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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSD-69 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM SD 69 *# UNIQUE SITE NO. 163/0.MV,,75 D0,11SION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY,NEW YORK (518) 474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: November 1986 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE:(516) 765-1892 Southold L. I, , N.Y. 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any):Southold 'Down Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION I. BUILDING NAMES): Thomas Moore house 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: 3. STREET LOCATION: Main Road, Route 25, west of Hobart Ave. 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ la private ❑ 5. PRESENT OWNER: Southold Hist. Sac. ADDRESS: t,. USE: Original: RR$idence Present: Museum 7. ACCIsSSIBII_lTY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes 56 No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION 8, BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATFRIAL. e. cobblestone ❑ F. shingles 0 g. stucco ❑ other: "J. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑ (il` kn(wvn) c. masonry load bearing walls❑ d. metal (explain) e. other 10. CONDITION: a. excellent X b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site X1 b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): SD RSM XVIII-8 12. PHOTO: From north west 13. MAP: N.Y.S. DOT Southold Quad Front (north) and westelevation 'Enlarged Q • M low Odle v'd • a• , i1 •y ` <r - •• t .pjj V SD69 „' •� 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known { b.zoning ❑ c. roads d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn El b. carriage house c. garage ❑ Downs carriage d. privy ❑ e. shed © 2 f. greenhouse ❑ house ca. 1845 g. shop I h. gardens ❑ (see attachment) i. landscape features:C,1pye land Glover Gagen Blacksmith j. other: Shop (ea. 1842) ape attachment) 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land ❑ b. woodland IX c. scattered buildings 91 d,densely built-up ❑ e. commercial F9 f. industrial ❑ g. residential IN h.other: 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Low density area of historic Southold Town. The Main Road is lined with large trees and many interesting old structures and surrounded by lawns and greenery. 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): li-story, 5-bayagable roof "classic" North Fork Cape Cod house with center chimney. SIGNIFICANCE 111. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: pre-1658 ARCHITECT: BUILDER: _10. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: Thomas Moore (died 1691) was a ship-builder, owner of vessels, merchant, landowner and Town Magistrate. He was born in Southwold, . England. In this house, November 7, 1673, Dutch Commissioners met with Southold's firm refusal to knuckle to Dutch rule. Norman M. Isham & Albert F. Brown. Parly Connecticut Houses. 21. SOURCES: Joy Bear. Historic Houses. 1981. # 27. P. 56 72. THLME: Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research assistant. SD 69 S...J1�b•Y I Y F -` '1"�.193i•�1Y\_sir-i:. v+_a '�9FiYsa' h the 25x35 and the Jonah Halsey, a century apart, who are in question. serve as An early Wells, Phillips, Harvey, Glover, Corwin, Hallock, in South- another Horton and Barnabas H. Booth, as well as others, he homes have appeared at various points in the research work. nnie Led- hold was Before the answer comes forth with the first owner estab- ors. After lished, several other houses involved with this one have to be ager con- identified. hands of February - - hill slope. 13. THOMAS MOORE HQ)a5E ite of the In Original Structure nate-1658 was soldW alter a K "� � PPS a�n Si:Teeta `outhAd.) ecame the Thomas Moore was a ship-builder, owner of vessels, mer- of owner- chant, Town Magistrate and owner of many parcels of land airs. After in Southold Town. There is a definite record that he came A. took it from Southwold, England. He married Martha Yonges, sister I J. Henry of Rev, John Yonges, daughter of Rev. Christopher Yonges, iliam Dor- Vicar of Southwold, England. In this house,_November 7, ,# 1bUni- 1673, Dutch Commissioners met WIT ty o d's firm refusal rient. to knuckle to Dutch rule. o the good The house stands on its original homesite. AIong the Town Street, the-lads—Tan easterly down to a branch of the creek, which at that time cut through the Town Street, ;E with the Shipwrights' Row of homes on its other embank- ment. Peter Payne was Moore's neighbor on the west; Capt. Charles Glover, on the south. The house has preserved much Orth Road, of its antiquity: the large central chimney, four fireplaces, one -� the great fireplace with oven at the rear wall, the narrow, little,--'Half steep, closed-in stairs. The front door is a beautiful example sing room of later doorways, with fine panelling. The "butterie", later of baffling called the milk house, stands as a separate little'structure,, Ild seem to close to the house. The old well with its oaken bucket was mayhap it near it. lse. In the The house passed from Thomas, who died 1691, to his ary Cassidy son Nathaniel. Thomas purchased other sites in the village their chit- for his several sons, Thomas, Benjamin, Nathaniel and Jona- or over 100 than. Many of the old families are represented in the following me it stood 18th and 19th century life of this house and lands: John Terry, elin's Farm Christopher Yonges, Samuel Landon, James Horton, the Widow Arcular.us, Na'thaJin--Corwln, Hodson Cor IW n, David_ aewn rafter. Landon, �1i on Homan, William Y. Fithian, followed by ;hua Horton sev-CM 20th century owners. 19 Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical Society. 1960 SD 69 family.❑ The U. S. Department of the Interior has listed the William Lawrence-Gherardi house on 14th Avenue in College Point in the category " `Other sites considered' as having re- gional, state, or local architectural significance." United Mutual Savings Bank At 135 Broadway in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, there is a jewel] of a bank building which was built in 1867, with William H. Wilcox, King & Wilcox, as architect. The American Institute of Architects, New York Chapter, "Guide to New York City," which was published in 1967, describes it: "Bands of vermiculated Dorchester stone alternate with smooth ones to enliven the exterior of the banking floor of this splendid Second Empire masterpiece. Victorian at its best, even the interior is carefully preserved, the gas-lit chandeliers all being in evidence (even though wired for electricity)." The Guide further notes, "It is hoped that the Trustees of the Bank will continue to extend the life of this landmark." oore House, Southold The Cape God-style Thomas Moore house which stands on the south side of Main Road in the village of Southold probably was "the Moore house" mentioned in 1 goo by Norman M. Isham and Albert F. Brown in their historical and architectural study, "Early Connecticut Houses." In that book a small sketch-drawing shows the building as it appeared about 1894,. According to the Southold Historical Society's "Guide to His- toric Markers," it was "in that house November 7, 1673, (that) Dutch Commissioners met with Southold's firm refusal to knuckle to Dutch rule." While there are no visible 17th Century elements surviving from those early days, the house, none the less, has many interesting features, and is a valuable architectural docu- ment. 8 Preservation Notes. Val. IV, No. 3. Oct, 1968 . . • 142 EARLY CONNECTICUT HOUSES. SD 69 The people seem to have preferred a low, small dwelling, gen- erally of one story, like the Moore house in Figure 71. Of the Goldsmith-Cleveland house we give a plan and an ele- vation of the frame of one end. These drawings will explain very clearly what was left of' the building in 1894. The bearings, it will be seen, were rather short, a fact which accounts for the pecu- liarity which the house shows in having no summer. r r - 7 �I _. 1'iuult�HuV�r i -JOifTI.4ULD FIGURE 71. Isham & Brown. Early Connecticut Douses. 1900 .. may ' �It SD 69 260 EARLY CONNECTICUT HOUSES. Providence Plantations, at his death in 1685.' There is no panel- work in Rhode Island houses of this date, and no panelled chests q=: are certainly known to have been built there—except, perhaps, the `= Field chest but there is a good deal of upri ht partition work Ly. put together with tongue and groove. We know also from Governor Winthrop, of Massachusetts, that the horizontal' slieathin was called wainscot. In his journal, in f 163?, he records, as part of an i�zterview with r: Ludlow: The } : 7 r sy i DA I I.1 : Or ., P0012 AwK ► 4 I��YSC , �7 f�AIN W#,Int5{OT M IN65 M°YLOING (IN VM1qLi ells 19L ri x .fid i ©00p }�/ fmooR� 1GURE xoq. Governor having formerly told him that he did not well to bestow such cost about wainscoting and adorning his house, in the begin- ping of a plantation, both in regard of the necessity of public changes, and for example etc., his answer now was, that it was for the warmth of his house, and the charge was little, being but clapboards nailed to the wall in the form of wainscot."g IEarly Records of [hr Torun of Proaddrnrr, V1,P. t5o. I savage's Winthrop, 1,P. 10;(P, 87 of original). Mather speaks of boards before the chimney as 'deals." Isham & Brown, Early Connecticut Houses. 1900 Y`: Moore played a leading role in the r dramatic events of November 7, 1673, when Southolders defied their Dutch ' rulers by refusing allegiance. A tense and explosive confrontation took place in Southold town that afternoon.Magistrate Thomas Moore,appointed by the Dutch Owhen they seized New York, refused f V along with his fellow Southolders to knuckle under to the Prince of Orange,a stance that affected history and which the bedroom were woven from i undoubtedly we still feel the results of grown in the l h century.FUrmture - today-After a fiery town meeting, and accessmrks are approprirte to the ras before he sailed back to New Amsterdam atim in defeat,Commissioner Cornelius Steen- wick rested and collected his composure in Thomas Moore's house,sketched. The Thomas Moore house wasacnui t i � by the Southold Historical Society in I! rrr and restored to the condition it was I! : The earliest part of this house was built around 1796.It is open to the public fe, •rid {e, some time before 1658, and probably tee, on scheduled days and hours- .n y house is on the south side of Main Roar consisted of the east front room and one other room, with a chimney on the Southold, two doors west of Hob outside facing Town Street (Main Road Avenue. today).An arm of Town Creek ran along the east side of the property at that time, and continued north to cul across Town 27 Street. Thomas Moore brought his wife Mar- Many of the house's additions -- the Thomas parlor,keeping room,wand tha from Southwoid, England, and set- the kitchen wing which now houses looms D �"� tled her and their eight children in the and spinning wheels—were added in the Bedroom 6cns Were Southold wilderness in 1651.Martha was Moore f sister i Pastor John Youngs, the 18th century. A large central T chimney t f�l}a��� founding minister of Southold. opens into throe fireplaces. Their man- WflVefl from il1l�C �OW)ti tles were all painted black in 1799, in i respectful mourning at the death of 1S the 19th Century Elpher Whitaker, in his history of George Washington. � �� Southold's first century,writes: "Thom- as Moore was a ship builder and owner, and one of the most prominent and A small opening in the chimney facing wealthy men in Southold,holding offices the entrance is said to have been used to Southold, re-1658 as constable,deputy and magistrate.He keep gunpowder dry.The entrance door p owned extensive property in all sections -- notice its original lock — dates from of the town." 1830.Linen curtains and bed hangings in Joy B-ar. Historic HOUSPS of the North Fork and Shelter 56 Island. Greenport 1981 Cl o. w i Ar 1 it awil III WFA, , a !t'/�1...k I tp- iTAW r (J? 'w. Vin`--. .. ie ;...;,. _x' •'*� sD 69 . � •.���� "eek r 111 ' i i i n a Y. ,>Yr J t rry �F ♦ f t a A .� �i fa e - y 1965 Photo Coll. SPLIA Old hinge in westarlor. o e Nconcave mo ding on door trim. SD 69 Old Pine Neck Barn 4 Y, Barn XVIII century Photo k Moved from Pine Neck ca. 1963 Included in Taves survey of Long Island barns. 112L' 20S-35K-1 Williamson Southold Main Road, Laurel 3-bay English, late 19th century. Framing type 4. Sawn pine frame, Braces half dovetailed and spiked with cut nails. Barn in ppoor condition, falling dons. 2 pre-1900 buildings. 20S-36K-1 Fleishman (Williamson) Southold Main Read, Laurel 3-bay English, 1800-1850. Framing type 5. Hewn oak/chestnut frame with extendd bay of sawn pine. Ridge Dole. Double-bea6d boards. Framirg greatly altered, new roof. 2 pre-1900 buildings. 23S-39G-1 Bok;na (Mahoney & Drury- Southold Ore on Road, Qre on Cutcho ue ` 3-bay English, 1850-1875. Framing type 3. 26' x 35' (26' x ,50' after added bad}, height to plate, 15'11 ". Vertical sawn softwood frame. Small.x members circular sawn. Raf tern butted at rage. 52" double-beaded vertical board siding. Granary i on 2nd floor, added bay. 3 pre-1900 1dgs. 235-42G-1 Southold Pine Neck Bain Maple Avenue,) Southold 3-bay English, ca. 1800. Moved from Pine Framing type 4. Neck 26' x 361 , height to plate about 18'_ Hewn oak/chestnut frame. Sawn raftesk tapered, pinned at ridge. Upper braces sawri Lower ' braces sawn oak, mortised and pinnal Very high roof plate, unusual brace combOation. Only pre-1900 building. 23S-37H-1 Cybulski Southold Oregon Road, Oregon 3-my English, 1850-1875, extended 4 more bays 1875-1900. Framing type 4. .26' x 411 , height to plate 1518". 1ktension 26' x 58' approx. Vertical & circular sawn timber. 4per braces half dovetailed. lower braces mortind. Rafters butted at ridge. Softwood throughomL i The Barns of Zang Island, H. V. Taves, 198 . • r SD 69 �- with an old barn and outbuilding at the rear, hold the charm Islam of earlier days. "Hol: searc 36. BLACKSMITH SHOP c. 1845-1942 those Henry C. Cleveland 7 William H. Glover, Frank M. Gagen of ch (Beside Frank M. Gagen's home, West Main Street, Southold) very r time This was one of the important Village Smithys of the 19th- an ui 20th centuries. Henry C. Cleveland was famous over the hand- countryside as a shoer of horses (c. 1845-1902). He was a man P ' of great vigor, strength and height. "The Smith, a mighty man much + was he". Mr. Cleveland is also remembered for his remark- --- able _able flow of stories and for his long snowy white beard. 38 William H. Glover, blacksmith from 1871 to 1936 was close to him in fame. Frank M. Gagen, who joined the shop in 1901, continued it until 1941, carrying on the tradition. The forge lighted up smoked rafters, the anvil rang and the bellows blew for almost 100 years. 37. EARLY HOUSE IN ORIGIN c. 1657-67 John Balyes, John Tuth"l, Jacob.-)Cgrey soutl Post-Revolution .azw_�a[trucrf^°- Oscar (Mrs. W. Emmett Young, West Niain Street, Southold) movee By the Town Records, Stephen Metcalf, William Fansey,, remen and Thomas Scudder were previous homelot owners to john writin Balyes (Baylis or Bailey), owner in 1656, who departed soon': stood from Southold but left Bailey descendants. Stephen was TownFeath� P. Recorder. others John Tuthill bought house and lot of Balyes 1661, having: Case ( sold his former, first homelot to Joseph Sutton of Southampton over t in 1660. He married 'Deliverance King, his first wife, sister O of Samuel King, his neighbor on the previous site. He was one. for m: of the foremost early settlers and large land holders and at suranc an early period moved to Oyster Ponds (Orient). John Tuthill; formes and Deliverance King were the ancestral forebears, in direc, Was m line, of Anna Symmes, wife of President William Henry Harr' Street son, and of President Benjamin Harrison, Anna's and Wiiliatn has be Henry's grandson. Terry I- 1.667 Jacob Corey, weav-ir Town Overseer, Town Pat, her si e,...:e of 1676, bought .hib ..fuse and land of John Tuthill daugh The lace was later handed down through Hortons and Cases IN P with 1 It became the home of Charles A. Case and Hannah Horton' Miss Sarah Case and J. Horton Case, who wrote for the Lon Captai 34 i 1960 Guido to Historic Marken- Southold Historical SOC. SD 69 „r Photo SD-RSM VIII-1 r Irving Downs ' carriage house_ •a , _ _ ai ��e d d. Circa 1845 - moved from Manor Lane, Jamesport. HousAs its three original carriages. of siroric soutnoia , . . SD 69 i By SHARMAN GORDON and a library. A double Cape Cod, once owned by October yp lb, 1667, Pawratone being req uir Joseph Horton, has stood on WestM Main since to gni in his temc�rrry between Soudrold Indian +he 1650's. bounds and Shenecock Indians bounds aflfrmea! The Southold Historical Society and Museum ac- drat In his tyrrr� drere was a war berwren said quaints the visitor with life in Southold after the 1ndiarn. and drat die yeanacadr Indians were English settled.The museum exhibits feature the Ann cOnquered and fled to neural parts of tfie rnalne Currie Bell Halfock house and buttery,once a promi- and drat after a certaine tyrxre yeanacrack Indians nent 19th century house,the pre-1653 Thomas Moore returned again- and Shinecao& Indians said drat house,the Cleveland Grover Gagen blacksmith shop, dr y hard been old friends and that drey might site circa 1845•'t a vvnarrive House, and Re down-acrd plant ttrere again on the other side of Lighthouse Museum, located at Horton's Point on Peawrrect; and soe dxy did. And afterwards drat lighthouse Road. P &We was a beare drowned in&fie meadows now,in During the summer, the museum is open from controveate and Me skin and DTe fatte of 07em said noon to five p.m., Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. bedare was brought to Shinecock Indians as due unto The lighthouse is open July and August from noon tfrern. The Xmarke ofPOCAI-ONE Taken before me JOHN MULFORD Southold has a rich and colorful history, as hinted at in this excerpt of early Southampton Town records. y Long before the colonists arrived from England and } Connecticut, a number of Indian tribes flourished in this area.First-time visitors are well advised to visit the local museums that vividly recapture Southold's past. The Indian Museum,located on Bayview Road,just off Route 25, houses one of the most complete collections of Indian artifacts to be enjoyed on long L Island. Displays trace the development of the Indian culture from primitive to the days of colonial settle- ment. Two spear heads in the collection are dated back IQ000yearsl Murafs depict early Indian life and the tribe sub- divisions are graphed. Exhibits recreate how they hunted, fished, farmed, developed crude cloth from bark fibers, and played. The largest Algonquin ceramic pottery collection and an extensive grouping of carved soapstone pottery and bowls are on view at the museum. Too! lovers will be excited by the array of knife blades,hoe V. blades, gouges, drills and axes, many of them displayed with their contemporary counterparts. The unusual and large display of arrow and spear heads is always popular. To round out thei p cture of the daily life of the earliest settlers are cooking imple- ments, herbs, children's toys, fishing tackle and + sinkers,jewelry, religious articles and clothing. ' The museum is open to the public from Thursday to Sundays during the summer from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Thick, green ivy curls up the side of the ofd pine bam, one Special and group visits can also be arranged by of the exhibits at the museum. Photo by Sharman Gordon. calling765 - 5577 or765 - 3024. Lectures are also often featured, as well as meetings of the New York State Archaeiogy Association. Many lovely old homes and buildings line South- old's peaceful streets. Organized in 1640 as The First Church Congregational,the First Presbyterian Church on Main Street is the site of the oldest English church and settlement in New York State. The present building was erected in 1803. The Lt. John Budd House, located on T,orleer'v lane,wash;lilt inthp'%O's.Since srrvea" as e norne, a, , j iriigious meeting place, a bank `" Suffolk Life. 8/21/85 SD .9 • • SD-RSM ViII-4 19th cpntury privy Belonged to Thomas • • house ti S �b ' I I s � 9 ' fi �q rr SD 69 l98� Photo SD-RSM VIII-2 Cleveland-Glover-Gagan Blacksmith Shop I - Built circa 1842 Sources Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical Society. 1960 Interviews George Wagoner, Director Southold Historical Society. R . • Photo SD-RSM VIII-3 t. Was chicken coop rh � Moved 1940 from the Main Street Market, Southold 4