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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSD-216 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM UNIQUE SITE NO. Lai to • wyi>773 DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES SD 216 ALBANY,NEW YORK 151 K)474-0479 NEG. N0. YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/'SPLIA DATE:April 1987 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Mall, Main Road TFLEPHONE: (516) 765-1892 Southold Z. I. , N.Y.11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION 1. BUILDING NAMES): Tuthill house "Iona Farm" .2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Southold 3. STREET LOCATION: Boisseau Avenue, east side, near Route # 3020 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public F] h private X 5. PRESENT OWNER. D. Tuthill ADDRESS: same 0. USI:: Original: residence Present: residence 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC Exterior visible from public road: Yes 21 No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION 9. BUILDING a. clapboard M b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATE'RIAI..: c. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco Ll ether: 1). STRUCTURAL, a. wood frame with interlocking joints 11 SYSTEM: b. wood Frame with light members ❑ (if kn(avn) c. masonry load bearing walls❑ d. metal (explain) e. ether brick foundation It). CONDITION: a• excellent 31 b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ l 1. INTEGRITY: a. original Site ❑ b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): SD RSM xXTV--18 12. PHOTO: From west 13. MAP: N.Y.S. DOT Southold Quad Front (west) •'i T 46 :Q e ! Fal s. 0 92'9,•'.�•. �� ., % • SD 216 ' 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 0 d. privy ❑ e. shed El f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ Windmill built 1904 i. landscape features: Water tower j. other: large barn IG. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land 0 b. woodland ❑ c. scattered buildings d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑ h.other: 17. INTN.RRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Boisseau Avenue here traverses farmland with residences along the road. Exceptionally well kept, attractive farmstead that main- tains the ambience and historic character of the area. I& OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): Early 12-story, 3-bay, side entrance plan, gable roof house. 1--story wing on south � � ,ar7� � ► with roof extended to form porch. 3 small windows under the eaves of main house. SIGNIFICANCE 11t. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: circa 1859 — ARCHITECT: i BUILDFR: 20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: This house has been in the Tuthill family for four genera- tions . The owner Donald Tuthill, is the grandson of Benjamin Tuthill who built the windmill in 1904. Harold E. Tuthill, Donald' s father, age 97, was born in this house. He now lives across the street in the house he built at the time of his marriage. The house was built by the owner' s grandfather' s uncle , named Boisseau. It is Boisseau on 1873 atlas. Windmill refurbished in 1985. 21. SOURCES: Interview Donald Tuthill. 3/1/1987 Beers , Comstock, Cline. Atlas of Long Island. 1873 IHS %IF. Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research assistant Powered by th W By SUE ANNE PIMERO rural landscape of the North Fork!., from$1,800 to$2,500 if tax credits are RIVERHEAD--If you were one of the contends. figured into the deal. hundreds of waterless people around Donald Tuthill of Southold recl The idea to sell the windmills 4 town after Hurricane Gloria hit three _ecrui a Kroemer venue com- emerged last November after Mr. weeks ago, Erg Corporation of pany to install a water pumRgr Cowan attended a conference sponsored Riverhead has a proposition for you, residence, which was erected by his by the American Wind Energy Aasocia- UThe idea is nothing new.It started in _randfWthera.__R=Jamin. in 1904. tion in Pasadena, Cal. He went to the the 19th-century in the Great Plains, Though the windmill isn't pumping show to study alternative energy F-h before the advent of diesel engines and water at the present time, it serves its sources as a means of reducing operat- 0 electric pumps. It's called a Dempster Purpose, according to Mr. Tuthill. "We ing expenses at his manufacturing com- F'J windmill, designed solely for pumping consider it a very interesting antique, pany, which specializes in industrial W water out of the ground.In pioneer days and have it up purely for aesthetic components for Long Island utility com- �-3 it was referred to as simply a "water reasons," he said. Mr. Tuthill added panies. At the conference, Mr. Cowan ppumper," and it represented farmers' that he will use the windmill to irrigate encountered a small group of people in- (D sole means of irrigation. Today, when his gardens once the entire system is terested in developing water pumping indigenous energy resources are being set up. systems for the Third World in an effort explored, it's viewed as acost-efficient to bolster food productivity,From there i f Triple Savings i alternative to electric pumps. the idea for his present project took off. i OThe water pumping system stands Because of its use of moderate water .¢ . C+ anywhere from 30 to 50 feet high,com volume and low water pressure, the But the interest in designing a water is ideal for farmers who favor pumper that will serve the Third & © riled of a steel tower and afull-scale pumper P � P the drip-irrigation irri din to World's critical water needs has 1 (D Dempster motor perched on top, di- gation method'accorg F1 rectly aver a well.The system uses wind Chris Wacker, a partner in Erg Corp. lingered. Mr. Cowan is almost at the power to operate the pumping cylinder Conventional irrigation methods, such end of a year-long effort to design a high at the bottom of the tower, which in as spraying water through the air, re- performance windmill with a built-in turn extricates water from the ground, quire high pressure built.up in diesel hydraulic water pump for the Third ti, The windmill, which is being sold for engines and result in a lot of wasted World. Once completed,Mr. Cowan as- $1,400, comes equipped with a 1,000 'Nater and energy, Mr. Wacker added. serts that it will be maintained in an CO gallon reserve tank located in the mid- Another incentive for buying a Demeter easy,straight-forward and inexpensive dle of the tower. windmill is the tax credit available manner. By comparison with the De- Cost and aesthetics are the two from a federal government interested mpster windmill, he said his prototype reasons for the revival of the old- in alternative resource technology.Mr, windmill will have the potential of put- t. fashioned water pumper, according to Cowan estimates the total cost of the ting out four times the amount of water the owner and designer of Erg Corp., windmill plus installation at anywhere at a third of the price. r r Tom Cowan. Aside from trimming + : monthly electric bills, these multi-vei- ned windmills, fashioned after the fa- 41 �' Y� r awe t:1 z law2 a SD 216 2 0 50V�,,;e0,,u. REAL ESTATE TRATED THE SUFFOLK TIMES/THE NEWS-.REVIEW * OCTOBER 23, 1986 Greenhouses: Sun Space for People Too Since time immemorial, human he won't be able to really pinpoint when the sun gets higher in the Would he reewrinund a sun apace beings have been drawn to the sun, the exact saving until after he has winter, it heats the whole area -- to other homeowners? "Very de6- Many of today's homeowners are his new two-zone,high-efficiency gas about 2,000 square feet," nitely," he said. "We have ark 9Wnpening up their living spates to furnace installed."The first floor of A slab Floor and a series of tubes house— it was built by my grand- allow for natural light,and virtually our house is split into two parts -- filled with a special flidd help to re- father's uncle—sad we didn't want all the houses being built now utilize the kitchen and family room and the twin the heat gathered during winter to change its character.That'a why �kylighte and targe winduwa to bring living room-dining room," he said, days.In summer,the Tuthills install we picked a design with the Lanni. the outdoors inside. "When we first built (the special screens that deflect the sun's nated beams...But it's been very#f- One or the moat popular options on greenhnuse),I thought it would only rays to keep the room from overheat- - new homes--and additions to older keep half the first floor warm.But. ingthereetofthebouse. See Sun,nsxtpage homes—is the"sun spate,"which noL only adds year-round natural light but is a free source of heat in the y., winter. e Don and Lorna Tuthill added a 10- y by-14 foot"sun spate"to the kitchen ,f the Boiseeau Avenue, Southold, Cape Cod that has been in Mr, Tuthill'&family for four generations, i The project ge en Zr. Ko- t- Tuthill's wife,Lorna,"wanted more .;J windows in the kitchen, said Mr, op Tuthill. "This was the end result." s, The solarium, which Is built with pre-fabricated laminated wond _ aF beams and Thermnpan,glass,has n sad riafuaaJ rr�y�, linea est room. Mr. Tuthill purchased the sol- + ■ arium in kit form from Carden Wny, ' ■r�' - - ., a manufacturing concern based in Waterford, N.Y.The kit cost ahnut ` $5,500 two years ago, and Mr. Tuthill died a lot of the preparation work himself—like the foundation, removing walls to accommodate the Y i ;greenhouse,etc.A NUM builder,Bob Griganis,performt�final instal- lation. Total cost: ut $t0,400and the Tuthills say'it was worth every penny, MmOgMaDrup The warmth generated by the say. Ph"&W by AJ ihRM space has cut their hosting bills may' SUNNY SPOT--Don and Lorn TUthill epare a meal in their expanded khchen.The warrr(th gathered by siderahly,Mr.Tuthill said,-although the breakfast room,added on tw, ago,heats the entire first floor of their home during the winder. r f BEFORE AND AFTER-"Photo at left, taken two years ago, shows Boisseau Avenue, Southold home. At right, the way the finished sol- Don and Lorna Tuthill's.'sun space"as it was being attached to their arium addition looks today. r SD 216 IEll Suffolk Times Page 1A October 17, 1985 la Wmind e from$1,800 to$2,500 if tax credits are figured into the deal. The idea to sell the windmills emerged last November after Mr. Cowan attended a conference sponsored by the American Wind Energy Associa- tion in Pasadena, Cal. He went to the show to study alternative energy sources as a means of reducing operat- ing expenses at his manufacturing com- pany, which specializes in industrial components for Long Island utility com- d panies. At the conference, Mr. Cowan t 'e encountered a small group of people in- s terested in developing water pumping systems for the Third World in an effort to bolster food productivity_From there the idea for his present project took off. t r e But the interest in designing a water Ir pumper that will serve the Third o World's critical water needs has a � >. lingered. Mr. Cowan is almost at the ` a h end of a year-long effort to design a high ' r I- performance windmill with a built-in it hydraulic water pump for the Third . d World. Once completed,Mr. Cowan as- l. serts that it will be maintained in an .. T easy,straight-forward and inexpensive e manner. By comparison with the De- d mpster windmill,he said his prototype windmill will have the potential of put- a ` ting out four times the amount of water at a third of the price. HIDING THE WIND-- The Erg Corporation of Riverhead has been taking steps forward into the past -- rejuvenating old windmills and building new ones. ClSe from top right, 95-year-old Harold Tuthill of Sout -LOW stands in front o a recent y-rehabilitated windmill which he helped erect in 19114;Erg Corp. owner Tom Cowan holds specially-designed windmill blade as he checks out demonstrator model; Erg worker Les Finch as- sesses damage to windmill on KimoClanor Point in New Suffolk; and tiob Dickerson and Mr. Finch install blades on a circa-192() I Aeromotor windmill on the Kron property,in New Suffolk. Page'ls The Suffolk Tides Septt'mber`5, 1985 � Y Franklin's Southold Legacy 3X. (EDITOR'S NOTE: An exhibit of of the original courthouse, at Main . "' photographs of the original mileposts Street and Peconic Avenue in that marked King's Highway(Route25) Riverhead. between Riverhead and Orient Point in ;- the 1700s opens tomorrow in the lobby THE MILES'T'ONES " 40APWof the Southold Town Hall. The exhibit ` was commission by Southold Town His- Benjamin Franklin rode down King's Highway(Route 25)in Southold Town, torian Magdaline Goodrich,and created y w by Joy Bear of the Southold Town Land- in a carriage of his awn design. Its mark Preservation Commission. Fol- wheels registered a mile on an odometer lowing are excerpts from the narrative after a certain number of rotations. prepared b Mrs. Bear.} Franklin would mark the spot. Men in p y carts loaded with cut and marked stones followed Franklin's carriage and instal- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN led the stones in the designated areas. F1.YS .� .."`' �.< , t►.M `^" Benjamin Franklin thought that the American Colonies were becoming Postal rates were based on the r - alienated from each other because of a number of miles the delivery area was ' from the Post Office. Thus 1 lack of communication. To help the people who wi*if separate colonies relate to each other, might have been living in the Laurel *•L "E` a a he devised a system of Post Roads, area(once known as Franklinville)paid radiating from a central Post Office, less for their mail than did those living with post riders on swift horses speed- in Orient (once called Oysterponds). in mail delivery. g SOT, THOLO MILE MARKERS The Crown honored Franklin's idea Twenty-one milestones may be seen e � in 1751 by making him a joint Post nas- a along the old Post Road where _� ,,• ter General of the Colonies with Will- Benjamin Franklin set them c. 1753. t -4 iam Hunter.The two men received 604 These milestones bear carved numera s ..s English pounds annually, collected that indicate the distance bel: een�e ` individual markers and the Pos: ' ,., �► from postage on the letters. If any ofOffice, P that amount was left over after ex- which in 1753 was located in the penes, they could share it as salary. Riverhead Courthouse. s- The postal system began to pay for itself in 1761,and after that the annual prof- LOCATIONS OF THE STONES its were sent to England. The milestones are carved with num- erals indicating the distance from them " r, to the Past Office in the Riverhead THE CENTRAL POST OFFICE Courthouse(for example,7 M to Suffolk - _ The first Suffolk County Courthouse, C.H.)There are 23 remaining markers built in Riverhead in 1753, served as in Southold To0fi. Unty ose d the post office for Southold and South- installed in 1735 are missing: numbers ampton towns. At the time, Southold 21, 25 and 27. All the markers were N 18 M TO SUFFOLK G.H.,Boisseau Avenue and Route 48,Southold. extended from Orient to Wading River. installed on the south side of the Post � Photo by Virginia Rusch Today there is a marker at the location Road, now routes 25 an