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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSD-118 4 BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM FOR OFFICE USE ONLY SD 118 UNIQUE SITE NO.1o310 DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY,NEW YORK (519) 474-0479 NEG. NO, YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPTJA DATE: April 1987 YOUR ADDRESS:Town Hall„ Main Road TELEPHONE(516) 765-1882 Southold, L.7 . , N.Y. 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Sou.. bald Town Community Develop e�nt Offi e IDENTIFICATION 1. BUILDING NAME(S): Deacon James Horton house 2. COUNTY: TOWN/CITY: 'it]1.1t$o18 VILLAGE: Smit ald- 3. STREET LOCATION: Main Bayview Rd. opposite Gin Lie 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private 5. PRESENT OWNER: O'Byle Dierkes ADDRESS: same 6. 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 ❑ MATERIAL e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles KI g. stucco ❑ other: 9. STRUCTURAL, a- wood frame with interlocking joints CK SYSTEM: b_ wood frame with light members ❑ (if known) c. masonry load bearing walls Cl d. metal (explain) e. other 10. CONDITION: a. excellent 9 b. good ❑ c_ fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ l 1. INTE GR1TY: a. original site ❑ b. moved 11 if so,when? —1741 ' c. list major alterations and dates (if known): SD RSM XV-12 12. PHOTO:From south wast 13. MAP: N.Y.S . DOT Southold Quad South (front) and west elevation r, u y- NORTH Z 6qy VI£Wfl NGil f ) J �F afro ,+ A reek u a a Np YON 0 MUL ��7:ar+ w� � { {•t4� Y a SD 118 R ; 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known IN b. zoning ❑ c. roads d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage I d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens El i. landscape features: j. other: 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land LR b. woodland CX c. scattered buildings LX 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) Main Bayview Road is an historic road . Located on Great Hog Neck, it traverses fine farmland . Ir 1838 it was lined with farmhouses all the way to Ceder 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): Targe , well-preserved 21-story, 3 bay, side entrance plan, gable roof house . 2-story, 3-bay wing on west with semi- wrap around porch. Interior end chimney forward of ridge . Dentiled entrance with side lights. 6/6 windows. SIGNIFICANCE 11), DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: c. 1711 , main section 1793 . ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: A plaque reads : "Deacon James Horton House c . 1711 Moved and Enlarged 1793 . Col. Benjamin Morton." The west wing was the original house. This important landmark contributes to the sense of place . 21. SOURCES: Guide to Historic Markers. Southbld Historical Society. 10,60. #48 '. I H!11f Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt , research assistant . w � � n F { ie 1640's Henry M. Beebe's ancestor was SD 118 Island �--� �ar�Y. ©weer of Plum :t (Main E , purchased from Samuel Willys, c. 1670. Captain Daniel` on house Beebe of Orient, Henry's father, after selling his packet sloop g, which Which he had sailed to New York for 18 nears, came to Hogg Necke 1832 and bought a farm near the far end of the Bay .wn Ave- View Road. Nancy Te , -ame the Y rry of Orient was Capt. Daniels wife. ;byterian Besides Henry Mortimer, they had Lester Theodore, Ezra T., `e it re— Nancy and Sarah born to them. . and re- view, its 47• ABIJAH COREY HOUSE y South- c. 1726 intrusted (Raymond Dickinson, Bay View Road and Cedar Lane, he Town Bay View, Southold) ise s Mi 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. 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. N.., .t•.- .,. .<, �, ,� Abigail, X In the latter 19th century the house is remembered as the i ton fam- early home of George Henry Terry; then the home of Nelson and this Dickinson. Though enlarged in recent years, the house has 1 fonathan retained its low-ceiling rooms, fireplaces and a myriad of r before y small cupboards tucked in the wads, 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 fPllars are in this orrc.,`which shows also its rough hewn beams and unns+tally larg.- cillg In its oldest parts, this house is one outhold) or trie earliest I=IogI& ov t: re homes. he three gr DEA. JAMES HORTON HOUSE c, 1711 D happy, Moved and Enlarged 1793 :er, over Col. Benjamin Horton that as (William E. Mayer, Bay View Road, Bay View, Southold) c g int Town Historian Wayland Jefferson has given data about y this remarkably well- resery as, lived _ Y � Id-18th century Horton home- steac� `e west wing was once a small house 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. 43 Guide to Historic Markers, Southold ' r2 Historical Societ . 19 0 1; � 3�A y • R i � } r +Y r-. SD 118 Captain Barnabas, the son of Deacon James, was active in the Revolution, transporting refugees and carrying on some privateering. This was cause for reprisals and the little house on Corey Creek was bombarded. Two of the cannon b are now in the Suffolk Count Museum, Riverhead. Ly-1 793 0 - Benjamin Benjamin Horton and his brother Gilbert, sons W ptain Barnabas, moved the shell of the house to where it now stands and the larger east wing was added, including the two fire- places, a large brick oven in the west wing, a single chimney and five fireplaces in the east wing. The total cost was 300 pounds sterling. The attic of this house held the James Tuthill +' school, said to be the first in Bay View. 1 In 1851 David Austin Horton, great-uncle of the late Miss Mary Landon Dayton, added two more chimneys, preparing to receive his bride, Margaret Conkls•ng of Montgomery, Orange County. The house has long been known as the "Uncle Austin House." From 1711 to 1956 it remained in family own- ership, 245 years. Miss Mary L. Dayton was the last Horton + family owner. 49. MAJOR GILBERT HORTON HOUSE 1784 Later Period Additions (Cedar Beach Inn, Bay View, Southold) The house at the end of the old Bay View Road was built by Major Gilbert Horton in 1784 for his bride Keturah Terry, s..�r .,•. ; ,.. , ,. �.x�.... ..... ..,_, daughter of Jonathan Terry and Keturah Reeves. The central part of this house was the original homestead. Additions were made by Edwin H. Brown and later owners in the 20th century. 1 Major Gilbert was not only in the Militia but he was a farmer, blacksmith and prominent citizen. He was son of Capt. ;+ Barnabas Horton and Susanna Bailey; and brother of Col. Benjamin Horton who lived in the "Deacon James Horton House". Gilbert and Keturah Horton had children: Jonathan Terry Horton, Gilbert, Keturah, Martha and Susan. His son Gilbert (born 1799) carried on the homestead, marrying Lydia Bailey. Their son, Gilbert Wilson Horton, born 1824, married, first, Phoebe Ann Youngs of Cutchogue and, second, in 1862 Janie Maria Halsey of Bridgehampton, by whom were born on this homestead farm Gilbert Wilson, Jr., and Daniel Halsey Horton. With the birth of Beryl, daughter of Daniel H. Hor- ton and Mary Emma Fletcher Rayner, five generations of Hor- tons lived here, 44 ! Guide to Historic Markers. JJ Southold Historical Society. 1960 1 P SD 118 LONG AGO, ON'LONG ISLAND Ali,.J. 1LRNESfi-BRIERLY, 1 .• ". i`.. bhiCAtY . DeacCra James Horton.douse. , tan11xng,on Bay View Rad, Say View, Southold, tare:-old;Horton-`-homesfe�d; remarkably Well. pre ed 4xample,,of 18th century building construction. g Ttre`-snialleraportigri, the'-*ist, wing, originally stood "' 4 about khl)'orkthe shore-df_Corey Creek on Iand which =r� ; eteras'part of the 400 acres alloted-Capt. Jonathan Horton l; ltr< hte�Citeat.:Hogg lYer3ce.land division.:Here, the i y ya ta�rl !avidow,.Bethhr 1Wlfs.Horton, Iived with,their son "games (later–tobecome the-Deacon). Deacon,James'.- Barila�6 Horton;; was active during- the " 9 evolt�tlon transporting:�ugees and engaging. in,prl-- VYateering.Thls lea'•to the bombardment of his house on w Corey. Creek • � by the British.,Two.cannon balIs,'which hit-.their target;are-now in--the Suffolk IV 6eum at };iverhead: Trr'1T93, Capt Barnabds' two sons,Benjamin "* • t : `and Gilbert=H'ort0h,moved.thea shell of the house.to its resent-location on the BayView Road:The larger east r &,vitas,added,.wifli a,single chimney and five-fire- aces,also a large brick oven_in the old west wing,and' *t i 'o4rnore:fireplaces. The total cost of 'thts work was collections QUCeriSl�Or0Ug1Z': "D pounds sterling. The dames Tuthlli, hoof (said to Public Library { :4V jbe-.the first in.Bay.Vl6v) occupied the attic. Just before # �. . his,marriage•to'Margaret.Conkling of Orange Caunty,. ; •,4rt 1851,,David Austin Horton-added tufo mora chimneys' sand, for'yeiirs,'the house-wad known as the "Uncle Austin House."`Flom 1712 to 1956 --- a period of 245 year's — it rernalned 4n` family ownership. The late , t�! Miss Mary, Landon Dayton, grandniece of "Uncle z_ IE Austin:.' was the last Horton family owner., LAMP I&AND DAILY PAF88 Aug 20',-1961 SD 118 142 OLD SOUTHOLD TOWN'S TERCENTENARY i original house, however, was built by Samuel Youngs in 058 ' and has passed through the hands consecutively of Hempstead, Gardiner, Coleman, Appleby, Albertson, 'ferry, Wickham and Hartranft families. It has Iong been claimed that the old ' Barnabas Horton kitchen, middle t 600s, eventually became Richard S. Sturges' carpenter shop and now is the Girl Scout headquarters on Oak Lawn Avenue. It had moved only across i' the main road and around a corner to its present location. A F replica of the house itself which is no longer in existence stood / on the lawn of the town clerk's office during the celebration. The site of the original house, R. G. Terry's property, was ,/ marked by a Celebration sign, "Barnabas Horton, Baker." In Bay View the Deacon James Hortc a-house, 17 11 (the lower wing), stands just beyond the old district scion (Miss , Mary L. Dayton's house—Mrs. E. W. Scherr's residence) ; the old Jennings house, 1761, stands at the sharp bend of the Bay View road (Henry Sayward) ; the first Joseph Hallock house, built by him in the 1700s, on the Bay View road, is now the remodeled Reydon Club House. There are a number of interesting sources of information about old houses, to which reference has already been made. H. Howard Huntting and Jonathan G. Huntting kept valuable scrapbooks throughout part of the last century, and these books are now mines of information about old Southold Town. In them are found the "Hobbles about the Village" by J. Hor- _, ton Case, who tells the story of some of the old houses from J. Wickham Case's sources for such history. Would that the owners of all the old houses of Southold i Town might preserve them and hand them on to posterity, not i allow them to be destroyed wantonly nor decay to the ground I ,} They are precious for the very sustaining of a character which, { if lost, would mean defamation to much that the town holds dear to itself. This chapter comes to a close, having made its #, salute to that spirit dwelling within or about some of the oldest houses of Southold Town, with a prayer for their well-being and safety through all the days and years ahead. t' Ann Hallock Currie-Bell. 01d Southold Town's Tercentenary. 1940 . � 1-t/ ti v GOOD-BYE INDIANS r , SD 118 In fright families have lived in Beneath a towering buttonwood, the 1650 this landmark at the main "doctor's house." Southold intersection. On Akerly Pond Road, once known as Bowery, and almost lost under a gigantic and very ancient buttonwood tree, is Dr. Robert Trusteane's home of 1650, built by the colony for the town doctor (who j moved away a few months later.) And out on Great Hog Neck, on Main Bay View Road, sits the shouse Deacon James Horton built in 1711, now, alas, with a convenient but distracting porch around the front and one side. That first assessment roll in 1675 showed that at least a score of other clans besides the Hortons and the Youngses had prospered wer j mightily in their new homes. One reason was a crop new to them, gen' tobacco, which brought high prices abroad. (And brought about a new Indi and lucrative industry, too—making staves for the barrels in which A. the tobacco was shipped.) There were large tobacco drying sheds in nevi Orient and elsewhere and several large tobacco plantations. Negro Mat slaves were brought in to labor beside indentured Indians. The sep` negroes were hardy. The Indians were not. When the first complete cut( census was taken at the end of the 17th century, of the 881 souls in a do Southold town,000 were white,41 were black and those with red skins, one who had owned it all only yesterday,numbered just 40. O The Indians actually seemed to vanish. Indentured to the planters his on the flimsiest of legal excuses and made to work long hours in vir- enai tual slavery, they not only died from disease, abuse and spiritual eigt lassitude but they even lost racial identity. The reds and the blacks sloo Jeff give to fi _ kinp enli. �. _ Di of _ of t cem Civi the ] UZi afte: The Beacon Horton house on Great Hog Neck, The Jeremiah Vail house, with its four tiny sans new porch. "beflv4ifido s I Warren Hall. Pawns , Puritans, Patriots. 1975 -1 AVD R,F... 4 n. 6 jv y.lam +�� � '/'•+• �• � -- I��•� ark • }r£lpp n - i .i y • '�— '� ii F