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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC'PRESERVATION UNIQUE SITE NO.1o3t D,017��;I 7
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NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (SI 9) 474-0479 NEO. NO.
YOUR NAMC: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 Cobbler Shopi
1. BUILDING NAMIJS): First Harbor Realty Williams house and story.
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Southold
3. STREET LOCATION: Main Road, Route 25, north side
4. OWNERSI1IP: a. public ❑ b. private
S. PRESLNT OWNER Ruth Herina ADDRESS: Main Road .# 44050
ta. USE.: Original: _ResidenceStory Present: Residence Store
7. ACC I-SSIBILITY TO PUBLIC Lxteriur visible from public road: Yes ® No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
H. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten Q
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑' g. stucco ❑ other:
'a. STRUCTURAL a, wood frarne with interlocking joints iW
SYSTEM: h. wood frame with light members
(if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls n
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good ® c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
H. INTEGRITY: a. original site ® b. moved ❑ if so,when''
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
Extension in rear.
Store front has been upgraded and colonialized.
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12. PHOTO: From south west 13. MAP: N.Y.S. DOT Southold Quad
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known IN b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. ether:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑x c- garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens
i. landscape features:
j. other:
16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land ❑ b. woodland IK
c. scattered buildings 2
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial
f. industrial ❑ g. residential (�
Ii.other:
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROLNDiNGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
The house stands on Route 25, which was once the old
King's Highway. It is a historic district. and a low
density agricultural area.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
22-story, gable roof commercial building, vertical board--
and-batten with gable end to the street.
SIGNIFICANCE
I(). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: circa 1880
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
20, HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
Williams house in 1909.
Williams owned this building and the store next door.
(see form SD 4) . Apparently Williams lived in house
next east (see form SD 6) .
Apparently this was Gus Hummel' s cobbler' s shop.
2t. SOURCES: F. Belcher Hyde. Atlas of Suffolk County. L. I. Vol. 2 :
North Side. Sound Shore. 1909
*Interview Ruth Hering. 9/8/86
Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical Society.
fH! �Ii. 1960. P. 49.
Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
assistant.
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and string beans, but many supplies came in bulk. Cellophane
wasn't invented till the 1920'5.
A large slicing knife lay handy for cutting the desired
wedge from the wheel of cheese or slices from the hunk of
smoked beef hanging overhead. The customers carne in with
basket on arm to carry home their purchases. Sugar, flour and
re which has crackers came in barrels and were weighed out in the brass
for about a pan of the balance scales. Hogsheads of molasses, vinegar, and—
family were not too near—kerosene, stood in the back storeroom, and you
1850. Three brought your own jugs or jars for these items.
was only a Prices in the 1880's now seem fantastic. Eggs were 12
thrown on cents a dozen, raisins 54 a pound, prunes 4 pounds for a quar-
'eady a suc- ter. 5 pounds of beef 50¢_ Two dozen clothespins cost 5 cents.
art his bro- Then there was the candy counter, important to the chil-
1 dren who sometimes had a penny to spend or an egg to barter
loy, but he for a licorice stick, a jawbreaker, or a pink banana-shaped marsh-
He was in- mallow confection. These prices were taken from the old
'neral store ledgers of W.A. Williams.
i married a Besides the barrels in the back room the stock grew to
ord of his I include hardware, harness, garden tools and seeds.
Y age. The } Uncle Will also managed to find room to set up cobbler's
Inora who tools and started Gus Hummel_ in business. Gus did so well that
r there are soon a shop was built for him where he made fine shoes and
boots, aswel as repairing old ones.
ne of his The big, pat-bellied stove in the center of the store was
re shelves always a social center for the men of the neighborhood who
the oppo- gathered there evenings to discuss the news of the day. This
3s fun to group included Ben Case, Benny Moore, Lewis Goldsmith,
:i+ng whirl Elijah Hutchinson Charlie Overton, Charlie Corey, Ben Corey,
eels were Alvah Terry and Captain Horton of South Harbor who had
he drew sailed the Seven Seas.
e of the The Williams store furnished the convenience of mail
different boxes (unofficial) for its neighbors and the mail was brought by
ffee was horse and wagon from the Post Office daily. When the Wil-
nsferred liams children began to grow up and had finished the Elemen-
lose its tary grades at the nearby Locust Grove school, their father
e coffee bought a pony and cart to take them to Southold to continue
baking their schooling. The picture shows Louise and Nellie driving
ckaged, "Daisy." They brought the mail after school on weekdays, and
omatoes on Saturday morning drove around taking orders for groceries.
R.G. Newell. Rose Remembers. 1976
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Gus Hummel the shoemaker, was only one of a number of
people who came from Germany in the 1870's and '80's. I
quote from an article in the Southold Traveler of 1446 about
Mrs. Christopher Leicht who came as a bride from Frankfurt-
am-Main in 1881. She told how they arrived in this country
"with health, religious faith, the courage of youth, and forty
dollars apiece, She soon got a place as houseworker for wages
of$4.00 a month with board and keep, while her husband earned
$10.00 a month as a farm helper. They saved their money and
in a few years bought a small house on three acres of land,
price $850.00. They made a first payment of $200.00 and ar-
ranged a mortgage at 6% for the rest.
When farm work was slack and the help sometimes laid off
for the winter, these people kept busy by making torpedoes at
home which had a great sale for Fourth of July. As noise is the
special delight of children, on the holiday torpedoes were al-
most as good as firecrackers. You threw them down on hard
ground and they exploded with a great Bang! In her story, 1
loved this: Anna taught herself English by studying the Sears-
ore in ► Roebuck catalogue!
years
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Iness, R. C. Nowell. Rose Remembers. 1976
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