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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
UNIQUE SITE NO, !fir°. r"414
DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY,NEW YORK (51 ii) 474-0479 NEG. NO. -
YOUR NAME: Tnwn of Southold/SPLIA DATE: Octob?r 1986
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE: (516) 765-1892
Southold, L. I. , N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold T wn Community DevPlo ment {office
IDENTIFICATION
I. BUILDING NAMF,(S): h "
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2. COUNTY: S ff Olk OWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Southold
3. STREET LOCATION: Route 25, Main Road south side_ east of Wells Rd.
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ Ez private El
5. PRESENT OWNER: T. Coffey ADDRESS: 44900 Main Road
6. LIST:: Original: Residence Present: Residence
7, ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC Exterior visible from public road: Yes N No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
S. BUILDING a. clapboard !❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: asphalt
9. STRUCTURAL. a. wood frame with interlocking joints
SYS'T'EM: b. wood frame with light members ❑
61' kn( wn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good W c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ b. moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
Asphalt cladding and modern front door.
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14, THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known KI b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. other:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: 3 Pre-1900 buildings
a. barn® b. Carriage house U c. garage = Barn is being
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑ refurbished
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features: ,cottage (west) -has round
j. other: b cellar
16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land 19 b. woodland ❑
c. scattered buildings ❑
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential
h.other: nursery
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
The house stands on Route 25 which was once the King's
Highway,
This is a low density, agricultural area.
18. OTHER NOTABLE: FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
12-story, 3-bay, gable roof, side entrance plan half-house
with frieze , wooden gutterrand dentils. No overhang on
gable indicates early date of house. Paneling on jamb,- by
front door and Greek Revival heading on door to rearl-story
extension. 1-story semi-octagonal bay window on west. Off-
SIGNI �('AIVt ed chimney. 2/2 windows. Brick 'cistern"under extension.
ll). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: ca. 1800
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
HISFORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
Probably both houses and barn were Ch. Corey in 1858, 1873,
1897 and 1909.
This farm was formerly owned by Gradowski.
Coffey is the present owner.
The barn was described by Taves as circa 1800.
Taves identifies this as having been Albertson.
This is a very typical early North Fork house.
21. SOURCES: Chace. Map of Suffolk County. 1858
Beers , Comstock, Cline. Atlas of Long Island. 1873
Hyde & Co. , Map of Long Island. Section 4. B'klyn 189
F. Belcher Hyde . Atlas of Suffolk_ County. L. I. Vol. 21
22. rHLmr.. North Side. Sound Shore . 1909
Form prepared by RosemaFy Skye Moritt, research
assistant.
SD 2
HOUSE BELONGING TO MR. AND MRS. TIMOTHY COFFEY
144900 Main Road, Southold, N.Y. 1.1971
Analyzed by Ralph Williams and John Stack
Reported by Joy Bear
Southold Town Landmark Preservation Commission
March 20, 1937
This 12 story frame house has been standing on its site on Main
Road in Southold for nearly three centuries . Before the mid-1700' s house
was built, there existed an earlier house behind it . Only the old
basement 's dry-laid stone walls remain from the earliest house. Its
location was exactly over the area marked "South Addition" on Chart I.
In the mid-to-late 1700' s the present post-and-beam construction
"half house" was built . Parts of this house remain in their 1750-1775
condition : the entrance; the parlors and the attic, both with hand-hewn
and pegged beams; a stairway leading up to the second floor beside the
first floor bedroom; and three batten doors leading into the South
Addition.
A major revision of the house took place a century later. Possibly
two fireplaces with their chimneys were added to the west walls of the
two parlors (see dotted lines on Chart I) around 1350. Moldings on the
doors were the ogee style typical of that time. A well, 15 feet deep
and lined with curved bricks, was built. See its location at lower left
in "South Addition. "
A puzzling feature is that no cooking fireplace or kitchen area can
be found in the original house . Possibly cooking was done in the house
once standing over the existing basement now under the South Addition.
When built,
the c . 1750 house was attached to this earlier structure .
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over the years . Today it is a modern sheetrock and plastic building.
Today the c . 1750 house has- been gutted by the owners , prior to
removal. The gutting offers an exciting chance to see the old framework.
THE ENTRANCE
The front entrance is original - mid-1700's . Very old, let-in jambs
set into the lintel surround the relatively modern 4-light front door.
Decorative side pieces seem to be chestnut . At the rear of the entrance
hall west of the staircase lie the ruins of' an old fireplace.. Its
chimney rises through the attic, where it takes a tortuous turn in order tc
exit at the ridge of the roof. There may have been a fireplace from the
c . 1750 house at this place in the hall.
TIMOTHY COFFEY HOUSE page 2
THE PARLORS
Hand-hewn corner posts are mortised into the girts at the ceiling
and held with two pins each. Small nail holes in the studs show the
pattern of mid-19th Century lath, probably Installed when the house was
modernized . Here and there additional nailholes along the studs indicate
the walls may have been paneled . Additional hailers that were crudely
installed to carry the lath Indicate that at the 1850' s renovation
the paneling was stripped off and the room was plastered . Beams, exposed
today, are hand-hewn and some also show saw marks . The beams are finished
roughly, and were not meant to be exposed . The 6fx6 ' corner posts in
the parlor and the front hall were rabbited to remove the obtruding
edge fr6m the plaster walls . At the ceiling level the rabbit was
terminated, indicating that the original form on the post was fully
squared .
Signs on the floor of the parlors and on the attic floor indicate
that a fireplace was installed in the c . 1950' s in the west wall of
each parlor (see dotted lines on Chart I. ) The original windows are long
gone - the present ones have 2/2 lights .
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THE "X"ROOM
This little room was added in the c . 1850 ' s renovation . At the top
of the common wall between the "X" room and the South Addition the girt
which is made of sawn timber is mortised into one of the major studs of
1750,s house . Because the remainder of the construction of this room
does not indicate the use of full mortise joinery it is felt that the
girt replaced an earlier timber that was part of the 17th Century house
that was constructed over the old cellar . When the 18th Century house was
constructed, the reviewers feel, the north end of the 17th Century house
was removed so that the new house could be intimately joined to the
old structure .
R
S TA IRWAYS
There are three stairways . The oldest is on the east side of the
bedroom (see chart 1) . It is from c . 1750. It has 9 steep steps that
are very heavily worn . The stairway consists of 10" risers and 7" treads .
Paneling on this stairway's west wall is c . 1750 vertical beaded panels of
14 " to 16" widths . The door to this stairway, as with 2 other doors in
this house, appears to have come from the 1750 's house . They are of
batten construction.
BASEMENT
This is a fascinating place . The basement belonged to the earliest
house , which is now totally gone . The basement exactly underlies the
"South Addition" and is 16 ,x26' . Many large stone boulders , dry laid
but now pointed with cement, remain. To bring the basement walls up
to first floor level, the walls have been heightened with bricks . An esrly
`)outhold Town Landmark Preservation Commission
March 20 , 1987
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TIMOTHY COFFEY HOUSE, page 3 �D 2
outdoor exit of the basement is now filled in, but its lowest stone
step is still visible . This exit lies under Room "x" . (Chart I) .
The future of this historic house remains in limbo at present . The
house was here when the Constitution was signed, and during all
subsequent periods of our country's wars and peace . May it wxist to
witness many future eras of history!
Southold Town Tiandmark Preservation Commission
March 20, 1987
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by Katherine Mollnoff
C W.Fost College
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23S-41H-4 Howell Southold
South :arbor Road Southold
_ �. 3-bay English, extended one bay; ca. 1800,
extended 1880-1900. Framing type 5.
— _ 24' x 31 ' (24' x 38' after extensim); height
to plate 1412". Hewn oak frame; 10 pair
rafters pinned w/collar ties at beets. West
wall vertical sawn boards 13" wide. Large
wagon door on north but small i-doir on south.
Dctension circ. sawn pine. 6 pre-1900 bldgs.
23S-41H-5 Gradowski (Albertson) Southold
Main Road, Southold1�
3-bay English, ca. 1800.
Framing types 3 & 4, west vs. east bents.
24' x 331 . height to plate 14'7".
_ Hewn oak frame. Braces mortised, pinned.
Rafters vertically sawn, pine, bu1~ed at
ridge. Holes for pegs to holder. One set
wagon doors char g�`iec - o ma a f-5or.
3 pre-1900 buildings.
233-42H-1 Dickerson (Dator.) Southold
Bayview Road, Bayview
3-bay English, 1800-1850-
Framing type 4. f
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28' x 3816"; height to plate 14161. {
- Hewn oak frame. Rafters tapered, pinned.
piw"Mw- Unger braces half dovetailed. Lova braces
aorticed and pirr.ed. Barn moved, ca. 1900.
r5Z & gz double-beaded board walls. Part of
large modern far^ .
23S--37J-1 Dickerson Southold
Main Road, Mattituck
English, 1880-1900.
Framing type 3.
Sawn pine frame. Ridge pole. 10" tongue &
groove vertical boards nailed with cut nails.
6 late 19th century buildings.
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235-37J-2 Roland (Wines) Southold
Main Road, Mattituck.
3-bay English w/additional bay for carriages
and shop, ca. 1884. Framing type 3.
26' x 5616" overall, 26' x 36' witbut extra
bay. Circular and vertical sawn pine frame.
Braces mortised & pinned. Grain Un, brick
foundation. 9" vertical tongue & groove
boards, cut nails. Heavy ridge pie. 5
no-1900 buildingn-
H. V. Taves. Barns of Long Island. 1981