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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSD-62 F - - FOR OFFICE USE ONLY BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM UNIQUE SITE NO. SD 62 DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY, NEWYORK 151311 474-0479 NEG. NO, YOUR NAME: Town of -Solithol dr/SPT,IA DATE•:: Nnyem}ier 1r9R6 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONg-516 ) 765-1892 Southold, L. 1. , N.Y. 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION AA'µ I, BUILDING NAME(S): Southold Savings Bank 2. COUNTY: Suf 'olk TOWN/CITY: Southold E: Southold 3, STREET LOCATION: Main Road, corner Youngs Avenue, north west side 4. OWNERSHIP: a, public ❑ 11rivate PP S. PRESENT OWNLRSouthold Savings BankADDRESS: same 6, USI:: Original: Bank Present: bank 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC Exteriur visible from public road. Yes No El Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION 8. BUILDING a- clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick 91 d. board and batten MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: 1� STRUCTURAL a. wood frarne with interlocking joints ❑ SYSTEM: b. wood Frame with light members ❑ 01' kn(wn) c. masonry lead hearing walls A d. metal (explain) e. other 10. CONDITION: a• excellent ER b_ good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. IN'DI:GRITY: a. original site R1 h. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dales (if known): 2-bay, 2-story wing on west is a later addition. SD-RSM VI-13 12. PHOTO: from south 13. MAP: N.Y.S . DOT Southold Quad South (Front) and west elevation C • 0 9 a#l • OEM Ile Vb Ja • . s' , �Syn��• r • • • f � i •+ \y' SD 62 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known IX b.zoning ❑ c_ roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. ether: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑ d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse El g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i. landscape features: landscaped / drive—i n j. other: narking lot in rear 16. SURROUNDINGS OF -THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land ❑ b. woodland ❑ c. scattered buildings ❑ d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial 1k f. industrial ❑ g. residential F0 h.other: _wooded area across street 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 . MOM The Main Road, once the King's Highw yo is lined with trees and many interesting old structures surrounded by lawns and greenery. 18- OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): Classic two-story bank building with balustraded roof. Recessed entrance surmounted by frieze and pediment with 2-story free-standing columns. Broken-scroll arch over front door. SIGNIFICANCE 19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION:— 1926 ARCHITECT: Francisco & Jacobus N.Y.C. BUILDER: 0. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: This handsome building, designed by prominent architects and published in architectural magazines of the pediod� proudly adorns the Main Road streetscape. Southold Savings Bank was the first bank to be established east of the present city line. It was chartered in 1858. 21. SOURCES: American_ Architect and Building _News. 1927. Richard M. Bayles. Historical Sketches of Suffolk County. 1874. P. 37 Thp American Architect. December 5, 1927 22, -r W- %1 F: Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research assistant. i S 878 TOWN Or soVMazu TOWN OF sOUMO D. 877 oaring the permanent and proper management of the prop- of all actual available assets at that date was 8233,098,93, con- i erty. The Academy was first opened for instruction, Dec. 16, slating of premium notes and cash. The aggregate amount 1867. It is supplied with books of reference, library includ- of losses paid by the Company up to Jan. 1, 1873, was ing works on teaching and education, music books, organ, 89,855.17. This company confines its business exclusively to globes, maps, &o. The Principal has two assistants, and Suffolk County, taking no risks outside of that territory. more than forty pupils. Already a considerable number of "Eastern Star" Lodge of Good Templars was instituted in a young men and young. 'women have prepared for college or this village in 1870. Southold Lyceum, an institution de- for business, and about twenty have become teachers, and signed to cultivate literary talent, and furnish literary enter- the prospects of future success and usefulness of the institu- tainment, was organized here Oct. 3, 1871, and now numbers tion are growing brighter with each advancing year. sixty-six members. It has a library of one hundred and Religious services by the Methodist Episcopal denomina- i forty-five volumes. Willow Hill Cemetery is pleasantly lona. tion were oommenced here in 1793. In 1819 the first church ted in the western part of the village. It was organized Aug. of that denomination was built here. A second church was 25, 1855, comprising about three acres, and contains a num- built in 181,0, and this was rebuilt and enlarged in 1&i6. It ber of finely kept logs, and handsome family monuments. is now a handsome structure, and stands on the south side of A district school is located a short distance west of this. the main street, a short distance east of the Presbyterian Another, the principal public school of the village, is located church in the eastern part, and occupies a commodious lot. The " A Universalist church, erected in 1835-6 stands on an angle Lang Island Y +treler, a weekly newspaper now published in of the street a short distance west of the Presbyterian church, this village, was started at Cutchogus Sept. 20, 1$71, and moved hi-re Aug. 0 1872. Southold Division S. of T. is a The Southold Savin Bank was incorporated in 1858, and ` g' ' � Savings flourishing institution, numbering about two hundred mem- the first deposit received July 5th of that year. This inatitu- j tion awes its origin in a large degree to the enterprise and bers. irit of Mr. J. H__Goldsmith, and it is said to be cne Horton's Point Light-house stands on a bold cliff on the public spE i` of the most successful illustrations of the savings bank in a sot}nd shore, opposite this village, about two miles north of ins purely rural community that we have in the State. The the central portion. This has a tower, thirty feet high, from (kj amount of deposits in 1872 was$199,068.35; and the amount its base, giving the light au elevation of one hundred and ten { feet above the level of the sound. It was built in 1857, and �i withdrawn the same year $153,fi16,06. The Suffolk County � j 1 Mutual Insurance Co., an institution of this village, was ineor- gives a fixed light, visible twenty miles distant. t i porated April 30, 1$36. The amount insured, on the 1st of A Great Hog Neck lies south of the village, projecting into d January, 1873, was $2,791,721.50 and the aggregate amount Peconie Bay about two miles. The cove which is formed on i' 1 I Richard M. Bayles . Historical Sketches of a Suffolk County. 187 zn rn 1 SD 62 Page 741) THE' AMERICAN ARCHI 'T' ECT Ucccmbcr5, 1927 e JOIR 11 a p s Sa�•y r��w�n� �Ynr6 M. KF M'"r1� r•�`���1~j�1 rte_ �` yam-;. �-••+"...`..."l.�'dl'"' � �. 'w`W Mrd w �lr.. ti A .1 NTRANCL DI_`1'All., SOU`I•IIOI-D SAVINGS [SANK, SOUTFIOLD. I. L. i. Y. F=RANCISCO C4 JACOBUS. ARCHITECTS SD 62 Deccrnber 5, 1927 TETE AMERICAN ARCHITECT Page 747 THE SOUTHOLD SAVINGS BANK, SOUTHOLD, L. I., N. Y. FRANCISCO JACosus, Architects ASTAID, stern and sedate old Long Island town stretching from the placid shores of Peconic Bay to those of the more turbulent Long Island Sound, with a banking institution equally historic and pre-eminent in its field—such was the setting confronting the architects for the new Southold Savings Bank building. The Founders, as history has long since named them, settled old Southold in 1640. From their native England they brought both the name of their town and that of their home county of Suffolk. Here they found a fertile soil which readily responded to their tilling and 4 yielded income far in excess of their immediate .wants. It was thus inevitable that they should 17. consider the establishment of a savings institution when the means were later made available. The new building must express this history. It must show, even to the casual observer, the early . e American atmosphere surrounding the town, the i ' r ,strep thdignity and character of the bank. This � g B Y environment readily suggested the Colonial as a 'un fitting expression. The site chosen, with its fringe f.; of old elms and maples, was such as to enhance and properly frame the Colonial facade. Employ- ing the use of hand-made Harvard face brick, In- PUBLIC SPA, r , _ J _� A f y, GENERAL VIEW OF EXTERIOR s,u 62 Page 748 THE AMERICAN ARCHITECT December 5, 1927 00 0 00 0 Lug JOB 7r'm H a 1 LON't,l'I'UDINA1. SECTION Y Al I' 1/16 ON 1: 1'007 liana lemesione, bronze and glass. as the only characteristics of our early American hospitality. materials exposed to the weather. an exterior color Passage through the marble-lined vestibule. treatment of enduring beauty was obtained. The with its tablets setting forth the original founders facade incorporates the usual wide expanse of and present board of trustees. leads directly into brick%vork on either side of the entrance. This the main banking room- Here. again. the building Colonial doorway• framed with tall and slender follows the Colonial closely, with floors of traver. columns and surmounted with simple cornice. pedi- tine stone, wainscot and bank screen of Tavernelle ment and balustrade, possesses all of the inviting marble and walls of travertine. The space has been I 1 = is BANKING; ROOM S. 1927 THE AMERICAN ARCHITECT Page 749 S,D 62 109�mmrr L I ' _5 PLAN 01; %11- ZANINI. I I1X112 L) v n _ I . r m7 i tir ^. 5 9 "1 I now i I'l_AN 01 I IRS l11.00K i S+:At.1_: 1/lG oNk I-Oot S©LITHOID SiNVINGS BAtiI._ tiOL11 1 10 D I I . N Y RANCISCO H JACOlitS, ARCI1i I1 , t� - Page 75U THE AMERICAN ARCHITECT December 5, 1927 SD 62 •r judiciously apportioned around a centrally located tions adjacent to large water areas and thus pre- r vault constructed of massive, heavily reinforced vent mold on old documents. concrete walls, lined with several thicknesses of The foundation for the main vault located on open-hearth and drill-pr(Dof steel. The vault is the banking floor was designed to be converted protected by a massive steel door and a complete into an additional vault when future growth burglar alarm system. The interior of the vault makes it necessary, and provision was made in the is fully equipped to further safeguard the bank's first floor framing for the installation of an addi- securities. Safe deposit boxes are located near the tional stairway leading directly from the public entrance• door. space to make this future vault readily accessible, 1-he engineering features incorporated in the Considerations of prime importance in the de- design presented a rather interesting study. The sign of the main floor and banking room were the hank [foes a large volume of business which is layout of the bank screen with a view to con- Npread over practically every state in the Union. duct the clerical work with the least amount of The problem of personal trafi•1c, which is of prime inconvenience; proper provision for the con- j importance in city banks. was thus subordinated venience and comfort of customers who have more I to the Mtge volume of corespondvrtce and data than the usual distance to travel to reach the bank: which mint be cared for. The design was preceded ' the housing of noisy bookkeeping and posting by a caretnl erigineering study of all documents machines outside of the banking room: a vault of which took tiv,• form of linear inches as applied sufficient size. and the proper housing of the bank to cacti 16nd of document. 'Phis further entailed a officials. stud)• of the probable future growth, and space The peninsula bank screen was decided upon %v.is provided to I)roperly care for double the prey- because of the small amount of cash handled by ent complement of all papers and records without the clerks and to better accommodate and provide disturbing the present equipment. Storage space for their peculiar interlocking duties and respon- was provided in the basement for old records,which sibilities. This bank screen incorporates complete will probably be sufficient until the end of time. filing equipment so arranged and so placed that all The mechanical layout was made with this in data is readily accessible at the point nearest which view, and all piping. electric outlets and other it is most often used. This equipment is all made necessary mechanical features were placed in aisles of furniture steel finished in walnut and provided j between continuous rows of steel shelving. An with proper locking facilities. adequate system of ventilation was installed to Customers' rooms are found at either side of take care of climatic conditions peculiar to lova- the main entrance, Here the bank's clientele will 4 :.i DIRECTORS R(Y� S I I i �ic,e;-:I+cr5. 142i Tii1: AMERICAN ARCHITECT Pak: • :5, Si) 62 1 1 1.I ! +VA'IION' 01' { I ` �R r y_ + W �r 4'17.4 ANa IiA NKIN� V 1, I ,(R, 11101 l) SAVINGS BANI, S( 111+II 11 I I N:1hI�° +� F7 I�° :+Isl � AIts !!°I I I•,