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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSD-97 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM UNIQUE SITE NO. 10310.rnm6Yi DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD SD 97 NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY, NEW YORK (519) 474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: Town of Southold / SPT.TA DATE:January198'7 YOUR ADDRESS:Tnwn Ha_LL-,__bJa1.n_ Ro2id TELEPHONE(516) 765-1892 Southold, L. I. , N.Y. 1.1.971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION I. BUILDING NAME(S): Richmond/Emerson house/ Miss Mott estate 1909 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: 3. STREET LOCATION: South Harbor Road on ivate road west side 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public Cl b. private Cx -a"w 5. PRESENT OWNER: F.merson/wortis/CookeADDRESS: Same t,. USE: Original: Residence � Present: residence 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC Exterior visible from public road. Yes ❑ No 121 Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION S. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ ' c. brick a d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e. cobblestone © F. shingles 0 g. stucco ❑ other: brick Veneer '). STRUCTURAL a: wood frame with interlocking joints SYSTEM: h. wood 1'rame with light members (if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls X d. metal (explain) e. other IU. CONDITION: a. excellent 1k b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site CR b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): SD 97 RSM-X-15a 12. PHOTO: From South east 13• MAP: N.Y.S. DOT Southold Quad South and east elevations SA. 'F' E Nf•�n' . '20 4 �L 1. F rf r ._"�- rte. - 1 j •'�' `,p t Y-' Nkl I : •Q.+ Qui 14 lu eti i1�t81 P o.�p •" . V ►Y' Hoy Neck SD 97 1 1. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known ® b. zoning❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f_ other: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn k1 2 b. carriage house ❑ C. garage ❑ d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑ several sheds - g. shop ❑ h, gardens ❑ Cottages i. landscape features: j. other: l e morel roof barn of hollow tile) 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): 6/6 windows i a.open land 21 b. woodland �Z b. 1911 c. scattered buildings EO d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ ospreys` nest f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑ h.other: beach front creek front 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) A long unpaved road leads through the woods to this large and picturesque estate. The scenery is varied: a cluster of barns and outhouses, open fields , wooded areas, creek and bay frontage. A path lined with evergreens leads south- ward From the house towards a gazebo overlooking a long, tcont. ) 1 x. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): 22-story gable roof house with 21-story, 3-bay wing on Past and multi-bayed gambrel roof extension on rear (north) . 3 arched window openings on north elevation of gambrel roof wing. Gable roof dormers in roofs. 6/6 windows throughout. House is of brick with louvered wooden shutters and slate SIGNIFICANCE roof. Four high brick chimneys. lrt. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: Prior to 1836. enlarged in early 20th century. ARCHITECT: Thoju s M tt-Shore of Perry, Shaw and Hepburn, Boston BUILDER: 20. HISTORICAL. AND ARCHITECTt_ RAL IMPORTANCE: The east wing is the original Richmond house; a three-bay side-entrance plan house. East of the entrance is a large room with two fireplaces which was originally two parlors. The paired end chimney apparently survive from the pre- 1858 Richmond house. A new house on the property was built by Mrs. Ruth Cooke (divorced wife of Alastair Cooke) who is co-owner of the estate with her sister Dr. Ethel Wortis. Two houses are shown here on the 1838 U.S. Coast Survey, one of which may be the present east wing. (cont. ) 21. SOURCES: Beers, Comstock, Cline. Atlas of Long Island. 1873 Hyde & Co. Maw of Long Island. Brooklyn 1897 F. Belcher-Hyde. Atlas of Suffolk Countyl L. I. North Side. Sount Shore. 1909 22. THE INIE: *Interview Dr.Rmerson-Wortis 10/1986 Dolph-Stewart. Atlag of Suffolk Count ,N.Y. 1929 (cont. ) Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research assistant. The Suffolk Times/August 27, 1987IPage SA ety. Dr. Wortis was integrally in- Dr Ethel 1111 o rt i s, A ' t volved in the moement. She treated ■ mental patients, tried to find local physicians for the residents of group By&TANFORD J.SEARL JR. homes,and helped them with numer- AgiLng ous problems of every day life. A couple of months ago, I found Never Too Late myself in the living'room of Dr.Ethel A These were people who had lived Wortis in Southold, looking out at from cotton!Barred from an interna- in large,state mental institutions for the expansive garden, talking with tional anti-slavery conference, Luc- many years and were used to a regu- Ethel about her fascinating life as a retia Mott helped .to organize the lar routine, dependent upon atten- doctor in New York City and later as Women's Rights Convention, an his- dants and other staff. "Some were the physician member of a Suffolk torical women's rights movement, in very poorly equipped for living on County Health Department team. Seneca Falls,N.Y., in 1818. Lucretia their own," said Or. Wortis. They Now in her 80s, she was one of the Mott was an unusually strong ac- were "trying to make their way, and few local Quakers (a member of the tivist. She worked with others and they needed help." Southold Monthly Meeting, Religi- helped to organize groups to promote Here was a person,who,in her 60s, ous Society of Friends) and also was peace, to abolish slavery, to promote after a full life in New York City as an activist involved in East End is- women's rights, to establish public a doctor's wife,keeping house,taking sues, particularly in connection with schools and more. it somewhat easy because of an early the defunct Fanny Behlen Health As one of her descendants, bout with tuberculosis, came to East Center initiative. Always an en- "Quakerism was in the atmosphere" End and plunged Into work and com- thusiast, Ethel was a member of for young Ethel Wortis, although she mittees. In the tradition of the numerous task forces and commit- says she wasn't very much of a Quaker activists of the past,she com- tees to bring justice,peace and social Quaker till she came out to Southold bined social concern, personal com- equality to poor people, minorities, to live. But Dr. Wortis developed her mitment and a dogged hopefulness women, the disabled and such. The own brand of social activism. Some about the possibility of change. life of this remarkable woman merits 17 years ago, she worked as the reflection, physician member of the Health De- Dr. Wortis was raised in Philadel- partment Mobile Outreach Team at phia, Pa., seedbed of American a ' hen Long Island had one of Quakerism. Indeed, Lucretia Mott 'a world's largest concentrations of happened to be one of Ethel's ances- institutionalized psychiatric ga- tors.What a glorious past! tients. It was a time when ideas AHeritage oflnvolvement about treatment began to change, r Born to a prominent Large, self-contained institutions, in p Quaker fam- many cases, were exposed as ily of Nantucket, Lucretia Mott warehouses, where patients were exemplified the connection eMtween neglected and abused. Institutions Quaker religious commitment and themselves began to be understood social action. As, an ardent as the problem and not a satisfactory abolitionist in the 1830s, she started solution. the Philadelphia Female Anti-slay- The new models of care for people ery Society and participated in the with psychiatric and other dis- "Free Produce" movement. She re- abilities became a "community- fu&ed to use r,,a"-Im made withbased" approach, in which patients slave labor,including anything' made would be integrated back into soci- SD 97 (cont. } 20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCEi There was once an Indian village beside Richmond Creek. 21. SOURCESt Interview Lawrence Waitz. 734-5871. 3/27/87 U.S . Coast Survey. 1838, Map No. 68 � d W CD M \ is i t� p cn /f/ in. J! � b � m • _ tem. O �\_ _ ��� C+ ' _ cn ��\ O = _ Ln m 0 �\ x \ (D 50UTH HARBOR-m x RD C7 �` If o za Suffolk County DPW. Five Eastern Towns. Sheet DD 37 D • �. l 4r♦ �V �:. Y icy Emerson/Wortis/Cooke estate Residence Photo 1 • •. From north NorthMWOand west elevations Barn Photo D 97 RSM-X-14a From r South • east elevation