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NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY,NEW YORK (51 HI 474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME:Town of SoutholdZSFLIA DATE: November 198
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall Main Road TFLEPHONE:(516 ) 765 1892
outhold , . , N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
I BUILDING; NAME(S): Reeves/Frohnhoefer house
2. COUNTY: Suff olk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE::Snuthnld
3. STREET LOCATION: Main Road , Route -25_r--south side
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public n h private KI
5- PRESFNT OWNER: FrohnhOefer ADDRESS: ssme
h. IISI:: Original: re8idence Present: store
7_ ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes K No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
K. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATFRIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ F. shingles I g. stucco ❑ other.
'). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints 11
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑
(il' kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a- excellent ❑ b. good EX c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated
I- INTF(;RITY: a. original site ❑ b. moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
The 1-story store in front of the old house hides
the front entrance
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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 ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features:
j. other:
10. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a,open land ❑ b. woodland
c.scattered buildings
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial [T
f. industrial ❑ g. residential CX
h.other:
17. INTFRRELAT1ONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Medium-low density area in center of historic Southold .
The Main Road , once the King' s Highway, is lined with
trees and many interesting old structures surrounded by
lawns and greenery. This block is mostly commercial.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
2*-story, 3-bay, gable roof, white shingle house with
dentils on cornice .
SIGNIFICANCE
Iq. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION; 1787
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
0. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
Until the big modern store front was constructed in front
of it, this house was a component of the historic street-
scape. Today, it still contributes to the ambience of
the area.
This house was Reeves in 1858 and 1873.
,I. SOURCES: * Mrs. Frohnhoefer. Interview 10/10/86.
Chace. Map of Suffolk Count 1858
Deers, Comstock, ne. as of Long Island. 1873
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SIXTH GENERATION 87SD 61
#107 . Horace Prince Tillinghast ( 1838-1898) b. Sthld 19 Jan. 1838,
Id. Arshamomaque 17 Dec. 1898. m. 11 Nov. 1860 Jane Amelia
Reeve, "Jennie" (b. Sthld 19 Apr. 1841, d. Arshamomaque 12
May 1884. Both bur. willow Hill Cem. ) only child of Char-
les-and -Clarissa
har-lesandClarissa Harlow (Va-l) Reeve. [Charles & Clarissa
Reeve Bible] [Twn Clerk, Deaths] [Jane T. Oblum] [Jane Reeve
Tillinghast' s 1872 Diary] [Betty Jane Copin]
Jennie and Horace lived until 1872 with her parents in
the house now expanded into Frohnhoefer' s Lamp Store, Sout- ,f
hold, then moved to the fare her father bought on Albertson
Lane, (Plate XIII)
Horace was station master in Southold for the L.I.R.R.
He stayed at the Southold Hotel during the week and return-
ed weekends to the farm. his health was poor, and a painful
knee ailment kept recurring. Someone usually brought him
back Sunday evening, but Jane' s Diary mentions "setting
Horace across the creek" (Mill Creek) so guess he walked
from there when weather and knee permitted, eliminating the
long walk around to Mill Creek bridge.
Jennie taught piano to many students in Greenport and
Southold. She and her boys played both chamber music and
ballroom music for dances, Frank on the violin, Charles the
bass violin. Besides music, Jennie loved to act in plays
put on by the newly formed Lyceum Association.
#195. Francis Nash Tillinghast ( 1862-1937 ) m. 1893 Tessa
Southam.
#196. Jennie Helena Tillinghast ( 1866-1868) b. Sthld 2 Jan.
1866, d. Sthld 7 Aug. 1868.
Plate XIV.
#104. Edmund E. and Phebe Ann Prince House, Baiting Hollow. (he b. 1862, d. 1948)
#189. Edward B. and Viola DeFriest Prince House. -Baiting Hollow. (he. b. 1685,
d. 1962) In 1903 or 1904 Edmund sold his father's Centerville Farm and bought this
90 acres of farm and woodland in Baiting Hcllow and lived in the house at left in
photo. Edmund's son, Edward B., built the house at the right when he married Viola
in 1907. Father and son traded houses after Amy, Edmund's daughter, had left home
and was teaching in Cedar Grove, N.J. The lower photos are closeups of the same
two houses. Alex Bobinski bought the farm in 1921 and took down the large house.
Nat Talmage, Jr. owned the property in 196' and took down the other house and
built a ranch type house on the site. Only the tank house was still there in 1970.
The Descendants of Captain John Prince.
Helen W. Princp. 1983