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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREA'nON SERIES SD 113
ALBANY,NEW YORK (5181474-0471) NEG, NO.
YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLiA DATE: April 1987
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Mall, Main Road TELEPHONE: (516) 765-1892
Southold L. 1. 9 fi
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING NAMF.(S): Abl ah Corey house
2. COUNTY; Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Southold
3. STREET LOCATION: Main Bayview Road north side east of Cedar Dr.
4. OWNERSHIP: a. ublic El b. private A
S. PRESENT OWNER: W•R. Dickinson ADDRESS: same
6. USE: Original: residence Present: residence
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC Exterior visible from public read. Yes ® No El
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
S. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board :and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles PP g. stucco, ❑ other: vert.boarding
1). STRUCTURAL.. a. wood frame with interlocking joints X -
SYSTEM: b, wood frame with light members ❑
(if known) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
It). CONDITION: a. excellent FX b_ good ❑ c. fair 0 d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site b. moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known).
Dormer added.c-stc wing not original.
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12. PHOTO: Front (south) and west 13. MAF: N. X.S . DOT Southold Quad
elevation from SW
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known ® b. zoning❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. other:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ 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 ❑ b. woodland �1
c. scattered buildings
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑
h.other:
17. INTFRRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
House stands in a wooded area on the eastern slope of
Brush Hill.
Main Bayview Road is an historic road. Located on Great
Hog Neck, it traverses fine Farmland.
OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features il'known):
4-.bay, off-center entrance. Federal-style entrance with
side lights. 4 small windows under the eaves.
SIGNIFICANCE
11t. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: C ii rCa-1726
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
A plaque reads : ABIJAH COREY HOUSE ca. 1726
According to research by Katherine Molinoff� Walt Whitman
boarded at this house in 1841.
If the main fagade of the house were more visible from
the road, the house would then contribute to the historic
ambience of the streetscape.
21. SOURCES: Home of Wesley and Agnes Dickinson:' Study by the
Southold Town Landmark Preservation Commission. 1986
Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical
Society. 1960. # 47
2. l'IA NIC:
Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
assistant.
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23S-41H-4 Howell Southold
South Harbor Road Southold
' 3-bay English, extended one bay; ca. 1800,
- - extended 1880-1900. Framing type S
24' x 31 ' (241 x 38' after extensim); height
i - to plate 1412". Hewn oak frame; 10 pair
rafters pinned w/collar ties at bests. West
wall vertical sawn boards 13" wide. Large
wagon door on north but small 1-door on south.
Extension circ. sawn pine. 6 pre-1910 bldgs.
235=41H-5 Gradowski (Albertson) Southold
Main Road. Southold
3-bay English, ca. 1800.
Framing types 3 & 4, west vs. east bents.
241 x 33' , height to elate 1417".
.- Hewn oak frame. Braces mortised, linred.
Rafters vertically sawn, pine, butted at
ridge. Holes for pegs to hold gutter. One set
wagon doors charged to small halt-floor.
3 pre-1900 buildings.
23S-42H-i Dickerson (Dator.) Southold
Bayview Road, Bayview
3-bay English, 1800-1850.
Framing type 4.
- _- a 28' x 3816"; height to plate 14161.
Hewn oak frame. Rafters tapered, -dnred.
Unner braces half dovetailed. Lower braces
morticed and pir.r.ed. Barn moved, m. 1900.
521 & 92 double-beaded board walls. Part of
large modern farm.
23S-37J-1 Dickerson Southold
Main Road, Mattituck
English, 1880-1900.
Framing type 3.
Sawn pine frame. Ridge pole. 100tongue &
groove vertical boards nailed wit.k eut nails.
6 late 19th century buildings.
23S-37J-2 Ruland ('dines) Southold j
Hain Road, Mattituck.
3-bay English w/additional bay for carriage.5
and shop, ca. 1884. Framing type 3.
26t x 5616" overall, 26' x 36' without extra
bay. Circular and vertical sawn pbe frame.
Braces mortised & pinned. Grain Un, brick
foundation. 9" vertical tongue &groove
boards, cut nails. Heavy ridge pie. 5
pre-12on build--s
H. V. Taves. Barns of Long Island. 1981
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HOME OF WESLEY AND AGNES DICKINSON
Main Bayview Road & Cedar Drive, Southold NY 11971
Analyzed by Ralph Williams and John Stack
Reported by Joy Bear
Southold Town Landmark Preservation Commission
February 14 , 1986
This historic home is located at the northeast corner of Bayview Road,
just southeast of Cedar Drive . It appears to have undergone several
metamorphoses . In its first form, C . 1726, it was a 12 foot by 17 foot
structure with a chimney on the southeast side and its entrance on Cedar
Drive to the northwest . (See Figure I. ) The owner was Abijah Carey, whose
family gave its name to Corey Creek. At that time Cedar Drive ran down to
the water, and the main roadway ran along the shore of Corey Creek.
Abijah Corey raised hogs. Ehper Whitaker in "Whitaker' s Southold" wrote :
"In the early days , when a barrel of pork was worth as much as 10 acres of
land, (Bay View) was known as Hog Neck. "
Around 1800 the house was extended about 2 feet northwest, toward
Cedar Drive and 6 to 8 feet northeast, and was probably divided into
living quarters and a kitchen. (Figure II. ) Blown glass window panes ,
presently in the attic windows, were probably added at this time , possibly
in windows flanking the front door on Cedar Drive . A room was added in the
rear (southeast ) and the chimney was rebuilt . Three fireplaces opened from
the chimney into the kitchen, bedroom and parlor.
Around 1850 the home was remodeled into a handsome "half house . " (See
Figure III. ) The front was moved from the northwest side to the southwest
side (along Bayview ) and the present beautiful entrance was installed at
the west corner of the house . The front door opened into a vestibule . From
this room an enclosed staircase led upstairs along the northwest wall. To
the right of the stairs a hall gave access to the rear of the house .
The house was modernized in the 1920' s and a "gathering room" was added
on the southeast . This replaced an older structure on the same site .
In 1978 an extension the whole width of the house was added across the
northwest gable end of the home, (Figure IV. ) It became the present modern
kitchen . The shingled northeast wall (the outside wall of the 1850' s house )
was left intact, and today forms the shingled southeast wall of the kitchen.
FRONT DOOR AND VESTBCTLE
This is a classic, beautiful Georgian door with side lights . It retains
its older cast-iron lock and large hand-fashioned key. Inside, a vestibule
is formed by the enclosed stairway. A batten door from the 1800 house leads
into the parlor, right, and the door on the left opens into the modern kitcher.
To the southeast of the hall is the formal parlor and behind it a second
parlor or bedroom. The parlors were furnished with elegant door and window tri
Figured chimney pieces of contemporary design were installed in both rooms .
The mantels and moldings from the alteration are all to be found in the
house today.
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PARLOR
The focus of the parlor is the fireplace . The under side of the wood
mantel is dressed with crown molding . Panels decorate both sides of the
chimney piece around the fireplace . The shallow Rumford style fireplace has
a hearth compposed of eight-inch square tiles . Molding on the doors and door
frames are 1850. An alcove holding a piano today occupies the space which
may in the 1850 house have been the front-to-back hall.
BEDROOM
Northeast of the parlor is the master bedroom, whose fireplace is
back-to-back with the parlor one . The hand-finished woodwork on this mantel
is similar to that in the parlor. To the northwest of this room the area
that had been the front-to-back hall in the 1850 house has beenmodifiedto
accommodate a pantry, hall and bathroom. Behind the stairway is an access
to the basement .
DAY ROOM
This area was originally the kitchen in the 1800 house . The fireplace
is unusual - closed off by wooden doors, and with its baking oven over the
fireplace . When used for cooking, this fireplace was deeper and probably
wider than today. Around 1850, when stoves came into use, fireplaces began
to be used only for heating, and this fireplace was updated . However, the
uniquely placed oven was retained.
Beams in the ceiling are re-used . The joists show ghosts of former
laths and plaster, and dust stops . A trapdoor at the entrance leads to a
"pork cellar, "--a cold storage area . The stone foundations and chimney
supports for the first fireplace and chimney are revealed in the "pork
cellar. "
GATHERING ROOM.
This room in the southeast corner of the house, a step down from the
day room, was added in the 1920' s to replace an earlier structure of the
same size . The southwest side of this room was once part of the early (1800)
kitchen . The wall was moved in probably to provide direct passage to the
gathering room from the main house . A steep stairway with very high risers
leads up to the second floor bedroom.
PRESENT KITCHEN
When this post-and-beam wing was added in 1978 it changed the house
from a half house to a full and balanced Georgian style home . This is a
modern kitchen . A cellar was added under it, and the roofline was extended
to cover it .
UPSTAIRS
Above the kitchen on the second floor is a bedroom with a vaulted
ceiling which follows the rafter lines , and its bathroom. The old shingles
from the northwest side of the half house (1850) have been preserved
upstairs, too. Southeast from this area is a suite of three bedrooms, a
library and two baths . Walt Whitman was said to have boarded here . Old
windows from the 1800 house are in use up here . The glass is clearly blown -
pipe marks are visible in it, and air bubbles are seen in the double thick
glass .
Southold. Town Landmark Preservation Commission. Feb. 14, 1986
D TCKINSOW HOUSE, page 3
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A part of the attic is left open, with its construction visible .
Hand--hewn rafters from the 1.800 house alternate with vertically sawn ones,
and are of different sizes . There is no ridgepole in the apex of the roof,
and the rafters are butted, not mortised. A part of the chimney, with its
old, soft brick, dates from the 1800 house .
CELLAR
The earliest cellar is under the southeast section of the house . It is
12 by 20 feet . A small extension in the east corner once supported the
fireplace in the small original house - 1762 . The construction of the walls
was of dry laid boulders - "some of the largest fieldstones yet found , "
according to Anne Curry-Bell's "Guide to Historic Markers . " Around 1800
the boulders were pointed with sand and lime cement.
FLOORS
All joists visible in the early cellar run from the front to the back
of the house (southwest to northeast . ) They are supported midway by a heavy
timber set in the foundation, and are marked for dust stops. In a section
of the new cellar below the parlor near the hall by the front door, thejoists
run front to back, but only in a narrow path of about 21P feet. Under the
remainder of the entry hall the joists run side to side in the house . Floor-
boards
loor-boards in the parlor and bedroom are random width, with parallel sides, and
run across the !joists . However, floorboards in the hall run in the opposite
direction (front to back. ) The pattern of the floorboards and joists below
indicate the times when the house was built or modified : - in the 1726
house they are bounded by the cellar below; in the 1800 house they are
2 feet wider and 8 feet deeper; and in the 1850 renovation they are wider
again by 8 more feet and run in the other direction.
Altogether, this house is an excellent example of the way houses
reflect their various owners and the changing conditions of their lives .
Much local history may be perceived by a study of the data to be found in
local houses, insight which can serve to illuminate the past to our great
benefit . This house offers several hitherto unrecognized details of how
Bayview (Hog Neck) developed in the 18th and 19th Centuries .
Southold Town Landmark Preservation Commission. Feb. 14, 1986
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he 1640's Henry M. Beebe's ancestor was
Island, ...�.early owner of Plum
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I (Main , purchased from Samuel Willys, c. 1670. Captain banieT
on house Beebe of Orient, Henry's father, after selling his packet sloop
g, which which he had sailed to New York for 18 years, came to Ho
-wn Ave- Necke 1832 and bought a farm near the far end of the Bay
came the View Road. Nancy Terry of Orient was Capt. Daniel's wife.
3byterian Besides Henry Mortimer, they had Lester, Theodore, Ezra T.,
re it re- Nancy and Sarah born to them.
L and re-
View, its 47' ABIJAH CORRY HOUSE
y South- c. 1726 `
*ntrusted (Raymond Dickinson, Bay View Road and Cedar Lane,
he Town Bay View, Southold)
ise§ 0,1L1 In 1726 Brush's Hill marked the entrance to Hogg Necke,
now a The road ran, not through it as it does today, but around it. I
Coreys held lands all through this Corey Creek area. In the
t wife of Town Records, Abraham Corey is recorded with 17 acres of
Langton, land at "the going into Hogg Necke,°' An early Abijah Corey
children had possession there too and lived in this house. A mill once
_who in- stood on Brush's Hill near by.
Abigail. In the latter 19th century the house is remembered as the
ton fam- early home of George Henry Terry; then the home of Nelson
and this Dickinson. Though enlarged in recent years, the house has
fonathan retained its low-ceiling rooms, fireplar—, and a myriad of
r before small cupboards tucked in the wars, with one extremely long
one for storing wood, no doubt. A fine doorway at the front
is sheltered by old lilac bushes; the cellar door is at the corner.
Some of the largest field stones yet found in these many old
cellars are in this one. Wbich shows also its rough hewn beams
drill unusually Iargn :SsCls. 1n its oldest parts, this house is one
of"the eartjeSir-11 4 ke homes.
outhold) ,
he three r8. DEA. JAMES HORTON HOUSE C. 171I
o happy, Moved and Enlarged 1793
-er, over Col. Benjamin Horton
that as (William E. Mayer, Bay View Road, Bay View, Southold)
against
Town Historian Wayland Jefferson has given data about
as, lived this remarkat.ly will-nrPGer_v_e 19th -Pn+Try Harron home-
steah. 'ilie we,t wing was un;-- a sn-11 :,,use on the shore of
Corey Creek, about 1711. This is where Bethia Wells Horton,
vhen he widow of Captain Jonathan Horton, had taken her son James
ne there (Deacon James) to live, on land which was part of the 400
Susan, acre allotment of Captain Jonathan in the Great Hogg Necke
H. and land division.
Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical
Society. 19
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