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Home My WebLink AboutSD-179 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY w BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM &0-0 7W UNIQUE SITE NO. Je DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD SD 179 NEW YORK STATE PARKS ANI) RECREATION SERIES ALBANY, NEW YORK t I -o 174-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/ SPLTA DATE:April 1987 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE: (516) 765-1892 Southold . Y. , N.Y. 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION I. BUILDING NAM E.(S):-e_eve/Tal madge/Carlsson house 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Southold 3. STREET LOCATION: 1515 Lower Road 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public I-1 b. private X 5. PRESENT OWNER° ADDRESS: 6. USE: Original:—Residence Present: Res_ de_nce 7. ACCESSIBILITY TU I'LIBLIC Exterior visible from public road: Yes X No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION 8. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATLRIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles 0 g. stucco ❑ other: shingles 17. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints SYSTEM: b, wood frame with light members F1 (il' knuvit) c. masonry lead bearing walls U d. metal (explain) incl ent basement bps e. otherbzNr* +Arr ft random stone walls 10. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b- good 91 c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 1 I. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑x h. moved ❑ if so,when" c. list major alterations and dates (if known): Modern windows. Modern trim on the rake of the roof. Modern front stoop. SD RSM XXV--U 12. PHOTO: From south 13- MAP: N.Y. S. DOT Southold Quad Front (south) elevation I A- 0 3 rn JW ■ p�(Y [a Willow bill ,d _ Cem . AV r SD 179 14. TEATS ZING: a. none known ® b. zoning❑ c. roads 1:1 d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn[Z b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑ d. privy ❑ e. shed 5d 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 c.scattered buildings d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑ h.other: farmland 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) The Lower Road used to be part of the old Kings Highway. It is now a quiet, mostly unused country lane. Iii. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): 22-story, 3-bay side entrance plan gable roof house with 21-story, 3-bay wing on west. '3 SIGNIFICANCE I DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1702 remodeled 1857 ARCHITECT: BUILDER: IIISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: A plaque reads " The Joseph Reeve Homestead In Origin 1677 Henry Talmadge 1857" Although very much remodeled, this is one of Southold° s historic houses. 21. SOURCES: Joy Bear. Historic HoUses of the North Fork and Shelter_ Island. Greenport 1981 Beers, Comstock, Cline. Atlas of Long Island. 1873 Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical 21. I_"`-- 111 Society, 1960 Suffolk Times. 9/3/1981 Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt , research assistant. 14 Lower Road, in the Southold of the t' Reeve — early 1700's, was a busy place. At its i eastern end, where the road dead-ends into Ackerly Pond Road (then called }� Bowerie Lane),stood the Town Doctors' � r Carlson House Just west of this junction, on n Lower Road, was the Town Miller's �� ° 4M' k home, with his mill nearby on Jockey P i, (then ickenson' ) Creek. And otheHomeste d property ofheTown Blacksmith,Joseph Reeve,just[ west of the miller's,was his r� home,sketched here,and his blacksmith shop.Al]is these homeowners were men LL } 1.1 with basic and highly essential skills, •„ if,f�t Southold. necessary in a Colonial village. t IRM i Lind grant 1677• '04. 1 s' Wlv ' home 172 Joseph Reeve was the son ofaSouthold tj_ s Founding Father, Thomas Reeve - the Arthur G. Carlson only one of Thomas' four sons whose birth date is known today«1656.Joseph Reeve is referred to 37 times in Southold q Town Records - more times than any other member of the extensive Reeve #01!;�fltl�yjBtl ' � �'� F.H,u i•G 1'ri s, family. References show him buying, , dl7 1 ��I� ff1j„ lir� �rh.91}�gli�r �,�Id41i11 selling and exchanging land - even (in his capacity as blacksmith) involved in building a windmill on Halhocks heck in 1694.Joseph died in 1736,at the age of 8o, L His gravestone may be seen in the J. Wickham Case located Joseph Mr: Carlson'& youngest son, Brett, Arrowheads have been Southold Cemetery, its legend recently Reeve's homestead on this property on likes to show the basement,which is the found Lower Road in Southold,and wrote that earliest section of the house Brett says found in the the house had been built in 1702 he has dug Indian arrowheads out of the basement's sandy floor,between bricks, Southold Town records show Joseph This ancient basement would be a delight dnfltIIt basement's floor Reeve,at the age of 21 in 1677,receiving 2 'rhe present owner,Arthur G.Carlson, to any student of early Colonial architec- acres of land at a Town meeting, It was has added modern comforts to the ture, with its random stone walls and the property on which the house sketched handsome old home. He describes the age-blackened beams fastened with stands today, "lying on the west side of hoose as being remarkably sturdy for all wooden pegs. The basement has been Bowery Lane, around and near a pond its 279 years, with strong walls and enlarged and it is interesting to compare called Akerly Pond It is thought that he framing, and firm, even floors. The the technology used in the later section built his blacksmith shop on this tract of rooms are open and airy, each with a with the very old foundation and beamed land about 1660 view. ceiling of the original basement. Joy Bear. Historic Houses of the 30 North Fork and Shelter Island. 31 Greenport . 1981 CA v - SD 179 formerly wife of Caleb Dyer Esq., Sailing Master of the United States Frigate Shelala which was lost at sea with all on board viz. 365 Souls in the year 1781. Mrs. Smith died July 12, 1825 Age. 66. 41, HOME OF LAZARUS MANLY The Miller, 1706 (Mrs. Elmira A. Glover, south corner of Bowery Lane and Lower Road, Southold.) Lazarus Manly, a miller from Boston, was granted by the +` owners of Common and Undivided lands in Southold four acres for his use so long as he maintained a sufficient grist mill" for the Town. The land was bounded by the Billberry r Swamp and Common Lands (Southold Town Records.) The ` mill stood on the hill nearby the miller's house, considered ! to be this one. A millstone placed by a later occupant of the house as a foundation support, is imbedded in the fieldstone wall of the very small, low ceilinged cellar. The rear kitchen is said to be a moved carpenter shop of Gamaliel Bennett, added later. The original house and addition present the fine old lines of a "Salt-box"'. The old Post Road ran by the door. y A number of families have dwelled in this house. Pre- vious to Glover ownership, it was long known as the "Steve Simons' place". Mrs. Elmira Austin Glover in her 94th year is the present owner. Married to John Septer Glover, a farmer in Cutchogue, in 1891, she came with her family in 1902 to live here. 42, THE JOSEPH REEVE HOMESTEAD In Origin 1677 ,.. .�, • ..y ,,,..s•ow,,,. .. . ,,, t. Henry Talmadge 1857 (William P. Boken, Lower Road, Southold) J. Wickham Case has located Joseph Reeve on this prop- erty, in describing the Joseph Reeve homestead of 1702. Pre- vious to that date land was given him at a Town meeting in 1677 and where his blacksmith shop may have been built as by Town record 1680. The lands for many years were held in the Reeve family. (Early settler Thomas Reeve had his homelot recorded 1656 on the Town street.) This house of Joseph Reeve on the Lower Road has a very old foundation but has undergone radical period changes. It is remembered as the home in the 19th century of the Reeve's family and of Henry Talmadge who married Mary Catherine Corey 1857; also the home of Stephen Walters. 38 Guide to Historic Markers. 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