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Home My WebLink AboutSD-221 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION UNIQUE SITE NO. I '• v'7'7<K QUA© NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY, NEW YORK (518) 474-0479 NEG. NO. SD 221 YOUR NAME: Tnwn of Southold. SPLIA DATE:April 1982 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE(516) 765-1892 Southold L. I. , N.Y.11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION 1. BUILDING NAME(S): Joshua Horton house "1670 House" / Wedgewood Shop 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWNICITY: Southold V`ILLACE: Southold 3. STREET LOCATION: Route 48, north side, near Boisseau Ave. (west) 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private EN 5. PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS 6. USE: Original: Residence Present: Antique store 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC. Exterior visible from public read: Yes KI No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION 8. BUI[JANG a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL. e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ® g. stucco ❑ other: 1). STRUCTURAL a, wood frame with interlocking joints 9 SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members [7 (if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls❑ d. metal (explain) e. other 10. CONDITION: excellent X b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTI=.GRITY: a. miginai site ❑ b, moved ® if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): Chimney rebuilt. Wing added on west. Transom removed. SD RSM XXVI-17 1-1. PHOTO_ From south west 13. MAP: N.Y.S . DOT Southold Quad Front (south) and west elevation 32OLD NORTH •RD•• � a i • i t V,•, c N L V 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known b.zoning ❑ c. roads ElSD 221 d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. ether: IS. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn E" 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 IN b. woodland c. scattered buildings Pq d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑ h.other: 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) In low density area along Route 48 , among a cluster of houses belonging to the outskirts of the Village of Southold, and surrounded by some open fields. 18. 011iER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): 12-story, 3-bay, side entrance plan, gable roof house with interior chimney opposite front door. 1i-story wing on west. 4/4 windows . SIGNIFICANCE 11). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: l7th century ARCHITECT: BUILDER: ?0. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: This is the classic NorthFork "Half Cape." A plaque readst "Early Century Southold House Moved from Original Homesite" In the mid 19th century this was the home of Michael Kenny and continued in Kenny ownership for over 100 years . (Perhaps Kenny Avenue by Great Pond was named after this famil ?) Owner in 1946 was Miss Mary K nny. Historic Sites of Southold Town N.Y. to 191 . Southold Tercentenary Committee. 1983. #50 Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical Society. 1960 #12 21. SOURCES: A Summer of History. Official Program Town of Southold 1 0-19b5. .Map section 2, #19 . Anne Currie-Bell.Old' Southold Town's Tercentenary. 1940. Page 141 ??. rHL N1 Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt , research assistant. Trees were cut down in 1818 for the building of the 25x35 , and the Jonah Halsey, a century apart, who are in question. foot, unceiled, little structure with slab benches to serve as An early Wells, Phillips, Harvey, Glover, Corwin, Hallock, the first church or meetinghouse of the Methodists in South- another Horton and Barnabas H. Booth, as well as others, old. Meetings were held in the latter 18th century in the homes have appeared at various points in the research work. of Mrs. Abigail Hempstead Ledyard Moore. Mrs. Fannie Led- yard Peters, Peter Vail and others. In 1795 Southold was Before the answer comes forth .with the first owner estab- placed on the Long Island Circuit of Methodist Pastors. After lished, several other houses involved with this one have to be a Revival in 1818, a meeting place to seat a much larger con- identified, gregation was found necessary. It was built by the hands of the members and the property deed bore the date of February 25, 1819, In the beginning it stood farther up on the hill slope. 13. THOMAS MOORE HOUSE In 1850, a second church was built on he site of the In Original Structure pre-1656 present Methodist Church. The structure of 1818-'19 was sold (Walter Kapp, Main Street, Southold.) and moved down the hill. With later additions it became the building it is today. Thomas Moore was a ship-builder, owner of vessels, mer- In following years it passed through a series of owner- chant, Town Magistrate and owner of many parcels of land ships, used as a store and often with a home upstairs. After in Southold Town. There is a definite record that he came 1886, the Cochran brothers, J. Edwin and William A. took it from Southwold, England. He married Martha Yonges, sister over. They were sons of Evelina Case Cochran and J. Henry of Rev. John Yonges, daughter of Rev. Christopher Yonges, Cochran, builder of Belmont Hall; grandsons of William Dor- Vicar of Southwold, England. In this house, November 7,673, Dutch Commissioners met with Southold's firm refusal rance Cochran, builder of the First Academy and of the Uni- 11knuckle to Dutch rule, versalist Church, who married Polly Youngs of orient. to The corner store is wcll recalled as belonging to the good The Louse stands on its original h-T-.,.pito. -Along Qw— old days of combined store-keeping and sociability. Town Street, he lands ran easterly down Vi a uranch of the creek, which at that time curt through the Town Street, 1 EARLY CENTURY SOUTHOLD HOUSE with the Shipwrights Row of homes on its other embank- Moved from Original 1 iomesite ment. Peter Payne was Moore's neighbor on the west; Capt. Charles Glover, on the south. The house has preserved much (Mrs. James W. Tait, T ti North Road, of its antiquity: the large central chimney, four fireplaces, one `SoutlloT ) the great fireplace with oven at the rear wall the narrow, Who was the first owner of this attractive little "Half steep, closed-in stairs. The front door is a beautiful example Cape Cod" with its hand-hewn timbers, its borning room of later doorways, with fine panelling. The "butterie", later and random width floors? Unanswerable, because of baffling called the milk house, stands as a separate little structure, questions in research and conflicting data. It would seem to close to the house. The old well with its oaken bucket was be a twice, or possibly thrice, moved house and mayhap it near it. will be found to be another "much-moved" house. In the The house passed from Thomas, who died 1691, to his whomidwerele marriedy1853 laved in el Kenny and brought up theiary r son Nathaniel. Thomas purchased other sites in the village g P for his several sons, Thomas, Benjamin, Nathaniel and Jona- dren, John, Rose, Mary, Kate, James, Michael. For over 100 than. Many of the old families are represented in the following years it was in Kenny ownership, during the time t stood 18th and 19th century life of this house and lands: John Terry, on a previous North Road site where now Kaelin s Farm Christopher Yonges, Samuel Landon, James Horton, the Equipment is located. Widow Arcularius) Nathaniel Corwin, Hudson Corwin David The initials "J. H." are carved on a hand-hewn rafter. Landon, Zebulon Homan, William Y. Fithian, followed by Strange enough, they could stand for both the Joshua Horton several 20th century owners. N 18 19 Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical Society. 1960 A i. R • _ . -. "�� ,� ems;,�-�'ti"'� 1.1 �*d SD 221 �t. i„ RcIllica -4 Ole 111.1ce. 1700; h. 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