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Home My WebLink AboutSD-126A ` BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM FOR OFFICE USE ONLY UNIQUE SITE NO. lo 3/0 •C-to DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD SL 126a NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY,NEW YORK (518)474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: Town Of Southold/SPLIA DATE: April 1987 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road EIEPHONE:(516) 765-1$92 Southold 1. 1. , ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION I. BUILDING NAME(S): "Paradise Woods Studio" / Lester tittle 's Studio 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY:.SQ thold VILLAGE: Southol d 3. STREET LOCATION: Paradise Point Rd. SE side, opp. North Bayv_i.ew Rd. 4. OWNERSHIP. a. public ❑ b. private C 5. PRESENT OWNER: Bob Hennessy ADDRESS: _ fi. USE: Original: cottage Studio Present: residence 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC. Exterior visible from public road_ Yes ❑ No Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION K. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. Sterne ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles lid g. stucco ❑ other: 1). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑ SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members,. Ofknown) c. masonry load hearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e. other Itl. CONDITION: a. excellent Ek b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated 0 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): SD RSM XV-6 12). PHOTO: From south east 13. MAP: N.Y.S. DOT Southold Quad East and south elevation rr Paradise Yacht Clu Pont 1 41 1i■1r �_` of 4 EA- ,rf` AD•. r4 I Leda Beach .r a^ ... a Cedar Beach ?7 x _ Point r SD 126a 13. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known P; 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: brick posts at entrance to j. other: property 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land ❑ b. woodland IN c.scattered buildings 71 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) A low density wooded waterfront point of land extending into Shelter Island Sound with scattered residences hidden in the woods. 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): li-story , irregular gable roof house. Brown shingles with white trim and green shutters with cut-outs. SIGNIFICANCE 1'). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: ear1y 20thccntury ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 'U. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: In this studio , which was located on Mrs . C .B. Byron° s Paradise Woods Estate, concerts were held. The studio normally held 100 guests . There is voluminous information about this place in the Mattituck Library. 21. SOURCES: Tercentenary Celebration of Southold Town. Ann Hallock Currie-Bell, 19 40 22. THL KiI" Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research assistant. SD 126a r� $aturday, July 6 The Southold Yacht Club Invitation Regatta, In Southold Sap, oil' Founders Landing. Yacht Clubs invited are: Devon, Fishers Island, Menantic, Old Cove, Orient, Riverhead, Sebonac, Shelter Island, Mattituck, and the Chinese Yacht Club, Greenport. Classes for Sailing Races: Star,Wational, Comet, Lawley, Large Handicap, Small Handicap, Special Handicap. Theodore Brigham, Chairman of Race Committee, 12 - 1 P. M. Luncheon served by the Southold Yacht Club to the contestants in the races and Flag Officers of all invited clubs, et Founders Land- ing. 1:30 P. M. Attention Gun. 2 P. M. Start of 1st Class. All power boat owners and non-contending sail-boats are urged to cooperate with Patrol boats in keeping the courses clear, 3 P. M. Baseball at Mattituck High School Grounds. All Star Team of North Shore League vs. Brookhaven Highway Department Team, P. M. Golf Match at the North Fork Country Club. Henry Hand vs. Mark Flan gan. A second match is planned but no announcement at time of this publication. Time for both matches to be given out at In- formation Booths. 4 P. M Musicale at the Paradise Woods Studio, Southold. Ruth Langlois Hubbard directs a very lovely event for which C Mrs. C. B. Byron and Mr. and Mrs. Lester Little have opened their estate and studio. The Junior Harbor Choristers of 30 children and young people honor three periods of American history in music and in costume. The Processional through the woods of the chil- dren In cathedral vestments, one of the beautiful parts of the pro- gram. The Choristers hold an award of merit from the World's Fair Administration. Philipp Fey, tenor of St. Anne:s Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, and the Apollo Club, the guest artist. Mrs. Hub- bard, at the organ. A group of ladies acts as hostesses. 1 - 6 P. M. Antique Exhibition, Mattituck High School. 2 - 8 P. M. Archaeological Exhibition, Cutchogue School. 2 - 8 P. M. Art Exhibition, Peconle School. A half hour's musical program is planned for two o'clock. } 2:30 - 4:30 P. M. Scientific Exhibition, Custer Institute, Southold. Special Feature demonstration. 9 P. M. Grand Costume Ball, Greenport High School. Under the management of the Minnepaug Club, a brilliant as- Ann Hallock Currie-Bell. Old Southold Town's Tercentenary. 1640-1940. -1-970 WEEK END FESTIVITY S D 126a Library Garden Tea, Paradise Woods Musi- cale, Southold Yacht Club Invitation Regatta, Costume Ball, Breakfast Flight LIBRARY GARDEN TEA E PURITAN, colonial and middle-nineteenth-century `. ladies moved about the lovely library garden which is behind the Cahoon Memorial Library, Southold, serv- ing ery ing tea to a crowd of almost three hundred Tercentenary guests. Friday afternoon, from three o'clock on, people began coming, ehatting by the hostesses' table in the reading room, ' 7; wandering through the library proper or sitting in the garden. 'v The afternoon was festive and gay and proved another one of those celebration reunion times for old friends. Friends from =; Southampton and Easthampton had driven over for the day, and a lady from North Carolina who had come to visit South- old for the celebration remarked, "It interests me to meet and talk with Southold Town's people. They are content with themselves and their island and do not care what the world thinks of them. There is something sturdy and self-assured about them, reminding me of my North Carolinians 1" And so it is that we discover all the world's akin, and it takes a gra- cious, friendly Celebration Teaparty to let us find it out. Mrs. Alfred H. Cosden, president of the Tuesday Morn- ing Club, was chairman of the afternoon's party and was aided by the club members who acted as hostesses with her. The afternoon will be remembered as one of the most hospitable R affairs of the celebration, possessing a charm of character, for `F $ future recollection, all of its own. PARADISE WOODS MUSICALE Through the woods, wending their way among the trees, a line of children slowly moved, sunlight and shadow dotting ` i' their gray and deep blue vestments. They were the Junior Harbor Choristers of the Methodist Church, Greenport, r, Ru ' under Ruth Langlois Hubbard's direction; and the Saturday for T 102 in tho f Harb Ann Hallock Currie-Bell. Old Southold Town'.' Tercentenary. 1640-1940. 1940 WEEK END FESTIVITY I03 SD 126a afternoon musicale in which they were to take large part was Jo be held in Lester Little's studio on Mrs. C B. Byron's c radise moods' estate. They were singing "Ancient of Par Days," and on reaching the studio they entered and walked up the aisle to the stage, still singing. There, against a back- ground of oak leaves and branches, they sang "Long, Long Ago," "Build Thou" (Oliver Wendell Holmes and Mark Andrews) and "Haven" (words and music composed by Mrs. Hubbard). The s-tudioL—normally holding one hundred ests,.,.that__� .•- _._ afternoon held two_iundred and fifty, and the overflow sat on the porches outside. They were charmed with the children, t. with the whole program, with the guest artists. Philipp Fey, distinguished tenor soloist of St. Anne's Epis- copal Church, Brooklyn, and of the Apollo Club, was generous ,r with his contributions, presenting "Flying Cloud" with all the fervor such as an old Shelter Island ship might have inspired 1 Regina Sturmdorf's critique in the papers noted especially the "Lord's Prayer," movingly rendered. Benjamin Rackett, or- ganist of the former First Baptist Church, Brooklyn, and Mr. Fey sang the "Hymn of the Pilgrims." Mr. Rackett had played the processional for the children's entry. Three periods of American history were portrayed. Mrs. ' Hubbard named them: "Long Ago," "Pre-Civil War Period" and "Cathedral, 1940." The Stephen Foster group of songs were pictures not only in music but on the stage. In prettiest of period costume and pose the children sang the Foster favorites, I and the pre-Civil War Period was brought to a charming end- ing with "The Last Waltz," sung and danced by the Belles of the Ball o Mrs. Hubbard's organ selections were chosen with care to reflect the thought she was carrying out and were executed with her own individual skill and fine interpretative power. She played "From Puritan Days" by MacDowell, typifying the "Long Ago" idea, and "Meditation," the "Cathedral, spirit. As the very little choristers and Priscilla Staples 1940" sang "Harbor of Rest," and then all sang the finale, "The z,3;Dovli, 1; Reddt.. ;. King's Highway," the audience was impressed so greatly with ; ai„ Kemp on tatty; " the unique charm and fine quality of the entire program that adore of the Southold # at the end a member jumped to his feet and called for a rising 1 Ann Hallock Currie—Bell. Old Southold Town' s Tercentenary 1640-19404 19 0 ` SD 126a 104 OLD SOUTHOLD TOWN'S TERCENTENdRY r , vote of thanks l These children have won honors at the World's Fair and with prominent music groups with whom + they have sung. Mrs. C. B. Byron and Mrs. Lester Little, with a group of ladies, were hostesses of the afternoon. The children taking part were: Alice Marie Brooks, Donald Bocrum, Hayward Bateman, Lillian Davis, Thomas Moore Doane, Barbara Downs, Jane Gardner, Helen Hudson, Joyce Hulse, Jack Hickey, Jean Ketcham, Marjorie Lind, Albert Monsell, Wal- lace Monsell, Richard Marsellos, Barbara Matthias, Joan Redden, Virginia. Roberts, Priscilla Staples, Stewart Staples, Mildred Shaefer, Donald Shaefer, Lilly May Sammis, Aud- reyThompson, Lena Van Poppering, Martha Van Poppering, Lois White. . "One of the very loveliest of the Celebration events" has w . 3 3 V become the memory of that afternoon in the Paradise 'Woods. Those were the words people spoke as they walked from the door of the attractive woodland studio, bidding good-by to Mrs. Hubbard who had worked exceedingly hard to create a beautiful and appropriate program and to the kind hosts, Mr. J and Mrs. Little and Mrs. Byron. THE SOUTHOLD YACHT CLUB INVITATION REGATTA Saturday noon, Founders Landing was agog with incoming sailing craft, powerboats and cruisers, lined up at its long wharf. The Southold Yacht Club was holding an Invitation Regatta as a Tercentenary Celebration event. Shelter Island, Old Cove and Orient responded to the invitations sent to the several clubs at near-by waters. It was hoped that Fishers ' Island might have been one of the guests, but that did not { prove possible, as was also the case with one or two other clubs. Over seventy-five boats of several classes appeared, and at :h one o'clock, previous to the races, skippers and crews of visit- I ing contestants were guests of the Southold Yacht Club in the } clubhouse at luncheon. Mrs. Leo Roon and a committee of ladies were in charge of the luncheon arrangements. Dearly ;T Cr 1 three hundred guests were served. A social as well as yachting lev A �- Ann Hallock Currie-Bell. Old Southold T wn' Tercentenary 1640-1940.1970-