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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSD-133 ` BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM FOR OFFICE USE ONLY UNIQUE SITE NO. DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD SD 133 NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALIIANY,NEW YORK (518)474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: Town of SoutholdLSPLIA DATE: April 19$7 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE: (516) 765-1892 Southold L. Isp N.Y.11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION I. BUILDING NAME(S): "Cocktail Cottage" Munch house 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Southold 3. STREFT LOCATION: # 3290. Pine Neck_ Road,south side 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private 19 5. PRESENT OWNER: No`s. Riley ADDRESS: same 6. USE: Original: residence Present: residence 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes IN No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION H. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e, cobblestone ❑ f. shingles X g. stucco ❑ other: 1). STRUCTURAL. a. wood frame with interlocking joints SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑ (if known) c, masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) C. other M. CONDITION: a. excellent LA b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ b. moved ❑ if so,wheW c. list major alterations and dates (if known): SD RSM XIII-9 12. PHOTO: From north west 13. MAP: N.Y.S. DOT Southold Quad Front (north) and west elevation BM 32, y W`' �_ � , •`: 3 ., ,� °r oke .: 00 Harpers Pt 3 1 4 41 ,p 9 i e , SD 133 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known L3 b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn b. carriage house ❑ c. garage IR d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i, landscape features: white hnri7Qntsl hnsrd fPnc-P j. other: 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (cheek more than one if necessary): a.open land ❑ b, woodland Pq c. scattered buildings d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑ h.other: 17. INTI°RRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Historic Pine Neck Road traverses a low density area with scattered residences, open fields and woods. Some properties with landscaping and well kept lawns. There were six houses shown on Pine Neck Road on the 1838 map. 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): Small 11-story, 3-bay , si.de entrance plan,gable roof house with interior end chimney. 1-story, 3-bay roof wing on east. 6/6 windows. SIGNIFICANCE 19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: circa 1750 ARC'IIITECT: BUILDER: '(t. HISJORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: One of Southold's treasures, this house is typical of the 3-bay, lz-story house that was the norm for the North Fork in the 18th and early 19th centuries. 'I. SOURCES: Interview Ann G. Riley 8/19/1986. 663-927-4928 Typescript "Jockey Creek and Its Southern Border, Pine Neck. " Whitaker Collection, Southold Library. U.S . Coast Survey. 1838. t-68 FHL NJ I' )Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research assistant. r�t�� t;� xsrtu �'a�w r5. .M�` .., '►� , Lam, , SD 13.3 " s out on the Necksoccupied by John Yunch,Conrad AdamssC14ristophe;__-LP.1W, Andrew Gagen, and their famalies. They all became good friends with thea rLW nair,hborsand each Christmas he always remembered cash family with a Yery +.�.o ; nj and always identical gift. Those homes have Continued to be occupied thro � e a Y . . . , hp years by the same families without mush change,but "Little Gray House's has o since the death of Dr. ?JcGinnis in A ri1#1925taged 65 years, .CPA much expansion P , 4 t A This photograph sh©ws.. the rear of "Little Gray, douse in a winter storm in 1918, w 4.1 $ '. The Pine Neck plaae , including 4�tsall contents of house and out-buildi4gs ' was willed to the eon of old friends of the McGinnis familysAllen Tobey,wYjp pa,¢upied it for some years after greatly enlarging the house and buying additian �,apd on the im-ath sine of the road, inoluding the sTa�"Cocktail Cottage" ,foxmer- hoz of the Hunch family. `.'• . i Among the heirlooms left with thhouse were lettere frpm George Va$hington �to; E,zra L'Hommedieu ,and pieces of furniture brought over from France by`E:qa #io=edieu who was born in the east end of the. village,and- lived his -cptiren1i6 e in Southold.He was born in 17349Kraduated fro■ Yalu in 1754sbeRam,Q * 'law- V er and a leader in the days of the Revolutionary RarsaP4 died in 1811.His rod» y4eat in the old BuryinK Ground bears witness to his distinction. Hr, Tobey liked horses and one- of ` the'moit attraetiyo buildings to be en ip Southold was the stab3..e__a� s--to--Cha e��a'Rhi+�h was bum -f&g1Q#t on the .goad in the wooded section to the west of thchQujV ybiehTbCaame a mansiajiby the name of OLighthouse Farm" We will hone to insert pictures of both of tea O " Typescript "Jockey Creek an& Its 3utAeQ%n Borden _Pine -Neck.Whitaker Coll;` Southold Library. - •ate � "_ -�_ � � •.r.. ..• ��Y`w r y. Yl Tom•' r iti -� MI SD 133 I 1986 • • • r :y BY �• • I! � � a Y r y_• �jry�{��i V p SD 133 The Overton homestead can claim seven generations of The constru Overtons who have belonged to its family history. The great- features, points granddaughter of Franklin H. lives in it today. It is thought wrought latches, that its oldest part with the well goes back even farther than brick oven; and 1791 in age. front gable add! troyed one sectio (57.) PECONIC'S OLD MILL CARTWAY appears with th and dove-tailed This Road was once a Cartway to Goldsmith Inlet Mill which and also of brit stood at the Inlet near the North Sea (L. I. Sound). Ancestors drove by oxcart and wagon from Hermitage (Peconic) and surrounding country to the Tide Mill, later_Wind, and Tide. John C. Appleby, the first miller; Gilbert Terry, the last. The MUI, built in 1840 by 80 subscribers, was torn down in a 1906. Its great wings fell in the 1898 storm. Reputed one of New York's largest windmills of its type. The Cartway, now this road, remains, constant reminder of the Inlet Mill. - .. (Location of Roadside Marker: at intersection of the North Road, Peconic Lane and Mill Road, Peconic.) 58. SAMUEL CORWIN HOUSE `{ Revolutionary Period Charles L. Davids 1860 (Walter H. Sternemann, Main Road, Peconic) (� Many Corwins, descended from Matthias, one of the first settlers, Southold, have settled in Peconic. The first John and descendants had early holdings of the Indian Field Farm (The neck lyinLO between branches of Hutchinson's Creek) and of lands stretching to the Long Lane (North Road) etc. 59. Part of them were retained for 200 years. This house is one of +h- homes related to Samuel Corwin and Nancy Samuel bore the name of three Samuels The Oi before him. He was baptised Henry Corwin, his son, born in the house J rica Orriet Richmond Peconic land Cn 1827.ffhey had 10 sons atfd lived for a time in Pine Neck, brought ove Southold, in the old house now called "Cocktail Cottage". re-. part of the h sent home ot Rowiandimm. found Webs' About 1854 Henry returned with his family to live in the 48 that Liet Peconic homestead. In 1860 he joined his sons in Minnesota. the three F �I He sold lands and house tr, 1`harlo c T T' --:.a- whose wife the road. M was Lucretia Terry of Cut.-twguc. xrirzir ;,.._., rienry Eugene the first 11 DgV;Re (married Cornelia Brush) followed in ownership;which first Matthi; w.,, :tinned by his son, Raymond E., (married Adora Ford) and for his until it passed from the Davids family. pany of To 52 Guide to Historic_Ma_rkers. '— Southold Historical Society. 1960 _T__ cn O F 1 H -- d FjL� r�i• b I(D {A fD 1E o COCKTAIL COTTAGE n Anne Riley d P. 3290 Pine Neck Road uo Southold , NY 1197 . m � tA- N• r PINE NECK ROAD W COCKTAIL COTTAGE Dome of Anne Riley 3290 Pine Neck Road , Southold, NY 11971 Analyzed by Ralph Williams, John Stack and William Peters Reported by Joy Bear Southold Town Landmark Preservation Commission June 16, 1936 Cocktail Cottage, presently the home of Mrs . Anne Riley, can be traced back to an original structure that was built before the Revolutionary War, perhaps as early as the 1750' s . (See #1 on floorplan. ) All that remains of the earliest house is the cellar and several pieces of timber that may have been joists or sills in the 11 'x16 ' structure . Near or shortly after 1300 a second house was constructed at the north end of the original building (#2 on floorplan. ) It was built as a half-house, with its front door on the east end of the north side . Behind the entrance may be found the early fireplaces in the parlor and kitchen. Around 1370-1390 much repairing; and remodeling was done on the half- house : - new Floorboards were laid over the vertically sawn ,joists and beams , a bay 111indow was installed in the west wall of the parlor, and vertical boards sheathed the walls of the staircase . 2n 1925 Allen Tobey bought extensive land on the south side of Pine Neck Road . One parcel of his newly acquired property contained the home of John Punch - a small, two-room building known today as "Cocktail Cottage . " This home appears on this site in the 1373 Beers, Comstock and Cline map, and under the Munch name even back then. Everett Goldsmith, a resident of the area today, worked for Allen Tobey in 1925 . He recalls Tobey as a horse fancier who built a beautiful stable, and who in 1930 began staging annual summer horse shows . Mr. Goldsmith ran these shows . He recalls that Allen Tobey wanted a place in which to entertain his friends and guests after the horse shows, so he made the little, two- room Munch home (#2 in floorplan) into an exclusive tub, and christened it "Cocktail Cottage . " In 1930 Tobey added a parlor and bathroom to the building (#3 in floorplan. ) Tn 1940 a horse farm still occupied this area and stretched to Southold Bay to the east . Three houses , which may be seen today across Pine Neck Road From Cocktail Cottage, were horse barns in the 1.9401s . In 1943 the entire estate north and south of Pine Neck Road was sold to Leo Roon. By 1955 Cocktail Cottage had been enlarged by a bedroom and bath (#4 on floorplan. ) The area to the south of the home had been laid out in a development called "Southwood . " SD 133 COCKTAIL COTTAGE, page 2 ENTRANCE The front door leads into a small vestibule . A narrow stairway rises to the left . Its treads are 9" high by 8 " deep. The west wall of the staircase is paneled in old wood, possibly re-used from the original house . Some boards vary slightly in width, top to bottom. The east wall of the stairwell was the outisde wall of the half-house . On the first floor the east wall is finished with plaster board under wallpaper. At the second floor level the wall seems to be of wood paneling that matches the west wall. Some boards are 17" and 18" wide . To the right of the staircase, in the vestibule, is a closet . Its floorboards are random width, and date back to the second house. A doorway to the right side of the vestibule leads back into the parlor of the c . 1800 house . PARLOR A fireplace dominates the east wall of the parlor. The right end of this wall angles into the room a bit, to accommodate the kitchen fireplace (see KITCHEN) This fireplace is shallow Rumford style . The wood of the mantel is hand planed , and its style and molding suggests the Federal period , C . 1940. A carved panel has been attached to the face of the chimney- piece under the mantel. Its form indicates re-decoration of the parlor toward the end of the 1800' s . Bricks in the mantel show an indistinct keystone and a slightly flared pattern to the sides . Bricks at the rear of th hearth seem older than those in front, indicating that the outer hearth was replaced when the parlor was re-decorated . A bay window was installed on the west wall of the parlor, probably around 1890. It has a black-painted copper cap. 1800's KITCHEN To the rear of the parlor is the kitchen of the c. 1800 house. Its fireplace abuts the parlor fireplace and is also Rumford style . A beehive oven tunnels back from the right rear wall. It has no flue, which is consistent with the period and the in-fireplace style . The chimney was removed in a 1930's restoration, when the east wing (#3 on floorplan) was added . A .feature of this room is a set of wood panels flanking the east doorway leading into the addition to the house (7#3 on floorplan. ) On these panels are carved the signatures of guests of the two-room pub. ATTIC In the ceiling of section 0 (see floorplan) a trapdoor opens into the attic , giving a glimpse of the original siding of the half-house . Although closed off today, this was part of the east exterior wall of the c . 1800 house . A section of the original vertical boards remain. Although the strips have been removed, their ghosts indicate beard and batten siding. Southold Town Tiandmark Preservation Commission `C OCKTA 1L COTTAGE, page 3 SD 133 OLD BASEMENT All that remains of the oldest part of the house, possibly dating back to 1750, is a cellar which lies today under the present kitchen. The cellar is small - ll 'xl6' - and was probably originally a root cellar. Access to it is through an entrance at the west wall of the house, which leads down wide , old stone steps in the west wall . The walls of the cellar are stone - originally dry-laid , but pointed today . The top of the stone wall is leveled off by bricks placed to carry a much later building. The cellar once may have been 6" deeper, filled in over the centuries . An opening in the north wall of the ancient cellar reveals a large platform of rocks in the half-house crawl space, that supports the two fireplaces (1800' s parlor and kitchen fireplaces . ) This opening also affords a view of beams under the parlor and kitchen. These beams seem to have been redone c . 1390. An old board set into the north wall of the cellar shows traces of red over gray paint -- maybe an indication of the house 's original colors . The new basement under the 1930' s addition also has a wall opening which affords a view under the original, c . 1800 house 's two rooms . From a different angle it shows the pile of rocks supporting both fireplaces . Under the present floor of the 1800's house is an older floor of random width, tongue-in-groove boards . Some show traces of blue, {green, brow�rn and gray paint on the lower side . These may be a re-use of good bmrds from the earlier floor. Some are 12 " snide. A beam partially supporting the parlor hearth, and other parlor joists, run east and west, while in the kitchen, to the rear, the joists run north and south. Southold Town Landmark Preservation Commission