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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION UNIQUE SITE NO. ib3tt? r7 SD 191
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NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALIIANY, NEW YORK (518) 474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME: Town Of Southold/SPLIA DATE: April 1987
YOUR ADDRESS:Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE: (516) 765-1892
Southold . , N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
I. BUILDING NAME(S): Southold Academy
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE; Southold
3. STREET LOCATION: Horton's Lane,._east. side, south of Railroad
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ hprivate 0
5. PRESENT OWNER: academy Printing ADDRESS: same
6. USIA.: Original: school Present: office
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes ® No ❑
interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
H. BUILDING a. clapboard KI b. stone ❑ C. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL-- e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other:
l). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members
(if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain) brick faundation
e, other
10- CONDITION: a. excellent F—X b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
1 1. INTEGRITY: a. original site h. moved ❑ if so,when`1
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
12. I�f t xFrom south west 13. MAP: N.Y.S , DOT Southold Quad
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
F. other:
J5. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn[71 b. carriage house ❑ C. garage ❑
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 ❑
c.scattered buildings ❑
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential X
h.other: Railroad
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic. district)
Horton' s Zane here is a well-treed residential side street
that retains a number of old houses.
Iia. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
Handsome 12-story, gable roof, former school building.
Belfry with 4 gables, quatre-foil window in gable
peak. Front door with transom. 12/12 windows.
Finial with drop at peak of gable and of entrance
stoop roof.
SIGNIFICANCE
Int. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1867 __-
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER: Oliyer Buckley
20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
A plaque reads : " The Second Southold Academy. 1867"
This remarkably well preserved old Academy building is an
important component in the Southold Townscape. It is signi-
ficant in the development of the area. Before the days of
the high school, children went from here to college at Yale,
Cornell, etc. The Academy flourished until 1937.
21. SOURCES: Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical
Society. 1960, # 28
Richard M. Bayles. Historical and Descriptive
Sketches of Suffolk County. 1874. Pp. 375-376
22. rHiLME: R. C. Newell. Rose Remembers. 19'76
Form prepared by Rosemary_ Skye Mori.tt, research
assistant.
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Southold Academy
The brochure also gives prices:
"Tuition, $7.00 a Term or $25.00 a Year. Price of Board,
Washing and Tuition in the family of the Principal, Mr. James R.
Robinson, is $250.00 per year payable quarterly in advance.
Students can obtain board in the best families at $3.00 a
school week or $4.00 for the whole week. Students can also
obtain rooms, and board themselves at a trifling expense."
The 4-year courses of study were Scientific, Classical, and Col-
lege Preparatory. The Faculty of the Academy must have been
teachers of excellent ability because many of the students went
on to college. Papa went to Cornell, Class of 1888. Uncle Jess
went to Yale, Class of 1876, and then Yale Law School. A '
generation later, his son Gordon also went from the Academy
to Yale, graduating in 1908. That was the year l entered Bar-
nard.
Many Academy graduates went to Oswego Normal School,
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lady called by J. Horton Case in one of his newspaper articles
a "schoolmarm par excellence" who had a Dame School. By
deed of house and land in 1829 Foster Sayre bought of Jen-
nings. Ira Tuthill and son Lawyer Ira, were subsequent own-
ers. In 1891 Dr. Epher Whitaker came into possession. He
moved over from the Manse of the Presbyterian Church to
this house which he cal'-r' "l - --' - .A". Dr. Whitaker
is well known for his ni5Lornc.a. wfitings -and especially for
his "History of Southold", published 1882. He aided J. Wick-
ham Case in the publication of the earliest records of Southold
Town. Because of his able historical contributions to the
Town and his deep interest in local history, The Whitaker
Historical Collection honors his name.
The homestead stands on the 1640 homelot of John Eng-
land, the well digger, later the east lot of Barnabas Horton,
the baker, and in 1684 was the probable approximate site of
the second Meetinghouse.
27. 18th CENTURY
EZRA L'HOMMEDIEU CARRIAGE BARN
Moved from Hornesite 1841
(Mrs. Alice M. Thompson, Main $treet and Horton's Lane,
Southold.)
The L'Hommedieu Carriage Barn was moved possibly
more than once, but originally is judged to have started from
the L'Hommedieu Mansion site near the harbor and Town A
F Harbor Lane. According to the writers of the 19th century
the barn bought by Foster Sayre arrived at this property,
drawn by horses and oxen. This was in the year 1841. A re- J �r
ceipt was given to Foster Sayre, the buyer, from Ebenezer f (�
Case, manager of L'Hommedieu affairs after the Hon. Ezra's ( al
death (1811). The purchase price was $46.66, for the barn.
Stories of the beautiful carriages, sleighs and fine horses carry-
ing the L'Hommedieus along the Town Street have afforded 30
many a fireside tale.
+ The barn, when moved, was placed at first behind the
i house on this property. It was of greater height at that time;
with a cupola. In recent years it was lowered and moved to
the Horton's Lane side of the property.
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28. THE SECOND SOUTHOLD ACADEMY as;
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(Academy Printing Enterprises, Horton's Lane, Southold.) ho
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per articles The Second Southold Academy, Horton's Lane, opened
School. By December 16, 1867, with Elbert Wilmot Cummings of Hamil-
ght of Jen- ton College, the first principal. Dr. Epher Whitaker, the
quem own- active mover in founding it, had the able cooperation of
session. He Squire Henry Huntting, Captain Theron B. Worth and others.
Church to The building stood on an acre or more of Captain Ira Tuthill's
. Whitaker land. Barnabas H. Booth superintended the construction, and
pecially for Oliver Buckley was the builder. The purpose of the Academy
ed J. Wick- w o oung p e a chance to pursue their education
of Southold beyond grade school"; and "to build the Academy into a school
ions to the of high scholarship and Christian morals". Many pupils also
e Whitaker prepared for college in this institution. After 1905 the Southold
Academy became a business school and was carried on as such
f John Eng- for some years of the early 1900's. This Academy is still close
to the memory of Southolders. "I went to the Academy" is
bas Horton, the key to many memorable stories told today.
mate site of
HISTORIC SITE
OF
ARN THE BARNABAS HORTON HOUSE
EARLY 1640's - 1878
irton's Lane, Where Generations of Hortons Lived Until 1873.
In Part, Became
ved possibly THE FIRST SUFFOLK COUNTY COURT HOUSE
started from 1684 - 1729
r and Town After Suffolk County was organized in 1683, from the East
19th century Riding of Yorkshire, County Courts were held for 45 years
his property, in the upper story of the Horton House.
r 1841. A re- (Location of Roadside Marker: northwest corner, Main Street
om Ebenezer and Horton's Lane Southold in front of the late Rensselaer G.
Hon. Ezra's Terry, Sr. property• Richard H. Clav, tenant.)
for the barn.
horses carry-
have afforded 30. PROBABLE f OHN 600TH HOUSE
6-656 .658
st behind the Southold' 21--41 Moved House
at that time; (Mrs. Walter Harvey, uaklawn Avenue, Southold.)
ind moved to
Master John Booth, or Ensign Booth, was a large land-
holder and outstanding citizen among early settlers. He was
AMY associated with Captain Nathaniel Sylvester in the purchase
of Shelter Island from the Indians in 1652. He had large
te, Southold.} holdings in Mattituck, Pesapunk Neck; also Robin's Island
29
Guide to Historic Markers.
Southold Historical Society. 1960
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TOWN OF SOUTROLM 375
`e. After a and in the rear of it stands a long row of sheds which cost
the County upwards of$1,000.
it 1725. A An Academy was built in Southold during the year 1834,
yard at the The people of the First church contributed about four-fifths
h was con- of the money for the purpos6, but they consented to its
the site of organization on very objectionable principles, and the build-
�d in 1711, ing was soon sold for debt. It was ineorporated by the
size thirty- State Legislature April 21, 1837, and during a part of the
f the street time was sustained in a creditable manner. It changed
int chapel. ownership, however, some eight or ten times, and the
x occurred, building was at different times appropriated to different
at domain, purpoHe8, until April 7, 1863, when it was sold to an agent
;cording to of Bishop McLaughlan. It was afterwards moved, en-
ty of every larged, and adapted to the purposes of public worship for
I for relig- St. Patrick's R. C. church, organized that year, and is still
eiit of the occupied by that denomination. It stands on the north side
t church of of the main street, a short distance west of the Presbyterian
folk county chapel, and a handsome reaidr-ince for the use of the Priest
'he present has recently been erected on the east side of it.
substantial Bonthold AcadeznLLtrds on a pleasant site, adjoia.ing the
pplied with railroad track, a short distance north of the institutions
Bide of the already noticed. The land was bought, and the bitilding
cemetery. erected in 1857, under the direction of Messrs Barnabas $
comprises. Booth, Henry Huntting, and Rev. Epher Whitaker. These
rith graves, persons had collected from about forty donors nearly aim
thousand dollars for this object, Henry Huntting, Esq., and
9,0 settlers. Capt. Theron B. Worth had each given $1,000, and the
'wished in former afterwards greatly increased his donation. The
in I871, at founders placed the title, by a deed of trust, in the hands of
the street, the Trustees of the First church (Presbyterian) thereby se-
Richard M. Bayles.
Historical and Descriptive Sketches
of Suffolk County. 187
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curing the permanent and proper management of the prop- of all actual;available assets at that date was$233,098,93, con-
erty. The Academy was first opened for instruction, Dec. 16, sisting of premium notes and cash. The aggregate amount
1867. It is supplied with books of reference, library includ- of losses paid by the Company up to Jan. 1, 1873, was
ing works on teaching and education, music books, organ, $8,855.17. This company confines its business exclusively to
globes, maps, ke. The Principal has two assistants, and Suffolk County, taking no risks outside of that territory.
more than forty pupils. Already a considerable number of "Eastern Star" Lodge of flood Templars was instituted in
this village in 1870. Southold Lyceum, an institution de-
young men and young. women have prepared for college or
for business, and about twenty hays become teachers, and + signed to cultivate literary talent, and furnish literary enter-
the prospects of future success and usefulness of the institu-/� tainment, was organized here Oct. 3, 1871, and now numbers
tion are growing brighter with each advancing year. / sixty-six members. It has a library of one hundred and
Religious services by the Methodist Episcopal denomins- A forty-five volumes. Willow Hill Cemetery is pleasantly loft-
tion were commEneed here in 1793. In 1819 the first church I ted in the western part of the village. It was organized Ang.
of that denomination was built here. A second church was 25, 1855, comprising about three acres, and contains a num-
built in 18;x0, and this was rebuilt and enlarged in 1866. It ber of finely kept lots, and handsome family monuments,
is now a handsome structure, and stands on the south side of A district school is located a short distance west of this.
the main street, a short distance east of the Presbyterian Another, the principal public school of the village, is located
church. in the eastern part, and occupies a commodious lot. The
A Universalist church, erected in 1835-6 stands on an angle Long Island 71,areler, a weekly newspaper now published in
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village, was started of the street a short distance west of the Presbyterian church. this v �f
The Sonthold Savings Bank was incorporated in 1858, and i moved here Aug. 20, 1872. Southold Division S. of T. is a
flourishing institution, numbering about two hundre,l mem-
the first deposit received July 5th of that year. This institu-
tion owes its origin in a large degree to the enterprise and be rs.
public spirit of M-. J. H._ Goldsmith, and it is said to be ane Horton's Point Light-house stands on a bold cliff on the
of the most successful �,�ustrations of the savings bank in a sot}nd shore, opposite this village, about two miles north of I
purely rural community that we have in the State. The the central portion. This has a tower, thirty feet high, from
} amount of deposits in 1872 was$199,068.35; and the amount its base, giving the light an elevation of one hundred and ten
withdrawn the same year $153,616,06. The Suffolk County feet above the level of the sound. It was built in 1857, and a
Mutual Insurance Co., an institution of this village, was incor- gives a fixed light, visible twenty miles distant.
porated April 30, 1836. The amount insured, on the lot of I Great Hog Neck lies south of the village, projecting into CD
January, 1873, was $2,791,721.50 and the aggregute amount Peconie Say about two miles. The cove which is formed on b
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