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Home My WebLink AboutSD-86 r FOR OFFICE USE ONLY BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM UNIQUE SITE NO.bn3��•�� SD 8 DIVISION FOR HISTORICPRESERVATION QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY,NEW YORK 151 K1 474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: Town of S uth ld SPL DATE: February 1987 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE:(516) 765-1892 Southold, L. 1. , N.Y. 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community_ Development Office IDENTIFICATION / I. BUILDING NAME:(s): Lpwis house / S•T. Terry house 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: .1. STRF'EI LOCATION: Main Road Route 2 east of Ashamoma uP Ave 4. OWNP.RSHIP: a. public n b. private EX S. PRESI.NT OWNF;R: Lewis ADDRESS: Southold 6. USF:: Original: Residence Present: Residence 7. AC'CF.SSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes ® No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION 9, BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d, board and batten ❑ MATI: SD 86 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known 12 b, zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration F7 f. other: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage E0 d. privy ❑ e, shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i. landscape features: j. other: 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land ❑ b. woodland CZ c. scattered buildings X) d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑ h.other: 17. 1NTI1:RRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) On historic Main Road, in a low density residential area. 18_ OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): Small 1*-story, 3-bay, center entrance plan gable roof house. SIGNIFICANCE 14). DATE. OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: circa 1850 ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: Round brick cellar. This small house contributes to the ambience of the roadside corridor. Terry in 1858 and in 1873- 21. SOURCES: Chace. Mala of Suffolk . 1858 Beers, Comstock, Cline. Atlas of Lone Island. 1873 12. THE NIF: Form prepared by Rosemary Skye DMoritt, research assistant. SD 86 GRACE LEWIS HOUSE Main Road & Ashamomaque Avenue Southold Analysis by Ralph Williams, Orient for the Southold Town Landmark Preservation Commission November 3, 1984 HOUSE EY-7ERIOR The original house appears to have consisted of two rooms (the present living roam) downstairs and two chambers upstairs, over them. In subsequent years additions have been made : a one-room wing on the east, a lean-to at the back (south side), a portico over the north entrance and dormers on the north and south sides of the roof. The peak of the roof lies directly over the center of the living room. THE LIVING ROOM The 16 , x 24 ' living roam has exposed beams running the frill vtvidth of the room, north to south. The beams are vertically sawn and squared, but with an indication of the round tree shape visible at the edges of some beams . Nail marks and the type of finish indicate that the beams were once cov€red by a plaster ceiling. The central beam differs from the others . This beam starts in the ceiling just east of the kitchen door, and runs northward across the living room. It is smoothe and modern - a late addition to the ceiling. Its position, and clues in the cellar (See CELLAR paragraph) indicate that a partition once ran north and south here, separating the two original rooms which today form the living room. The partition probably held a chimney stack with a fireplace in one or both rooms . When these fireplaces, and the partition_, were removed, the different beam was installed . The wall between the living room and the kitchen is very thick, indicating that it was once an outside wall {the rear wall of the house and that today it probably contains the original 5" posts and studs . THE BASEMENT I CISTERN The cellar door opens into a small, circular, brick-lined room. The bricks are of two ages, the older ones being in the 1o:ver courses. This circular room abuts the rear wall of the original house . Mr. Williams thinks it was probably a cistern which caught and stored rain water from the eaves . continued NNW 2 Analysis of Grace Lewis house SD 86 f II - THE BASEMENT Beyond the cistern a small wall opening leads into the basement, which has only crawl-space height. Inside the crawl-space may be seen overhead wide (12" & 16T1 wide ) rough-sawn boards resting on old joists. This is an old floor, existing under the present living room floor. These wide floorboards do not run continuously east to west under the living room floor. Instead, there is a discontinuous section in the center, which uses narrower, more modern floorboards . This also indicates that there was once a partition in the room above it (the present living room) . It would have been the partition separating the two original rooms, with a chimney stack in the center. When the partition and fireplac were removed, the resulting hole in the floor (and cellar ceiling) was filled with the narrower, more modern boards mentioned above. One of the beams in the basement was cut with a circular saw . Another - a large beam - was cut with a vertical saw . A large piece of timber lay by itself on the cellar floor, probably removed in turn-of--the-cehtury remodeling. Mr. Williams dates the oldest part of the house around 1850. If there are older sections, they are hidden under later construction. The vertical-sawn beams in the living room ceiling and the cellar are compatable with the mid-19th Century construction. The thickness of the exterior walls, including the wall between the living room and kitchen, seem to be from this period . The lower courses of brick in the circular room in the cellar indicate they were made in a local brickyard around 1850. Remodeling seems to have been done around 1900. The newel post on th, staircase and the pillars supporting the portico at the front door were turned between 1890 and 1910. The rather heavy muntins between the window panes and also the wainscot on some interior walls indicate this time period . The living room rafters seem to be pine, and the floor in th; east wing is tongue-in-groove yellow pine . The upstairs treatment seems t a bit later - perhaps c. 1920. Joy Bear 'Southold Town Landmarks Preservation Commission. Nov. 3, 1984 dt- y �4 K'`S.-'•�A L .yam t r..- ',..r�. , �w-4.4ir n ► � � • • i CCC � . i J -� �� `•ii`aXa+ � S{. L- -i.A.iily4�} l `v- I :� F •;� ,�/ • ��s166�.'" � --�`�" Gov ��r �r�`` �. 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