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Home My WebLink AboutPE-39 r FOR OFFICE USE ONLY BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM � UNIQUE SITE NO./03/0 . 0-00T) 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/SPLIA DATE: October 1986 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE:( 516) 765-1892 Southold L. I. , N.Y. 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION Hermit I. BUILDING NAME(S): "Hermitage Antiques_._Fur i .tire",'/HaIrgl',si fe of tb Old} 2. COUNTY:_Z_Uf',f_03_ _ -- TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Peconie 3. STRF:F.T LOCATION: PP_enni c La-ne, west side , north of LTRR 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private lid 5. PRESENT OWNER: Adipetro 3 a �hhac-k- ADDRESS: h. USE: Original: c1 _ . s--tox-��-- — Present: _ Store 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC Exterior visible from public road: Yes bE No Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION H. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATI.:RIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles CR g. stucco ❑ other: 1). STRUCTURAL a.. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑ SYSTEM: h. wood frame with light members ❑ (il' k"(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls❑ d. metal (explain) e. other I0. CONDITION: a. excellent D b. good EO c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site Ek b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): Southernmost store has been re-clad and has new windows. Its canopy at the store front is the only PE-RSM 1I1-16 From SE ( original feature remaining for that store. } 12. PHOTO: Front (east) fagade 13. MAP: N.Y.S . DOT Southold Quad and south elevation • r �9 Peconic 3• rd 6 o y Peconie t Sch s a a , s _ o h.. +I ►+ - ° Q� - INS BM 25 t<A n — 29 �,x PE 39 4 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a, none known ® b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: 1.5. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑ d. privy ❑ e. shed 0 f. greenhouse g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i. landscape features: _picket fence in rear j. other: ]b. 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 ❑ h.other: 17. INTI-RRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) These stores stand on Peconic Lane which%is the main road of the Hamlet of Ppconic , known as Hermitage in the nine- tppnth century. It is a historic district. 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): Both stores are gable-roof, gable-end to the street. The northernmost of these retains its original scallop shingles, 2/2 windows and canopy over the side-walk supported on round columns over square bases. SIGNIFICANCE 19. DA] FOF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1800 Is # ARCHITECT: BUILDER: fl HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE.: Plaque reads : Homesite of THE OLD HERMIT Daniel Overton, Forepart 1800s Peconic was once Hermitage The northernmost store retains its historic character and contributes to the amience of the streetscape as does the canopy on the southernmost store. 21. SOURCES: Sanborn Map Matt ituck-Southold. Aug. 1929"Peconic" . Guide to Historic Markprs. Southold Historical Society. 1960. # 55 *Joy Bear. Historic Homes of the Forth Fork and 22. -rHLMFI Shelter Island. 1981, 12. Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research assistant. Sanborn Map. 1929, 952 W 5 8£o£c� �q, TvA NE e H4, r o plbr+ra w mo i 1 ri !t �1 _sv,r L'rJ ,r L� - AUG. 1929 Ir r SOOT N.Y. 52 PE 41 PECONIC SANBORN L I A + "� ? 4o L j J,M LVPMNA /AC I %P gMUOUCC!GRAIN W*.. 1 I � Ii1' cclr:s i PYwfR ( , O � LJ HGIT'Sr[)FF UFw EFRr,YF4 fj�'j 39 •.L F DoH q l g' r 7 4rH5 � •� Q I� f S •N' w C • ! 'C 1_Wcrc>U trf Frr'LI VIt 1 �_J z P1 aI / Fn�S5l.r4;FFC r — P ' 2 d ,5 ; r V I! "Post IIYF fey nJ ' ° I 40 PASr,nl£ /HN cnuP �� PE 38 FJ� Hort / W 'IQ x -fl SrA 4s O 4 i0r 24 PE 36 Ilk 37 s 1 - y P• 27 side his little cottage, and trains have Frank D.Smith,a famous milliner of chugged over them almost daily from the North Fork,once had his shop in the 1844 to the present- rear of this building. He drew his clientele from all of Long Island and even New York city. Upon his retirement at 1 r 1f The shingled cop re,right in the the age of almost 80, Frank Smith sketch,was bu m the 1 s on or near collected the bits and scraps of velvet left the site of the hermit's shack.The owner over from his creations and with them of this store,Robert Adipietro,says that made a "Log Cabin" style quilt- This over the years the stare has housed a unusual quilt is now in the collection of variety of businesses including an early the Southold Historical society. '- general store which sold coal delivered to its back door by the LIRR., Students of local history will enjoy reading a book of nostalgic recollections I � 7'o the south, across the tracks, is a of Peconic as it was in the early part of - a small commercial complex consisting of the century,written by a Peconic native, Re- a grocery store,a Post Office and in the Rosalind Case Newell, titled "Rose Re back,a launderette.The building housing members." these stores was built by Captain Horace * -� F.Prince in 1855. 'z 1 1 e Hermitage The owner of the grocery store in the north corner of this building, Pau] Orlowski, has been in business in this spot for 43 years. Of his store in olden eCOI]IC days the Southold Historical society The hermit was ready n� Ilr'� says: '"Those were the days of the L pot-bellied Stove,and of tall tales told by to do battle old Peconicers." In the 19th Century Peconic was known with anything as the Hermitage,and Peconic Lane as A Post Office has been located at Hermitage Lane.The hermit in question different times in the past on the south that threatened ChaIlge was David Overton,a vocal recluse who comer 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 Pecome when it began receiving mail battle with the Long Island Rail Road, meant for a second, and older town in Eventually tracks were laid right along- New York state also named Hermitage. I Joy Bear. z� Historic Houses of the North Fork and Shelter Island. 1981 w 4' Pe 39 55. HOMESITE OF THE OLD HERMIT Daniel Overton, forepart 1800's Peconic was Once Hermitage (The Little Corner Store, Peconic Lane, Peconic, owned by Cyril McCaffery) t Daniel Overton, before the L. I. R. R. came through in 1844, lived as a hermit in a little house near the site. He made a great fuss when the railroad upset his way of life. He had a rare talent as a rhymist; composed jingles to fit characters he knew, such as: "Mrs. Perkins goes in royal state, Aunt Patty stops to close the gate." Due to him Peconic was called Hermitage in the 19th century, before it was given the name of Peconic. The reason for the change of name was because another town in New York State already held the name of Hermitage. The Post Office found it too confusing. 56. ISAAC OVERTON HOUSE Oldest Part c. 1791 Franklin H. Overton 1839 (James H. Rich, Sr., North Road, Peconic) A fine old 18th and 19th century house, which once upon a time had a covered well right in the kitchen! The cover had two slots for the ropes to go through. Children loved to gather 'round to pull the two buckets up and down and never seemed to fall down the well! The wheel around which the rope ran was fastened to a ceiling beam. A family deed establishes the ownership of the land at this period. The back part of the house was the 1791 home (a house in itself) of Isaac Overton, farmer, and his wife Abigail Vail. There their son, William Horace, was born, 1791—he who later married Martha Horton, daughter of Major Gilbert Horton of Great Hogg Necke (Bay View). Franklin H. Overton, son of William Horace and Martha, on his marriage in 1839 with Esther J. Horton, came to live in his grandfather's homestead and added the large forepart to the house. Franklin H. was Town Supervisor 1863-73 dur- ing the Civil War years and was responsible for raising the Town's quota of soldiers under the Draft Act. He was a pro- ponent of County care of the Poor at the County Almshouse i at Yaphank. He was one of Southold Town's prominent citi- zens and a founder of Southold Savings Bank. 51 Guide to Historic Markers, Southold Historical Society. 1960.