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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSD-72 � BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM FOR OFFICE USE ONLY SD 72 UNIQUE SITE NO.163it)sorb k 7-4 DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES - ALBANY,NEW YORK (5181474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: Town of Southold SFLIA DATE:November 1986 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELFPHONE(516) 765-1892 Southold L. I. , N.Y. 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION i. BUILDING NAMI-(S): First Methodist Meeting House z. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: 3. STREET LOCATION: Main Road, Route 25, North west corner Boisseau Ave. 4. OWNERSHIP: a_ Public El b. rivate X 5. PRESENT OWN ER: alter Adamson _ ADDRESS: Fla• 6USE: Original: Mpptipg House Present: Food Store 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road. Yes No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION H. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: v. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints IK7 SYSTEM: b, wood frame with light members ❑ 61' known) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e. other to. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ h. good 91 c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a, original site ❑ b. moved ® if so,when'' Mtivpd g short distance c. list major alterations and dates (if known): down the hill. SD--rsm VIII-5 12. PHOTO: From south west 13. MAP: N.Y.S. DOT Southold Quad. Front (south)and west elevation t e v i1 t 1 I r • r • ,y r. a'n`y •• '0 • S� • i • •r • o,• • .•• �) •s •+ •• • a• !• •'i 1.1 � �� ,� _ - • •� • u + .1P i • © • SD 72 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known ® b.zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e_ deterioration ❑ f. either: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:. a. barn C] b. carriage house ❑ c. garage Q d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i, landscape features: storage bin j. other: 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a,open land ❑ b. woodland ❑ c. scattered buildings IN d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial nX f. industrial ❑ g. residential h.other: 17. INTI-RRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:. (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Low density area of historic Southold 2t. 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): 11-story gable roof building on high brick foundation. Shed roof canopy extends across basement front . The exterior is completely modernized. SIGNIFICANCE 19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1818 ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: A plaque reads "Part of this Structure 1 Story Brick Built 1818 by the Methodist Society of 1795. Its first Meeting House" 'f It is difficult to visualize how this building looked originally. However the brick store front with the porch across the front contributes to the ambience of this historic highway. 11. SOURCES: Guido to Historic Markers. Southold Historical Society. 1960. P. 18. 22, TH�-NIF Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research assistant. SD72 il. PART OF THIS STRUCTURE Built 1818 by the Methodist Society of 1795 — Its First Meetinghouse (Joseph Ciardullo, owner, northwest corn ffMain Street and Boisseau n e Southold; Mrs`Roberta eros cy, 'Sug—are—tte Luncheonette," tenant.) Trees were cut down in 1818 for the building of the 2505 foot, unceiled, little structure with slab benches to serve as the first church or meetinghouse of the Methodists in South- old. Meetings were held in the latter 18th century in the homes of Mrs. Abigail Hempstead Ledyard Moore. Mrs. Fannie Led- yard Peters, Peter Vail and others. In 1795 Southold was placed on the Long Island Circuit of Methodist Pastors. After a Revival in 1818, a meeting place to seat a much larger con- gregation was found necessary. It was built by the hands of the members and the property deed bore the date of February 25, 1819. In the beginning it stood farther up on the hill slope. ] In 1850, a second church was built on the site of the present Methodist Church. The structure of 1818219 was sold and moved down the hill. With later additions it became the building it is today. In following years it passed through a series of owner- c ships, used as a store and often with a home upstairs. After it ' 1886, the Cochran brothers, J. Edwin and William A. took it f) over. They were sons of Evelina Case Cochran and J. Henry o Cochran builder of Belmont Hall; grandsons of William Dor; b nce chran ui �eroartre first Academyand of h Uni- l�vernalis Church, we o y s of Orient. t( e corner store is well recalled as belonging to the good old days of combined store-keeping and sociability. T - cl 12. EARLY CENTURY SOUTHOLD HOUSE w Moved from Original Homesite In (Mrs. James W. Tait, The Wedgwood Shop, North Road, C' Of th Who was the first owner of this attractive little "Half sty Cape Cod" with its hand-hewn timbers, its "burning mom'' of aifd random width floors? Unanswerable, because of baffling ca questions in research and conflicting data. It would seem to cis " be a twice, or possibly thrice, moved house and mayhap it ne will be found to be another "much-moved" house. In the middle 19th century Michael Kenny and his wife Mary Cassidy sol who were married 1853 lived in it and brought up their chil- fol dren, John, Rose, Mary, Kate, James, Michael. For over 100 the years it was in Kenny ownership, during the time it stood 181 on a previous North Road site where now Kaelin's Farm Ch E,quipme6t"i8;_?otated. W. The initials "J. H." are carved on a hand-hewn rafter. La Strange enough, they could stand for both the Joshua Horton sev 18 Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical Socipty. 1960