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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
UNIQUE SITE NO. I73f0.pa1o7L PE 38
DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION (QUAD
• NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY,NEW YORK ISI K) 474-0479 NEG NO
YOUR NAME: Town of Snuthold//SPLIA DATE: Ot-toher 1986
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE: (51 6) �6 5-1 892
Southold L. I. , N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any):Southold Town Community Development Of fire
IDENTIFICATION
I. BUILDING NAME(S): Ppnnn1 c Pond Market and Post 13M Ce
2_ COUNTY: Suffolk _.T ._ TOWNICITY: Southold VILLAGE: _Peennie_
3. STREET LOCATION: Pecnnic Lane south of LIRR . wnst side
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h private
S. PRESENT OWNER: Kokkinos ADDRESS:
h. USE: Original: Store Present: Store Post office
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: c. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles 50 g, stucco. other: asbestos siding
l). STRUCTURAL. a. wood frame with interlocking joints E
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑X
(if known) 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 ❑ b. moved ❑ if so,when"
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
Front is altered, windows on south altered.
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12. PHOTO= Front (east) fagade 13. MAP: N.Y.S. DOT Southold Quad
and south elevation
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known 21 b.zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ .
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. ether:
IS. RELATER OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed �O f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features: none
j. other:
16- SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land ❑ b. woodland ❑
c. scattered buildings 50
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial D�l
f. industrial ❑ g. residential 1Z
h.other:
17. INTF.RRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
This store stands on Peconic Lane which is the main road
of the Hamlet of Peconic, known as Hermitage in the
nineteenth century. It is a historic district.
18- OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
�2_story, gable roof commercial building 5 bays deep with
scallops along eaves and gables. 6/6 windows survive on
north elevation.
SIGNIFICANCE
11), DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1855
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
R. Jefferson & Co. , in 1873
Plaque says : Former Jefferson Store 1855
PECONIC HALL, POST OFFICE
This store was built by Capt. Horace F. Prince in 1855.
The post office was located here from time to time.
The upper floor was a hall called Peconic Hall which
was the Community Center.
Joy Bear. Historic Homes of the North Fork
and Shelter Island. 1981
21. SOURCES: Beers , Comstock, Cline. Atlas of Long Island. 1873
R . C. Newell. A Rose of the Nineties. 1962
_Rose Remembers. 1976
Guide to Historic Markers.Southold Hist. Soc.#54,1960
22. THEME:
Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt , research
assistant.
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53. WM. HORACE OVERTON HOUSE 1815 55•
Moved by Silas Overton 1885
Home of Henry G. Fitz 1890 r
(Lewis Morse, tenant; Mrs. Willard H. Howell, owner,
Peconic Lane, Peconic)
On his marriage in 1815 with Major Gilbert Horton's D
t daughter Martha, William Horace Overton built his hoine 1844, 1
on Hermitage Lane (Peconic Lane). He was the son of Isaac a grea
and Abigail Vail Overton, born in the Isaac Overton home- rare t
stead on the Long Lane (North Road). The Overtons owned he kn
extensive lands in Hermitage (Peconic). Like his father Isaac, Patty
William Horace was a farmer. His grandson, Silas F. Overton, IC
son of Franklin H. and Esther Horton Overton, moved this centui
house, around 1855, across Hermitage Lane where in c. 1890 for tl-
r it became the home of Henry Giles Fitz ("Uncle Harry") and York
Mary Richmond, his wife. Office
Many people ha a called this house "The house with the
telescope". Henry 17 was son of Julia Ann Wells (daughter 56.
of Giles Wells) and Henry Fitz, Jr., the famed telescope maker,
whose workshop, reproduced, may now be seen in the Smith-
sonian Institution, Washington, D. C. The original tools and
machines, some his own invention, are on permanent exhibit.
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5 FORMER JEFFERSON STORE 1855 time
Peconic Hall, Post Office two s
(Peconic Food Market, Paul Orlowski, owner, roup
to fa
Peconic Lane, Peconic)
was
The Jefferson Store was built 1855 by Captain Horace
F. Prince who owned a lumber yard in Hermitage, and a this
sloop which brought his lumber across the Sound from Con- hous
i necticut. James Fanning and James Richmond kept store there Vail.
but Robert and Lewis Jefferson were the owners long asso- who
ciated with it. Those were the days of the pot-bellied stove Hort
and of tall tales told by old Peconic-ers.
During the Cleveland administration Jesse Lewis Case was on h
( Postmaster. The Post Office at different periods was located h
there. Frank D. Smith before he became "The Man Milliner in to
of Peconic" had a little shop at the rear. The upper floor was
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a hall for entertainments, dances, soeiables, Sunday School Tom
classes and dancing classes, with well-remembered teachers,
Fannie Case and Charts Carroll. For years this was the famed at
community center of Hermitage-Peconic activity. Nostalgic
memories! zens
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Guide to Historic Markers. Southold
Historical Society-. 960.
FIFTH GENERATION Yr 38
wills #112871 [U. S. Census , Sthld: 1850 , 1860 ,1870 , 1880 ,1900]
[B.R. Prince , . . .My Life] [Guide to Hist . Markers , p.501
[Traveler, 100 yr. col. Nov.16 ,1978] [Hen W . Prince 1854-1861
Diary pP. 92 , 112 ,1461
At the time of his marriage Horace' s residence was
Charleston SC , and he was probably carrying cargo in and out
of that port . In 1850 he and Laura were living with his par-
ents in Southold and he was a "Seaman. " In 1858 he had a 1
grocery business in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn and
Benjamin Prince was clerking for him. A May 18S9 entry in
Hen W. Prince ' s diary when he was working in Williamsburg
states: "H,F. Prince has give up the grocery business in
Wmsburgh & gone to Southold L. I. " He may have been having n,---/
someone else manage the Williamsburg business, for he is said
to have built his Peconic Store in 1855. In Sept . 1860 j
Henry Prince started clerking for Horace in Peconic at $10
a week, which probably included room and board as Henry only
went home weekends.
Horace never gave up his love of the water , for he built
up a lumber business in Peconic , bringing the lumber from
Connecticut on his sloop. In 1878 "Capt . H.F. Prince, of
Schooner Flora Temple , " had been up the Connecticut River
accompanied by B.R. Fitz who made sketches of points of
interest .
Horace' s home, now gone , was across from the Peconic
Store just south of the tracks. (Plate VIII)
#95. Madeline 0. Prince (1847-1849) b. Peconic Dec . 1847, d.
Peconic 27 Sept . 1849 age 1 yr. 10 mo . 14 da. Bur.
Sthld Fres. Cem. [Twn Clerk's Unrecorded Return] [C . B.
Moore ' s Cem. Notebook]
#96. Adelaide L. Prince (c . 1851- ) m. 1873 Charles David
a
Terry.
#97. George H Prince (1859-1917) Farmer b. Kings Co . 1859 ,
d. Sthld 24 Apr. 1917. m. Sthld Pres. Ch. 16 July 1890
Annie Sophia Tuthill (b. New Suf, 3 Apr. 1868 , d. Pe-
conic 9 June 1937. Both bur . Sthld) dau. of Horace B.
and Dorlista Maria (Terry) Tuthill. [NY G&B v.LXVI , p.
2691 [Twn Clerk, Marriages p. 171 [Twn Clerk Deaths]
Dpscpndants of Capt. John Prince. . . . By Helen Wright
Pri.ncn. 1983
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side his little cottage, and trains have Frank D.Smith,a famo t
chugged over them almost daily from the North Fork,once had h
1844 to the present, rear of this building. I
clientele from all of Long is.
rte , _ _ New York city. Upon his i
"Y The shingled corner store, right in the the age of almost 80, J
sketch,was built in the IBM's on or near collected the bits and scrap:
the site of the hermit's shack.The owner over from his creations ar
of this store,Robert Adipietro,says that made a "Log Cavin" sty
over the years the store has housed a unusual quilt is now in the
z_ variety of businesses including an early the Southold Historical Soc
general store which sold coal delivered to
its back door by the LIRR.•
Students of local histol
reading a book of nostalgic
To the south, across the tracks, is a of Peconic as it was in the
small commercial complex consisting of the century,written by a P
a grocery store,a Post Office and in the Rosalind.Case Newell, till
— back,a launderette.The building housing members."
these stores was built by Captain Horace
M F.Prince in 1855.
The owner of the grocery store in the
tit pHermitage
north corner of this building, Paul
@The — Orlowski, has been in business in this
spot for 43 years. Of his store in olden
�� • days the Southold Historical Society r
�`qy f"p�+/'tn�/+ says: "Those were the days of the The hermit was T
V1r j e c V lAl c pot-bellied stove,and of tall tales told by
old Peconicers." to do battle
} In the 19th Century Peconic was known with anything
as the Hermitage,and Peconic Lane as A Post Office has been located at
p Hermitage Lane.The hermit in question different times in the past on the south that threatened C
f was David Overton,a vocal recluse who corner of this building,and one occupies
loved the quiet and relatively unpopulat- the site today. The Post Office was
ed area he lived in,and was ready to do instrumental in having the name of the
battle with anything that threatened to hamlet changed from Hermitage to
change it.He fought a vigorous but losing Peconic when it began receiving mail
battle with the Long Island Rail Road. mean) For a second, and older lawn in
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Eventually tracks were laid right along- New York state also named Hermitage.
Joy Bear, Historic domes. 1981
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