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Home My WebLink AboutSD-41 .BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM FOR OFFICE USE ONLY AJ 12- t4 DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION UNIQUE SITE NO,10310- 617 QUAD SD 41 NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY,NEW YORK (518)474-1479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME::Town of Southold,SSPLIA �. DATE: _ember 1986 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHOA 16) 265-1892 Southold, L. I. . N.Y.11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): _Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION { 1. BUILDING NAME(S): " t4�s Z. COUNTY: SUffOlk TOWN/CITY:_Southold VILLAGE: Southold 3. STREET LOCATION: Main Road, Route 25, north side # 52 875 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public n b. private Station A Box 2109 5. PRESENT OWNF-R:Dr. Thompson ADDRESXhite Sulphur Spring W.V. 24986 G. USF:: original: Residence Present: Residence 7, ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC. Exterior visible from public road: Yes bE' No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION S. B1,111-DING a. clapboard I b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MA'TI:RIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: 1). STRUCTURAL a. wood Frame with interlocking joints It SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members (if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e. ether brick foundation IU. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b- good �2 C. fair ❑ d. deteriorated 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site '❑ b. moved ❑ if so,when" c. list major alterations and dates (if known): enlarged This 18th century landmark was circa 1815 and the Italianate west section added circa 1891. SD-RS41 V-20 12. PHOTO:From south 13. MAP: N.Y.S. DOT Southold Quad Front (south) 4Dp0 .44 "V Z_ r b outhol A c •' j .; i�r.. Z O r==tet Ca 1 • ~ • . •. ow Hill Cem . 20 t� r SD 41 ' 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known b. zoning ❑ c. roads 11 d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPE=RTY: a. barn b. carriage house ❑ c. garage d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i. landscape features: j. other: carriage house 10. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a,open land ❑ b. woodland ®' c. scattered buildings Eit d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential bd It.other: 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) The Town of Southold is a V*W . historic community of medium-low density; the Main Road is lined with large trees and well spaced houses with lawns and greenery. This house is adjacent to the Town Hall.. 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): - gable 21-story, 3-bay, side entrance plan, ga e roof Italianate main house with 11-story' 5-bay wing on east with center entrance. 3 gable-roof dormers in wing with segmental arch windows and window sash. SIGNIFICANCE I1t. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION:_ Prior tD 181 and cam.— 1.80 ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 0, HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE A Plaque readsr "House of Early Period, oldest part Miss Jennings Dame School C. 1815 Home of Dr. Epher Whitaker Author of Southold History" A plaque on the carriage house readst "18th cent. Fzra 1'Hommedieu Carriage Barn. Moved from Homesite 1841. '; -This is one of Southold`s most important historic houses. It was a Dame School c. 1815, and after 1891 the home of(cont. ) 21. SOURCES: Anne Currie-Bell, Guide to Historic Markers, 1960 # 26. Henry Isham Hazelton. The Boroughs -of Brookl n and Queens. Counties of Nassau and Suffolk. . . Vol. II, r?. FHFAIF: page 708 Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research assistant. SD 41 (cont. ) 20. Historical and Architectural importance Dr. 'Pphpr Whitaker, author of "History of Southold". " J ~� ' SAY- ---aa•a �r<tw� • �� '_: ,,�... �,� �jet t I�.,�.:��ir. - _ . m� - ._ } ... .-fY�t .ter-�+ = �• r' ?a. - ! ., • - -. WhitakprZThompson House Cornpr Horton' s 1982 • • by - A. Weber 4 Weekender July 28, 1983 Page 15 n Retrospect IF Whitaker - Thompson House s - By JOY SEAR son, also Ira. Some time during this period the large west(left)wing was added to the house. In 1640 John England was granted his homelot in in 1892 the house was bought by Rev.Epher Whitaker, ! Southold,on Main Road and Horton Lane. It was a fine beloved pastor of the Southold Presbyterian Church location, right across the street from the church, which since 1851 and an admired historian. Dr. Whitaker had meant that it was in the hub of the religious and civic life _published his definitive "History of Southold" in 1882, of the new little community in the wilderness. and was instrumental in forming the Suffolk County John England was fortunate in his choice of a Historical Society and the Southold Academy. Southold vocation, too. He was a well-digger -- a trade much Library's Whitaker Collection honors him. esteemed in frontier towns. From his day,there are two Thus this home and is property have been identified wells on the back lot of the property today,and one in the with the religious, historical and academic life of basement of the house,all filled in,of course. Southold during its entire recorded history. Fourty-four years later, in 1684, the Southold church Dr,and Mrs.George T.Thompson bought the house in had outgrown its quarters,and a second church building 1940, and found it a charming shell, in much need of was raised across Main Road -- historian say on, or repairs. They asked Robert Bryson of Slee& Bryson to near, the John England property, on which the house advise them on accurate restoration. He found that the sketched here was built later. wide floorboards in the central section had crumbled Little is recorded about this lot until,in the mid-1700's, and needed replacing. He suggested replacing the Long- a salt-box house was built on it. The house was deteriorated front porches with two entrance porches. constructed with integrity. Its floorboards were a tree He found that the original walls were plastered with a wide. It was a one-story home with a loft in the back,and mixture containing beach sand and hog bristles, no windows on the north side. It is the central section of attesting the age of the home, but were inadequately . the house sketched here, insulated, so this was Corrected. The oldest window, a As time passed,a third church building was needed for wavy-glass affair, was found in the rear of the central the growing town, and in 1803 the present Southold section. The whole house was carefully restored to Presbyterian Church was built across the street from retain its period features. this home,- the church which stands there today. This Upon moving in,Alice Thompson was surprised to find home served as a parsonage for several of its ministers, that,under the hand-loomed carpet in the Dame School's until the Presbyterians in 1836 built the manse that still east wing, layers of newspapers had been laid as stands today on the east side of the church. insulation--papers bearing 19th Century dates! She was In time the home sketched came into the posession of delighted to discover,on a door panel of the west wing,a Captain Lazarus H. Jennings, whose sister had been painting done by a visiting missionary, and in the east described by J. Horton Case as a "schoolmarm par wing she was surprised to find a closet full of bottles of excellence." For her, Captain Jennings built the east home-made fruit tonic. wing of this house,and around 1815"sister Katie"set up A friend of Mrs.Thompson's,Ann Currie-Bell,founder a Dame School in the new wing -- the right side of the of the Southold Historical Society, who knew the house sketch. Perhaps it was during this renovation that the well historically,once said with a smile: front of the house was raised to make a second story. "There are poltergeists in this house! Things History,Church and Academia unexpectedly keep hopping off the shelves..." According to Southold Town records, in 1819 Foster This historic house is located so advantageously that Sayre bought the house from Captain Jennings, and there are those who eye it speculatively.May it stand as later sold it to Ira Tuthill, who passed it to his lawyer it is for another 200 years!