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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM PE 10
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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK S .% IE PARKS AND RECREA I ION SERIES
ALBANY, NL%� YORK (518) 474-0479 NEG. N0.
YOUR NAME'Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: -September 1986
YOUR ADDRESS: Tnwn Ha 1 1 r, Main Rnad --TELEPHONE-(
Southold L. I. , N.Y.11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Dpvalopment Offi cQ
IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING NAME{S): Corwin Davids house
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Peconic
3. STREET LOCATION. Route 25, north side
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public 0 4 private Q
5. PRESENT OWNER: Dava.l party SUPPlieEKDDREW Route 25
h_ USI:. Original: Residence 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 ❑
MA'I ER1AL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other _pIiTnj-niln siding
1) STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints FC]
SYSTFNI: b. woad frame with light members (1
(if kn(urn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d, metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a• excellent ❑ b. good ® c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ h, moved ❑ if so,when°
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
Windows all modern. Front entrance changed.
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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 R)
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features: ricket fence side and rear.
j. other:
16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land ❑ b. woodland ❑
C.scattered buildings 12
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
F. industrial L g. residential 0
h.other: adacent to Police Dept. and Dept.
of Highways
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
The house lies on Route 25 which was once the old Kings
Highway.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
12-story, 5-bay gable roof, pre-Revolutionary house with
fagade gable over front entrance.
SIGNIFICANCE
II}. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION- Circa 1770 's. prior to 1802
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
Plaque reads : Samuel Corwin house
Revolutionary Period
Charles L. Davids 1860
Davids in 1873-
Davids
873.Davids in 1909.
Stornpmann in 1960
This house has been one of the town' s cherished landmarks.
Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical
Society. 1990- # 58-
21. SOURCES: A Summer Of History. Official Program Town of Southold.
1640-1965- Section Z. Map. # 4.
Beers, Comstock, Cline. Atlas of Long_Island. 1873
E. Belcher-Hyde. Atlas of Suffolk County, L. I. Vol. 2:
22. THLAIF North Side. Sound Shore. 1909
Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
assistant.
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The Overton homestead can claim seven generations of
Overtons who have belonged to its family history. The great-
granddaughter of Franklin H. lives in it today. It is thought
that its oldest part with the well goes back even farther than
1791 in age.
(57.) PECONIC'S OLD MILL CARTWAY
This Road was once a Cartway to Goldsmith Inlet Mill which
stood at the Inlet near the North Sea (L. I. Sound). Ancestors
drove by oxcart and wagon from Hermitage (Peconic) and
surrounding country to the Tide Mill, later Wind and Tide.
John C. Appleby, the first miller; Gilbert Terry, the last.
The Mill, built in 1840 by 80 subscribers, was torn down in
1906. Its great wings fell in the 1898 storm. Reputed one of
New York's largest windmills of its type. The Cartway, now
this road, remains, constant reminder of the Inlet Mill. . .
(Location of Roadside Marker: at intersection of the North
Road, Peconic Lane and Mill Road, Peconic) I f
58. SAMUEL CORWIN HOUSE 1
Revolutionary Period
Charles L. Davids 1860
(Walter H. Sternemann, Main Road, Peconic)
Many Corwins, descended from Matthias, one of the first
settlers, Southold, have settled in Peconic. The first John and
descendants had early holdings of the Indian Field Farm
(The neck lying between branches of Hutchinson's Creek)
and of lands stretching to the Long Lane (North Road) etc.
Part of them were retained for 200 years. This house is one
of the Corwin homes related to Samuel Corwin and Nancy
I Cheseborough, his wife. Samuel bore the name of three Samuels
before him. He was baptised 1776, died 1853. Henry Corwin,
his son, was born in the house 1802; married Orriet Richmond
in 1827. They had 10 sons and Lived for a time in Pine_Neck,
Southold, in the old house now called "Cocktail Cottage , pre-
sent home of Rowland H. Timm.
About 1854 Henry returned with his family to live in the
Peconic homestead. In 1860 he joined his sons in Minnesota.
He sold lands and house to Charles L. Davids, whose wife
was Lucretia Terry of Cutchogue. Their son, Henry Eugene
Davids, (married Cornelia Brush) followed in ownership;which
was continued by his son, Raymond E., (married Adora Ford)
until it passed from the Davids family.
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Guide to Historic IVlarkers .
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' Southold Historical Society. 1960.
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of The construction of the house, retaining many einHand
,at- features
, points to the Revolutionary period of age.
;ht wrought latches, hinges, batten doors; at one time the large
brick oven; and at one time the upper floor, aoffirth dere
ian
#ront gable added later. During the Corwin period
troyed one section of the house so that 19th centurb building
appears with the 18th century hand-hewn timber, log }
and dove-tailed sills. The cellar shows the foundation of stone '
.ich and also of brick.
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etc. LIEUT. MOSES CASE HOUSE
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In Original Part c. 1747
icy (Albert Sacco, Main Road, Peconic)
.els
-in, The "Old House with the Yew Trees" has long been a
)nd Peconic landmark on the Main Road. The Yew Trees were
,ck, brought over from Ireland near 150 years ago. The oldest
are- part of the house, now at the rear, with the unusual and rarely-r t
found Webster doorway is over 200 years old. It was in 1747-
the 48 that Lieut. Moses Case married Mary Hutchinson, one of
.3ta the three Hutchinson daughters in the "Old Castle" across
wife the road. Moses, son of Samuel Case, and greagr
son of
ene the first Henry Case and Martha Corwin (daughter of the
rich first Matthias) was born 1723, died 1814. He was a Lieutenant
and for his service was later commissioned Captain of a com
rd) -
lsany of Town Militia. He signed the Association in 1775. Al-
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Guide to Historic Markers. 1960
out o istorica Society.