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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSD-58 - BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM FOR OFFICE USE ONLY SD S$RED DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION UNIQUE SITE NO,_L03{�Y ��ly QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY, NEW YORK {518) 474-0479 NEG. N0. YOUR NAMETown of Southold/SPLIA DATE: November 1986 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall. Main Road TELEPHONE:( 516) 654-1892 Southold, L. I. , N.Y. 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION I. BUILDING NAME(S): Mrs. Beckwith Store 2. COUNTY: Suffolk_ TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Southold 3. STREET LOCATION: Main Road, Route 25, north side 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h private E3 5. PRESENT OWNER: _ ADDRESS: 6. USE: Original: Store Present: Store 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC Exterior visible from public road: Yes ® No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION 8. BUILDING a. clapboard ® b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d, board and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles C] g. stucco ❑ other: 1). STRUCTURAL. a. wood frame with interlocking joints SYSTEM: b. woad frame with light members ❑ (if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e. other brick foundation IU. CONDITION: a. excellent LSI b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site 9 b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): SD-RSM VI-15 12. PIIOTO: From south 13. MAP: N.Y.S. DOT Southold Quad Front (south) and west Plpvation Fnlarged s-t Jr So th©ldFy 7 ` • v a 77 • BM 32•• • • Z _ •I 1V f �ry t • M y rw AT �• o • WON RE $ 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 ❑ h. gardens ❑ i, landscape features: j. other: 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land ❑ b. woodland c. scattered buildings IX d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial 31 f. industrial ❑ g. residential CX h.other: 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Medium-low density area in center of historic Southold. logoi The Main Road, once the King's Highway, is lined with trees and many interesting old structures surrounded by lawns and greenery. Ili. OTHER NOTABLE, FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): 1-story gable roof, unspoiled commerical building. Paired round-topped windows in gable peak over original store front with original wood canopy across the front. Double-leaf entrance door with transom over it. Brick foundation. Walls are brick filled. SIGNIFICANCE 11). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: Circa 1850s (or earlier ?) ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: A plaque reads : Mold Country Store. Captain Sherburne A. Beckwith 1864 Built in much earlier period. " S.A. Beckwith in 1873 Probably Wells Store in 1858 A rare survivor. Very important. 21. SOURCES: Beers, Comstock, Cline. Atlas of Long Island. 1873 Sanborn. Insurance Map of Southold. 1929 F. Belcher-Hyde. Atlas of Suffolk County. L. I. Vol.2j North Side. Sound Shore. 1909 FHEMF Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical 5oc. 1960 P. 24 Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research assistant. w SD 58 harbor often referred to as the L'Hommedieu Mansion (no sin, longer existent). --a Thomas Storrs Lester, his friend, legal associate, (son of Sylvester Lester) whose wife was Mary Halsey Albertson, ren purchased, four years after Ezra L'Hommcdieu s death, the the- L'Hommedieu Calves Necke property. Lester died 1$17 and Thomas S. Lester, his young son, became the inheritor of of Calves Necke. He later built a new home on the property. Sal An old house remained a part of it. Tom Lester lived here Sr until his death in 1885. He was donor of the Town Clock in Alb 1884. In 1889 George Harper from Brooklyn purchased the put homestead and estate from Lester heirs, bringing his family SM to live in Southold. This east part of Calves Necke for many mo- :ti years was known as Harper's Woods and Point. George Har- me, per's granddaughter resides now in this home with her hus- bac band, Hon. L. Barron Hill and son, Edward. The Woods hav and Point have become a residential section of the village. tha•. In the early settlement all the woodland called Calves at Necke lying between the two creeks (Town and jockey or Dickerson's was common land, a part of the "Southside" of (21. the town which in 1658 by order of a Town Meeting was sur- veyed by Thomas Mapes, Town Surveyor, and allotted to every man his portion as it shall fall out by lot to him." The 20. OLD COUNTRY STORE Ian( Capt. Sherburne A. Beckwith 1864 Fea Built in Much Earlier Period Stevens Building, Dr. H. E. Stevens, owner, Main Street, Southold; Joseph B. Hartranft's Studio and Arthur F. Gagen, Insurance, tenants.) The Captain Sherburne A. Beckwith hailed from Salem, Con- mee necticut. After marriage with Nancy Case Glover, 1849, he had (Lo. ` a ship chandlery in Greenport. Retired from his coastwise Libi voyages, he settled in Southold. In 1864 he purchased four Sou acres of George P. Horton. This gave him lands east and west of the present Beckwith Avenue, which street he subsequently 22. opened up. The building which became his store was on the property and he built his home next west of it, the present (P: Dr. Harry E. Stevens residence. Captain Beckwith was a very religious man. There are those who recall buying crackers be t from his cracker barrel and that he always would start up 24 uide to Historic Markers. Southold R Historical Society. 1960 j 1 i`. Jy y i v S - . SD 58 ion (no singing a hymn during the purchase. "I Love to Tell the Story" !a favorite. (son of The store since his time has been held by the family and bertson, rented to rmany sT. Wells.nd shop keepers, one of whom was long ath, the there, F 817 and The lands through this section go back to early settlers !ritor of John Conklynge (rec. 1651), Richard Clark (rec. 1652), John )roperty• Salmon (rec. 1679), one following the other. Thomas S. Lester ,red here Sr, was in ownership in the early 18W's; his widow, Mary H. Clock in Albertson Lester, selling to George P. Horton (rec. 1858). The building is brick lined with its hand axed timbers aced the put Mer wA -peg`s.-1-ist era' e}lar iv lose w Ts Ari oT-- is family ��m�gU brick. When latterly a rear part of the store was re- for many maned an o`ld cistern was found; also a beautiful bowl of a ,rge Har- , meerschaum pipe dated 1816. A shed-like structure used to bs her hus- back of the store with field stone foundations. Various per Woods have left their hallmarks on the property. We can only say Hage. that the store as a building was here serving some purpose z ry -d Calves at a much earlier period than 1864. ►ockey or (21.) HISTORIC HOME SITE .hside" of C 1654 - 1659 was sur- of llotted to CAPT. JOHN UNDERHILL The renowned military leader and Indian fighter in New Eng- land, New Netherland/ and on Long Island lived on this Feather Hill site. THE LATER SITE OF HISTORIC PECK'S INN ain Street, 18th Century F. Gagen, where The First Incorporated Southold Library had its start at a alem, Con- meeting held Nov. 2, 1797. 349, he had (Location of roadside Marker: Vicinity of Southold Free coastwise Library and W. Germond Cochran's home, Main Street, based four Southold.) ;t and west 22. OLD FIRST CHURCH PARSONAGE ibsequently 1836 was on the the present (Presbyterian Church Parsonage, Main Street, Southold) was a very From the Church records, Rev. Ralph Smith is found to ig crackers be the first pastor who occupied this "Parsonage house", built Id start up 255 Guide to Historic NMarkers.Southold Historical Society. 199"0-