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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
1 DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION Q QDUE SITE N0.103 10.W1 419
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (518)474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAMF� Town of Snuthnld,/SPLIA DATE: QntohAr 1980
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE:(51 6) 765-1892
Southold, L. I. N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): SotlthQld Town Qgmmunity DPVPlo1pmPnt Office
IDENTIFICATION
I. BUILDING NAME(S):"Antiques" Tillinghast..WiIIiams
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Southold
3. STREET LOCATION: Main Road, Route 25., north side
4- OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private 12
5_ PRESENT OWNLR Mooned* ---- ADDRESS: # 4.4135 Main Road
6. USI:: Original: Residence Present: Stnre and Residence
7. AC CE'SSIBILITY TO PUBLIC Exterior visible from public road: Yes 12 No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
9. BUILDING; a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles [Z' g. stucco ❑ other:
'J. STRUCTURAL. a. woad frame with interlocking joints 2J
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑
(if known) c. masonry load bearing walls❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good ® c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
1 I. INTEGRITY: a, original site ❑ b. moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known Y b. zoning❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration
f. other:
IS. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ C. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed FN f. greenhouse
g. shop ❑ h. gardens 0
i. landscape Features:
j. other:
16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land Lel b. woodland ❑
c. scattered buildings 91
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)
The house stands on Route 25, which was the King' s High-
way in Colonial times. It is a historic district and a
low density agricultural area.
lli. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
1 -scary, 3-bay, side entrance gable roof, Greek Revival-
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periodhouse. 3-bay, 121-story gable roof wing. 3 small
windows under the eaves of the main house and of wing.
brick foundation. 6/2 windows and Greek Revival plastered
entrance surrounds.
SIGNIFICANCE
IE), DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1820-1830*__
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
Was Tillinghist in 1858, Tillinghurst in 1873
Nell Williams ' name is etched in a panel. She died in 1984
at the age of 93. Miss Nellie operated the store (form S,] 4)
for many years.
Cooking fireplace in basement.
Chace. Map of Suffolk County. 1858
21. SOURCES: Beers , Comstock, Cline. At as of IopL Island. 1873
*Interview with Mrs. Mooney 9/8786
Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical
Society. 1960. P. 49.
11,.; F R. C. Newell. Rose Remembers. 1976
Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
assistant.
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PECONIC
(HERMITAGE)
NOTE: The old Houses and Buildings bearing Historic garners
a.nd the Properties designated by Roadside Site Markers are not
open for public historical Inspection unless otherwise st:.ted.
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52. MISS NELLIE WILLIAMS' STORE {
Alvin Squires' 1856
Moved c. 1875, Became Store of
William A. Williams.
(Miss Nellie Williams' Store, Main Road, half-way between
Southold and Peconic.)
Miss Nellie Williams' Store began its history as Alvin }
Squires' store in 1 6 when it stood first as a part of the M1l
Squires homestead about opposite Hermitage (Peconic) Lane
on the Main Road. Alvin Squires came from Good Ground to
Hermitage (Peconic) in 1856 with his family and his second
wife, Mary Jennings. He bought the Jennings farm lands of j
s 100 acres which ran to Hutchinson's Creek, built a large home J1
and had a store by the road, Side. He died in 1874. His son,
James, - erste t e £arm; eventually purchased by George
H. Wells at a later date. The house was destroyed by fire.
Willliam A. Williams n 1845 in New York, was in
Southold as a yo ng o r. went ac to the city but returned
in 1874 with his wife, Sarah Anna Booth, and first child,
nora. e o house and 10 acre farm half-way to
Peconic and soon Ford and moved the Alvin Squires'
store to its present site west of his home. His neighbors pre-
dicted he "would not ma e a nic the store" in that
location, but he did! Mr. Williams was thrifty and he became
one of Southold's leading business men of the village.
Those were the days when eggs sold for 12c. per doz. and
beef, 10c. per pound. The big, red coffee mill ground coffee
to order and there was the barrel of molasses not too far from
the barrel of kerosene; with hardware, harness, a cobbler shop
(Gus Hommel) at the rear of the store.
Eleven children were raised in the Williams home. William
A.'s brother Henry and his brother Lewig eaFF had a home
across the road. This was a Williams family center. The store
for nearly 85 years has been in family ownership and still
carries the genial, friendly spirit of the old country store.
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In 1906 Uncle Will opened a Shoe and Clothing Store in Roc
Southold village,and the little Peconic store was rented for years
to succeeding proprietors;—his nephew Fred Williams; Ar.dy
Case, grocer; Kress, the tailor. In 1933 a younger daughter, Miss
Nellie Williams, after a business career in New York, took over
the store and still operating it.* Her pleasant ways and the long
hours she keeps attract many customers although her stock is
more limited than it was in her father's time. The doorbell rings
frequently from early in the morning till nightime. The neigh-
bors run in for eggs, bread, cookies and ice cream; and truck
drivers stop for a quick snack of soda pop, sweet crackers and
potato chips.
*Miss Nellie recently had to close the store because of illness,
and it is much missed.
R.C. Newell. Rose Remembers. 1976
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