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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSD-106 f ' BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM FOR OFFICE USE ONLY SD 106 ` UNIQUE SITE NO./b 3 -9:EE C 3� DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALIMNY, NEW YORK (518) 474-047() NEG. NO. YOUR NAME�Town of Southold / SPLIA DATE: January 198' YOUR ADDRESS: Town Fall, Main Road TELEPHONE:( 516) 765-1892 Southold, L. I. , N.Y.11971 ORGANIZATION (if any):Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION I. BUILDING NAMFI(S): Overton house 2, COUNTY: Suffolk _ TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Southold .3. STREET LOCATIONI�Bayview Rd, west side 1200 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public Cl b, private S. PRESENT OWNER: Wm & Pat MilfordADDRESS: Same 6 USE: Original: Residence Present: Residence 7, ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC Exterior visible frorn public road: Yes ZC 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: 13. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints FKI SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑ 01' kn( wn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e. other IU. CONDITION: a. excellent & b. good ❑ c. fair ❑, d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list nunor alterations and dates (if known): Dormers added SD-RSM XVI-1 12. PHOTO: from east 13- MAP: N.Y.S.DOT Southold Quad. Fast (front) and south elevation ow Ce M/ Iy" •BF 21 25 vp I4 J. }y A' Lau hin ate South Haitsor S, W Park Hoeck Bay SD lob 14. THREATS TO BUILI)ING: a, none known 29 b.zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ d, developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn XJ 2 b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑ d, privy ❑ e. shed 0 2 f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i. landscape features: Barn described by Taves j. other: 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land ❑x b. woodland 91 C_scattered buildings KI d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑ h.other: 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Low density., quiet coutry road, with houses surrounded by expanses of open fields and farmland, 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): 1h 12-story, S-bay gable roof Cape Cod-style with large gabled Queen Anne-period dormers on front roof slope and Queen Anne semi-wrap-around porch with turned posts , and 12-sided pavillion. 112-story gable roof wing on rear. SIGNIFICANCE I't. DATE: OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: Late 1700 '5 late 19th cent. aerations ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 't). HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: Pipe fence with turned posts ca. 1890s. 40(t cj�!' a _)� a C' tQ' I,c-a i�(_ V, Q r\ . House was Overton in 1858 & 1873- 21. SOURCES: Chace. Map of Suffolk County, 1858 Beers, Comstock, Cline. Atlas of Long Island. 1873 H.V. Taves. Barns of Long Island, 1981 2?. THLMr: Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research assistant. SD 106IN 1 [ 1L` A •'K , .. " SODOM SCHOOL DISTRICT .: in 1840 F � 4 44 i a ao ' i• 'ro 7tl `�- d t� ay Lit Y a " `` 5estlo.n S- oat 'Ac, ph' 0, aw,r 3 '° ' e wsa,.�,R+bti.r�i' o S 5y'4 SODOM SCHOOL xlsTsticr J � t oK - (.. ;at.err,r� + ,L tnr,u, .11.r do+l � 'a{�^ r�rrl7rl'1 .flril 1rJ[ir1(' �Jrririrle"d b1 I7•�w�1,r►rd jt-ll l' by ;11rrx Rrirbnfir. 7'r,rrirr4, rurr110) 5UtIall- Pianniu; C.n nlrj-- 1941, • 1.. k �/R I)otte1 Lincs indicate a road not fn UbL in IN W e ±p i v e iJ ciw '��et..r'r r�V, •+ map from: WALT WHITMAN AT SOUTHOLD by Katherine Molinoff C W .Post College i Y "CA #4 of series of monographs �'��',�'�tii" r{mak e.•�' SD 106 HOME OF MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM MILFORD Main Bayview Road, Southold, N.Y. 11971 Analyzed by Ralph Williams and John Stack Reported by Joy Bear Southold Town Landmark Preservation Commission August 4, 1937 Clues in this historic house indicate that the original house probably consisted of three rooms - parlors A and B and a 10-foot deep kitchen behind them which spanned the entire 30 foot width of the house . The house may have been built c . 1750, and it rested on a foundation of dry-laid rocks . These rocks were donated to the Southold Historical Society by the present owners when they remodeled the home . When built, the house had a large central chimney stack located at the rear of the present hall (see floorplan ) . From it opened three fireplaces - one in each parlor and a cooking fireplace, undoubtedly with a beehive oven, in the kitchen . Hand-hewn ceiling joists still show smoke stains from the original fireplaces , especially in the kitchen area . The entry hall of the 13th Century house was located where the present one is today, but the vestibule was shorter - possibly five feet square - to accommodate the chimney stack behind it . A short and very steep flight of stairs led up, in front of the chimney, to the attic, which at that time was probably one undivided room used for sleeping quarters . The stairway had to be steep to rise in front of the large central chimney . stack. The general structure of the house has been carefully preserved during alterations to preserve and reveal the house ' s history. Tapered front corner posts are preserved , and wind braces remain in the front corners of both parlors . Remains of wind braces in the front walls of the parlors reveal the location of the earliest front windows . There were two narrow windows on either side of the entrance door, narrower and smaller than today's windows . Joists and studs throughout the house have numbers inscribed on the wood , cut in as an aid to the original builders . Remains of 16 diagonal braces are seen throughout the oldest section of the house . Floor sleepers are oak, flattened on top to hold the floorboards but with bark left on the rest of the w ood .Notches to accommodate dust stops are seen in these sleepers . Both the notches and the bark indicate a mid to late 1700 date . Southold Town Landmark Preservation Commission Aug. 4, 1987 MILFORD HCUSE, page 2 SD lOb CHANGES OVER THE YEARS The original 18th Century house consisted of three front rooms . It had a central chimney and two small windows on each side of the front door. Beams inside were hand-hewn . Second floor joists were exposed . The second generation was ushered in during the early 1800' s with the addition of six extra feet across the entire back of the kitchen (see floorplan ) . Later the flat roof over this portion was removed and a new roof was erected . To preserve the appearance of the house a new peak was established by extending the front portion about four feet to oin the new rear section . The roof angle -- a little less than 45 , was maintained . Extension of the facia and moldings on both gable ends attest to this change . In the 1850' s a wing was added to the rear of this extension, and is indicated in the floorplan - see mid-1800 addition . The most conspicuous changes occurred around 1900. Two front dormers were added and the dormers were surfaced with fishscale shingles, suggesting a Victorian ambience . The ceilings were supported by the ' old collar beams , which in turn were supported by headers across each of the dormers . (The present owner removed the early rear rafters in a 1970 's renovation.) At this time the early 20th Century section was added to the rear of the house . It was It was a building brought to the site intact , and forms the present kitchen wing. ENTRANCE . Location of the original front door is indicated by wirid braces still visible on the inside walls . The present door is a modern addition. The present stairway was installed when the roof was raised, C . 1900. PARLORS AND LOUNGE These rooms still retain their post and beam construction . The ceiling joists run the entire length of the parlors and lounge - front to back of the house - with no supporting girt . They are supported on numbered studs between the parlor and lounge . These studs run across the entire width of the house fron north to south, separating the parlors from the lounge . The studs have incised numbers which indicate the location of the original central fireplace . This is shown because the space between the studs is regular - U " apart - except between studs 4 and 5, and again between studs 6 and 7, where the space is halved . The original fireplace was located in the wide space between 5 and 6 - a distance of six feet . Here the mid-girt was supported by the mass of the fireplace . Southold. Town Landmark Preservation Commission Aug. 4t SD 106 MILFORD HOUSE, page 3 Joists in the ceiling here are typical 1°Southold joists " - six inches square and with an average spanning of 24" . Blackening of the joists show years of exposure from the three fireplaces . The north parlor shows the most use, based on smoke stains in the ceiling joists . It may have been the family room, with the other parlor saved for suitably important occasions . The parlors were lived in for 50 years or more before their ceilings were plastered . Accordion lath was applied for plastering. Where the plaster was eventually removed , some of the carbon came off with it . revealing the lath pattern and earlier smoke staining. Existing pegs indicate the location of many wind braces which have been removed from the present parlor and lounge walls . The floors are covered with wide pine boards . These boards were taken up from all over the house, reversed, and carefully replaced here by the present owner. KITCHENS The extension to the rear of the two parlors was the original kitchen, which had a large cooking fireplace. In the early 1800's this kitchen was enlarged six feet by an addition to the back. In the mid- 1800' s a kitchen wing was added to the rear of the house (see floor plan . ) This had a fireplace . Evidence of the fireplace was found by the present owner below this wing, in a large pile of bricks . Around 1900 a' room was added to the rear . This was a house, brought in to replace the 1850 ' s extension . UPSTAIRS Four bedrooms were created upstairs . They were built in the 1900' s renovation, and charmingly updated by the present owners . CELLAR The present cellar- enlarged the first cellar when the foundation was rebricked and repaired , c . 1850. The cellar walls show that they were raised at some later date . Here in the ceiling can be seen the sill pattern. The sills are spaced to accommodate 10 foot oak sleepers , flattened on their top bearing surfaces but with bark left elsewhere . The sills are 8"x10" , broad axed on all four sides . Brick piers supporting the intermediate sills are visible from the basement . Some of the bricks seem to be re-used , probably dating back to the first fireplace . Brick's in the basement wall under the existing fireplace seem to date pre-1870-80. Cellar sleepers run side to side under the parlors and front to back under the lounge . Southold Town Landmark Preservation Commission Aug 4 , 1997 SD 1016 MILFORD HOUSE, page SOME PREVIOUS OWNERS : William Milford August 1971 Frank Zaleski 1925 Joseph Worceski William Horton 1922-3 (Mrs . Horton was daughter Joshua A. Overton 1837 of J.A.Overton), s Southold Town Landmark Preservation Commission Aug. 4, 1987 FM 106 Home of Mr and Mrs . William Milford Main Bayview Road Southold, N.Y. 11971 Scale - 1/8" = l ' 2OT1I CENTURY ADD i Ti O f l � N ——— — �NIID 1800'S - KITcHCN I FIRFPLACI: M(D- 1 SO©'s ADDITION lARLYY f - ----- -.- EARLY 18005 CHIMNEY i ADD ITI O N FAPLY HOUSE KITCHEN — PigE5r.NT LOUNGE i loCq-�tiof+! { OF ORIQINAt i cH1 M raEY r i EARLY HOUSE EARLY HOU5E PARLOR R PARLOR g Southold Town Landmark Preservation Commission Aug. 4, 1987 BAYVIEW ROAD SD 106 HOME OF WILLIAM AND PAT MILFORD Main Bayview Road (next door to Indian Museum) Southold Analyzed by Ralph Williams Other Landmark Committee members present : Bill Peters, John Dorman & Joy Bear October 13, 1984 The oldest sections of the Milford home date to the late 1700' s. In the basement are some heavy ceiling beams supporting the first floor joists . These beams were cut with a broad axe, and have been left rough. Some have bark intact. Some are mortised and pegged . Discontinuity of the joists in the cellar show where a rear addition had been added to the original two room house. The large central chimney stack in the basement has the original bricks, but there is some facing with more modern bricks . koAl The front door opens into a 6 foot wide 45wjmw with a staircase against the right wall. A room opens to either side of this entrance. The hall was once a partition between the rooms, with a central chimney stack in it,with openings as fireplaces in one or both of the rooms . These two rooms comprised the original house, possibly with 2 chambers on the second floor. A later addition was built at the rear, with another fireplace opening off the chimney stack. This must have been the kitchen, because the beams in the ceiling over the location of the fireplace are smoke blackened . The framing of the house is heavy, mid-18th century style. Corner posts , connected by substantial girts, once supported diagonal wind braces at the four corners of the original house. These wind braces have since been removed, but their location is marked by peg holes in the beams and girts . The attic is sealed and cannot be seen, but Mr. Milford says that the rafters meet together at the top without a ridgepole, an 18th century manner of construction. Extensive alterations were made during the 19th Century (1850-70? ). A bay window was added to the parlor, the roof was remodeled into the 2 large dormers , and a porch wrapped two sides of the house. Victorian fish-scale shingles accent the front of the house . The roof was altered at that time, and the present sawn lumber used in construction. Mr. Williams estimates that the house was built sometime between 1783 and 1790. _r ■.t -� ! SD 106 a n 'w JOHN DORMAN __ _y: �• rr L (( `` -_ '� �.�4" r � i , vLl GG`Y l , / `� /l �/ � .. � �. � 'a`��,1`+'L`_''L`�";.��`.����Wit• VQ ir Fc, wri.t r 'f. '' � - s1 ��- � i .✓ _ �I Tl ��- Southold Town Landmarks Commission 1-/13/84Too 114 ` . t SD 1o6 23S-40H-4 Southold Indian Neck Road, Peconic 3-bay English, 1900-1920. Framing type 3 but with two interior posts. , Light sawn pine frame, nailed. harrow double-beaded vertical board siding. Outbuildings appear of similar construction. ! Several outbuildings. 23S-40H-5 Davids Southold Main Road, Cutchogue 3-bay English, 1919. Framing type 4. Heavy sawn pine framing. Ridge pole. { Braces half-dovetailed. 514" vertical tongue & groove double-beaded boards. Only ca. 1919 building. 235-4.1H-1 Dart (Wells) Southold Bayview Road, Southold English, 1800-1850; small extension. Framing type 4. 28' x 361 , height to plate 15x8". Hewn oak/chestnut vertical posts. Braces, plate, horizontal crossbeam of vertical sawn oak. Part of floor intact. Upper braces 2- dovetailed & pinned, lower mortised & pinned. 3 pre-1900 buildings. 235-41H-2 Keeney(?) Southold Main Road, Southold English 3-bay but small. 1850-1900. Framing type 4. Sawn nine frame. Rafters half lapped. Upper braces half-dovetailed, lower braces mortised and pinned. Other farm structures are 20th century. 23S-41H-3 Milford (Horton) Southold Bayview Road, Southold 3-bay English, 1875-1900- Framing 875-1900.Framing type 5- 2616" x 33r, height to plate 1512". Circular sawn vine frame. Braces half dove- tailed, spiked with cut nails. gw" vertical tongue & groove board siding nailed with cut nails. 4 1900 buildings. H.V. Taves. Barns of Long Island. 1981