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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION UNIQUE SITE NO.10 1�7• �`� 7�
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NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY,NEW YORK (518) 474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME: Town ofSouthold 4SPITA DATE: March 20, 1486
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE:KI� 765-1 89
Southold L. I. , N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any):Snuthold Town CommurLLty.DeyPJ n1]mPnt C)f'fi oP
IDENTIFICATION :Barnabas Horton
I. BUILDING NAME(S): R,L4;r'IC!� E H-411 _
2. COUNTY: TOWNIC iY: o tholdVILLAGE: Gutchogue
3. STREET LOCATION: Skunk LR .'.' -a, s j dpp S.aF Pi ME UK S2,
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public F-1 b", private k] �'
5. PRESENT OWNER: G. Nixon __ ADDRESS: same
6. USE: Original: Rani dArce Present: Residence
7. ACCE..SSIBILITY TO PUBLIC. Exterior visible from public road: Yes 9�1 No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
8. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL.: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles M g. stucco ❑ other:
9. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints M
SYSTEM: h. wood frame with light members ❑
01' kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls❑
d, metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a- excellent IN b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTFGRITY: a. original rile ❑ b. moved ❑X if so,when°
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
Sun porch added at south. Dormers are modern.
This house was turned around on original site in
CU--rsm XI-17 early 1900s.
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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 El b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ® semi
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑ attached
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features:oyerl ookS Baldwin' s Creek
j. other: foundation plantings.
10. SURROUNDINGS'OF THE BUILDING (check more than ane if necessary):
a.open land ❑ b. woodland ❑
c. scattered buildings EX
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑
h.other:
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
This circa 1700-house contributes to the amlience of this
historic lane.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
12-story, 5-•bay, centered chimney, gable roof house with
saltbox profile. Roof is extended in a sweep over front
door. 3 gable roof dormers.
SIGNIFICANCE
I1>. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: circa 1700
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
0 1IISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
One of the oldest houses in Southold Town. Built by Wm
Wells , later owned by his son-in-law Barnabas Horton.
Its name is derived from the circular hallway which is the
architectural feature of the house. *
A Summpr of Histor , Town of Southold, 1965.
Map Spction 1, 7 27.
'I. SOURCES: Chace. MaI2 of Suffolk Count . 1858
*Form by Wilson Tuthill, 197 , for the CutchoguP-
Now Suffolk Historical Council.
fl;; \iI- Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
assistant.
:d trailing arbutus, we children liked to drive Skunk Lane Ruth Tuthill Houston, had work horses for weekday use, but
to Nassau Point. After passing the old ar house (now they had to rest on Sunday so he had a special horse to draw
Allen's) and "Hurricane Hall" it was a narrow winding lane the carriage which took the family to the Presbyterian Church
Aunt Ida said she had many a gay time in Hurricane Hall and in Cutchogue, over a mile away.
that it was called that because the family living there was "Miss Finley" gave good service for many years; but finally
very large and they had lots of company, so the place was Mr. Tuthill decided she was old enough to be retired. He ferried
always a whirlwind of activity. her on a flatboat across the channel to Robbins' Island and
The Eugene's Road of the present day was Eugene Wells' turned her loose to graze and spend her remaining days in
driveway and did not continue to the main road. LesIie's Road happy idleness. The first Sunday following, there was a north-
0 did not exist. In fact, another way to Nassau Point was to west wind and on the breeze even down over the Bay was car-
W go down Indian Neck Lane, traverse the woods and ford the ried the sound of the ringing church bells. The old horse heard
0 waters of Little Creek. Of course there was no roadway across them, pricked up her ears, swam the channel, a good half mile,
� the beach. We all had to get out of the wagon and walk to back to the mainland, galloped up New Suffolk Avenue, and
relieve the horse of our extra weight. He had a hard enough when the Tuthills came out of church service there she was,
pull to get the iron-bound wheels through the sand anyway. standing in the shed beside their other horse.
(D On the farther side of the beach we followed the pretty Another interesting thing about New Suffolk is that it was
z woods road, stopping to cut the delicate, fragrant pink blos- a submarine base in the early 1900's. I quote from the Cut-
H.ro sums hiding pan the ground under the dry brown leaves. We ehoguc-New Suffolk Historical Council Sign at the site.
;+ had been taught never to pull the vines as that destroyed the NEW SUFFOLK
C' plant. How sadly few are left now! When we reached the "This marks the site of the first submarine base in
villa on the highest eminence (the prospectus claimed 94 feet this country where the U. S. S. "HOLLAND", first
elevation) Mr. Horton would let us climb to the third-stury submarine commissioned by the U. S. Navy was based for
,tea cupola which afforded an extensive view of the surrounding trials. In the period between 1899 and I905 six other sub-
� woodland and water. To the east, over Little Peconic Bay, marines of the Holland Torpedo Boat Company were based
past Jessup's Neck, we could spot the white church steeple in at this site, which was known as the Holland Torpedo Boat
Sag Harbor, a favorite compass point or landmark for sailors Station,
until the 1938 hurricane toppled it. Westward we saw New Naval maneuvers between submarines and the U. S. S.
Suffolk, Robbin's Island and far-off Mattituck Hills beyond Torpedo Boat Destroyer "WINSLOW" of Spanish War fame
Great Peconic Bay. To the north over the trees were the roof- were held in these waters".
tops and church spires of Cutchogue village. Southward we I remember a strange-Iooking iron structure rusting away
looked across the sand spit of Nassau Point to the yellow faces for years on the shore. It looked like a large, fat cigar and had
of the sandy bluffs and the green hills of the South Side from a manhole in the middle of the top and a small propeller wheel
Canoe Place to Southampton. under one pointed end.
"Church spires of Cutchogue" recalls a wonderful true By 1920 Mr. Wilson's vision was carried out, more or less,
story about a horse. This has been told through three gen- by Walter Johnson and Mr. Pennock, who formed a syndicate
erations and was once written up in a New York newspaper. to develop Nassau Point. Phil Horton built roads. Telephones
Mr. Jeremiah G. Tuthill of New Suffolk, grand-father of and electricity were put in and building lots began to sell. The c�
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