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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
UNIQUE SITE NO. "•°6 LO SD 114
DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (51 S) 474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME:Town of Southold/SPLTA DATE: April 1987
YOUR ADDR£:SS:
Town Hall, Main Road �LEPHONE:(516) 765-1892
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ORGANIZATION (if any):Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION Thornton
1. BUILDING NAME(S): 4A1 1g,/hnuw%
Z. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY:Southold VILLAGE: Snuthold
3. STREET LOCATION: Main Bayview Rd. , south Side
4. OWNERSHIP: a, public r b. private Jd
5. PRESENT OWNER: Greene___ ADDRESS: same
h. USE: Original: Residence Present: residence
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 ❑
MATFRIAL: c. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: aBbestoS
17. STRUCTURAL. a, wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTIiM: b, wood frame with light members DC
(if kn(wrn) e. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e, other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good FE c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ h. moved ❑ if so,when9
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
Dormer added, front porch removed. Front stoop
SD RSM XV-ldot original.
12. PHOTO:From north west 13. MAP: N.Y.S. DOT Southold Quad
Front (north)and west elevation
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a, none known 11 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:
j. other:
lb. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land KI b. woodland
c.scattered buildings
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑
h.other:
17. INTF.RRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Main Bayview Road is an historic road. Located on Great
Hog Neck, it traverses fine farmland. In 1838 it was
lined with farmhouses all the way to Cedar Beach Point.
Today it is an area of scattered houses , open fields ,
and woods.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including, interior features if known):
22-story, 3--bay side entrance plan, gable roof Italianate
house with brackets under the eaves across the front.
SIGNIFICANCE
Iq. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION Prior to 18 3
ARCHITECT:
BUILDFW Seth Wells
'f►. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTttRAL IMPORTAN( E.
This house contributes to the ambience of this historic
road.
Wells in 1873
J. Thornton in 1909
21. SOURCES: F. Belcher-Hyde. Atlas of Suffolk County. L. I.
Vol. 21 North Side, Sound Shore. 1909
Beers; Comstock, Cline. Atlas of -Long Island. 1873
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Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
assistant.
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SCHEDULE 1 SD 114 i
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Following represents partial research to date from available
sources: principally old issues of Long Island Traveler &
Watchman, Brookl n Eagle , records of Suffolk County Historical
and real estate and will records at
Society, Riverhead, N.Y. ,
Suffolk County offices in Riverhead.
Land originally owned by Silas Horton (1794-1885) , son of Col.
Benjamin Horton and a descendant of Barnabas Horton of England
who was one of founding settlers of Southold. Silas Horton
appears to have lived at house about 3/4 mile east called
Robin' s Hollow built 1827 at he NyoState AssemblY (1844)rebuilt
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1897-98. He was a member of t
High Sheriff of Suffolk County.
Silas Horton' s eldest daughter Nancy Landon (1828-1922) was
born in Southold and lived in the house. It may be that the
house was built at about the time of her marriage to David
Hawkins Horton in 1850.
Her daughter Adelaide Landon (1858-1953) lived at the house
until she married Thomas Gedney Thorne in 1879 and thereafter
used the house as a summer home . Mr . Thorne , who was a
Lieutenant in the Civil War , started a Goodyear Rubber business
in Brooklyn. The Horton-Thorne branch of the family had the
house until a daughter , Martha Adams Thorne , died sometime in
the 1950s or 1960s.
Another of Silas Horton' daughters , Mary Mehetabel (18 6-1927)
married George Warren Dayt ist 1867 and t e Horton-Dayt n
branch f the family lived a Robin' s Hollow ntil a aug er
Mary Dayt-op died in 1956.
The late Justice A. Vitale (NY State Supreme Court) owned the
house as, summer home until ' s sale toil f c yVeterfad ian
1973
Dr . Jams Krepp who res a there with
J
u tics Vitale sal he house wa 4zilt 1848. ti Colo a
neig or and handyma for Martha ms Thorn r lls a e
1860 s tched into
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der in arlo ei ng. Inte ion of
cuP9la has int scrawl X876 on woodwork.
Mr .obert Greene, ' a neighi?or, says the/ouse -was built by Seth
Wells who also reportedly seen s house (about a3dOis r•
west) . Seth T. Wells was born 1821v
was the lova
overseer and., with the then customary title ' Boss Wells ' , a
local builder active into late 1880x.
House i5 no-. _n 1. 3 acres approx. 300 yds. east of Abijah
At the death of Adelaide Landon Thorne in
Corey House ( 1726) ,
1953 the land trans erred to Ma tha Adams Th an3 acre 3 an fer
Nanc Landon Ho an i recorded receivi g to an i
in a d d da d Novemb i, 862 om Da d A.
addition acquired an er parce c veyed by 5 s ey on
in his will robated 1"S. Adelaide ndon Thor a conveyed a
Prepared by John M. Richardscn. 1985
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