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DIVISION FOR HISIOR[C PRESE~V'ATION' ' ' QUAD '"' "'~
NEW YORK STA~E PARKS AND RECREATION " SERIES 2
ALBANY, NEW YORK. fSI:i) 474-0;79 NEG. NO. ' "
YOUR NAME ~'.~ ~hn ~- ~nm~nn_~na DATE: 6/a/78
YOUR ADORESS~O~? O~U~ Rd. TELEI~ONE:
ORGANIZAfIO'NIffan ' ¢~nn~ ~ t~~ ~h~ - . '. . .:.~ .:.?
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I BUILDING NAME"S).~em~n~~- ~t~¢~ ~On~
2. COUNTY: ~ TO~/CITY:~~ ~LLAGE: ~~
3. STREET [,~.AII()N: Mm!n g~ nn~ ~9t1~0n~ ~: ~:~:
4. O~ERSHIP: a. public ~] b private ~
5. PRESENT O~ER:~~snf~ ADDRESS:_ ~nm~ . . 4~.~,. :',{
6 USE: Origmal:~qO~n~ Pre~,[: nR~ '
7. ACCESSIBILIT~ IO PUBLIC: Extermr v~slblc from pubhc road: Yes ~: . No ~ -. .. ,' . ..~ - ".,"¢¢~
[nteror ac~ssbe- Explain h~ tn~{nn
' 8. BUILDIN~ a. 8lapboard ~ b, stone ~ ' c. brick ~ ; d. ~d ~d'~tReR ~ . ' '., ,~'-
MATERIAL: e. cobbles[one ~ f. shin~es ~ g. ~tucco ~; o~er;' - '.
a. wood frame with interlock ngjonts [~, · - ;',., ~'?.?':~. .':¢g.:, ~. :-.,~.'*,'-*,-:. :~ -."
b. wood frame with light members [] ' -' '-"~ :? '?~/ '<~',~¢';~:¢;,,;-:?,, ~ : ' ' :'
c. masonry load bearing walls [] ~ . .' ' :; .'.,:,;-,;" ;~5;4:' ;?; .., '. "' - '.~ :'
d. metal (explain) -" '" :" :/ ' ':''~'' ' ' '; '
e. other ' ' ' '"' ':' -":' '"
a. excellent L~ b. good [] c. fair [] d. deteriorated []~.,~.,.:, :"~,t.:,,...., :. , ;
a. original site ~] b. moved [~] .. if so,when.* :' ,. ,.,' .~..'f~--', ,,~2,;.-7:-',.'--",. .. ,,'.-?.:.. ,-.;f :,
c. list major alterations ahd da.te~ (if known): .' .,:!!~;;. ..... .;,..~ :~,-.~ . ,'-: ".q,:r ::' '
See attaohed.'rt.e~ of.iStl/:"een'~UZ'~;:bOa~S;i:" " "~
Eala=ged ~n 18~5.foz Ezra "'
Doo~ere. date f~°m'i $~.~,. -- AP
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STRUCTURAl
SYSTEM:
(if known }
I0. CONDITION:
1 I. INTEGRITY:
SD 64
Hartranft House. SouthoM
SOUTHOLD
The handsome landmark at the
northeast corner of Main Road and
Youngs Avenue in Southold has
been the source of considerable
concern over the past months. This
historic house evolved from the one-
and-one-half story Justice Robert
Hempstead house of 1757. In 1835
the house was enlarged with William
D. Cochran believed to have been the
architect/builder. Cochran also
signed the Southold Universalist
Church (1836), and the Cleveland-
Charnews house (1835) two doors
east of the church. The Charnews
house, like the Hartranft house, has
clapboards __
on the sides of the dormers. The
dormers on both houses are similar
and are original with the structures.
The Heckscher Museum study, "The
Architecture of Suffolk Count)',"
(1971) described the Hartranft
house, "The attenuated pilasters, the
cornice with its flattened mutule-
like modillions, the side-lighted
Harvey A. I¢'eberphotograph
entrance, the slender porch columns.
and above all, the three large
segmental-arched dormers make
this handsome gambrel-roofed house
a distinguished example of the
Federal style."* At last report the
house has been bought by an
appreciative owner.
· "The Architecture of Suffolk County," Myer
and Galling. 1971. The Heekscher Museum.
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LEGISLATIVE ALERT
S. 6684/A.7942, a bill to exempt
religious properties from the
provisions of the local landmark
and historic district legislation, has.
been intr6duced in both houses of
the New York State Legislature.
The Preservation League of New
York State is strongly opposed to
this bill, and urges concerned
persons to call and to write their
assemblymen and senators imme-
diately. (Senate telephone is 518-
455-2800; Assembly telephone is
518-4454100.)
NEW YORK STATE HISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE INVENTORY FoRM SD 64
For Office Use Only--Site Identifier
Project Identifier _Historic Structures Survey
Your Name 'for T6wn of Southold/SPLIA Phone
Address Town Hall, Main Road
Southold, L.I., N.Y.
Zip 11971
Organization
Date'November 1986
765-1892
(if any) Southold Town Community DeveloDment Office
1. Site Identifier(s)
2. County Suffolk
®
Joseph Hartranft house ·
One of following: City
Township Southold
Incorporated Village
Unincorporated Village or
Hamlet ~n11%~n] ~ ~ ~
Present Owner Town Of Southold
Address. Town Hall~ Main Road
Zip Southold 11971
Site Description (check all appropriate categories):
Structure/site " " ..... not evident
Superstructure:".complete__partial COllapsed ~' ~ '
.Foundation:' above _below x (ground level) .not. evident x
Structural subdi~sions ~pa~ent Only. surface trac~s.~sible
--Buried traces detected
~-~st construction materials (be as specific as possible):
Stone foundation
Grounds
Under cultivation Sustaining erosion Woodland Upland
Never cultivated Pr---eviously cultivated ---Floodplain --Pastureland
S6il Drainage: exce--~lent "good ~ fair __-- poor __
Slope: flat gentle moderate steep
Distance to H~arest w~-~er from s~ucture (approx.)
Elevation:
Site Investigation
Surface--date(s)
Site Map (Submit with form*)'
Collection
Subsurface--date(s)
Testing: shovel__coring., other
no. of units
(append additional sheets, if necessary):
unit size
(Submit plan of units with form*)
Excavation: unit size no. of units
(Submit plan o-~its with form*)
* Submission should be 8½"xll", if feasible
Investigator ~
Manuscript.or pgblished report(s) (reference fully):
Guide to H~storlc Markers. Southold Historical Society. 1960
Preservation Notes. Society for the Preservation of L.I. Antiquities.
Fall/Winter. 1983
Present repository of materials Town Dump
SD 64
Page 2
(append additional sheets,
Site inventory:
a~ date constructed or occupation periodl?th cent.& 1836 - 1986
b. previous owners, if known Thomas Cooper
Robert Hemstead
c. modifications, if known Ezra Terry
rebuilt 1836 Joseph Hartranft
if necessary)
Site documentation (append additional sheets, if necessary):
a. Historic map references
1) Name Date Source
Present location of original, if known
2) Name Date Source
Present location of original, if known
b. Representation in existing photography Neg. SD-RSM VI-19
1) Photo date Where located
2) Photo date Where located
c. Primary and secondary source documentation (reference fully)
Division for Historic Preservation, Albany, N.Y.
Building-Structure Inventory Form 6/1/78 on file in Albany.
The Architecture of Suffolk County. Heckscher Museum. 1971
~.C. New~Rose Reme be~s. 1976
d. Fersons wltn~:
1) Name Address
2) Name Address
e
List of material remains other than those used in construction (be
as specific as possible in identifying object and material):
Stone foundation
If prehistoric materials are eviderrt,
prehistoric site form.
check here and fill out
9. Map References:
USGS 7% Minute
Map or maps showing exact location and extent of
site must accompany this form and must be identified
by source and date. Keep this submission to 8½"xll",
if feasible.
Series Quad. Name~ ~Southold
Quad.
For Office Use Only--UTM Coordinates
10. Photography (optional for environmental impact survey):
Please submit a 5"x7" black and white print(s) showing the current
state of the site. Provide a label for the print(s) on a separate
sheet.
~hl IL:MENFS ON THE E..\SI'FI~,N END OF LONG ISL-\ND
The Paync h,msc i> c×cellcntly preserved and i,
a museum ol interest, q lie interiors have
lings which must have been made by a
carpenter. ~o quaindy and delicately are they
framed together.
The road from Greenport to Riverhead passes
through the towns of ~uthold. New Suffolk,
Cutchogue. Acqueboghe and L~urel. all of which
have numeh)u5 examples of delightful d~rways.
ii,
.-\t South, dj iii ad,liti(m ~e find three example,
~1 houses ~ ill~ Jormer5. a most unusual leaturc~
[ hc<e ]illJc x~t~nd-buih hollies di,pla> a
White Pine Series of Architectural r~1onographs
Vol. V. No. 2. April 1919
SD 64
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THIRD GENE} ATIQ,N
Benjam:Ln's home ~nd silw.~:'smith shop w,-~re on the proper-
ty deeded him by hi.,3 father il,. 1783 sub.iac~ to his having an
heir: the ~';.W. corner of Youn~;'~ Ave. and [q~in St. Starting
in.18¢8, Benjamin Coleman, a i..~,.ter silverz~nith, had a silver-
smxth ~chool on the N.E. corner'. That ao:mer is referred to
as Si]versmi~th C orn~--~e~'~ t'i.n's early ~l~ath was the result
of h:u dships he suffered whil .~ an appren~.i, ce to a silversmith
in Sag Harbor.
In 1812 Benjamin's widow a~¢[ her second husband, Thomas
Ledysa-d, signed a quit-claim ~:~ the property but continued
to live there until her death. (See Plates III,IV, and his
Inven~;ory in App.B, Doc.l?89 Jar more.)
#30 .William M. Prince (178 5--1877) m/1 1809 Euniee Jen-
nings: m/2 ].856 Wai't~ (Case) Wells.
EdwarH. Howell Prin:e ( ) m. 4 Feb. 1777 Huldah
0viat':. Resided New Milford ~T. [J.B. }:~ince Cor.]
#31, Chs.rlotte P~ince b. 1£ Dec. 178]L.
#~2, Noble Prince b. 15 Seft. 1784.
#33, Electa Prince b. 23 Oct. 1787, d. 7 Feb. 1793.
#34.. Hu].dah Prince b. 23 M~2' 1790.
#35,, Czar Prince b. 5 Aug. ].792.
#36, Jervis Prince b. 8 De~. 1794.
H=].en W. Prince, T~e Desce.~j~.ants of J"-2~.%~ Princ____~e. 1983
Photo from Antiquarian and Landmark Society of Connncticu~.
SD 64
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Rowland H.
ant.)
in Wells and
.v V'/illiam D.
. ~9~B.o~ in
~. there have
thcs, stairway
~erent periods.
v York. There
~s great
e sheds at the
cargo, wheat,
wners in many
,tam Benjamin
,rids across the
sprain married
ards: and had
..'aroline. David
: and their chil-
the homestead.
rat's first To~vn
homesite in the
?resent Southold
:hold Hotel site.
· S,mthold)
:1 E. Terry (mar-
me in 1856, was
-cords as an early
~vnes, cooper, and
Col. John Yonges,
colonial life, son
.mi in 1856 from
rough more hands
over the last 104 years by purchase or rental, and has served
more varied purposes than possibly any other house about.
For some years Lawyer Albertson Case, son o[ Southold his-
torian J. Wickham Case and Sarah Albertson, local historian
as well as lawyer, had his office above William H. Vail, living
below. A white picket-fence surrounded the place.
When Daniel E. Terry built the house in 1856 he placed
it end wise and nearer his east boundary. In 1915-16, Sinclair
Smith, living on the east bounding property (which is now
that of the North Fork Bank & Trust Co. and home of Dr.
Cl~,us H. Robohm), annexed this house and lot to his own,
moved and turned the house to the position held today under
Dr. Paul Die{enbacher's ownership.
16. JUSTICE ROBERT HEMPSTEAD HOUSE c. 1757
Enlarged, 19th C. by Sq. Ezra C. Terry
and Col. John Wickhara. , q ~ ~
?
THE SILVERSMITHS' CORNER
(Joseph B. Hartranft, northeast corner Main Street and
Youngs Avenue, Southold)
Robert Hempstead o{ New London, son of the Joshua
Hempstead xvho wrote the historically famous "Joshua Hemp-
stead Diary 1711.4758", was Justice and Town Clerk in South-
old for many years before his death, 1779. He married Mary,
daughter o£ Judge Benjamin YongesY-J'r., grand-daughter of
Rev. John Yonges. Justice Robert, through his daughter Abi-
gail, was grand-father to John Ledyard, celebrated world
traveler.
This house is attributed to Hempstead oxvnership e. 1757.
Part of its own fog~q.t~al structure and the old stone
foundation off the p~operty ........... a?~-6f 17th Century origin probably
of early settler Thomas Coopery'fit~ter whom Cooper's Lane
was named. Squire Ezra C. Terry, (Justice of the Peace) in
1835 enlarged the house considerably: William D. Cochran
the builder. Col. John Wickham, 1855, inc"ZF~§~d it. Several
wings now are removed and are homes and a store on Youngs
Avenue.
Other property owners who have been named are John
Gardiner, John C. Appleby, Joseph C. Albertson. Toward the
end of the last century Dr. Joseph M. Hartranft bought this
beautiful old 18th-19th century home and was the revered
doctor of the countryside for many years.
Guid~ to Historic Markers.
Southold Historical Society. 1960
"Silversmiths' Corner" was a name long used for this loca-
tion, as stated by Town Historian Wayland Jefferson. Several
silversmiths dwelt here at different periods: Benjamin ¥onges
who had one o[ the earliest 17th century apprentice schools
in Southold, the Benjamin ¥onges School; also Silversmiths
.~-Benedict and Coleman.
17. HISTORIC SOUTHOLD HOUSE
Tradkional Home of Col. John Yonges
L a~fli.tT._e.~r ded 1656
(Mrs. C. J, Olpp, owner, ¥oungs Ave., South;
Dr. Nell L. Norcross, tenant)
This house ,vas called for many years the Col. John Yonges
House o[ the early 1640 settlement.
The record of lands of John Yonges, Southokl's man oi
greatest prominence in the 17th century and son of Rev. John
Yonges, is found in the published Town Records. dated Feb.
2, 1656. These lands extending from the Town Street were his
recorded homelot property. Deeds and papers establishing full
proof for the history of the house were lost or misplaced as
several historians have stated.
Certain documents and an account book record discovered
about 20 or more years ago impelled the belief that the house
originated with Capt. John Prince, 1732, Captain of a vessel, svho
came from Boston. From the Prince family genealogy he is
recorded as ancestor of the Sonthold Town ~rince descendants.
.The construction o{ the house indicates sections built in
different periods and possibly at a different site. Research on
4ts history and its first owners has been done {aithfullv for
a long time and will be continued. A further report w~ll be
made in the next publication.
The Peters' and Downs' line of later ownership is traced.
Indentures of 1784 show Richard Peters. as an owner. He
married Fannie Ledyard, (2nd wife) in 1793. Fannie Ledyard,
daughter of Capt. John and Abigail (Hempstead) Ledyard and
sister oi John Ledyard, World Traveler, was distinguished
for her courageous acts during the Revolutionary War.
From a deed o[ Richard Peters to his "heloved son"
ltenry, from the wills of Henry and Richard L. Peters, of
Abigail Moore Landon and of Amelia Ann Magee, the family
genealogy is defined and also the ownership t,f the house.
From Richard Peters it passed to ]rienry Peters and wife,
Rebecca, daughter of Capt. Jonathan and Abigail (Moore)
Guide to Historic ~ark~r~.
Southold Historical Society. l?o0