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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION UNIQUE SITE NO.
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NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (51 K)474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME:Tr)wn of S nilthol d j SPTJA DATE: March 20 1 986—
YOUR ADDRESS. Town Hall, Main Road TFLFPHONE:-t516Z76-5-18()2
Southold L. I. , N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any):Southold Town Community DovolopmPnt Office
IDENTIFICATION Burr/Wilson
1. BUILDING NAME(S). Gardener's Cottage
2. COUNTY:_Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE:Cutchogue
3. STREET LOCATION: Nassau Point Rd.. e side , N. f (/4_
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h private
5, PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS:
b. USE: Original: Cottage Present: Residence
7, ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC. Exterior visible from public road. Yes IN No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
ti. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten IS
MATERIAL: e- cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other:
1). STRUCTURAL, a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members
(if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain) brick foundation
e. other
10. CONDITION: a- excellent C1 b. good W c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ b, moved ❑ if so,when7
c- list major alterations and dates (if known):
Rear roof raised and new brick chimney at gable end.
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known ® b. zoning❑ c. roads
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. other:
ELATLD OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barnX b. carriage house ❑ c. garage
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features: landscaped w shrubbe]Zy a and
j. other: tr e s.
I6#SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land ❑ b. woodland 0
C. scattered buildings
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)
The house stands on a hill on the east side of Nassau
Point Road which is lined with beautiful estates.
Behind the fence, two huge trees enhance the setting.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
12-story gable roof, board-and-batten cottage. 5 bays across
the front with 2 small windows under the eaves. Brick
foundation. 6/6 windows.
SIGNIFICANCE
11). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: Circa 1860s/1870s
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
IIISFORICAL AND ARCHITFVTURAL IMPORTANCE:
# 50 on Van Tuyl 1935 map.
This was the gardpnAr' s cottage on the Burr PstatP.
Burr ownod most of A' sau Point in the 1860s.
The hugo barn is across the road (sao NP 2) .
21. SOURCES Th- Suffolk Times 12/2/76 , Warren Hall, "Book
e a es assau Point 's Past Glories. "
z. THI_ mi- Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
assistant.
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22 eZ'hP 'Suffolk 'f�IInCB December 2,I
Book Relates Nassau Point's Past Glories
bs Waerra Han
The stuff that dreams were made d,a '-`�_� �ITx� 1, 111,a, y¢ - —
century ago. a being repackaged for A - r� ~ PtCQ1Yf 4_CQN'iC PARK
delivery to Nassau Point raidents-and .�,.- fen c
anyone else who's interested In eine for } "��.� u $AY' titin,rl�t,4 tl,os,y,nl:v
Chltistrtlas.It's in a book The Nassau Point }}` v x ri 'Myjt,,, �. sir 1l,iyuu 1,•l (iv.,al'1 W,,,�cir t
Property Owners Association is producing y,•ea•'' y-' ,, y{� r' +„ ,1 r-.
by offset a txtnerback facsimile or"Peconica •" h;4�, � x
Park," an imposing clothbound volume -
rbliMed in 1883 which not only heralded a r+Q,r• i^ r F:
stew name for Nassau Point bud an on-
mediate fairyland future, including a
ratlroad terminal a dock for steamboats,a 3 •� r� ti`f ! ,, '0 V�
vehicular bridge and a mammoth, multi-
leve,turreted and spired hotel that would '
have shamed any castle, t.. J
Just a new moniker would have meant
Little to the trstuded.arrow-shaped,6OF
ap
sae
that shoots into Peconie Bay
southeast of Cetr Clan- e R.
had a J it• i �• . , `.� 4,plethora e name, Clarence that
Comes,a ✓�/
Cutchague hlatpnan, says that Wtlltam
WcIIs,oneofthefoundingPuritans,referred
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to it as Little ng Neck when he bequeathed �� '•- '� `r
it to his son 'Either from "hugganuc,"
Indian for peninsula,or because the early �Q,� 6 •'�+.�-
choice ran (heir hogs there eke your
choice.
I fiG R EAT P E Cr'
Comes says the Indians knew of as _` — ----- -
Momoweta,but an 18 F:
19 court action says It "PCUNT�PARK".the de,elopmenl envbio
ncd for Nassau elevation on the map.Upper left Is the proposed railroad
was called Mattawauk(which was a name Point.Cutchagur by James rtilsun back in lWr A huge hotel from Prmolc wllh a terminal station. Inwer to the left
sometimes given to all of Coag Island) with spire and turrels was to ha"e heen(wilt in the center bridge across Brnadwsiers Crive and at the lower right wit
Some early maps show It as Nassau Point., towards the weal side erthe prnlni.ula where it is murkrd x n fowl thearrow polntstaN was to have leen a steamship dock.
or at least thetipof it.I The Dutch called the
whole island Nassau.)
There have been many owners Wells
nd -
dwceants held the peninsula until the -
1860's. In the next decade Edward White
Burr, whom Comes says was distantly
related to Aaron Burr,owned most at it and
built a large home near what is now Bridge
Lane. as well as a house his doctors
named C lg,w'Ihom'"Fe`wannear y.. .i
=7 now t& main building of camp
Wawokiye,a summer camp far t John
K' C'a Tingion had a home on whet tis now f,
T.L. in n a an KrebSelaer _
�reslrip of beach on the east
bank 8 Iffi1 however,Jame Wilson,bomi '
rememberedasa�S3F3Til1'IR ,
appeared to be to complete control.
He had classes this Burr home tarn is1
X .`'' ( t
.�y iQ stables, hothouses, a tennis court end a _ 4j� ; � 4I� 4
t\ bowling-alley annex.And he was a prime ,y: 411V
mover in a syndicate which proposed totransform the entire tract into an elegantly. :Popalated bucolic paradise that wouldvershadow alt other Long Island summer t-
restoriti
His elegant home,called'The Vine'was �t ia.' '. ',�i t - n ..- �'i f•'!�
on the highest ground,"wrWeJiplallud
Newell of Peconic in "A Bone of the
vmetes" Aunt Idaused to tell me about
his two daughters, dressed in fine riding
habits,shiny boots and derby hats,riding -
harsaback up to Pecenie Thev wr^,-. -
escorted to a doom. livery." bl.....
edition of"Peemic Park"and loaned her WHATMIGHTHAYE BEEN at Nassau Point:r fairy talehatel elegant folk expected to vaeatlnn there it"Peconic Park"h
very rare 1869 copy(inscribed by Wilson to with spires,tuzrets,cupola and splendid baleandrs befitting the become a reality.
her grhndfatltu, Lewis A, Case) for
reproduction
The grandaise development plans were
heartily endorsed by the lung Island Bail t-
Pond,which was to rim a spur from Pecanic n., - �• -
across the II narrow causeway onto the
peninsula, But the dream did not
materialize and Nassau Point passed �` \
through several other lands before the tie
facto developers, Jerome
Pennock and w1 r -
Walter Johnson,came along in 1919. i For years the place had been deserted ' �. 1
except for an obliging caretaker named --
Theodore fiortun.. Around the Nan of the y
century at was Sashionable for sleighing •v-
parties to
ta
conct him in advance to open up
and beat the bowling aUey. Moe. Newell Into what was a handsome club bullets s
recalls; being driven across the sandy NOT A CASTLE BUT A HOME that was turned into the g and hotel. The<
causeway with childhood fnends to pick the Nassau Point Club Hotel In 1923. or 1924.The photo I left)shows hotel had a bowling alley annex which was later aaed as
the old Wilson Mansion about 1920 before its conversion I ri ht) overflow guest home.The mansion burned down in 1126,
[ragrant Arbutus.or"ley Pinks," which g
flourished on Nassau Point. "Uncle Theo" down soon afterward,but same of the for- "If for no other reason, 'Peconic Park' Greenport, OrlenL Sag Harbor and
would let than climb to the top of the mer graadeur Can still be seen-the would be worth owning heeause of its Hamptons in terms somewhat this sid,
Manages,Lar a breathtaking view from New tremendous stable-barn,and aarl� dyer's illustratium,"the letter says "in addition Mattering.It's an amazing book."
Suffolk W Sag harbor and Southampton. n w merled to private to foldout sketches of the peninictia, the In addition to train and boat, auo
"The erstwhile Wilson mansion was d ems a&r'renn—oats.I.he bricked bridge(complete with guardhousel and the Lathrop foresaw another means of react
converted into a clubhouse-hotel,"says a pond which served as a skating rink; the unbelievable hotel,there are two woodcuts Nassau Point from New York.
Leiter to Nassau Point residents sent last carriage tur-namund. til( transit glories and 17 drawings 'made on the spot, ex-
week by George S.Case,president of the mandl:" pressly for this volume,by Harry Fenn, ' -Occasionally gentlemen,even now,v
Property owners association, "and the who was no mean artist. starting out for the summer, put I
bowling-alley annex was refurbished, fust The letter was accompanied by an order "G.P. Lathrop, the author of this families Into carriages and follow
to accommodate bowlers and later as an farm enabling recipients to obtain num- elaborate prospectus,not only lists the in, Hempstead Turnpike,an immensely b
overflow guest house.A defunct tennis earl bred copies of the edition(limited to 500) numerable virtues of Nassau Point in highway.It wouldn't be a bad idea for
was made available. The kitchen was for 12.50 Some tropic of the large Opage glowing detail but goes much further.'it is owners of tallyho coaches to take the s
pnmided over by Mr. and Mrs. Andrew book are also expected to be available at not necessary to decry other places to give direction; and in all probability, v
MacNish, whose reputation far savory certain stores throughout the town. In. this one a factitious 'cq) importance,'he Eastern Long Island becomes better kin
meals extended throughout the area. Fire formation as to where they may be pur- maintains-and then, getting in can. we shall see the ancient turnpike entity'
destroyed the mansion to the sprdng of 1925 chased can be obtained by calling William siderable local history along the way,. he by brilliant four-in-hands."
and the bowling•adey building was lore Gardner at 79A4797 or Mr.case at 7944781. individually described shelter Island. Shades of the Lung Island Express%