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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
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DIVISION FOR HISTORICPRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (518)474-0479 NEG. N0.
YOUR NAME::Town of Southold / SPLIA DATE: t
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall,_Main Road TELEPHONE:( 516) 265-1892
Southold, L. I. , N.Y.11971
ORGANIZATION (if any):Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION ';Jb 6z de4n-,.,t..
1. BUILDING NAME(S): Baker House C lq'?o
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Southold
3. STREET LOCATION: Route 25. Main Road, south side
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h private D
S. PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS: Main Road
t,. USE: Original: RP.Sldt?I1Ce Present: Residence
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUIiHCI I;xterior visible from public road: Yes R! No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
8. ITIIILIAN6 a. clapboard ❑ b.'stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e- cobblestone ❑ 1 shingles M g. stucco ❑ other:
'J. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members P9
(il kn(wr) c. masonry load bearing walls❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
Itl. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b! good ® c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
1. INTEGRITY: a. anginal site ❑ h, moved ❑ if so,when?
if known):
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known 91 b. zoning❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. other:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed ® f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features:
j. other:
Ib. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land [N b. woodland
c.scattered buildings 0
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
F. industrial ❑ g. residential
h.other: -fl-PIC cultivation
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP 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.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
22-story, 3-bay, gable roof, side entrance plan .Queen Anne
house , gable end to the street. Heavy projecting panel of
scalloped shingles in gable peak, articulated with
vertical boarding below the scalloped shingles.
Wall-faced dormer on east with paneled vergeboard and (cont. )
SIGNIFICANCE
I'?. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: Circa 18805
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
The Bakers were Williams grandchildren. This area was
a Williams family center.
Sep forms SD4, SD5 and SD6.
21. SOURCES: Guidp to Historic Markers. Southold Historical
Society. 1960. P, 9.
R. C. Newell. Rose Remembers. 1976
*Interview Mrs. Mooney. 765-2032. 9/9/1986
22. THL N1F:
Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
assistant.
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NOTABL7 F",ATURT`S OF BUILDING AND SITr
and scalloped shingles.
Hpavy cove cornices on main house and rpturnedQcross gable.
ShPd roof porch across front with turned posts and sun-
burst under roof.
2/2 floor length windows opening on to porch.
Corbeled brick chimney.
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basket on ai
A little farther on there is an old country store which has crackers car
been owned by one family and run continuously for about a pan of the I:
hundred years. The nine children of the Williams family were not too nea
born in downtown New York City, from 1837 to 1850. Three brought yon
died in infancy. William Augustus, the youngest, was only a Prices
boy when both parents died and the children were thrown on cents a doz
their own resources. The oldest, Frederick, was already a suc- ter. 5 poun
cessful merchant in New York and he helped to start his bro- Then
thers in various businesses, dren who s
William A. came to ?econic to work as a farm boy, but he for alicoric
wanted to become a merchant like his brother Fred. He was in- mallow co
dustrious and thrifty and in 1875 he started the general store ledgers of 1
which has been in active use ever since. In 1870 he had married a Besid`
Southold girl, Sarah Booth, and they beat the record of his include hai
parents, with eleven children, losing two at an early age. The Uncle
birth record was kept up by his oldest daughter, Elnora who tools and
also had eleven children, b Ad Baker and that's wh t i�ere are soon a sh+
so many Bakers in Southold now! boots, as v
Uncle Will's store (I'm the grandaughter of one of his The
brothers) was a general Emporium. Along one side were shelves always a
and a counter containing dry goods and notions. On the oppo- gathered
site counter stood the big, red coffee grinder. It was fun to group in(
watch as Uncle Will gave tf,e pair of large wheels a starting whirl Elijah Hu
and to hear the grinding sound diminish until the wheels were Alvah Te
rotating silently and gradually slowed to a stop. Then he drew sailed the
out the little drawer at tke bottom and the fragrance of the The
freshly ground coffee permeated the air. The beans different boxes (ul
varieties, were mixed to the customer's taste. The coffee was horse an
put in a paper bag, and as soon as you got home you transferred liams chi
it to a carefully saved tin or glass jar so it wouldn't lose its tary gra(
strength and aroma. On the shelves tin canisters held the coffee bought
beans and different blends of teas. Dry groceries such as baking their scf
soda, cornstarch,chocolate,baking powder, etc., were packaged, "Daisy."
and there were a few canned vegetables, principally tomatoes on Satu+
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