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Home My WebLink AboutPE-33 BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORMFOR OFFICE USE ONLY PE 33 UNIQUE SITE NO. DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION ;SERIES ALBANY.NEWYORK (519) 474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME:Town of Sn a .ho ./SPLTA DATE:Qctober 1986 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE: ( 516) '765-189 Southold . T . I. N.Y. 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION 1, BUILDING NAME(S): Jefferson house 2. ('OIJNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Peconic 3. STRF'E:T LOCATION: Peconic Zane, est side . opposite Carroll Ave. 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private M 5. PRESENT OWNER: Svec ADDRESS: Peconic Zane 6. USE: Original: Residence Present: Residence 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes ® No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain .DESCRIPTION K. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATI_RIAL: e. cobblestone 0 f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: vinyl siding '). STRUCTURAL a.- wood frame with interlocking joints M' SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑ (it' kno,va) c. masonry load bearing walls❑ d. metal (explain) e. other 10. CONDITION: a. excellent 91 b. good L7 c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ h, moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): PF-RSM III-10 From east 12. PHOTO: Front (east) facade 13. MAP: N.Y.S. DOT Southold Quad Peconic>, _ a econic ij ch a15 • o o. o 0 o, q SpAIN 0 25 z Sar* BM n a° 29 ar. FF 33 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known LZ b.zoning❑ c. roads ❑ RBB d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn El b_ carriage house ❑ c. garage 22 d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse 99 g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i. landscape features: in rear is a nursery with j, other: several greenhouses 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land ® b. woodland ❑ c. scattered buildings ❑ d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential CA h.other: 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) The house stands on Peconic Lane , which is the main road of the Hamlet of Peconic (known in the nineteenth century as Hermitage ) . 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): 22-story, 3-bay, side entrance plan,Italianate house with low--angle bracketed gable roof. 12-story 4-bay wing on south with small window under the eaves. Bracketed porches with turned columns on square bases across front of main house and of wing. 6/6 windows with shouldered surrounds SIGNIFICANCE Itt. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION Prior to 1858 ARCHITECT: BUILDER: '0. IIISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: Perkins 1873 & 1858 L. P. Jefferson in 1909 This fine landmark is beautifully maintained and is an important part of historic Peconic. 21. SOURCES: Beers, Comstock, Cline. Atlas of Long Island. 1873 E. Belcher Hyde. Atlas off' Suffolk County. L. I. Vol. 2 : North Side. Sound Shore. 1909 Chace. Map of Suffolk County. 1858. 6/23/83) ?. THLtiff: y Bear. "The Jefferson House" .Weekend ,News Review. Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research assistant. PE 33 RED Cont. 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE : and molded window caps. Entrance with side lights and transom also has shouldered surround . Original front door with grill work in upper panels. Original white porcelain knob and bell pull. r HIM HIM HIM t Front Door. From east. PF-RSM III-9 N(-ws Review,. PE 3 ,ll S`E - Rp V I . � , - __ Weekender June 23, 1983 Page 11 Iwo 7ft a role t pI r YUf_1ii�YI*. y.:: �,3' _ • �'kbhN, !{k Rn. 'l+fUfKTFitiif'`5(!fd�i�il �V')' �4t �� After her family grew up, the hawse became too large for Helena Meredith. About 28 years ago she sold it with its eight acres intact,for$15,000.She says of the time she spend in the home sketched: "Peconic Lane in those days was a world of peace." The Jefferson House After Mrs. Meredith sold, three families owned the house before the day in 1971 when Dix Hills nurserymen Frank and Charles Svec first saw it. A real estate agent By JOY BEAR was on his way to show them another property when At the close of the 18th century this white Victorian they passed the Jefferson home, and immediately they house stood on Peconic Lane, looking much as it does fell in love with its large frontage, Victorian style and today. It was home to a girl growing up in Peconic. rural ambience. Behind and around the house stretched eight acres of The Svec brothers had built a successful nursery and farmland with outbuildings for her to explore--stables, landscaping business in Dix Hills, about which Frarek barns, sheds, pig-sties and chicken coops. As a four- said recently: year-old, Helena had moved into the house when her "It had been a great feeling of delight and father, LeRoy Jefferson, bought it and the land for accomplishment to ride through the island and see the $3,000. results of our efforts beautifying so many homes and LeRoy had been clerking in the general store owned by highways." his father, Robert Jefferson, but soon after moving into But the suburban sprawl which engulfed Nassau the house LeRoy started a livery business, and built a County continued eastward and Frank and Charles Svec large carriage house. Horse-and-carriage was the taxi longed for open space. They began looking for property service of the day, and LeRoy Jefferson or one of his upstate and on eastern Long Island. drivers would meet every train that pulled into Peconic "We bad been impressed with+he entire North Fork," station. Frank Svec said. "After all, the soil had been cultivated Helena loved living in the house. As Mrs. Charles for over 300 years, and we were attracted to the Meredith of Southold, today Helena recalls the attic greenery we were accustomed to care for." where she played, with its hand-hewn and wood-pegged The property which they bought in 1971 had rich, oak beams and wide floorboards. The main part of the productive soil but the house was in disrepair and the house is brick-lined,she says,and the cornices are hand grounds were neglected and overgrown. The Svec carved from four-inch wide solid boards. She also brothers welcomed the challenge of restoring the house remembers that on more than one occasion a stranger and relocating their nursery in Peconic. It was a year would drop by with an offer to buy the handsome front before they finally moved in. door -- which, providentially, still is in place on the "To this very day we have been content and most house.She remembers a windmill in the back,beside the satisfied living here in the small hamlet of Peconic with barn, and a well outside the kitchen door, with its hand its rural atmosphere and simple way of life," Frank pump inside,by the sink. Svec sdays. "Of course the migration eastward will Helena grew up with animals -- horses, mules, cows, continue as long as people are in search of a better way pigs and chickens. Her father also pastured a flock of of life. Perhaps it is selfish to seek solitude and enjoy sheep on Shelter Island. By Christmas the open range country comforts, but our lives are made up of stages, grew too cold for the sheep, which were ferried over to and we stumble through them as best we know how." their winter quarters in Beixedon. Mrs. Meredith Of the Jefferson house, Frank says: "The restoration remembers the almost Biblical scene of the flock and of the homestead was an experience that my brother shepherds moving down the road to their winter Charles and I shall always cherish,as we know that the quarters. generations that follow will be grateful for our legacy."