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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD SD 228
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (519) 474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME: Town Of Southold/SPLIA DATE:April 1987
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE(516) 765-1892
Southold L. I. p N.Y. 71
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
1. F3UI LDING NAMI (S): Dr. John Gardiner (?) - Goldsmith house
2. COUNTY: S ff 1 TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Southold
3. STRI.I:T LOCATION: Horton Lane corner Old North Roadg east side
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h private
5. PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS:
6. USF Original: residence Present: re ide ce
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC Exterior visible from public road: Yes X1 No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
8. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e_ cobblestone ❑ f. shingles X g. stucco ❑ other:
S). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints Pq
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members PCI
(if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a- excellent ❑ b. good H� c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ b. moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
New bow window on lst floor. New shutters.
SD-RSM XXVII-5
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known IN b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
F. ether:
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:
Ib. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land LI b. woodland
c. scattered buildings KI
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑
h.other:
17. INTP.RRFLATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
This historic road remains untouched and clearly reflects
the old ambience . The scattered houses are surrounded by
open and cultivated fields and patches of forest.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
12-story, 3-bay side entrance plan gable roof early house .
in the classic North Fork tradition. 22-story, 3-bay
circa 1900 gable roof wing on east is larger than the
old house. Entrance is now on north fagade.
SIGNIFICANCE
11). DAIF OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: Prior to 1838. Probably circa 1.750
ARCIIITE:CT:
BUILDER:
20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
Was Goldsmith in 1858
Goldsmith in 1873
Wm Bowman in 1909
This old landmark contributes to the ambience of this
historic road. It is believed that this is the Dr. John
Gardiner house, circa 1750, that was noted by Mrs Currie-
Bell in her 1940 book.
Chace . Map of Suffolk County. 1858
Beers , Comstock, Cline. Atlas of Lo DE Island. 1873
21. SOURCES:E. Belcher-Hyde . Atlas of Suffolk County, L. I.
Vol. 2 : North Side. Sound Shore. 1909
Anne Currie-Bell. Tercentenary Celebration of
Southold Town. 164-0-71-9-707. Country Life Press ,
22. THE<NIF: Garden City. L. I. 1940- Page 141
U.S . Coast Survey. T-55. 1838
Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
assistant.
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I'EN.4RY QLD HOUSES OF THE CENTURIES Moo 9ND 1700 141
, stands among were of old clapboards. Within the house the mighty beams
t Marion. It is and the floor boards of irregular width testify great age.
resent owner is Down that same Youngs Avenue at the head of Town
Shipyard Lane, Creek, which had once been the old harbor of the town, a little
a Salmon house house stands on the site of "Arnold's Warehouse." It is nestled
tncy still intact. among bushes and it looks up the creek to the bay. A sea cap-
ry Heath bears tain once owned it, David Landon. W;"',.m R 'lose is the
�t people as the present resident, the owner Rev. Eugene Landon Conklin. Mr.
in historian be- �'�-,'yt;,, Pvures that th- n"P of this house takes it well intim the
'n of 1656• At century of i 1-u. r1e tests of tnrec granumuuA,.,, dtt of wtt0111
which has seen lived at different periods there. "Grandma Landon" who died
'rom village to at the age of eighty-nine and her daughter, "Grandma Wells,"
The Jonathan who died at the age of eighty-four and her daughter,
ricer Terry, de. "Grandma Conklin" (Mr. Conklin's mother), who lived to be '
of the house, e over ninety.
and a decd of One of the very early houses of the first settler period,
Matthias Corwin's, having undergone various removals from
other villages its home site, reached its Boisseau Avenue and Main Street
all. The quaint location and became the old family home of Carlisle Cochran.
ears a Celebra- James Lucey's house, moved to Locust Lane, is the ancient
s recently been home, circa 168o, of the L'Hommedieus, who carried an hon- '
present owner. orable and patriotic name in Southold's past. From a listing by
Tucker's Lane, the town historian more houses may be mentioned: the Dr. '
as though the John Gardiner house, around 12go, at the North Road—and
or fresh white Horton's Lane where the new road bends; another Gardiner tF
mpose the top liorise, once Dr. Robert rusteane s of 16So, built by the
iew but olden- colony for the town doctor, and now lost under its huge
:he side of the buttonwood tree and sumac growth, at the Bowery turn
:ity. A rough- (Mrs. Belle Griswold) ; the second house of John Budd,
middle t 600s, on Tucker's Lane (Daniel H. Horton) , the
nue, for many Major John Salmon house of the 1700s, Main Road (Mrs.
years its door- Belle Baker) ; the Joshua_H_o_rton house, 1670 or earlier,
t, son of Rev. North Road (Miss Mary Kenney) ; Capt, Pail house, 1710 r ,
onging to the -20, Main Road (the Lesterertson house—Harold Gold-
es her home to smith's residence) ; Anna Way house, early 1700s, said to have
:ds border the been built at fine Neck, now moved to Bowery Lane (James F.
door. During Gallagher). The present home of Joseph B. Hartranft is
cart, and now, described by George C. Terry as the house which his grcat-
or many a re- rt grandfather, Squire Ezra C. Terry, bought and remodeled in
ation its sides 1835 and was substantially the same as it looks today. The
t.
Ann Hallock Currie-Bell. Tercentenar
Celebration of Southold Town. 1640-1940.
Country Life Press, Garden City. L.I.
1940, p. 141