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Home My WebLink AboutSD-199 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM • UNIQUE SITE NO, 10110-Mt 11a IS6 DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD SD 199 NEW YORK STATE PARKS 1',;1) RECREATION SERIES ALBANY,NEW YORK (518) 4-4-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLZA DATE:: April 1987 YOUR ADDRESS-Town Hall, Main RoadT LEPHONE: (516) 765-1892 Southold . , . ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION 1. BUILDING NAMI.(:S : Church of the Open Door / Old Fire house 2. COUNTY: SuffO�k TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Southold 3. STREET LOCATION: Beckwith St. corner Travelers St. ) 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public D h private 5. PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS (, USE: Original: - Firehouse Present: Church school 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC Exterior visible from public roach, Yes L2 No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION K. BUil IANC a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ® g. stucco ❑ other: vert.boards 1). STRUCTURAL, a. wood frame with interlocking joints SYSTEM. ' b. woad frame with light members 91 (if knoe+n) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e. other brick foundation 10. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good IE c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site IX b. moved ❑ if so,when" c. list major alterations and dates (if known): SD RSM XXV-22 12. PHOTO: From south ext 1-1. MAP: N.Y.S . DOT Southold Quad Front (east) and south elevation f . � 4 p�m. 1 ��V•S•� ��MIE�p utholc f 9 ' V, % AT, �M /. — tis3 • 4 ,•J �� rN 0 ; • `• !11 .111 •p_E ME•K- B�• n o 1 a x SD 199 1 4. 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. 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 FA f. industrial ❑ g. residential CX 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 portion 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, gable roof structure with �q~ stick-work and pierced brackets under the roof, and vergeboards. Vertical boarding with clipped ends forming a frieze under the Paves. SIGNIFICANCE 111. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: ri Lnaa I gq6 ARCHITECT: - - BUILDER: 201 HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: This was the first firehouse built for the Protection Engine Company No. 1. 21. SOURCES: protection Engine CompanV No. l. 100 Years of Continuous Service 1886-1 86 100th Anniversary; 188 -1 8 Southold Fire Department , September , 198 ??, rH> nor Hyde & Co. , Map of Long Island. Brooklyn 1897 Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research assistant. 'I 11 7, II v �y j��sM.��P I�.�� v •` r��:..rl �11 ��` '�3 r r �E inrd" � � _ _ YYs�ti ` f 'f"�"7f""' y - ate?.. ky��F: •. x. � Lai Qw boo nA r t737 J f 1� • • • • i r i M SD 199 �f C. p wA TW-P,0 V =3 IAO Al I r' LZ ,' .�. ► _71 Pit °` ; R �.' 4 .�;: k�� ► �i� �l T - .��' 100 Years of Continued Service. 1986 _ SD 199 yi l � .� ,v`r#•+ #r x �� '�r'r�. � �'�, ��}'ate` " .,��. �a 4�tri. T -k 1111 � � I. �• I � + � 1' I ; 4 } ' IAN fie r O f• �'x�� .►.u+.I 7 W-�.' Ili � ��r� \ 43� 1 y w�'}��.�`%�u'� 3,'4:+7`M�. l 100 Years of Continued Seryice.1986 SD 199 71 l ri Upstairs looking east toward Railroad (Youngs) Avenue 100 Years of Continued Service. 1986 r f r - SD 199 ,V1 l i r i f 11 9 i �y�Fy� +�► Y A� 4 � �,. �r _ l , I AS :I- Y1SUAL.(I-LC THE . KI-rcH .- N 100 Years of Continued Service. 1986 SD 199 CnM Y •- 'q lid\•S -� _ �/''�"�.L 4 •---- --. �`�' °F "� �, .OM1 ., �� II Upstairs looking west toward Hortons Lane i 100 Years of Continued Service . 1986 I Line drawinge by: Paa't Chief George H. Fisher February 1966 SD 199 The SUA611k Imes July 18, 1985 Landmarks -�- Preserved Local landmarks received a boost with the opening this . week of an exhibit of photo- graphs titled"Houses of Wor- ship Now in Secular Use" at 'own Hall and with the pos- sibility of obtaining a $12,000 grant from the Society for the i < Preservation of Long Island Antiquities to survey landmark buildings in Southold Town. The Southold Town Landmark Preservation Commission is sponsoring the photographic exhibit and has been involved in obtaining the grant. William Peters took the photo- �,� graphsforthe exhibit,and he and Landmarks Commission 'aer�rxaA ", •III v member ,Joy Bear worked t together on the texts. Shown at the left is an exception to �- the photo exhibit title -- the Church of the Open Door on Beckwith Street in Southold, 4_ which was formerly used as a r firehouse and a Grange building. Photo by Judy Ahrens " The SuPoik Times-Septombor 4,198fv'Page to SD 199 SXWjNM ISE 77ON wuv THE SUFFOLK TIMES 75 � 0; Century Mark Southold Fire Department Celebrates 100th Birthday In February, y a theProtection Hol•- 7 Engine Company and Eagle Hook � and[atdder were formed 1A provide .(, �. t,Itin the hamlet of Soth- service u old.On Saturday,Sept.6,the South- old Fire Department will eelebratyits 100th birthday with a celebration �• !- 1 that will run from early morning to lmgaflerdark a� � � ..+ The festivities will begin at 10 I a.m., as the department'e parade _ - steps uli from the carnet of Hobart ` i) Avenue and Route 25. The parade r ir•, sy will and at Southold School on Oak. lawn Avenue, where Southold will " host ftremen'a drills among the de. oes partment's three companies. Oak- lawn Avenue will be closed tt traffic f from 8 a.m.to 6 p.m. All of the fire engines used in the competition Saturday are at least 25 years aid. The reaterpiett of the -r parade will be fire fust piece arequip- nent used by the Protection Engine --�-' - "—."---- company to ISM: A hand-drawn Rumsey piston, still capable of r:... throwing a stream of water more than 100 feet, A fireworks display by the Grucci family w111 light the sky over the school grounds at 8;30 p.m. Accord- ung w First Assuewnt Chief Don - ' Fisher, the fireworks will 6e fired Ervin the highest point the depart. �• meat could find,so the show will be ON THE ROAD--"DUICh' Walters, behind the wheel, and Leslie Jewell get rolling in the Southold Fire w vnble throughout Southold Town Department's new 1953 REO hook and ladder truck.The old Southold Hotel Is visible In the background. and onShelter island.After the fire- works,the department will hust its annual street dance,which is open w ranging in age from 16 to 70. Al- started with the equipment that was vtdual latae and join to- the public. though the membership is mainlitted available at the time,and than the ge er in one [rehouse. The rico- lG t6e -- depending on rank and other re- members continually bought mote house that now stands on Main Begrmrgf(,. aponsibilities, firemea can spend efficient equipment, uniforms and Street (with a now wingl is One told night in January,1886,a anywhere from 'three w 50 hours a breathing apparatus." u�t ing. The department's Rest group of Southold residents met in week at the firehouse,Chief Fisher woman member, 'illi Szymczak, Belmont Hall on:Hain Street(where said--Southold has not had to an. In 1936,the three fire tmmpanfioe joined Protection Engine Company ihr munw, I arking lot is now lo- ewer an enormous number of call@, were ase to give up air indi- in 1984. 1c 1 w rscusa one o erZF r mosm fast year,the department answered Inressing problems—lack of rare pro- only 265 alarms .a "minimal tocllun.A short time later,the Fire- amount,"according to chief Fisher), men's Aid Association of Southold 70 percent of which were rescue calls, was formed to raise funds to enwb- Mr. Fisher attributes the lack of lish the department. fires to the"cautious and careful"re- Both Protection Engine Company *idents of the hamlet, as well as and Eagle Hook and Ladder held numerous lectures on etre prevention their first arfuciat me ungs Feb. 13, the department gives in local schools. 1886. The departmenCs third com• A lot has changed in the last cen- y pany. Packard Hone,was formed in tury,an the department continues its e• - -•` 1928, progressive policies. "Southold was 'Protection Engine Company first one of the first to start training its met in the basement of a h_ganig la firemen in the county schools in / cared nest to Belmont Hell; Eagle Yaphank in the 7940'*,'declared Mr. Hook and Ladder met in the Jose Fisher.Today,a firefighter must go r„ HHoupr. The first firehouse built for through an le-month training the 1'rotecuon Engine Company was period, which includes a 13-asasion VialocaLed on Beckwith Avenue and course offered by the county fire reveler Street,the present ation school in Yaphank. efThe Church of the t3pen boor. "If i muld @um up the last hundred BRAIN TRUST--Southold Fire Department officials, class of 1986: Inthe beginning, there were up- years of the Southold Fire Depart- Standing,from right••lire commissioners John Harris,Albert Salmon, Depart- proximately 30 members in each sent in one word,"be said,"it would George Conway,George Berry(absent•-Ben Drumm),Seated,tram company. Today, the department be'progress.'The Southold Fire De. right: First assistant chief Don Fisher, Chief Adolph H. Westerlund, numbers about 260 firefighters partmenl hall always progressed. It second assistant Peter Grattan Jr. tt-':'y.�"�'.l'1\'.'..11°71\1S1N r,-T_- -...-.:.--. Mme. - •"+-..