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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
UNIQUE SITE NO. SO 150
DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (5131) 474-0479 NEG. N0.
YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: March 198'YOUR ADDRESS: TQMM H 111 amain Road TELEPHONE:t 516) 7-65-18_92.=
Southold L. I. , N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Develo-pment Office
IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING NAME(S): 1st ualoms House - Landon house
2_ COUNTY: SuffolkTOWN�CITY: S uthOld VILLAGE: Southold
3. STREET LOCATION: _# 105 Town Creek Lane opposite Town Park
4. OWNERSHIP: a, public ❑ b. private Z
5, PRESENT OWNER: Brautiga]t1 ADDRESS. same
h. USE: Original: Customs house Present: residence
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC. Exterior visible from public road: Yes H No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
9. BUILDING a. clapboard 0 b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MAIERIAL- e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ® g. stucco ❑ other:
1). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints Pq
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑
(if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e, other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent & b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
H. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ b. moved ❑ if so,whell?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
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12. PHOTO: From south west 13. MAP: N.Y.S. DOT Southold Quad
Front (south) and west elevation
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a_none known 12 b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. other:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a, barn El b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features:
j. other: whitehnri 7.nntal hnarrl fence
IG. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land ❑ b. woodland ❑
c.scattered buildings KI
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential Cid
h.other: on hill at head of creek
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
House stands on a rise overlooking the head of Town Greek.
Town Greek Lane is a private lane leading to three other
homes, all on large , picturesque grounds.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
12-story, 5-bay) center chimney house. 9/6 windows.
SIGNIFICANCE
1'). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 18th century
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
'0, HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
This house was indicated # 41 on the 1983 map of Southold
landmarks and was written up by Ann Hallock Currie-Bell
in her 1940 tercentenary book.
't. SOURCES: Chace. Map of Suffolk County. 1858
Ann Hallock Currie-Bell. Old Southold Town' s
Tercentenary. 1940, p. 141
U.S. Coast Survey. 1838
??. THE fF:
Form prepared by Rospmary Skye Moritt, research
assistant.
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OLD HOUSES OF THE CENTURIES 1600 9ND rpao tot
, stands among were of old clapboards. Within the house the mighty beams
c Marion. It is and the floor boards of irregular width testify great age.
resent owner is /' Down that same Youngs Avenue at the head of Town
Shipyard Lane, Creek, which had once been the old harbor of the town, a little
n Salmon house house stands on the site of "Arnold's Warehouse." It is nestled
tney still intact. among bushes and it looks up the creek to the bay. A sea cap-
ry Heath bears tain once owned it, David Landon. Willia-n R_ Close is the
t people as the present resident, the owner Rev. Eugene Landon Conklin. Mr.
rn historian be- onklin fi ures that the_gge of this hou,, takes it well into the
'n of 1656. At cent'u y o i755. a tells of t rce ge na(ino ers, allo whom
.which has seen Iived at different periods there. "Grandma Landon" who died
'rom village to at the age of eighty-nine and her daughter, "Grandma Wells,"
The Jonathan who died at the age of eighty-four and her daughter,
neer Terry, dc- "Grandma Conklin" (Mr. Conklin's mother), who lived to be j
of the house, over ninety.
and a deed of One of the very early houses of the first settler period,
Matthias Corwin's, having undergone various removals from
other villages its home site, reached its Boisseau Avenue and Main Street
all. The quaint location and became the old family home of Carlisle Cochran. '
cars a Celebra- James Lucey's house, moved to Locust Lane, is the ancient
s recently been home, circa 168o, of the L'Hommedieus, who carried an hon-
present owner. orable and patriotic name in Southold's past. From a listing by
Tucker's Lane, the town historian more houses may be mentioned: the Dr.
as though the John Gardiner house, around 175o, at the North Road and
or fresh white Horton's Lane where the new road bends; another Gardiner
mpose the top house, once Dr. Robert Trusteane's of 165o, built by the
icw but olden- colony for the town doctor, and now lost under its huge
:he side of the buttonwood tree and sumac growth, at the Bowery turn
-ity. A rough- (Mrs. Belle Griswold) ; the second house of John Budd,
middle 1600s, on Tucker's Lane (Daniel H. Horton) ; the '
nue, for many Major John Salmon house of the 1700s, Main Road (Mrs.
sears its door- Belle Baker) ; the Joshua Horton hottSe, 1670 or earlier,
son of Rev. V North Road (Miss Mary Kenney) ; Capt. Vail house, 1710
onging to the -zo, Main Road (the Lester Albertson house—Harold Gold-
s her iioriic to smith's residence) ; Anna Way house, early 1700s, said to have
-ds border the been built at Pine Ncck, now moved to Bowery Lane (James F.
door. During t' Gallagher). The present home of Joseph B. Hartranft is
art, and now, described by George C. Terry as the house which his great-
or many a rc- grandfather, Squire Ezra C. Terry, bought and remodeled in
anon its sides
183S and was substantially the same as it looks today. The
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WHITAKER'S SOUTHOI.D THE TIh4ES OF THE FOUNDERS 85
of well knew how to make vice and crime a taxes and not
pay when it 1>ttrneci down a few years ago. The site is still known
rens as a heavy burden upon the shoulders of the virtuous. It as Mill Hill.
one of the lost arts. The early records also disclose how r On the 11th of March, 1667-8, there was an adjustment of
.ander was punished, and how the place was kept free from boundaries made with the Town of Southampton.*
je bodies and odors of dead animals, though I find no law On the 13th of March, 1670-1, John Budd sold to Isaac `
i relation to the removal of dead fish from the surface of Arnold one-eighth of the ketch "Thomas and John" for
ie ground.* forty-five pounds of current pay. Said ketch was on a voyage
The Records make it plain how the town street was main- to Barbadoes. The burden of the ketch was rated at forty-
.ined in good condition and other highways kept in order; four tons.t There were few men in Southold at that time who
3w proper regulations were made for the wharf which John severally had an estate worth as much as this sloop of forty- `
oungs, mariner, was permitted to build at the Head of the four tons burden. Two years later, and probably at this date,
harbor, near the Rresent residence of Mr. Francis Landon. the price of merchandise or produce often used in barter was
vow the site of Town Creek Park.—
in Southold as follows:
The following is aspecimen o e local legislation as well Barrel of pork £03 — 10—00
an illustration of the record thereof: Barrel of beef 02 -05 -00
"July 1659. It was then in like manner ordered that from Bushel of summer wheat 00-04—o6
to publicacon hereof no working cattle bee put to foode on Bushel of pease 00-03 —o6
to com'ons to disturbe the cowes, and for the prevencon
tereof they are to go under the hand of a sufficient keeper, The Town Records also made known what laws were en-
id in case any doe otherwise they are thereby lyable to pay acted for the preservation and control of boats, canoes and
)r one ox so taken every tyme 12 d. The same to continue skiffs, as well as for pasturing cattle, sheep and goats, re-
itil the 'nd of Indean harvest, this yeare and every other straining hogs, prohibiting sale or gift of dogs to Indians,
,are hereafter from the beginninge of cow keeping till the and also rum and arms without an order from a magistrate i
d of Indean harvest under the same penalty until a pasture and a full record of the whole transaction. They also show
provided to prevent the aforesaid inconveniency." what premiums were paid for killing wolves, foxes and other
kinds of 'barment," and that these premiums year by year
The Records show that on the 3d of April 1679 the Town
)ted a site for a windmill to Toshna, Horton, Abraham made a conspicuous figure in the financial estimates and ex-
.grey and Daniel Terry, the mil' *n hP at Pine Neck upon the penses of the Town.
11 over against Peter Dickerson's house. That is, the mill The local enactments on record also prescribe the way in
as to stand where the windmill of Mr. Rene Villefeu stood which the ratables must be presented to the proper officer by
each inhabitant, and the payment be made within fourteen a +,
'The use of fish for fertilisation of the fields, efficient but highly days after the publication of the rate. F-J
orful, had only recently been abandoned when this humorous comment
is Penned. For a full account of the spring fishing see my Mattituck, *Printed Records, Vol. I, P. 278.
tibid., p• 293• I.
Rev. 'F. Whitaker. Whitaker's Southold. 1882
Amereon House. Mattituck
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ROME OF MRS. ELIZABETH BRAUTIGAM
las Town Creek Lane, Southold
Analyzed by Ralph Williams.
Other Southold Town Landmark Preservation Commission members
present : John Dorman and Joy Bear
December 8, 1984
The oldest areas of this house date back to mid-to-Late 18th Century: -
areas including a very old beehive oven . . .pine mantles, especially one in
the parlor . . . the parlor's front girt, with peg holes at its east end
indicating a wind brace in the wall . . . and certain mortised-tendoned-
and pegged beams in the parlor and bedroom ceilings .
A certain mystery hangs over the history of the house. One,or two,
sections .of it may have been moved to this site, rather than having been
built here . This is indicated by such clues as 1) the parlor's south wall
bears indications that the ceiling was once one inch lower than at present,
and has been rebuilt; 2) in this same room the front girt has been lengthen(
with an additional piece of wood at its west end; 3) beams and ,joists under
the bedroom floor, when seen from the cellar's crawl space, do not match
the corresponding beams and joists under the parlor 's floor, indicating
they may have been built at separate times; and 4 ) in the attic, rafters
in the east upstairs bedroom (seen inside the closet) are larger than the
corresponding rafters in the west upstairs bedroom. (This is odd if both we
built at the same time . )
THE PARLOR
This room given evidence of being the oldest area of the house- -
dating back to the Revolutionary War era. A substantial oak corner post in
south-east corner of the living room is strengthened by a diagonal
wind brace in the wall, as indicated by pegs in the post and the front
girt. However there is no corresponding wind brace in the north east
corner of the room, perhaps indicating that from its building date it has
had another room to the rear (the dining area . )
The chimney girt on the north wall bears the original carpenter ' s
marks : I, II, III, & IIII.
The central chimney stack opens into three fireplaces : the parlor,
bedroom and dining area . The handsome pine mantle over the parlor's fireplac
dated from mid-to-late 1700' s. The wood indicates having been hand planed .
The molding; is complex and attractive . Bits of paint in the wood indicate
that the mantle was once painted white .
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Joists are mortised into the front girt in this room and the hall.
Pairs of tenon holes are seen in the front girt. The work seems to be
late 1700's . One joist, over the fireplace, was hewn by a broad axe.
A second ,joist, also broad axed, shows additional smoothing by an adz.
Planed and beaded paneling on the north wall is a much later addition.
Owner Betty Brautigam says that the wood paneling over the fireplace is sa-
to have covered the ceiling at an earlier time. Holes in it indicate it
may have been held at one time by rose-headed nails .
The pine mantle is a simple early style, with a molding of bead-ogee-
bead . The wood shows traces of early paint : white and blue. Initials
burned with a branding iron in the mantle wood (probably c. 1860)
,spell W--H-W--G--S (W.H.Wiggins?) . The fireplace has been modified, possibi:
when the original bricks wore out from heat, but it seems to have been
rebuilt to the same proportions, possibly using many of the original brick:
DINING AREA
An interesting fireplace bears a large oak lintel that is smoke-
blackened from earlier use . It is especially interesting in that the
lintel is assymetrical : - 10 3/4 incles deep at one end and 12 inches deep
at the other.
The fireplace seems to have been rebuilt, using older bricks . The
bricks in the fireplace are earlier than those over the lintel.
At the left rear of the fireplace wall is an old beehive oven - a
real treasure . It has no flue and dates into the mid-1700's. It has an
interesting wooden oven cover - blackened and burned with prolonged use
and patched at one side by two wood strips .
UPSTAIRS
Tl44o bedrooms, separated by a bath, are upstairs . Rafters are rounded
the original tree shape, and unevenly spaced . Rafters in the east bedroom
(seen inside the south closet) are larger than those used in the west
bedroom.
The chimney stack at the attic level had been rebuilt, while downstai,
it is original. The roof also is a much later addition.
CELLAR - once a cistern
The excavated basement is a round area about 10 feet in diameter, lin(
with brick. It was built originally as a cistern. The cellar 's history
separates into three time periods : - 1) when the cistern served as the
home ' s source of water; 2) when public water came to Southold, and it was
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HOME OF ELIZABETH BRAUTIGAM page 3 SD 150
remodeled for use as a cellar. At this time concrete steps were added for
access to the outside. 3) Around 1960 the foundation was rebuilt after new
sills and floors were added to the house.
Two periods are seen in the plaster between the red bricks lining the
circular wall : soft, older plaster in the lower courses, and modern plastex
on upper bricks.
In the round cellar mortised beams are seen in the ceiling. In the
crawl space to the west of the cellar, 19th Century Floor beams are
visible overhead. On the west side of the basement, seen in the crawl spacE
new flooring and walls, including concrete blocks, indicate 1960 's
remodeling.
Southold Town Landmark Preservation Commission.
Dec. 8, 1984
HOME OF ELIZABETH BRAUTIGAM page 4
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INFORMATION ABOUT THE HOUSE FROM NEIGHBORS AND FORMER RESIDENTS
Alice-Louise Miller (Mrs. Maxwell Miller) knows the house well,
as it has been in her. family since the late l9th Century until recently.
Mrs . Miller says her grandmother, Julia Conklin (Mrs . David T. Conklin)
owned the house in the late 1800's and subsequently deeded it to her son,
Universalist minister Eugene Conklin. He eventually gave it to his
daughter, Jeanette Conklin Mulford. It was then sold to Esther Kaulbach anc
her sister, who sold it to Francis Wells. During the Wells ownership, in tt
19601s, the house was rebuilt. "The back of the house had to be swept out
as powder, it was so old, " was the description provided by Bill Smith,
who did the restoration.
Julia Conklin
Lot : David Lehr
House : Eugene Conklin
House : Jeanette Conklin Mulford
Edna Kaulbach & sister
Francis Wells (restored it, but died before restoration)
Betty Brautigam
Mrs. Miller reports a legend that has been in her family through the
generations : During the Revolutionary War a boy had been hidden in the
attic of the house, then occupied by Mrs. Abigail Moore. After the war,
when the boy, Nathaniel Ogden had grown to maturity, he wrote a letter of
thanks and gratitude to Mrs . Moore . A stat of that letter is attached .
Anna Flock, (Mrs. John Plock, Sr. ) says the house was originally
located on Founders Landing, and was used as a Customs House.
JOY BEAR
Southold Town Landmark Preservation Commission. Dec. 8, 1984
Text of the 1795 letter attached :
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County of Albany
(Corymans? ) July 10, 1795
Madam
I Received your Letter by Capt Jennings
of the 9th of June Last. am Happy to hear
you and family are well, and it Gives me
Indeed Infinite Pleasure and Satisfaction
To have the opportunity of Sending to You
Ten Dollars in money which I Suppose
may Possibly be a Compensation for my
Board with you in the Time of the war
and when I was but a boy in distress,
your kindness then to me is fully
Engraved on my Heart and will Never
be forgot and Time will Not Erase it
I am with Due Respect
and friendly Esteem
Your Hum Servt
Nathaniel Ogden
My best Love and Respects
to your Daughters who
without doubt must
well remember me as
at that Time may well
Remember me as Unfortunate
Mrs . Abigail Moore
Southold Town Landmark Preservation Commission. Dec. 8, 1984
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