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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY,NEW YORK (5181474.0479 NEG. NO. SD 186
YOUR NAME: To of Southold/SPLIA DATE: April 1987
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELFPHONE:( 516) 765-1892
Southold L.I. , N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING NAME(S): John Budd house
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Southold
3. STREET LOCATION:Tucker's Lane, east side, south of Railroad !�(,U0
4. OWNERSIIIP: a. public I--A h. private
5. PRESENT OWNER: -Tacobi ADDRESS: --f;Me
t,_ USE: Original. residence inn Present. residence
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC Exterior visible from public road: Yes EE No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
H. BUILDING a, clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATT RIAL: e. cobblestone '❑ f. shingles R1 g. stucco ❑ other:
1). STRUCTURAL. a. wood frame with interlocking joints FKI
SYSTEM: h. wood frame with light members
(if known) c. masonry load bearing walls❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other brick foundation
10. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
IL INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ b. moved ® if so,when" in 1908 up Tucker's Lane
c. list major alterations and dates (if known): from north of the Soldier's
Porch and windows are new. Monument.
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12. PIiOTO: 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 A b. zoning❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. other:
15, RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn 0 b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i, landscape features:
j. other:
IG. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land IN b. woodland ❑
c.scattered buildings FE
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑
h.other: Railroad
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Tucker's Lane is a low density country road. It runs
through a residential area, across the railroad to an
area of scattered buildings and open fields.
Iii. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING; AND SITE (including interior features if known):
Large 22-story, 5-bay hip roof house with anterior end chimney
at each end. Of particular interest is the cant of the
west wall. This is typical of first period houses.
12/1 windows.
SIGNIFICANCE.
I1t. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1660s
ARCHITECT: -- _--
BUILDER:
?B. HI'STORIC'AL AND ARCHITLc TURAL IMPORTANCE:
It was the Cochran Inn ca. 1830s.
This is said to have been the second house built by John
Budd, Sr. or by his son. Sold in 1679 to John Hallock.
Later the house was an Inn 1687-1737 kept by John Braddick.
From 1834 to 1841 William D. Cochran, the builder of many
of Southold" s buildings including the Universalist Church,
kept the Inn here. In 1859 it was the home of Jonathan
Huntting. ;, The Southold Savings Bank hath
its home here 1861-1891.
It was called "Hunttinghurst" by the Hunttings. Daniel H.
Horton owned it in 1940.
21. SOURCES: Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical
Society. 1960
Joy Bear, Historical Houses of the North Fork and
Shelter Island. 1981
22. fHLNIF Frederic G. Mather. The Refugees of 1276 from Lon ..
Island to Connecticut. Albany. 1913, page 133 cont. )
Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
assistant.
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(cont. )
SOURCES
Gabriel Furman. Antiquities of Long Island. Compiled 1824-1838.
Ira Friedman Edition.
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The corner-stone of this church was laid in the
village of Brooklyn, on the 25th of June, 1822, the Rev. Job
on the corner of Jay street and Chapel street, .�a
ter in that 1
which was then a large extent of vacant ground town is also
there being thou no buildings nearer that spot Hotel," whit
� than High street, and not a single building
there are aev
p between the site of the church and the mead- this island w
ows of Wallaboght mill-pond. space perm,
This church was incorporated on the 20th of thn►ngl1 the it
November, 1822, by the name of "St. James i' an old-fashion
Roman Catholic Church," and placed under the years ago °
government of seven trustees. The church has Jones, who is
been very much enlarged every way; the nave '4 in it he died.
of the church, as now used, was all that consti- his death, a la
= tuted the original edifice; the front, the tower supposed to be
and spire, the transept and the chancel have all and when ]if(
been added. The church, as first erected, was a exit through t
plain brick edifice, with unfinished walls inside; story is still to
v ---_ now it is a very showy building. fact, and they
as
which the crot
stopped, and tl
r� oin novs�. opened by sour,
d .
There are several houses still remaining on I saw the hot
this island venerable for their antiquity, and for ble-looking bui
s incidents connected with their history. Oue of It was then poiy
thouse
hem is the house in Southold, known as the se," by pens.
"old Young's place," which was built in 1888. s was buried not
It was the mansion house of the descendants of grave is designs
tr.
Graves'
fi Gabriel Furman. Anti uiti s f
Zone; Island. Ira Fri f tan Ed t o.
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was laid in the ' the Rev. John Youngs, the first Christian minis- !
i of June, 1822, `, ter in that part of Long Island. In the same
d Chapel street, town is also the edifice known as "Cochran's
vacant ground,
Hoteh" which was erected in the year 1700;,and
nearer that spot there are several others in the eastern part of
single building this island which might be noticed, if tinge and
and the mead- space permitted. Approaching westwardly
E thn)ngli the island,we meet, on Fort Neck, with
on the 20th of ? an old-fashioned brick house, which was many
of "St. James years ago owned and occupied by a Captain
laced under the � ; Jones, who is reputed to have been a pirate, and
The church has jK in it he died. Tradition says that at the time of
way; the nave hFjtt; his death, a large black crow (which the people t
t all that consti- supposed to be a demon) hovered over hie bed,
front the tower {•!'.
etc and when life was extinct, the crow made his
:hancel have all Yfi exit through the west end of the house. This
•t crested, was a story is still told by the oldest inhabitants as a
ped walla inside; fact, and they also state that the hole through l
o' which the crow made his departure cannot be
stopped, and that as often as it is closed it is
}s.. opened by some unknown means.
I saw the house in July,1827; it was a venera-
1 remaining on ble-looking building,but fast hastening to ruin,
itiquity, and for v It was then pointed out to me as the "haunted
"tory. One of „y house,"ouse, by persons in the vicinity. Capt. Jones .
1, known as the T was buried not far from the house, and his
built in 1688.
grave is designated to this day as the "Pirate's
descendants of r' Grave.» 7
Gabriel Furman. Antiiuities of
Lona Island. Ira Friedman Ediotion
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kept by Lieut. Constant Booth at Greenport, which was first named Sterling for William Earl of Sterling,
who in 1621 received from James I. an extensive grant of land including all of Long Island. In 1756, Colonel
George Washington stopped here after travelling through Long Island on his way to take a new command
at Boston, following the disastrous at of Gen. Braddock at the hands of the French and Indians.
which stood in the village of Southold as early as 1690. The County's finest blooded horses were brought
here on Town Meeting Day, ancniectic racing sessions were held at a course laid out adjacent to the inn.
This budding was later remodeled into the community's first bank.
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near Huntington, where, tradition states, Nathan Hole was recognized and betrayed by a Tory cousin
after his return from within the British lines after securing valuable information for Gen. Washington
concerning the enemy's contemplated movements. Taken prisoner after a mad dash for escape had failed,
he was returned to New York aboard the guardship Halifax and executed there on Sept. 22, 1776.
C?awae Naclo, �lw
at Hampton Boys. Rebuilt and greatly enlarged from an original structure which stood on its present site
before 1657. From that day its service to the public has gone on-steadily, until today it stands out as one
of America's
��truly distinguished hostelries.
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located near the present railroad station, at Sag Harbor, and kept during the Revolution by "Duke" Ford-
ham, innkeeper, whaling master, and prominent Town leader. Terminus of stage coach line. During one
of his frequent stays here in later days, James Fenimore Cooper wrote his stirring novel, "Sea Lions".
ga,� ComJe
known also as Duvall's Coffee House, which stood at Sag Harbor, Patronized by Francisco De Miranda, the
cultured Venezuelan, who, during the Revolution, fought victoriously in Florida for American freedom.
From his inn room De Miranda amused himself watching whale fishermen wrestling and jumping about in
the street for exercise.
7& lwal" y9n
at Smithtown Branch, A rendezvous for British officers during the Revolution, later succeeding Epenetus
Smith's Inn as half-woy stopping place for early stage coaches passing through the Island. One of Suffolk
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County's
/first annual fairs was held in its yard. Still stands, occupied by Dr. Guy Turrell.
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which stood at East Hampton. Its wainscoted tap room was a favorite with stage travellers and young Brit-
ish officers stationed at Sag Harbor and Southampton after the Battle of Long Island.
At one of East Hampton's first Town Meetings, it was ordered that "Thomas Baker shall keep an ordinary
This was used for divine worship before the building of the first church there in 1651 .
Other Suffolk County Inns which figured in early continental history, and became stopping places of Wash-
ington on his tour in 1790, were The Widow Blydenburg's, built at Smithtown Branch in 1760, and The Widow
Platt's, Huntington, at which the President sat with fifteen others to a dinner consisting of oysters, baked
striped bass, a monster round of beef, stuffed veal, roast wild turkey, chicken pie, -all the vegetables that
were in season, and a variety of preserves.
Suffolk County's Ten Great-Townships of Long Island. Supervisors of Suffolk
County.1939 ;,�
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It is a private resi(
was when built by Lieu
166o's.Budd had built,
Southold, in 1649, but
daughter as a weddi
house of John Budd
Cutchogue, and is nc
national historic lane
as the "Old House'
Cutchogue's Village
public.
w i John Budd was th
British £amity, and
' wealthiest man in the
After a short stay it
1 1663 he recorded I
homelot on the corn,
and Town Street (r
Route 25) in Southal
r sible location, near
— Legion Hall stands t(
when the house w
pinpointed, but it s
raised during the if
first house is incorpm
section of the house
@Budd-Jacoby House The house was
people. Southold H
searchers have doe
son,John Jr.,sold h,
half of its lands to
This building has played a more active miah Vail,Jr.,in 16
role in the history of Southold—and for a half of the house--i
longer time — than any other structure record is not elm
Southold, 1660's standing in the hamlet today. Quaker,John Halle
Mr. and Mrs. Mikc Jacoby If you turn north from Main Road in At this time the h
Southold onto Tucker's Lane, soon you image. It became
will be at the railroad. On the eastern and 1737, kept b}
corner, south of the tracks, stands this wife, and still later
historic house. ; early 18W's, it v
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Joy Bear 1981
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It is a private residence today, as it whose proprietors were Hazard L. and
was when built by Lieut.John Budd in the Samuel H. Moore, followed by the next
1660's.Budd had built a previous house in proprietor, William D. Cochran, whose
Southold, in 1649, but later gave it to a sideline was house building.
daughter as a wedding gift. That first
house of John Budd's was moved to
Cutchogue, and is now registered as a In a complete metamorphosis, the
4- '` national historic landmark. It is known building housed the Universalists until
as the "Old House", and is now on their church building, standing across
Cutchogue's Village Green, open to the the street today,was completed in 1837.
public.
In 1859 the house became the home of
John Budd was the scion of a noble Jonathan W. Huntting, who named it
` British family, and was known as the "Hunttinghurst".Huntting was the land-
wealthiest man in the Colony in his day. lord for 30 years,from 1861 to 1891,of the
After a short stay in Hashamomack, in Southold Savings bank, which was locat-
ed he recorded the purchase of a ed in this building. In 1872 Huntting also
homelot on the corner of Tucker's Lane rented space to the Lyceum Association's
and Town Street (now Main Road, or library,and distributed their books from
F Route 25) in Southold. It was an acces- here.
sible location, near where the American
Legion Hall stands today,The exact date
when the house was built cannot be In 1908 the house was retired from
pinpointed, but it seems to have been public life,and moved from Main Road to
raised during the 1660's. A part of that its present location. Over its 300 year
first house is incorporated into the oldest history the structure has been modified
section of the house sketched above. to serve and to reflect the many varied
needs of its users.
3 e The house was next owned by two
people. Southold Historical Society re-
searchers have documented that Budd's
son,John Jr.,sold half the"housing"and
half of its lands to a blacksmith, Jere-
3d a more active miah Vail,Jr.,in 1679.The other,or west Ti11S building has
thold--and for a 1 half of the house--or a part of it, for the
other structure record is not clear -- was sold to a played an active role
)day. Quaker, John Hallock. y
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a Main Road in At this time the house took on its public in Southold history
Lane, soon you image. It became a tavern between 1687
On the eastern and 1737, kept by John Braddick, his
cks, stands this wife, and still later his son Peter. In the
` early 1800'x, it was a successful inn
Fri
Historic Houses -. . . .
Joy Bear 1981
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�ansive stretch of lands 32. JOSIAH VAIL HOUSE 1817
On an older Foundation
its first 1656 homesite Possibly John Swasey 1658
today Charles Grigonis' (John Montgomery, ain Street,
r et, Southold;
re Booth lands stretched Mahlon Dickerson, )
ise was built in 1854 b5 Josiah Vail, descendant of the first Jeremiah of Southold,
his wife, Nancy Halsey- was born 1758 in Middletown, New York; he died in Southold
.e home in 1885 of Samuel 1832 When he and his son, Samuel S. Vail, reached Southold
their five boys. At that after the War of 1812, their homes were neighboring on the
n its journeys. The Town same property. Josiah's was built 1817. He crept a store nearby,
scribed theme y movings the only one for a time in that particular part of town,
e to another in the village It is very possible that a very old foundation had been
as there were movings, used for the foundation of this house. Possibly, the early
last, from its site where
settler John Swasey had his home located right here. Swasey's
:turned, not exactly to its four acres of homelot, recorded 1658, lay between Lieut. John
ite lands where it stands Budd, west, and Barnabas Horton, east. In 1667 this lot and
r, was a horse breeder as its house were bought by Thomas Moore for his son Benjamin,
century horses were bred shipmaster. (This was before Benjamin made his home farther
s. east in the village). It-is of interest to note that one of the
om its travels; and is as descendants of John Swasey was the Hon. William H. Seward.
is as ever. The lines have
house with the small win- 33. LIEUT. JOHN BUDD HOUSE, 2nd, 1660's
!d cornices and the fine John Hallock, the Quaker, 1679
and overhead fan light are 17th, 18th, 19th Century Inns
•esting story and character Braddick, Moore, Cochran.
Universalist Meeting Place Pre 1837
Hunttinghurst, J. W. Huntting 1859
ARSONAGE 1855 Lyceum Library 1872
Southold Savings Bank 1861-'91
-hsite 1899 (Richard C. Whitlock, Tucker's Lane, Southold,
Terry next to L. I. R. R.)
Street, Southold) John Budd, Sr., descendant of Richard Nevil, Earl of
vlethodist Episcopal Churcl Salisbury and Warwick, was an early settler of Southold
Thomas Stephenson, stooc known to be the man of greatest wealth in the Colony. Records
thodist Church and presen' Place him and John Budd, Jr., at first, in Hashamomack 1649;
of houses occurred. Williaa and June 9th, 1663, the Budd home lot was recorded as at
;randson of Swire Ezra C. Tucker's Lane corner, Southold village. The exact year of
date of this house which was the second house said to be
ase (the present parsonage)
ha built by John Budd or by his son, seems difficult to pin down
y except as in the 1660's. By deed bearing date of March 9, 1659,
edifice by builder J. Edwar+ Budd Sr. had sold dwellinghouse and land in Hashamomack
r. Terry's house. Mr. Tera to John Corey,
moved it to its present sit' In 1679
Israel P. and Milton R. lives John Budd, Jr. sold half of the Southold land and
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Guide to Historic Markers. Southold
Historical Society. 1960
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"housing" to Jeremiah Vail, Jr., blacksmith. John Hallock was
sold the west half and the house, or part of it. He was a parted fro
Quaker, married Abigail Swasey and brought up his family father, bol
as Quakers, removing to Brookhaven in 1687. Mary Tutl
This old house has served many purposes—as Tavern �or entee of Itseven gen(
Inn kept by John Bradtiick, his widow and son Peter 1687-1737;
by Hazard L. Moore and Samuel H. Moore, early 1800's fol- In recer
lowed by William D. Cochran, the builder of many of South-: probably 1
old buildings and homes. The Universalists met here for a Revolution
time before their churcta in 1837 was completed. It was the of age: rot
home, 1859, of Jonathan W. Huntting, whose family named shell, hair
it "Hunttingburst." In 1872 Mr. Huntting distributed books stones of t
from tine Lyceum Association's Library, housed in his home. house is a
For thirty years the Southold Savings Bank which first had its fundan
been in the Edward Huntting house 1858-61 had it's home in chimneys i
"Hunttinghurst". 1861-91. The original site of this house was oven. Thos
on the Tucker's Lane corner north of the Soldier's Monument, house Tema
removed from there in 1908 to it's present site by Daniel H.
Horton, owner. 35. I(
r Another building adjoining this house once stood on that
corner site. It held a store and post-office for a number of
years in the 19th century. Several store-keepers tended to mail (Fra;
and to merchandise: Jonathan W. Huntting, J. Wickham Case,
and others. hive gen
-The Budd House was probably the most pretentious of 1902. Cleve
the earlysettler homes. It has however experienced many Record dee
period changes ot interesting nature. It held its position on o lcltabod
the Tucker's Lane corner as one of the outstanding village Cleveland t
houses of several periods. to the Wes
Note: The first built John Budd House is described a There
the well-known "Old House" in Cutchogue—given by Joh blacksmith
Budd to his daughter Anna and son-in-law, Benjamin Horton Ouse it ha
j and moved from Southold to Cutchogue. (See Wayland Jef his brother
ferson's book, "Cutchogue, Southold's First Colony.") the North 1
The land
34. JOSEPH HORTON HOUSE leveland, ;
1653 art of the
(Miss 'Mary H. Conklin. West Main St., Southold) art of the
ith old in
qJoseph Horton, eldest son of Barnabas Horton the first rigin. The
was born in Mouseley, Leicestershire, England; came to thi € developt-
country with his father and his brother Benjamin. He mar eater com
ried Jane Budd, daughter of John Budd, Southold early settler ey with de,
Joseph's house stands oil its original homesite- When lie de he 113th c
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Guide to Historic Markers. Southold
Historical Society. 1960
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Clzapter Fifteens—Religion and Customs on.Long Island 153 n
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THE P.LVMAS REEVE HOUSE, MATIITUCK, l.. 9,
(Prom Craven's "Mattittick")
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Tim Bynn—BEAnOICS HOME, SOUTHOLD, L. I.
(Photographed specially for this work)
Frederic Gregory Mather. The Referees of 1776 from
Long Island to Connecticut. Albany. 1913