier land ownership, as house now the residence of Mrs. Philip H. Horton). do Benjamin Case and Erastus Hallock, but it is not known whether the oldest foundations under this house were theirs or 61. COL, BEIM AMIN CASE HOUSE not. 'Very possibly they could be. Pre 1815 After the two Buckinghams, following owners were Ade- t. Henry Green 1851 Peconic) ]aide Buckingham who married Gilbert Howell• Andrew J Main Road opp. Skunk Lane, Case, Fred D. Richmond and Albert Richmond, "Andy" Case, ' 4 {Adam ACZave_ski,.1 brotherof Geor a who Iived an the Cox's Lane corner, rad Althochney on this interesting finely built old house with its gambrel roof bears an 1815 date, the house his store nearby. The old country store, once of Barnabas H. 54 66 'r y Currin-B-11. Guide to Historic Markers. 1960 14w o MW %Po. ........%ff 408 "88"40 WUN v« Blubber flow by Warren Hall r �. From "Uncle Chat's" diary: "MARCH 2o, 1852--Capt. H. Green goes to Washington on very - • important business,to sell the Secretary of& te.Daniel Webster, a '- x " ehart of 'Jappan'found on boiaT`aCflinese-jun y p[,-1glercat-or /--Cooper, on a whaling voyage. This is to assist an exploring ex- �f pedition, now getting up by the United States." "Uncle Chat" was William Chatfield Buckingham, a chronicle- 4--*1 keeping Cutchogue blacksmith who will be dealt with in a subsequent �r =tir• '� t';1 �'' issue of this newspaper, and he hit the horseshoe nail right on the head when he called Capt. Green's mission important. That chart , �* may have been the most valuable piece of paper that ever came out -,;,� of Southold township, It enabled Commodore Mattew Perry a year r later to sail an American fleet into Tokyo Ba an o world. y y an pen a to the Capt. Henry Green, the chart owner, was a retired whaler who lived in the intriguing gambrel-roofed house on the north side of y i sti" Route 25 at its juncture with Skunk Lane.The home, which is tieing incl' uy a ogue_ a torical Council's current canvass of old buildings,is perhaps the most interesting in Blubber Row, a name once given to the stretch between Cutchogue and Peconic because so many retired whaling captains lived there. The house is also notable because it was Cutchogue's first post office. There's no telling when it was built.One of the chimneys bears the r ' date 1815, but there is every indication that it existed long before that. The three dormer windows at the front were original and not added later,as was so often the case. There is much finely carved woodwork, most notably on the mantel over one of the four fireplaces. The doorwayexceptionally ` �is P tionallY gracious with aleaded- .�• glass fanlight. The first owner of record was Col.Benjamin Case,who earned his commission in the War of 1812. He had married Lucretia Goldsmith THE HENRY GREEN HOUSE,queen of Blubber Row. From it came a chart that opened two years before the war and is believed to have acquired ownership about that time.For a while after his return he kept a country store. the world. Japanto When he was appointed Cutchogue's first postmaster in 1819, he had lived in Sag Harbor and was moved his large family to the Green, sold it to George Grath- located the post office in his home and there it remained until he the famed Commodore of the Cutchogue farm. retired in 1847' East End Whaling Fleet. In 1949 A couple of other former whale wohl with the royiso tat he Four years later, in 1851, the house and its farm of "60 acres, he had more one last voyage—not chasers already had farms in co stay there until he died. He more or less" changed hands. Captain Green, the new owner, after whales this time, but that area and more followed, was buried Erna the house three somethingmore Y� later. Grathwohl gave the Preci©�• The among them Capt. Theron w' is brother, who California gold rush was on and Bunker Worth,who,at 18,in 1832, iiad a duck'farm a e en o Captain Green took his whaling had been Captain Green's bar- Skunk Lane, It was moved there ship"Sabina"around Cape Horn. pooner on the Hudson. He and became the nuc e a His volunteer crew from Sag amassed a considerable fortune house. Harbor and Greenport included in the California gold fields 19 former whaling captains who before turning to farming. His Adam Zaveski bought the farm 71 served as seamen. brother, Capt. James M. Worth, in 1933 and ran it for 40 years. He They were all in search of gold and brother-in-law, Capt. James sold it last winter and moved to e and the captain may have had a Edwin Horton, also became Southold. By that time it would Tho Suffolk TimAs. 5/16/74 touch of the fever himself, but neighbors aloe "Blubber Row", have been mighty hard to find there was another call even more The Green family held onto the anyone who could remember the insistent. He brought his ship old homestead until I916, when yarn-swapping days of "Blubber back, sold it and, at age 57, the last survivor, "Florie" Row". fes.