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•� BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION UNIQUE SITE NO, io3v • ,�z�
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NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (5181474-0479 NEG. NO. SL) 13
YOUR NAME:Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE:April 1987
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE:(516) 765-1892
Southold L. I. , N.Y.11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
I. BUILDING NAME(S): Allen Tobey Stable group
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Southold
3. STREET LOCATION: PJ np Neck Road # 328_ and # 340 5
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ bz private
5. PRESENT OWNER:R_oss/Wells/Mountain ADDRESS
6. USE: Original: 2 barns, 1 residence Present: 3 reside
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes ❑ No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
S. BIJILDIN(; a, clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick C7 d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAI.: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles IE g. stucco ❑ other:
Af_ STRUCTURAL. a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members
01' knoran) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other -
10. CONDITION: a. excellent Z b_ good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ b. moved M if so,when" *
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
Stable group of three units was separated in 1940
SD RSM.XiII.I to make three houses.
12. PHOTO: Frpm south 13. MAP: N.Y.S. DOT Southold Quad
Front westernmost house.
Ross :owner.
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14. "THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known b.zoning ❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ c. deterioration ❑
f. other:
IS. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn❑ h. carriage house ❑ c. garage Q 3
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens
i. landscape features:
j. other:
16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land ❑ b. woodland IX
c.scattered buildings Y
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential M
h.other:
17. INTF.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.
Ili. OTHER NOI ABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
3 long j low houses in a rows Pach lz-storiFs with gambrel
roofs, the 2 end houses having jerkin headed gables.
Center house has brick 1st floor and has shall windows
under the eaves. White horizontal 4-board fence across
frontage of all 3 houses. End houses have delicate gabled
SIGNIFICANCE dormers. )
19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: after 1910 tfor center house.
1928;729 for flerkang buildings.
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
_M HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
This very interesting stable group was part of the Tobey
estate, "Lighthouse Farm. " (See form SD 135)
The adaptive reuse of thesebuildingscreates an attractive
ambience for this historic road.
'I. SOURCES:*Interview Everett Goldsmith, builder. Pine Neck Rd.
12.6. 86
Typescript "Jockey Creek and Its Southern Borders
Pine Neck. " Whitaker Collection, Southold Library.
2' FHLMF Dolph & Stewart. Atlas of Suffolk County. 1929
Forth propared by Rosemary Skye Moritt , research
assistant.
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Allen Tobey Stable . •
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3285 Pine Neck Rd*
Middle house
Wells owner
Photo:SD RSM XIII-11
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1 Easternmost house
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s out on the Seck,ocaupied by John Y_unah,Conrad Adams #Christophe; .�,��,
Andrew Gagen, and their famalies. They all became good friends with theix
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Aw neighbor and each Christmas he always remembered cash family with a Yery +A.* .1
alee and always identical gift. Those horses have continued to be occupied thro
kh,C years by the same families without mush change,but "Little Gray House's :has
CPA much expansion since the death of Dr. AcGinnis In kprIll 1925taged 65 years.
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�- the rear of "Little Gray, House
in a winter storm in 1918.
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� '•, The Pine Neck plaae, including 41tsall contents of house and out-buildiugo :.
was willed to the son of old friends of the ucGinnis family,Allen Tobeyjw49
vaQupied it for some years after greatly enlarging the house and buying additioia.
�apd on the -akuth side of the roadtineluding the smal_l"Cocktail Cottage" oforner-
�y: home of the Munch family.
? } Among the heirlooms left with the house were letters fr9a George Waahi.ngton
;o: Eyra L'Hommedieu land pieces of furniture brought over from France by `E�;a
iommedieu who was born in the east end of the Til.}agetand liTed his -eatira,1%:
i e in Southold .He was born in 17349graduated from Yalo in 1754obeeam.0 P. law-
ye n the days p-
ye,r and a leader i e y .of the ReTolutionary War,aP4 died in 1811-His =o.
4ept in the old Burying Ground bears witness to his distinction.
'`f ! 1,ir. Tobey liked horses and one-of " the'most attraetiyo building■ to be peep
iaSouthold was the ste►bXe.ntxa e�rststa"xhiek was bui1l _fa. g on the
Fogad in the wooded section to the west of thehouse- which became a mansionsby
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the name of "Lighthouse Farm" ,We will h,-o,)e to insert pictures of both of theE!►
typescript "Joc' ev Cr k and' Tts Soub'herin, Borders Pine ..Neck. "Whitaker Co17.
Southold Library