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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSD-19 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY f BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM SD 19 ' DIVISION FOR HISTORIC' PRESERVATION UNIQUE SITE N©• lo3c0, try� i0 + QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY, NEW YORK (518) 474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: Town of SoutholdfSPLIA DATE: October 1986 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE: 16) 765-la92 Southold, L. I. , N.Y. 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any):Southold Town Community Develo-oment Office IDENTIFICATION 1. BUILDING NAME(S):John Bayles/ John Tuthill/ Jacob Cory house 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY:Southold VILLAGE: Southold 3. STREET LOCATION:Main RoadlRoute 25, west side # 48875 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private [A 5. PRESENT OWNER: Verwayen ADDRESS: Main Road # 48875 6. USE: Original: Residence Present: Residence 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes ® No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION 8. BUILDING a. -clapboard ❑ b. stone El c. brick 0 d. board and batten Q MATI.RIAL: e. cobblestone 1] f. shingles © g. stucco EJ other: asphalt 9. S'T'RUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints R1 SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members El (if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls [I d. metal (explain) e. other founda.ti oni boulders _ 10. CONDITION: a. excellent I b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTE'GRITY: a. original site El h. moved ❑ if so,when'? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): Modern cladding. S D-RSM IV-17 12. PHOTO: Front and south elevation 13. MAP: N.Y.S . DOT Southold Quad From south past. �/ ,• az. Ir� 70CNSr CRiSh DR.� AKERLY PCHI1 dlow I. Hill. ••• , �•.•1" y1K•~ � :BM• .p E NE o 1I-�I cem 0 20 Ail 1 0 Y SD 191 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known ® 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 12 f. greenhouse ED g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i. landscape Features: j. other: 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land E0 b. woodland ❑ c. scattered buildings ❑ d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential If It.other: 1? INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS; (indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) The house stands on the Main Road, which was the King' s Highway in Colonial Times. This is a low density, agricultural area. W OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): 12-story, 3-bay, side entrance house with small windows under the Paves. 6/6 windows. SIGNIFICANCE I1). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: circa 1800 on earlier foundation. ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 'D. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: A plaque reads : Early house in origin c. 1636-67 JOHN BAYLES , JOHN TUTHILL, JACOB CORY Post Revolution Reconstruction. This is one of the historic houses that was honored with a plaque by the Southold Historical Society in 1960. This house appears to have been Chas E. Case on the 1909 map, and G. Alfred Case in 1873. 21. SOURCES: Joy Bear. Historic Houses. 1981. P. 40 # 19 Interview with Mrs. Verwayen, 9/8/86 Guide to Historic Markers . Southold Historical Society. 1960. # 37. Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research assistant. SD 19 (cont. ) SOURCES : Boers, Comstock, Cline. Atlas of Long_Island. 1873 F. Belcher-Hyde. Atlas of Suffolk County. L. I. Vol. 2 : North Side. Sound- Shore. 1909 �e John Bayles'name is also recorded as having been spelled"Baylis"and"Bai- ley." one of the charms of Southold is that occasionally it retains the phonetic spelling of old names and also uses the present style.Thus we have "Ackerly" Pond Lane, Southold, on maps and 1 -Aker[ on the street signs...arid maps record both "hfashomomuck" and "Ar- parlor.The house rests on a shamomaque" Pond. Howard Klein in _no concrete foundations f "Three Village Guidebook." quotes An' drew Jackson as having said he didn't think much of a man who could spell a The Youngs originally fat _ q name only one way. behind this house. When i I q sold Mrs.Young retained e encompass a magnificent I John Bayles built his home around tree, more than loo year P 16.57, and it is recorded as having been today glorifies the deep b LLL LLL sold in 1661 to John Tuthill,a prominent the neighborhood. founding father of Southold,and a large land owner.He and his wife,Deliverance i King Tuthill, were ancestors of An= The Jahn Bayles house Symmes, wife of President William side of Maid Road(Route 2 ..�, Henry Harrison,and thus were ancestors it is between Tuckers Lan also of President Benjamin Harrison, Pond Lane. who was Anna's and William Harrison's grandson. tg Mrs.Emmet Young,the present owner, This trim gray house with white corresponds with a descendant of John Bayles_ shutters has stood on Main Road in Bayles,the 1657 builder of the home. He Southold for about as long as the hamlet's and Mrs.Young both think that the house This �OU5C fS d�, history has been recorded. originally stood a short distance west of11 its present location.in the side yard Mrs- as old as SOSltti+ YBefore the house was built, Stephen ' Young Young has located what she believes to be traces of the original foundation. Own RCCOidS Metcalf registered the property as his Town House home lot.The fade,located in the heart of the dewily founded village, must have Old hand-hewn beams span the cellar ■ly1 seemed very desirable to the Puritans ceiling.The wood is dark with age"and establishing this little foothold in the too hard to drive a nail into",Mrs.Young Southold, c. 1657 wilderness, for the home lot passed says, "...too hard even to tempt ter- through the hands of two more owners, mites". A window removed during re- Mrs. Emmet Young William Fansey and Thomas Scudder, pairs has several small panes of very old, before being built upon by John Bayles wavy glass. That Colonial necessity, a around 1657. 40 Joy Bear. Historic HOUSPs.0419$1 C I�