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Home My WebLink AboutSD-20 BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM FOR OFFICE USE ONLY SD 20 l DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION UNIQUE SITE N0. lD.3to.pv-P J lQUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY, NEW YORK 1518 474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: Tnwn of Southold f SPLIA DATE: October 1986 _ YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Dain Rgad TELEPHONE: ( 516) ?6 5-1892 Southold L. I. , N.Y.11971 ORGANIZATION (if any):Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION 1. BUILDING NAME(S):__Clevelangen'Z Trrhahcd Cleveland house 2. COUNTY: . Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE, thol d 3. STREET LOCATION: Main Road, Route 2 -wast id 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ lx private ❑ 5. PRESENT OWNER: Francke ADDRESS:#a 49095, Main Road 6_ USE: Original: Residence Present: Residence 7, ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes R1 No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION 9. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: vinyl 1). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints UI SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑ (if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e. other Rock foundation 10. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good FXI c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site (V b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): New windows , new shutters, new dormers, new cladding. New front stoop. SD-RSM IV-15 12. PHOTO:Front and south elevation 13. MAP: N.Y.S. DOT Southold Quad From south east. G 's •`' ..'� C X LANK allow Hill, '• ' Cermn — "' � Nar K• 1�.�1 20 •r `' w _ a SD 20 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known I 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: I6. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land 12 b. woodland ❑ c. scattered buildings ❑ d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial f. industrial ❑ g. residential 12 h.other: 17. INTI-RRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) The house stands on the Main Road which was the Ring' s Highway in Colonial times, > 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): 12-story, 3-bay, gable roof, side entrance plan house. Leaded glass transom. SIGNIFICANCE 11). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1769 ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 2o. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE.: A plaque readsi "ICHABOD CLEVELAND 1769 On probable e. 1655 foundation Barnabas Wines house'" The Cleveland Blacksmith's Shop, which has since been moved, stood on the adjacent lot (south) . At one time Mr. Cleveland also owned this house. * This is one of the historic houses in Southold that was honored with a plaque by the Southold Historical Society in 1960. 21, SOURCES: * Interview with Mrs. Francke, 9/8/86 Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical Society. 196o.#35. A Summer of History. Official Program of Southold IML-,Ntr: 170-1965. Map Secion 2. Landmark No. 10. Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research assistant. A r�y r_ .Y SD 20 ~.�'�1'iifit.•,�1�'1+J.$Si^E':1+"MWa.:i... s'T.J.FIx'LGw•a' •..,. ..wrlv:.l.w,,..YWwa•rrw i Hallock was it. He was a parted from Southold for Rye, New York, Barnabas, his up his family father, bought his home for another son, Joshua (married Mary Tuthill) who was carpenter, constable and Town Pat- entee of 1676. `'carious Hortons have held this homestead for -as Tavern or SeYen generations. 87-1 iter 166737; to 187-1 fol; In recent years a silver spoon was found in the cellar, .rly.any of South- probably buried there for safety with other treasure during .et here fora Revolutionary days. This vel small cellar shows its centuries A. It was the of age: rough log beams, sum er beatrrr-aiid pegged timbers; family named shell. hair,-clay, crumbling mortar appearing between the .ributed books )j,,s orthe walls. With difficulty one stands upright! The I in his home. house is a strong built, double r -.d which has retained ,hick first had its fundamental 17th cehLaVy j?-up�,i,ion5. �3nce,two_Iarge .d it's home in ch_n3ncy- w.._re a._eitl, r ::rd mitt -interior fireplaces and brick :his house was oven. Though remodelled and changed in the interior, the T's Monument, hounr --ain, me of tb, -potable old -homes of Smithold. by Daniel H. 35. ICHABOD CLEVELAND HOUSE 1769 stood on that On Probable c. 1655 Foundation a number of Barnabas Wynes House tended to mail (Frank M. Gagen, West Main Street, Southold) Wickham Case - Five generations of Clevelands lived in this house c. 1769- pretentious of 1902. Clevelands were in Southold by 1719 (Note the Town Record deed to the first Ichabod ship ersenced many , p carpenter and father its position on to Ichabod of this house). Henry C. Cleveland was the last male tanding village Cleveland to live here. His blacksmith shop stood next door to the west. is described as There was another Cleveland house right "anext" the given by John blacksmith shop when the shop was built c. 1845-48. That ,njamin Horton house it has been stated was built by Moses C. Cleveland for Wayland Jef- his brother Joseph c. 1824. In 1848 it was sold and moved to Wayl olWayl the North Road and became the Lewis H. Tuthill home. The land on which Ichabod's house stands and where Moses Cleveland, grandfather of Henry C. Cleveland, lived, once was Part of the Barnabas Wynes 17th century double homelot. Southold) Part of the cellar of the house is of fieldstone held together with old mortar. This foundation could be of Wynes house lorton the first, origin. The construction of the house shows several periods d; came to this of development and growth. Changes have been made for Jamin. He mar- greater comfort. At one time there was the large central chim- :)ld early settler. ney with deep hearth and brick oven typical of the early period. When he de- The 18th century house and 19th century blacksmith shop 33 Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical Society. 1960 S.D 20 with an old barn and outbuilding at the rear, hold the charm Islanq of earlier days. "Hob searc 36, BLACKSMITH SHOP c. 1845-1942 those Henry C. Cleveland 0 William H. Glover, Frank M. Gagen of ch (Beside Frank M. Gagen's home, West Main Street, Southold) very This was one of the important Village Smithys of the 19th- time an u; 20th centuries. Henry C. Cleveland was famous over the hand- countryside as a shoer of horses (c. 1845-1902). He was a man of great vigor, strength and height. "The Smith, a mighty man much was he". Mr. Cleveland is also remembered for his remark- able flow of stories and for his long snowy white beard. 38 William H. Glover, blacksmith from 1871 to 1936 was close z� to him in fame. Frank M. Gagen, who }pined the shop in 1441, continued it until 1941, carrying on the tradition. The forge ` lighted up smoked rafters, the anvil rang and the bellows blew , for almost 100 years. 37, EARLY HOUSE IN ORIGIN c. 1657-67 John Balyes, John Tuthill, Jacob grey T Post-Revolution!teconttructionf� south. _ - - — _ - Oscar (Mrs. W. Emmett 'Young, West Main Street, Southold) move, By the Town Records, Stephen Metcalf, William Fansey; remer and Thomas Scudder were previous bomelot owners to John writir; Balyes (Baylis or Bailey), owner in 1656, who departed soon stood from Southold but left Bailey descendants. Stephen was Town, Featlh. Recorder. others John Tuthill bought house and lot of Balyes 1661, having Case i sold his former, first homelot to Joseph Sutton of Southampton over t in 1660. He married Deliverance King, his first wife, sister (,1 of Samuel King, his neighbor on the previous site. He was one' for m; of the foremost early settlers and large land holders and at surane ° an early period moved to Oyster Ponds (Orient). John Tuthill forme! ' and Deliverance King were the ancestral forebears, in dire was rr 1' line, of Anna Symmes, wife of President William Henry Harris Street son, and of President Benjamin Harrison, Anna's and Willia has be Henry's-grandson. c Terry sl In 1667 Jacob Corey, weaver. Overseer, Town Fat her b entee of 1676, bought this Crouse and land of John Tuthill dough The place was later handed down through Hortons and Case tivithv} It became the home of Charles A. Case and Hannah Horton Miss Sarah Case and J. Horton Case, who wrote for the Lon Captai i 34 1 Guido To Historic Markors. Southold Historical i Society. 1960. � tit sem_ SD 20 (cont. } 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGSr this house is reported to have a rising butt hinge on door from the parlor to the hall. This feature would date circa 1800 , SD 20 r �I �= Ichabod Cleveland house and Blacksmith ' s Shop. Cil. _ - Owner: Mrs. Francke Photo : SD-RSM IV-14 r.