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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY,NEW YORK (518) 474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME: Town of Southold / SPLIApATE: March 20, 1986
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TE PHONE: 516/765-1892
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ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community DPvelopmpnt Offiet?
IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING NAMP(S): Vanston house, "Glendalough"
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Cutchogue
3. STREET LOC'AT'ION: Vanston Rd.) v. Side L)rrLE P W•J.G NZ Rj
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ K private IN
S. PRESENT OWNER Clayton BraatZ ADDRESS
6. USE:: Original: Present:
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
K. BUILDING a. clapboard 91 b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f, shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other:
1l. STRUCTURAL. a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTI:M: b. wood frame with light members
(if kncwn) c. masonry load bearing,walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e. ether
10. CONDITION: a. excellent k] b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ b. moved ❑ if so,wben'?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
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12. PHoTo: From east 13- MAP: N.Y.S. DOT Southold Quad
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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 Y2 one w.
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑ attached cottage
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features: tennis court, bathhouses,
j. other:
Ib. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land N b. woodland ❑
c.scattered buildings tE
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)
Unique site overlooking Peconic Bay and westward for
approx. fifty miles.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
Large 21-story, 5-bay gable roof house flanked by 12--story
gable roof wings that project so as to enframe the front
fagade. Fnd chimneys and Palladian window over entrance
pediment
SIGNIFICANCE
11t. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1919
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
Sloa and Bryson wprp architects for Mr. Johnson
and 7dgar Tuthill built most of the houses.
This houso was one of the first built by the
"Nassau Point" dpvplopors.
oC . Newell, A Rose f the Nineties. 19 , p. 114.
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Southold-Peconic bran>h of FLI Hospital Auxiliary
tour of North Fork homes. July 20, 1967 No. III.
rig! 'elf Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
assistant.
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:o villa was transformed into a Club and Mr. and Mrs. ndrew I was one of several Peconic and Cutchogue boys and
MacNish, who were both marvelous cooks, ran it. girls who walked or rode bicycles to attend school in Southold.
A number of houses were built by people from New York I recall Chester Beebe, Orville Beebe, Sherwood Beebe, Grey
and Brooklyn. Slee_and Bryson were architects for Mr. John- Curran, Ethel Grathwohl (Mrs. Walter Prince), Arlien Apple-
son, and Edglf Iut ill-built most of the houses. Among the by, Louise Fitz, (Mrs. Willard Howell), Percy Bergen and
first to come here were Jessica Lozier Payne, famous Current Gladys Bergen (Mrs. Harold TuthiIl).
!— Events lecturer; Mrs. Bretz, mother of Margaret Bergen, who Often I went on horseback, stabling "Lassie" in Mr. Hub-
with her husband, Schuyler, now occupies the house in summer. bard Cleveland's barn near the schoolhouse. Just recently I
> The D'Emo family came, and Basil, the son, has now winter- stopped to ask the present owner, Mr.John Charnews to let me
aized the house and lives here year round. The Aborns and Dr. look at the stable where I hitched her. He-keeps the old barn L
to Grimmer were early summer residents. in excellent condition which made me feel good because, with
The house we bought on Wunneweta Pond has "1922" tractors taking the place of horses on the farms, there are very
,°� scratched on the chimney bricks in the cellar. When we moved few old-time barns left. Transportation in those days was
here in 1934 we could easily count the houses and often when very different from being carried everywhere by bus as children
I came out from New York to open the house for the season are in this mechanical age.
`D I would be the only person sleeping on Nassau Point. Now It has been interesting to live through kerosene lamplight
P, many houses cover the rolling peninsula and the mayflowers and gas to electricity; from horses to automobiles and jet-
(arbutus) are practically no more. I know of 2 clumps of it but Planes; from wood-burning cook-stoves to electric ranges;
E+ it's a deep dark secret! There is plenty of poison ivy though! from hand work to motor-driven everything. Modern comfort
Of course it was the automobile which enabled the Point and conveniences are marvelous, but the charm of the old days
to develop, and it is still a lovely place, though the quiet is remains in mind and heart.
sometimes shattered by low-flying aeroplanes.
\0 Well, changes must come and, after all, most of these
0% reminiscences are of years more than a half-century ago.
Of my companions in Peconic School, some have died,
many have moved away, and some still live on Eastern Long
Island. I can't recall them all, but these family names will be
familiar to many: Appleby, Bedell, Bennett, Bergen, Bracher,
Buxton, Case, Carroll, Corey, Davids, Dietz, Diller, Fitz,
Goldsmith, Gordon, Halpin, Hammel, Hubbard, Jefferson,
King, Lindsay, Morrell, Petty, Smith, Stelzer, Terry, Turner,
Vail and Worth.
After the Peconic grades I went to Southold High School
graduating in the class of 19178 with: Ernestine Howell (Mrs.
William Hagen), Louise Fitz (Mrs. Willard Howell), Elsie
Hummel (Mrs. Rudolf Wolff), Rose Gagen, Rose Thompson
and Charles Breitstadt.
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