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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION UNIQUE SITE NO. ro31a.aqp)-wi-QUAD SD 160
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (518 474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA — DATE:-March 1987
YOUR ADDRESS:Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE: ( 516) 765-1892
Southold, Z. I. , N.Y.11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING NAME(s): Founders ' Landing (1640) and Community House
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Southold
3. STREET LOCATION: at foot of Hobart Rd. on Peconic Bay
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public D b. private ❑ Town of Southold
S. PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS:
6. USE: Original: Present: Park
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes ® No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
9. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick Cl d, board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles IN g. stucco ❑ other:
1). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: b. wood Frame with light members E
(if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent a b. good ❑ C. fair ❑ d. deteriorated
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site M b. moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
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14, THREATS 1-0 BUILDING: a.none known X 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: beach front-Feconic Bay
j. other:
10. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land ® b. woodland ❑
c. scattered buildings ❑
d.densely built-up ❑ C. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑
h.other:
17. INTI-RRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURRO[.1NDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
On the waterfront, in a residential area.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
Formerly a busy shipping center, this was the Southold
wharf.
SIGNIFICANCE
113. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1915 __-__--
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
0. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
Community house erected 1915 by the
Ladies ' Village Improvement Society.
At entrance a glacial stone wall and piers have been
erected. A stone plaque reads "Erected 1915 by the Z. V. I,S . "
A shingle-clad community house stands on the park lands.
This beachfront area is used for bathing and boating by the
Southold Town population.
R. C. Newell. Rose Remembers . 1976
New York, a Guide to the Empire State, Work Projects
Administration. Oxford University Press . 1940
1. SOURCES: U,S . Coast Survey. T--55. 1838
Suffolk County's Ten Great Townships of Z. I.
Published by Supervisors of Suffolk County. 1939
Helen W. Prince . The Descendants of Captain
22. 'IHEINIF. John Prince . 1983
Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
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It has several well-kept community parks, the most;
notable of which is Founders Park on Peconic Bay,. -
where safe-water bathing and boating and scenic
charm are all above par.
In addition to an active yacht club, Southold has a "
country club comprising a magnificent club house,
tennis courts and golf course. It also has several points Town Harbor
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of historic interest, including a lighthouse recently
converted into a marine museum.
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LONG I�LAND TRAVELER-WATCHMAN 1�21(� ��9 THURSDAY, JULY
insurance companies in the Uni- gave a dance to their guests and to Greenport to be cut. After the plete jurisdiction over
DayshL ted States, friends at the Sound View House ship is thoroughly renovated, and clerk's office Monda}
The steamer "Cygnet", Capt, on Saturday evening of last week. all the work is complete, plaques Board of Supervisors.
OuirPast N. Layman, running daily be- Among those present were Mrs. will be placed on her telling the Racing around Robins _..,and,
tween Sag Harbor, Greenport, Hatt, Mrs. Adee, the Misses names of those who took part in teams of Comets and Lightnings
etc., and New London, now stops Marshall, Mrs. and Miss Byrnes, the work. from Mattituck and Old Cove
100Years,,�go at Southold wharf. Leaves South- Mrs. Eels, Miss Hartranft iss Farmers from all along the Yacht Clubs had a fine breeze and
old for New London at 8.30 and Hubbs, Miss MaeFarlar , Mrs. North Fork, from Riverhead to an exciting contest last Sunday.
Captain Wm. E. King of New arrives from New London at 5:10. M.H. Edwards, Miss,ease, Mr. Greenport, met in Fisher's Hap, Victor in the Comet Class boats
Suffolk is having u` y Messrs. .. _ and Mrs. Prince, M7."McGouigle, Mattituck, to consider problems was the Mattituck team of Bobby
Jackson and Matthews, Green- 5 'Years,f,q(� James Saker, G. Harris, G.F. which they have in common. The Heidenreich, Bill Lascelles and
port, a first class fishing smack I q04 Hommel, W.I,/Merritt and J.K. main object*in calling the meeting Tom Dauch outsailing Old Cove's
for the escallop trade, In New Suffolk, the submarine Meitt' O ' of the enjoyable was a growing sentiment among crew of Tony Dill, Greg Gehring
Willie, son of Thos. Henry, a Plunger, accompanied by the features gfthe evening was the farmers that in grading Cobblers, and Billy Baxter. The Round
short time ago, was quite badly , U.S.tug Peoria, came back to our renditigh of several songs by Jas. the 13/4 in. screen should be used Robin Trophy donated by Harry
bitten on the finger by a hand harbor Friday night. It seems Sake;the well known New York instead of the 1 7/8 in, mesh that Taylor thus becomes the property
organ grinder's monkey. Child- very natural to see the sailors in b tone. has been used in the last few of Mattituck Yacht Club for this
ren, beware. town again. ~` r� U, years. year.
Pound fishing at Peconic, and The L,I.R.R. Co.,, which no 5O Ytarsr."Aqo Crushed rock for the foundation
indeed, fishing of any kind, is owns ut o w arf has ha a The firm of William J. Mills & of the roadbed on the new Carne
very poor. The first Spanish fence erected across the head of Co., sail makers, have just been overpass at Arshamomoque is y
mackerel, with its welcome gol- the wharf, so that teams cannot notified by Rear Admiral Philipnow being laid and rolled. The
den spots, is g cement will soon be applied and (Continued from Page 1}
p yet to gladden the drive on i#, as it is claimed to be Adnrews that their company has for vetoing many unnecessary
eyes of our veteran fisherman, unsafe. The dock, even if the been delegated as one of the the road will be opened to travel
this season. programs,
Mr. Geo. Vail. steamboats do not land here, is a firms that will have a art in the
P ,r During the press conference,
Messrs. Albertson Case, Esq, great convenience to our people, reconditioning of"Old Ironsides" Yearsgo both Klein and Carney said Mr.
and H.G. Howell have entered a and we trust the new owners will the old warship Constitution. Klein's Republican primary oppo-
co-partnership as agents for the not allow it to go to pieces, but William J. Mills&Co. have been Suffolk's two resident Supreme nent, Islip Supervisor Peter Fox
New York Home Insurance Com- will make the necessary repairs to requested to make the lower Court justices—L. Barron Hill of Cohalan, planned to spread the
pany. Success to the new firm. keep it up, studding sail during the winter Southold and D. Ormonde Richie Southwest Sewer District tax
The Home is one of the soundest Mr. and Mrs, R.C. Davenport months. The canvas will be sent of Brightwaters, were given com- county wide. Informed Cohalan
had pledged this week not to do
so, Klein replied that the Islip
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SOUTHOLD TOWN DOCK
AT FOUNDERS' LANDING
The steamer MONTAUK ran out of New 'London, stop-
ping at Sag Harbor, Southold and Greenport.
The larger paddle-wheel steamer came down the Sound
from New York, I think about the turn of the century. This
s picture and not very clear;but it looks
print is from an old, old
to me like W.W. COIT. ed at
Still earlier a sailing schooner from New York stopped
Southold wharf for passengers.
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A PROMINENT SOUTHOLDER ere working at th
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The Hallocks were a leading family in the social and in- ; raveler is `Ann Ha
tellectual life. Joseph N. Hallock was editor of the TRAVELER wy From the Ear
for many years, known locally as "Dopey," He served several ^'variety of artifacts
terms as representative in the New York Legislature in Albany. - and the Museum K
His wife, Ella B,, was a writer, contributing to the TRAVELER Although har
and also publishing a sweet little story, "IN THOSE DAYS," Ann, with great f
about their daughter Ann as a little girl and the story of old -Work of the Socie
times which her grandmother Hallock had told ter. - to it the Hallock
A woman of boundless energy, Mrs. Hallock instituted to support it.
several clubs which met evenings at the Hallock home for study '•" All of us wh+
and discussion — the Browning Club, the Shakespeare Club, and grateful to Ann fl
the History Club. This was about 1907 or 1908. Perhaps it was ment of this great
she who organized the Ladies Village Improvement Society.
I believe it was they who carried out the 'Founders' Landing
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project—the stone gates to the small park and building on the
Bay at the foot of Hobart Road where the New London and
New York boats used to come in to the town wharf. The build-
ing is still used for public affairs.
Perhaps the L.V.I.S. sKould be resurrected to stimulate a
little pride to pick up the beer cans, papers and other litter
with which careless persons defile our streets.
Their daughter Ann, who married the distinguished Scott-
ish artist Tom Currie-Bell, was also a devoted worker in Com-
munity projects. At the time of the 1940 Tercentenary Celebra-
tion, she wrote the fine illustrated book "Old Southold Town's
Tercentenary." After that she was urged to organize an Histori-
cal Society, and through her efforts and the Peconic-Southold
Civic Association the Southold Historical Society Museum was
founded. In 1960 its charter was granted and Ann was its first
President.
She opened the greater part of her home to become a
Museum, and wrote publicity, recruited volunteer workers,
solicited artifacts from Southold's past, and made definite plans
for the future. Because of her literary ability and knowledge
of Southold and its people she had long written articles for the
newspaper, and was so often asked to write obituaries that the ;k
task became quite overwhelming. One day when a few of us
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and rest center for its potatoes and cauliflower. Within recent years( the old predominant
•the courts, forced the Yankee strain has dwindled and South and East Euro eans
is estate was formerly Poles, have increased. Saturday evening shopping crowds alsottinclud
Iceau, the French war many Negroes,who work on the farms.
necting State 25 with The SUFFOLK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (often I-5 daily),corner of
W.Main and Court Sts., a modern one-story-and-basement, red brick
building with dormers and an iron-railed stoop, is designed in the Geor-
THITMAN (open 12-6 daily; gian Colonial style. An outstanding item in the exhibit is the Hulburt
ttage built as a farmhouse _'I—ag,wh ch is said to antedate the Betsy Ross flag by a year.
Then he was four years old The SUFFOLK COUNTY BUILDINGS (open 9-5 weekdays), SE. corner of
er and housebuilder.Walt Griffin Ave.and Court Sts. are of neo-Georgian design.The central block,
located.The next 15 years
with three stories and basement, has a pedimented
g newspapers,and with ; Corinthian columns and is flanked on each side by two- to co with
rt coe
leans be returned with a
L while he was his father's buil= dings. Completed in Igzq, the units house the u O ounty execu-
3rooklyn.In the spring of tive 1 slative udici an clerical staffs.
i'pe for his book,Leaves of s '
one in the development of ast of Riverhea tate z5 enters the ]ong northeasternpeninsula of
e the democratic personal- Long Island known, by virtue of its resemblance to a whale's flipper,as
to express the democratic , the north fluke. Settlement by the British dates from the 1640's, the dec-
sisted in his u ade of Hempstead (see Center Island Tour) and Southampton (see South
purpose and
tion (1860) contained one Shore Tour). For two centuries this was a bit of New England. Twice the
th love between men and war drums beat on the ears of the young men; always the sea lapped at
celebrated somewhat ob- i their doorsteps. Eldorado called them in '49—but still the strain held
was to be the basis of a staunch until into the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Thereafter
e public at large,shocked the explosive effects of new technologies and wider opportunities stirred
and antagonized by his the inhabitants to adventurous change. Today, to much of the country-
nplete when he was hailed side the Puritan tradition is but a name.
The entire peninsula lures summer vacationists in large numbers.
State 25A (see North t LAUREL,80 m. (39 pop.),named for laurel-bordered Laurel Lake in the
,n to SMITHTOWN Vicinity, looks to seed the and harvest for the crests of its activity.
route traverses a rich CUTCHOGUE, 86.1 m. (903 pop.), abounds in weathered, shingled,
auliflower. onP-�'1`l-a=-hof=5t`?�'_U Island fa_rmbouses.
to Port Jefferson on SUUTHOLD, 90.9 m, r p sexffeci m 1640, is one of the oldest
communities on the island. Some building plots are still held by descend-
,YORK STATE QUAIL ants of the original owners. The JnsFpJ1 PRINCE HoasE (r�3a), third on
L.from foot of Youn Ave.,a much altcreLlw-e 3tu.' 8ningieci dwelli7f
4rc shipped to various , � y
houses a milliner s shop and shows no outward signs of its age. Several of
went for restocking the doors have cross paneling.FOUNDER'S LANDING,foot of Hobart Rad,
F is a small public park occupying the spot where the 1640 co onests landed.
tan: t The fluke becomes so narrow beyond 93.6 m. that Long Island Sound
eat cantonments in which (L)and Shelter Island Sound (R)are both visible.
srmy for service in France GREENPORT,95.7 m. (2,948 pop.),is the principal commercial center
soldier ditty, 'Oh,How I of the north fluke.The village is laid out in squares that slope down to the
sting rebuilt. harbor;high bluffs face the Sound.
'h Shore Tour). In the days of deep-sea whaling Greenport rivaled Sag Harbor,and the
econic River about a seafaring tradition lives in the multiplicity of relics in the old houses of the
nds for itsros ri town. The village is now a center of the oyster trade. Since the local bi-
p �'crops of which are valve is held inferior in the market to that of Great South Ba
bushels are sent yearly to Sayville (see South Shore Tozer) for afinishing
New York a Guide to the Em ire-State,
Work Projects Administration. Oxford
University Press. 1940
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SIXTH GENERATION SD 160
#117. Edward Salem Prince ( 1868-1948) m. Martha Washington
(Baulsir) Koerber.
#72. Emory B. Foster b.. ca. 1846, d. Babylon 13 Feb. 1931 . m.
Elizabeth ---. (b. ca. 1857) Resided Babylon. [Suf. Co.
mills, #31979, #187671
#118. Harry P. Foster ( 1878- ) Married after 1900
possibly Marion D. . . who is named in Jane M. Prince' s
will. Worked in father' s nursery. In October 1907
"Harry Foster and family moved into Mrs. Bridget
Carey' s house" at the S.E. corner of Main Road and
Town Harbor Lane. [Hntnq V.5, p.911
#119. Rita Foster b. ca. 1880. d. probably before 1895.
#120. Marion E. Foster h ca.1880. Single on the 1900 Census.
She may have been the May Fred G. Prince remembered
as coming to visit Prince relatives quite often.
#73. George Stayley Prince ( 1842-1922) Lighthouse keeper. b. Sthld
24 May 1842, d. Sthld 13 Apr. 1922. m. Sthld 28 Dec. 1866
Plate IX.
#69. Benjamin L and Daisy T. Prince House, Southold. (he b. 1855, d. 1916)
Ten years after their marriage Benjamin sold the Prince property to his father-in-
law who moved the John and Lucretia House they were living in, over to an extension
of Prince Lane. Benjamin then put his carpentry skills to work and built this larg-
er house, calling it Elm Cottage.
X71. William A. Prince Wharf with Coal & Lumber Business, Southold. (b. 1838,d.1894)
In late 1886 Jonathan B. Terry sold his coal and lumber business at Town Harbor in-
cluding the wharf, lumber yard, storehouses and stock, as well as two acres of land
to William A. Buell of Orient. William A. Prince was put in charge to conduct the
business starting January 1st and later became owner. He was also agent for the
Montauk Steamboat Company. At first the wharf was reached by going down Town Har-
bor Lane, but in 1891 Hobart Rd. was opened from Boisseau Avenue to the wharf.
The wharf at Founders Landing was twice as wide and much longer than a later
1 dock. It had narrow gauge tracks for a manually pushed car to transport freight
back and forth. As shown there were two large warehouses. Harold E. Tuthill re-
membered it at a later date, the two large buildings gone, replaced by a smaller
building about 15 by 20 feet. There were bins of some sort into which coal was un-
loaded. Mr. Tuthill recalled that the outer end was wider, wide enough for horse
and wagon to turn around after loading or unloading goods. T he'hand-pushed rail-
car can be remembered by many today. Two other storage buildings about 40 by 20
feet, possibly for lumber, stood to one side or the other of the present boat-
launch ramp. One of them is now at the end of Mr. Tuthill's driveway and has been
Helen W. Prince . The Descendants of Ca tain 'John Prince. 1983
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SIXTH GENERATION
Caroline E. Merrill "Aunt Cad" (b. 11 May 18470 d. Sthld 12
June 1936. Both buried Willow Hill Cemetery) dau. of
Charles and Sarah (Reeve)Merrill of Southold, [Suf. Co.
Wills #25715] [Carrie (Scott) Conklin] [Hntngy.4, p.41s
,V.6, p.7; vi9, pp.94,1151 [Sthld Town Clerk, Marriages]
George enlisted in the Sixth Cavalry at the outbreak of
the Civil War and participated in many important battles.
including Gettysburg. He was wounded at the Battle of the
Wilderness and, while hospitalized at the Army Hospital in
West Philadelphia, was visited by First Lady Mary Todd
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Lincoln who came to his cot and spoke cheeringly. When re-
covered he re-enlisted and at war's end was awarded a medal
of honor.
George was married in 1866 and shortly thereafter built
a house on the second lot behind the M.E. Parsonage next to
his cousins William and Waity Prince. His house is gone,
replaced in 1948 by Bill Smith's new home.
George was employed as a carpenter after the war until
on Bolsseau ve.
used as a cauliflower house; the other is on William H. Beebe's farm./
In April 1897, Southold's first telephone was installed, a private enterprise,
connecting the wharf with Henry Prince's Brick Store in the village. [Ref. at #711
Horton'e Point Lighthouse. Southold.
#73. George S. Prince, Lighthouse Keeper. (b. 1842, d. 1922)
#121. Stella M. Prince, Acting Lighthouse Keeper. (b. 1867, d. 1928)
George and his daughter Stella both kept the light at Horton's Points 1877-
1896 and 1903-1904 respectively, (See X173 and #'121)
There was no road to the lighthouse until after B.T. Payne applied to open a
highway from the North Road opposite Railroad Avenue to the Sound at the lighthouse.
In 1976 the Southold Park Commissioners restored the aging lighthouse at con-
siderable expense. A Marine Museum is now maintained on the first floor by the
Southold Historical Society. The Director of the Society, George Wagoner, is in
residence above.
The Marine Museum is today's attraction at Horton's Point. Earlier genera-
tions of long-skirted ladies and straw-hatted men, laden with the delights of pic-
nic baskets and cameras, met the challenge of the 101 steps to the beach. Repair-
ing the steps, probably first built in 1908, has been costly and only a few sec-
tions remain as relics. The lighthouse once had its own steps, used for carrying
up the oil and supplies brought in by the Coast Guard. one can hardly envy them
the long climb, laden with supplies, for it is 103 feet from the beach to the
highest point. [Ref. at #73. #1211
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