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YOUR NAME: Town of Southold _Z SBLIA I DATE: Deeember 1986
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall. Main Road TELEPHONE: (516) 76 5-1892
Southold L. I. , N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community DevelapmPnt Office
IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING, NAMES : Israel Peck barn
2. COUNTY: Suffo k TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE:Southold
3. STREET LOCATION: Wells Ave. West side
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private ❑
5, PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS:
h. USE: Original: Present:
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes ❑ No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
S. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c, brick IN d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: vertical boarding
11. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints [
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑
(il' kniwnl c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other—Brick foundation, brick floor
10. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ b. moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
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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 ❑ F. greenhouse ❑
g. shop Cl h. gardens
i. landscape features:
j. other:
16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land FK1 b. woodland ❑
c.scattered buildings 2
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑J g. residential [Z
h.other:
17. INTI•RRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Southold is a historic community of medium-low density.
The Main Road is lined with large trees and well-spaced
old houses with lawns and greenery. Adjacent to the manse
is the Church, and behind it (diagonally) , is the barn.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
Large handsome barn of vertical boarding.
The site of the Peck-Grigonis house is now a bank and
parking lot.
SIGNIFICANCE
I1►. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION:, ca . 1852
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
Although not visible from Main Street, this building is
historically significant.
In 1873 Peck had a trotting course - a 12-mile track.
In 1858 Peck had a nursery here.
21. SOURCES: Chace. Map of Suffolk County. 1858
Beers, Comstock, Cline . Atlas of Long Island. 1873
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cles The Second Southold Academy, Horton's Lane, opened
By December 16, 1867, with Elbert Wilmot Cummings of Hamil-
len_ ton College, the first principal. Dr. Epher Whitaker, the
wn- active mover in founding it, had the able cooperation of
He Squire Henry Huntting, Captain Theron B. Worth and others.
L to The building stood on an acre or more of Captain Ira Tuthill's
iker land. Barnabas H. Booth superintended the construction, and
for Oliver Buckley was the builder. The purpose of the Academy
ick- was "to give young people a chance to pursue their education
cold beyond grade school"; and "to build the Academy into a school
the of high scholarship and Christian morals". Many pupils also
Lker prepared for college in this institution. After 1905 the Southold
Academy became a business school and was carried on as such
for some years of the early 1900's. This Academy is still close
ng- to the memory of Southolders. "I went to the Academy" is
ton, the key to many memorable stories told today.
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(29.) HISTORIC SITE
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THE BARNABAS HORTON HOUSE
EARLY 1644's - 1378
Brie Where Generations of Hortons Lived Until 1873.
In Part, Became
bly THE FIRST SUFFOLK COUNTY COURT HOUSE
•om 1684 - 1729
-wn After Suffolk County was organized in 1683, from the East
ury Riding of Yorkshire, County Courts were held. for 45 years {
qty, in the upper story of the Horton House.
re- (Location of Roadside Marker: northwest corner, Main Street
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a's and Horton's Lane, Southold, in front of the late Rensselaer G.
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Terry, Sr. property; Richard H. Clay, tenant.)
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led 30. PROBABLE JOHN BOOTH HOUSE
c.1656 - 1653
the Southold's Much Moved House
ae' (Mrs. Walter Harvey, Oaklawn Avenue, Southold.)
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Master john Booth, or Ensign Booth, was a large land- 5 2 over
holder and outstanding citizen among early settlers. He was
associated with Captain Nathaniel Sylvester in the purchase
of Shelter Island from the Indians in 1652. He had large
d.) holdings in Mattituck, Pesapunk Neck; also Robin's Island
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-Neck, now New Suffolk. and an expansive stretch of lands 3
in Corchaug (Cutchogue).
This house presumedly stood on its first 1656 homesite
s on the Town (Main) Street, where today Charles Grigonis'
home is, opposite Sayre's Garage. The Booth lands stretched
r into Calves Necke. Mr. Gri orris' hpuse was bUilt in 1854 by
j Israel Peck for his family hornesigad,
Glover an six 18.
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period the Booth house had started on its journeys. The Town
Historian, Wayland Jefferson has described the many movings sat
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of Master Booth's house from one site to another in i e village
owned by as many or more families as there were movings.
It was Mr. Dickerson who moved it last, from its site where se t
Mrs. John W. Stokes now lives. It returned, not exactly to it's fou
original homesite, but to the homesite lands where it stands Bu
today. Master Booth, the first owner, was a horse breeder as its
well as large landholder. '.Many 17th century horses were bred shi
and reared on this area of his lands.
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The house has not suffered from its travels, and is as des
1 staunch with old hand hewn supports as ever. The lines have
y� been kept--of the double Cape Cod house with the small win- 33.
dows and panes:y'n=;ihd—arved- cornices and the fine
Dutch door with its lZ inch hinges and overhead fan light are
of later period and add to the interesting story and character
of this old house.
31. FIRST METHODIST PARSONAGE 1855
Moved from Churchsite 1899
By William H. Terry
(Arthur W. Jones, Main Street, Southold)
# This house, built 1855 by the Methodist Episcopal Church Salic
for its first resident pastor, Rev. Thomas Stephenson, stood knoill
originally between the present Methodist Church and present place
parsonage. In 1899-1900 a "swap" of houses occurred. William and
H. Terry, son of William T. and grandson of Squire Ezra C., Tuck
lived at that time in the corner house (the present parsonage). date
The first parsonage was in the way when the Church planned built
new additional construction for its edifice by builder J. Edward excep
' Corey. The Church took over Mr. Terry's house. Mr. Terry Budd
took over the first parsonage and moved it to its present site to Jol
where he, wife Isabelle Peck, sons Israel P. and Milton R. lived. I.
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by Becky Terry
aklawn Avenue-the name did indeed once fit this busy highway manImaginative gifts.
leading to Pine Neck and Bay View.Picture a picnic grove with exclusively
a view of Peconic Bay, spirited race horses being trained on a ours...
trotting track and a canopy of oak trees grating a wide lawn
gently sloping to the creek. The story begins over a hundred years ago
and evolves around the ingenuity of Israel Peck. Before the Civil War, Mr, 1 Ltd.Peck, his wife and six daughters d come s outhhe from GrewiY ho� s
Conn. Their imposing house stood near the site of the present—Chemical lily
Bank on Main Road with property extending south to Jockey Creek.Though
he was a carpenter and builder by trade, Israel Peck was a man of many
interests and was one of the first trustees of Southold Savings Bank. It
was his idea to beautify the village streets and from his Spruce Park Nursery COMPLETE INTERIOR DESIGN
he donated elm trees which were planted throughout the area, especially ca,�Treat yourself to the services of a professional.-ft
along Main Street. Always.an admirer of a finely formed horse, Peck's DAVID JACKSON,Graduate Parsons School of Design
project in 1872 was the construction of a race course, a one-half mile
trotting track named the Spruce Park Trotting Course. It was at this time
that Oaklawn Avenue was built, being extended in 1902 to Pine Neck. Hollyhocks is...
Before that Benjamin's Lane built in 1859 led from Main Road to the creek. gifts,antiques,fine furniture...wallpapers&designer fahries
From the Hunthng scrapbook we read,"At the Oak Lawn races a large (Jur drapery,slipcorer& upholstery shop
assemblage of ladies is also present(they being admitted free).The course delivers wirltin three weeks.
is beautifully laid out, being surrounded by a grove of trees.At the south
end is a picnic ground with the Oak Lawn Club House where ice cream 765-5709 Adjacent to tate Southold Methodist Church,MAIN f1D,SOUTHOLD
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These tura rare old shots(courtesy of Lester and Hope Albertson)show the remains of the Peck estate years alter his
1881 Harvest Home celebration. This view,probably taken around the spring of 1905, shows(left)Carriage house or
livery, the rear of the main house and(right)barn and stable complex
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Southold Loses Landmark
The great square mansion on Main Street, which was built in
1852 by Israel Peck and in recent times was owned by Charles
Grigonis, was demolished in April to make way for a branch
office of the Security National Bank.
The comment has been made that, because of the historic
character and unique flavor of the North Fork which is so at-
tractive to summer visitors and tourists, the preservation and
renovation of that handsome structure for commercial use would
have been appropriate, and coincidentally would have provided
for the bank a branch office of unusual individuality.
Old Westbury and Muttontown
Two New York State road-widening operations, one in Old
Westbury and one in Muttontown, are leveling giant trees,
roadside walls, shrubbery, and old houses. On Jericho Turnpike
Mrs. Robert Bacon's Turnpike Cottage, which is believed to
have been built in 1715, is doomed. On Route t o6 bulldozers
have already demolished the beautiful Willock home which was
built circa 1800.
SouthaniPton
A new era dawns for the Frankenbach homestead which stood
next to the Parochial School on Hill Street and for forty years
was a convent for the nuns of Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary.
All this land was once part of the Frankenbach farm and in this
house most of the Frankenbachs were born and brought up. In
1923 the property was sold to the church. When recent plans for
expansion did not include the old house, it was removed by Mr.
and Mrs. Cary Potter to their property on Captain's Neck Lane
where it will be restored as a residence.
Bumper Stickers
"Save Mount Sinai Harbor" bumper stickers can be obtained
for 82.00 from: Mt. Sinai Harbor Association, c/o Mr. Klaus
I7oscher, Harbor Beach Road, Miller Place, Long Island.
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to be almost indestructible. The house was built o tie-fines'# m—aTeirials, such as imported
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curity National Bank building on Main Road in Southold. A wrecker's crane smashed P"
the house into a pile of rubble, w is ss being loaded onto a truck for disposal.
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