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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEN` YORK (518)474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: September 1986
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE: (516) 765-1892
Southold, N.y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
L BUILDING NAME(S): Lenz Winer
?. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Peconic
3. STREET LOCATION: Main Road, North side.
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public I__1 b. private
S. PRESENT OWNER: Peter Lenz ADDRESS: Main Road, Peconic
6. USF.: Original: Potato farm Present: Winery
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: vert. board
1). STRUCTURAL a. wood Frame with interlocking joints PP �
SYSTEM: h. wood frame with light members 1 #
(il' kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other _
10. CONDITION: a. excellent 1XI b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated El
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site C) h. moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
Old fam -buildings were remodeled in 1981 to serve
as a winery.
F7 RSM-I-8 Front Facade
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known 12 b.zoning ❑ c. roads El
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. ether:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barnI 2 b. carriage house ❑ c. garage 12
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ Residence ( 1920s)
i. landscape features:complex of trellised areas
j. other: Swimming pool, outbuildings , 2 eer_r2ls
10. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): and gazebo
a.open land M b. woodland ❑
c. scattered buildings
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑
h.other: vineyard
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
,, ate if bu i or tract re i,, an his or' di4trict)
is uric �arfn F oac {` toute � 9) is the old King's Highway.
Cluster of buildings , winery, entrance gate, entrance
building, residence , swimming pool are defined and tied
together by a network of trellises - the whole complex
becoming the focal point of the entire vineyard.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND S1'I E (including interior features if known):
SIGNIFICANCE
Ila. DA'I E OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1 81 # and latn 19th. Pntury.
ARCHITECT : Mark Simon, AIA, of Moore Grover Harper, Essex, Conn.
Stephen L. Lloyd, AIA, project manager
BUILDER:Contractors James M. McGarry,
Landscape Architect Lester Collins
20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITLCTURAL IMPORTANCE: "ARCHI" award:
This complex won two gold awards sponsored by the Long
Island chapter of the American Institute of Architects
for excellence in architectural design in the recycling
category.
This handsome winery contributes to the rural character
of this historic agricultural area.
This was Capt. James 'Worth in 1909.
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Architectural Record. April 1984
�I. SOURCES: AIA Journal. Mayy 1 83.
onversa ?eteion with r Lenz 8/20/86
r.Belcher-Hyde. Atlas of Suffolk County_. _L. I. _ Vol. 2t
North Side. Sound Shore. 1909
Attachments Fro rassive Architecture. 6t84
22. THLNIF
Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
assistant.
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"Progressive Architecture" .6/$4
Mark Simon of Moore Grover
Harper cans a anifying eye
over the various parts of
a small Long Island winery.
The north fork of Long Island's eastern end
i has recently become home to a small but in-
creasing number of wine growers,who hope
that the area will one day become the eastern
counterpart to California's Napa Valley.Two
} of these pioneers, Peter and Patricia Lenz,
f plan to be ready when it happens—not only
with abundant harvests,but with a winery de-
signed to please connoisseurs of architecture
as well.
When the Lenzes bought their 26-acre
former potato farm in Peconic,they also got
a small house,a large barn,a three-car garage,
a swimming pool, and two outbuildings,
which were neither related nor particularly
distinguished. They asked architect Mark
Simon of Moore Grover Harper to come up
with a design that would consolidate the
winemaking and tasting activities in the barn,
isolate public parking,direct pedestrian traf-
fic through the winery and, not least of all,
protect the privacy of the Lenzes'house and
pool,while imparting to the whole ensemble
a sense of architectural distinction that was
not far-out.Since the vineyard would be open
alternately to wholesale wine buyers and to
the public,the design had to appeal to what
Simon calls"a certain degree of hauteur"in-
herent in the wine business,and it had to fit
into its fairly rural surroundings while
announcing its presence to the outside world.
All this had to be done on a slender budget.
since the clients'heavy investment in their firm
crop would see no payback for three year
Simon's task,as he saw it,was one of"l ind-
scape and organization."Working with land-
scalx architect Lester Collins, he reinforced
the implied courtyard by the arrangement of
farm buildings,tying them together by means
of a series of trellises constructed of"prefer"
poles left over from plywood manufacturing
(which are also used as vineyard stakes). At
the entrance to the winery,they form a gate
which,when covered with vines,will serve as
a symbol for the vineyard. The entry road
leads past the rows of vines to the parking
From 4hr rortd,the pink buildings of area,where a pedestrian entrance was carved
the Lenz ti'inrry rise nlu,htrurivrly out of the unused central bay of the garage.
1,141 of rows of grapmines(faring Simon created a narrow (three-foot-wide)
lxlge,tqd,In the rourtwird fright), passage that heightens the visitor's sense of
t4elbw+ that uolwreaffirms,!urirvto anticipation as he approaches the courtyard. +�
the d4.sfxmtte buildings offer a
drr,awwrAndingdmirefor thr Inside the rourt, the trellises work their
ln4rn,whirh housrs the winemrduug magic. They enliven the fa4ade of the barn,
room and taleskastiag room.The while shading it from the summer sun and
sliding dsxns,ntpdi4.s.and bele Mwrr marking the public entrance to the sales and
are"/I aea;the ruprtlasbnngextra tasting room. They also create a fourth side
fight uNo thr 1, ring ra nn. no the court yard by enclosing the pool in an
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hlonreGrmwrHarper,Essex,Conn. Consultants:Lester GUAM.land-
(Stephen 1..Lloyd,AIA,of Moore scape;Besier,Gibble&Quirin,
Grover Harper,project manager). structural;Rudy Besier,partner in
Site:26 acres of farmland with charge.
existing housr,bane,pool,and General contractor:farms M.
nutbuildingi. AffGany,
Program:5430 sqft,including Photography:Nm-than McGrath.
toinemaking room,vcsetars'ratterl
sales room,tasting pavilion,cask
storage,and utility brine.
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Both architect and client wanted to capture '
the sense of a European farm grouping in the
architecture, and a sense of the Arts and -
Crafts movement in the detailing—images
that attest to a preference for quiet, almost
vernacular design that is rich but not flashy— `.
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Trellises create a syn&hc gateway
entrance to the winery(/acing page,
top),they also enclose the pool,
defining a fourth side of ehe court-
yard(site plan,and photo facing
page center),and extending to
enclose an outdoor tasting pavilion.
Public parking is directly in front of
Me vLntors"entrance,which was
can+rd mut of an unused bay of the
garage(facing page,bottom).In the
barn,rhe sales and tasting room
(right)is organirtd with a curving
wall adorned with a grapevine
stencil.
"outdoor atrium," continuing on to form a serving as cask storage.The central portion
small tasting pavilion, and then extending of the barn,which houses the sales and winter
further to screen the house from the heavy tasting room, was literally brightened by the
traffic of the road beyond.To unify the entire addition of two cupolas, and made grander
assembly, the buildings were painted a cool, by the installation of a pair of enormous slid- r
light pink,and the trellises a muted green. ing wood doors. A sinuous wall, with a
Inside the barn,a tractor garage occupies grapevine stencil designed by the architect,
the east wing,with the winemaking room in defines both the sales counter and the tasting
the west,and a small shed on the rwrth side areas,creating the atmosphere of a rural inn.
A new shed added to the garage houses goats
and geese,thus completing the picture of pas-
1710
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toral plenty.
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