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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (518) 474.0479 NEG, NO.
YOUR NAME:Town of Southold/SPINA DATE:April 1987
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE:(.516) 765-1892
Southold Z. I. , N•Y•11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
L BUILDING NAME(S): Silver Alley / H.M. Hawkins Building (see SD �5)
2. COUN'T'Y: Suffolk TOWNICITY:Southold VILLAGE: Southold
3. STRF .' LOCATION: Beckwith St. west side
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h. private X
5. PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS:
6USE: Original: bank—store_ Present: store
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC. Exterior visible from public road: Yes 52 No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
b. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c- brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: c. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles FK1 g. stucco ❑ ' other:
1). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: h. wood frame with light members
(if known) c, masonry load bearing walls❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent 11 b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. iNTI:GRI'iY: a. original site EX b. moved ❑ if so,when"
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
The wing of the south was originally 1-story, flat
roof. The shed roof 2nd floor was added after 1929.
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14, THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known 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:
j. ether:
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 91
f. industrial ❑ g. residential PP
h.other:
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Beckwith Street is a short quiet street in the inner por-
tion of Southold. It has preserved its ambience , with well-
kept houses surrounded by yards and greenery.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
21-story, 2-gable roof commercial building with gable end
to the street.-pt 2-bay shed roof wing on south.
The structure houses two shops with well preserved old
store fronts.
SIGNIFICANCE
I1t. DATE OF IN171AL. CONSTRUCTION: ca. 1900
ARCHITECT`:
BUILDER:
20. HISTORICAL. AND ARCH ITL:CTLIRAL IMPORTANCE
The 2nd floor of the gable roof section of this building
was the Odd Fellows Hall in 1929 and also then housed the
American Legion. In 1912 the Southold Library moved into
the north building and the wing was a milliner' s shop.
(This building was P. Murphy in 1909 and at that time (1909)
the bank is identified as occupying the building)
1. SOURCES: E. Belcher-Hyde. Atlas of Suffolk County, L. I.
Vol. 2e North Side. Sound Shore. 1909 . Plate 26
Sanborn Map. Mattituck-Southold. 1929. Sheet 10
Joy Bear. Historic Houses of the North Fork and
,,, 'rHLNIU. Shelter Island. 1981. Wage 49
Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
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6. At Miller's Place, near Mt. Sinai Riverhead became the county seat in 1727 when a courthouse and prison
springs and
ponds lured settlers from were located there.In the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,
crew Miller, who previously lived in other industries were established along the river, including grist, woolen,
Aon, had amassed considerable prop- molding and planing nips and a soap factory.Riverhead township was divided
Id Man's."in reference to a wealthy old from Southold in 1792 because of the inconvenience of travel from one end of NN
aced land there. A cooper, landowner the township to the other and because of political differences between -
house opposite this pond in the 1680s western Federalists and eastern Jeffersonians. (Photograph by Henry Otto
e town was named in 1730. Korten;Nassau County Museum,)
is Place had 75 inhabitants of divided 32. Reckwith Street, Near the Intersection with Main Street, y
s. Richard Miller, unlike most of his Southold, 1913.Southold,with Southampton one of the two oldest towns
association with the Provincial Con- Zri Long TTMT was founded in 1640 by colonists from Connecticut and
y and was shot by patriots on the same Massachusetts who planned a theocratic community with their Puritan minis_
riage,General Nathaniel Woodhull,of ter, Reverend John Youngs, at its head. The present Southold Burying y
tisk prison ship of wounds sustained in Ground marks the site of their earliest church, adjacent to the present First
experienced a large share of stirring Presbyterian Church on Main Street (Route 25), built in 1803. This pho-
n years'occupation, when it was the to
graph, taken on a bare day in late winter or early spring, shows a street in ti
fund trade by both patriot and British the historic district of the town, a block from the old minister's dwelling,
of its old houses, clustered jn�the Classicss5uare and shingled New England-style buildinsts characterized the town at the t� e cent as the do now thou we no loo er see112.The three-story brick ne cry shops among the commercial establishments.
and bank,was built in 1892.The small The unpaved street, crisscrossed by wagon wheels, is a reminder of the J
the curb was removed in 1915,a fact seventeenth-century law of the village "that everie inhabitant havinge an-
te picture, Another useful fact is a noyed the town street by digginge any water pitts,makeinge any dangerous
ee-basin drinking fountain(one basin holes, layinge any blocks, loggs or trees in the same, to the prejudice or
hat had been installed by the Woman's damage of any man or beast,shall forfeit and pay for everie week the same is
fiddle of the street in 1900. It was neglected 1 s.per weeke."However,one could recoup the fine by receiving r 1
rowing the date for the photograph to 15 shillings for making a pit or pen to catch some of the wolves that troubled
nd 1915. Riverhead, first called Ac- the village in early times!(Photograph by Henry Otto Korten;Nassau County
:ed of 1648. In 1659 a sawmill was Museum.)
)nic River,which courses for 20 miles O
area east into Peconic Bay, draining
Suffolk County, Long Island , in Early Photographs .
iters Lightfoot, Weidman & Martini .
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