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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES SD 229
ALBANY,NEW YORK (5181474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE:April 198'
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):Wm-A- Prinoe hause
2. COUNTY: Suf-Po 1k TOWN/CITY: Snuthn- d VILLAGE: Snu-bhOld
3. STRF,F:T LOCATION: Youngs Avenue north of Route 48
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private ZI
5. PRESENT OWNER: Warren Huffe ADDRESS: Southold _
h. USE: Original: residence Present: rpsi denne
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC Exterior visible from public road: Yes F1 No
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
t{. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c- brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MA'I1�RIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles FXI g. stucco ❑ other:
'I. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints
SYSTEM: h. wood frame with light members ❑
(if kntwn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent X h. good ❑ c• fair ❑ d. deteriorated Cl
11. INTEGRITY: a, original site [A b.. moved ❑ if so,when"I
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
Carefully restored in 1982
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Front west) and south elevation
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known l 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 El
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features:
j. other:
16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check mare than one if necessary).-
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ecessary):a.open land 91 b. woodland
c. scattered buildings 1Z
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial FKI
f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑
h..other:
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
In rear there is a parking area belonging to a commercial
building on Route 48. On the north side there are open
fields and scattered houses.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including intgrior features if known):
12-story, 3-bay, side entrance plan, gable roof house
with high roof plate.
SIGNIFICANCE
111. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: circa 1855
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
0 HIS fORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
This old house contributes to the historic ambience of
the area.
"I. SOURCES: Helen W. Prince. The Descendants of Captain
John Prince. 1983
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Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
assistant
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FIFTH GENERATION SD 229
Homested of a householder having a family' passed Apr, 10th
1850. " It would appear that his house was built at that
time . In 18S7 he purchased one and one-third acres of land
touching his property on the east , (See Plate VII)
#99. Joseph H. Prince (1854-1912) b, Sthld 1854 , d. Patter-
son NJ 11 Aug. 1912 age 58. m. Sthld 1 Sept . 1876
Elizabeth McCullagh (b. Ireland 1854, d. Sthld 3 Feb,
1889 age 35. Both bur, Sthld St . Patrick Cem. ) dau. of
Plate V11
#58. William B. and Mary D, Prince House, Southold. (he b. 1810, d. 1888)
In 1855 three years after -heir marriage, William and Mary bought a half acre of
land on the SW corner of his father's farm on Youngs Ave. "to be held as a home-
stead." There was no mens.-on in the deed of "all houses, buildings" or the like,
so the house was probably built in 1855. Both the interior and exterior were
carefully restored in 1982, making the house a little gem. (App.B, L Ma )
#59. Thomas E. and Meheta.ble S. Prince House, Southold. (he b. 1813, d. 1882)
Thomas bought farmland at the northern and of Ynunrs Avenue about 1839 and lived in
this house until 1864 when the family moved to the 4enterville house shown below.
The house is very old with extremely wide floor boards. It is shown as a rectangu-
lar house on the 1838 U.S. Coast Survey Map, no wing to the back or outbuildings as
now. (App.A, 1838 Man) In the left front room as you face the house, there is a
fireplace which faces the left wall of the house. When the Careys lived there they
removed a wall oven from the left side of that fireplace. Most of the ceilings are
low; the dining room (next to the house in the two-room wing) has a 6'8" ceiling.
There is a two-room mostly-stone cellar under this wing with a huge brick cistern
from dirt floor to ceiling which was possibly used for rain water. There was once
a pump above in that corner of the kitchen. The dormer across the front was added
in the 1920s, J, Leo Thompson doing the work. The porch had already been added,
shadowing the slightly set back door frame and its small panes of glass above and
at sides. Present owners, Antone and Estelle Grigonis.
#59. Thomas E. and Betsey S. Prince House, Centerville. (he b. 1813, d. 1882)
Thomas bought this one-and-a,-half story house in Centerville (Roanoke) after sell-
ing the one above. This photo was titled "Old Homestead at Centerville" and the
house stood just east of tha gate that leads to Reeve Park. After Thomas's death
his son Edmund E. carried on the farm. In the photo are Edmund E. Prince on the
canopied two-wheeled cart with cultivator attached, his son Edward B. with bicycle,
wife Phebe Ann, daughter Amy, and mother Betsey Prince. Edmund sold the house and
it wa:; moved into Riverhead to the north side of Reeves Ave. between Roanoke and
Osborn Avenues. He then bought a house on Union Avenue (now Cross-River Drive) and
had Egbert Fanning and Fred Mosley move it to the Centerville farm. (Ranch house
now on the site) . Edmund's wife Phebe Ann had the first Roanoke telephone exchange
in the dining room of the second house. They sold this farm and moved to Baiting
Hollow about 1903. (Plate XIV) [Amy Prince Monsell] [Edith Fanning and Vera
Fanning Brushl
Helen W. Prince . The Descendants
of Captain John Prince. 1983