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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY,NEW YORK (51 K) 4-4-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME:_Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: November 1986
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall,_ Main Road TELEPHONE:(516) 765-1892
Southold, L. I. , N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Dvelopment Office
IDENTIFICATION
I. BUILDING NAME(Sy Richard Terry house
2. COUNTY: Suffolk - - - TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: SouthOld
3. STREET LOCATION: Main Road Route 2 west side 060
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h private
S. PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS:
6. USE: Original: ReSidencP Present: Residence
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes Y No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
H. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c, brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other:
17. STRUCTLIRAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints EX
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members FIC
(il' kntwvn) c. masonry load bearing walls❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
IU. CONDITION: a- excellent f--,] b. good 5fl c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ b. moved ❑ if so,when,
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
Nlrw Cladding. Dormer windows and porches are not
RSM-SD IX_2�iginal with the house.
12. PIIOTO: From S7 13. MAP: N.Y.S. DOT Southold Quad
Front and south elevation
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known M 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 C1
i. landscape features:
j. other:
10. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):.
a.open land ® b, woodland 91
c. scattered buildings M
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential LF
h.other:
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Low density, agricultural area.
The house stands on the Main Road, which was once the
historic King's Highway.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
Small 11-story, 3-bay side entrance plan, gable roof house
very much oltQred, with two--story single bay extension on
south.
SIGNIFICANCE
IQ. DATE. OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTIW circa 1653 with li ter additi.Qns
ARC IIITECT:
BUILDER:
20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
A plaque reads : "Richard Terry house
In origin circa 1653
Also of later construction. "
This was Simons in 1909.
21. SOURCES: Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical
Society. 1960- # 39
Helen W. Prince. The Descendants cf CPt. John
Prince. 1983
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Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
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EIGHTH GENERATION 129
#426. Scott Terr spencer b. Grnprt 30 Apr. 1957.
#272. S encer Baldwin Terry, Jr.
( 1930- ) b. Wethersfield GT
30 May 1930- M,/1 23 Mar, 1955 Mooreen Beth Foster of Grn rt
(b. 9 July 1936) dau. of John and Alice k.(Moore) Foster. Div.
1978. D--2 West Virginia 5 Oct. 1978 Beverly -_-.
#427. David Jonathan Terrb. Sthmptn NY 25 June 1973.
#273. Vir inia Tuthill Latham (1914-
) b. Orient 24 Feb.
m. Orient 12 May 1945 William Brice Pe1914,
fiarce (b. Kinston NC 23
Oct. 1909, d. Kinston 23 July 1972) son of John Spence West
and Melissa (May) Pearce descendant of Benjamin May,
in the Revolutionary War. J Y. a Major
Virginia obtained an associate degree in dietetics at
°' Pratt Institute and served as a hospital
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York, New En New Jerre p 1 dietitian in the New
England and N
a� g y area before joining the WAC
in 1943. In 1970 she was an aide with the Lenoir Count
d tension Program, helping the undernourished. Y Ex
et her
band at Camp Hood TX where he was a First Sergeant mn Infahus-
,� They owned a 167 acre farm, had a ntry.
small hog operation and
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� + 258. Walter C.
and Pauline H, Williams House, Southold, (he b. 1912)
`+ i This house was built in 1952 on the Old Homestead
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tA Captain John Prince Property that had been owned b
to Walter sold it in 1878 and moved to Florida, breaking a
250 year consecutive tenancy of one Prince descendant or another on this Pastor
W John Youngs Homelot property in the center of the village,
Melba Irene Kapp,
� g Present owner,
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C) #104, Edmund E. and Phebe Ann Prince House,
- A , 190. Harr M. and Am Prince Greenport. (he b. 1862, d. 194.8)
'#293. Thomas 0. Monsell House Mansell House. (she b,
1894, d, 1978)
This house at present owner. (he b, 1933)
-[ 525 First Street, was built about 1910 b W'
in the earl 1 Y Willard Monsell who
Y 920s to Edmund E. Prince. Edmund's daughter Am sold it
bought the house in 1927, and it remained Amy's home until y and her husband
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fifty years later, Y� her death more than
That is Amy on the walk in front of the
� house.
�isX296. Harold C and Leila B. M err House, Southold,
historicall marked Richard Terr (she b. 189+, d, 1981)
the exterior shows the house was built ca, 1653. As can be !'
stamp of many subsequent owners: the orches, the dormer
the back wing behind the side porch, all added, p
Since Leila death Stephen J. and
Q] Perricone, the new owner, has faithfully restored v:ie mouse, making no
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a: changes inside or out. The house was once one-story front and back, Structural
When the fire-
places were opened, the one in the front room was found to be only 1
It contained fireplace tongs and a trammel holdingakettle. The
hebricks deep,
on the next face of the chimney to the right is abitover twobricksdee1reFlaee
square cellar, reached by stone stairs at the front, is extremely small with well-
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built walls of very large stones. After 330 years the house is still sturd ,
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daughter, Mary C. Case, now lives on the same upper floor,
once occupied by her parents. The location happens to be
close to the 2nd homesite of her 17th century ancestor, the
first Henry Case. These lands were also the homesite property ,
of early settler, 1st Thomas Mapes, Town Surveyor. ,`
39, RICHARD TERRY HOME
In Origin ci 1653
Also of Later Con%t-,lohon,
rs. Harry Myers, West Main Street, Southold)
This is the homesite land of Lieut. Richard Terry who
was the second Town Recorder in the early settlement. The
house stands on its original homesite and has earmarks of age
1' of various early periods. It has undergone change and re-
modeling which afford interesting study, he cellar door a$'
the front opens on stone stairs leading to as small a cellar as'
has been found among-the old houses so far examined.
Three Terry brothers, Richard, Thomas and Robert, sailed be
from England to New England on the ship "James", July 13, wl
1635. Richard and Thomas settled in Southold. Richard and
his wife Abigail had ten children. They were entered on the crt
Southold Town Records by Richard Terry himself. Abigail, • Cel
born 1650; Gershom, 1652; Nathaniel 1656; Sara, 1658;
Richard, 1660-1; John, 1662; Samuel, 1664; Elizabeth, 1666; of
Mary, 1668; Bethia, 1672. tbt
Lieut. Richard Terry and his brother Thomas (whose an
homesite lay farther south on this Main or Town Street) ch
established the Terry family lines in the Township. The line chi
of both is found in Orient: 2nd Thomas, son of Thomas, and • the
John, son of Richard, settling there. Richard's line is found Ga
in Cutchogue. He moved to Cutchague where he owned a large he]
tract of land including part of Pequash Necke. tut
On the Southold property several Overtons followed par
Terrys in ownership: Nathaniel who married Pastor Joshua
Hobart's granddaughter, Malthias and Robert. In the 19th ` !7f
century, George B. Simons is =membered as living in this AVI7
house.
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+ .40. TOWN DOCTORS' HOUSE the
Early Settlement Period � �•
anc,
(Mrs. David A. �0kinson, north side of iowery Lane,
i just ott 'u.n;" Street, S-u..thold) Am
This is the house wnxch hos ncen described as belonging sto:
to several early Town Doctors who lived here beside the Bill- `o t
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Guide to ' -Historic barkers. Southold Historical
Society. 1960