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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSD-51 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY BUlI.DING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM SD �1 � UNIQUE SITE NO. Wig•6�arb 613 _ DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY,NEW YORK (518) 474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SFLIA DA'I L: November 1986 YOUR ADDRESS:Town Hall, Main Road TF.LEPI HONE: (516) 765-1892 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION 1. BUILDING NAME(S): W. H. Terry house and Post Office _ 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Southold 3. STREET LOCATION: Main Road, Route 25, south side. 4. OWNERSHIP: a. ublic ❑ b. private 5. PRESENT OWNER: •J. Duboyick ADDRESS' same 6. USE: Original: Residence ire _ Present: Store, dental off fee 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC Exterior visible from public road: Yes No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION H. BUILDING a. clapboard IN b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ F. shingles lk g. stucco ❑ other: 'k STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑ SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members (il' kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d_ metal (explain) e. other brick foundation 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): 1-story addition on the front extends the west store-fronts out to the street, replacing the SD-RSM VI-4 porch that ran across the front. (cont. � 12. PHOTO: From north west 13. MAP: N.Y.S. DOT Southold Quad Front (north) and west elevation Enlarged So thold. • SM 32 . ' 1 • • SD r 14. '111REATS TO BUILDING: a. none known W b.zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration El f. ether: 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: Ib. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land ED b. woodland �l c.scattered buildings CE d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial FXJ f. industrial ❑ g. residential LSC h.other: parking lot 17. INTFRRELATIONSIIIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Westernmost commercial building in center of Southold mown, in medium density area. The Main Road, once the Hingis High- way, is lined with trees and many interesting old structures, some of them for commercial use and some residential. Ih. 011 IER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): 2-story, 3- bay, ;c4gable roof ho.use ., on brick foundation, with 2-bay 2-story clapboard projection on east front. 1-story store projecting to sidewalk on west side of front fagade. Dentilled cornice, 2/2 windows with dentilled window heads. SIGNIFICANCE 11). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: after 187 ARCHITECT: BUILDER: ,o. IIISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: In R. C. Newell's book this is described as a Furniture Shop and Undertaking Establishment. In 1909 it was W.H. Tarry's store and Post Office. In 1929 it was still the Post Office and also plumber and tailor. This old building, continuing in use as shops today, creates a sense of place. 21. SOURCES: F• Belcher-Hyde. Atlas of Suffolk Counly. L. Ios V 24 North Side. Sound Shore. R.C. Newell. Rose Remembers. 1976 12. THL-MF Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research assistant. -r SD 51 (cont. ) 11. INTEGRITY The two easternmost bays of this 5-bay house were extended out to the strP.et. CD • i . a�. r� ►" F �t ` Id ! f ` • tint �� 4 • } t, 4' .. ..- rX i 9 , T SD 51 Most of the stores on Main Street were there close to a hundred years ago, but their faces have been changed and their style of occupancy. On the present Post Office site was Orrin A. 1 , Prince's butcher shop, while the P.O. was in the Brick Store in the next block. Will Williams' clothing and shoe store was where the Southold Pharmacy is now, but before that it was in the R,lel'-Sfofe. r dome wny they played "Musical Chairs" so mucn. I fie baker's was along here and on the corner was Herbert . : Hawkins' Dry Goods and Notions; and I remember before that the Gomez Grocery. Across the street, next to Belmont Hall was Wm. H. Terry's I=urniture Shop and Undertaking Establishment. The -: picture of the hearse shows Mr. Terry standing behind it and }.x '. one of the George Terrys on the box. The horses look rather dejected, perhaps in keeping with their job. In that block was also a Chinese Laundryman, wonderfully cheap, who at Christ- mastime with the bundles of beautifully starched and ironed shirts gave each customer a gift of Litchi nuts. I In the next block the old Brick Store has had many occu- pants. In the picture of it 4and—Will Williams, his daughter Louise (later Herb Wells Senior's wife), his's©n Willie Jr. and Mr. Booth. You can see that there was then another store in the basement where Mr. Booth sold tobacco and fruit. asked Ora Martin in her Dress Shop about it and she said, "Oh, when I opened my shop the basement was unoccupied and was afraid someone would fall down those steps so had it closed up. There's nothing down there but dust and cobwebs," seem to dash back and forth across the street a lot but ^� again, on the opposite side, the'next picture is of H.G, Howell's s Drug Store, built in 1882. In the early 1900's Millard Golder succeeded Howell as 3outhoid pharmacist. Mr. Golder was a quick, nervous man with extremely courteous manners. The kids mimicked him saucily and dubbed him "Mr. ThankUthanks" because after you paid for your purchase he always made a po- lite bow and said, "Thank You"—(Pause)—"Thanks." We ,t . thought it was funny. After he moved away from Southold his son grew up to be a pharmacist too, returned to his native town ".and is with Don Scott in the present village Pharmacy. F, In 1924, David Rothman bought the building for a general store and here's an interesting thing: in going over my grand- ; -,:R.C. Nowell. Rose Remembers. 1976 — 121 — 4