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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD SD 230
`i W YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
\I B\NY,NEW YORK (5 18)474.0479 NEG. N0.
YOUR NAME:Town of SoutholdtSPLIA DATE: Auril 1987
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TFTEPHONE, (516) 765-1892
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ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
I. BUILDING NAME(S): Thomas, R. Fri ncre hailse
2. COUNTY: Suffnik TOWN/CITY, Srnithnld VILLAGE: Sn>>thnl d
3. STREET LOCATION: Ynungs Ave, , ea.qt si cle
4. OWNERSIIIP: a_ public ❑ h private 5d
5. PRESENT OWNER: Anton Grigonis ADDRESS same
G. USE: Original: resident-e Present:
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC Exterior visible from public road: Yes lid No
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
K. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. hoard and batten ❑
MATI RIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: vinyl
'). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with 'interlocking joints
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑
61' kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good R1 c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
1 I. INTEGRITY: a. original site IE b. moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
Porch ,dormers and shutters are not original.
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12. PHOTO: From south west 13. MAP: N.Y.S . DOT Southold Quad
Front (west) and south elevation
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known LE b. zoning❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration 17
f. other:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. harn® b. carriage house ❑ c. garage �I
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ water tank
i. landscape features: several outbuildings
j. other:
16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land ® b. woodland M
c. scattered buildings
d,densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑
It.other:
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
A few scattered houses are surrounded by open and
cultivated fields and patches of forest.
Is. OTHLR NO"I ABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
lIL—story, 3—bay, side entrance plan gable roof house.
SIGNIFICANCE
lit. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: prior to 1838
ARC IITEC"T:
BUILDER:
0. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITt CTURAL IMPORTANCE.
3nspite of the big dormer, this house retains its
significance as one of the North Fork classic "Half-Gapes':
21. SOURCES: Helen W. Prince. The Descendants of Ca twin
John Prince. 1983, PP. 31, 48 & 49.
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Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
assistant.
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FOURTH GENERATION SD 230
In Feb. 1827 William had completed seven years in the
Thirteenth Regiment of N.Y. S. Artillery. Feb. 14 , 1871 he
received a War of 1812 Survivor' s Pension of $8 a month, No .
3591 . [Whit . Col . F3251 In 1830 and for many succeeding
years , he and Charles H. Payne were Overseers of the Poor.
�I In 1832 he sold the six acres on the S.W. corner of Main
St . and Youngs Ave , and the 11 acre meadow, all of which had
been handed down from Capt . John Prince . That same day he
bought 75 acres of farmland along east the s side of Youngs
Ave . north of Route 48 . He either lived on the site of the
4th house north, ( James Gagsn tore down some of that old
house in 1916 , moved the rest back where it is now a garage ,
and built the present house . ) or he lived -in what was later
his son Thomas Edward ' s house . (Plate VII) William sold the
farm in 1857 and he and Waity built a house on Prince Zane .
( Plate V) (App .A, 18 8 Mapr App.B , Doc .18 2)
#58 . William Benjamin Prince ( 1810-1888) m. 1852 Mary Deery.
#59 • Thomas Edward Prince ( 1813-1882) Zl 1837 Mehetabel M.
Salmon, m 2 1850 Betsey A. Salmon.
#60 . Mary Ann Prince ( 1814-1880) m. 1833 Albert J.
Tillinghast .
#61 . Sidney A. Prince ( 1817-1835) b. Sthld 20 Nov. 1817, d .
ca. 30 Oct . 1835 , drowned in shipwreck of the smack
Philander off the coast of South Carolina, age 17 years ,
11 mo . 15 days . Memorial stone , Sthld Pres. Cem.
The following ,letter was sent to Sidney' s father by
Albert J. Tillinghast , his sister' s husband .
Charleston, Nov. 5th 1835 .
Dear Friends , It is with a heavy heart and a trem-
bling hand that I set down to inform you of the
loss of the Smack Philander and we have no reason to
dout but all hands has perished . She saled from New
York on Satturday the 24 and the next Satturday
evening the news came to me that the Smack Philan-
der was on Deweese Island about 24 miles to the
north, a total wreck and not a soul on bond of her
and the next morning Capt . Ryon, Alber Roberts and
myself went down to see if we could get any infor-
mation about the crew but all without success . The
people on the island informed us that they first
saw her Friday morning in the brakers and no one to
be seen on bord and that evening they went on bord
Helen W. Prince . The Descendants of Ca twin Jahn Prince. 1983
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Homested of a householder having a family, passed Apr. 10th
1850. " It would appear that his house was built at that
time. In 1857 he purchased one and one-third acres of land
touching his property on the east . (See Plate VII)
,#99. Joseph H. Prance (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 C em. ) dau. of
Plate VII
#58. William B, and Mary D. Prince House, Southold. (he b. 1810, d. 1888)
In 1855 three years after their 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 mention 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, 1873 Ma )
#59. Thomas E. and Mehetable S. Prince House, Southold. (he b. 1813, d. 1882)
Thomas bought farmland at the northern end of Youngs Avenue about 1839 and lived in
this house until 1864 when the family moved to the Centerville 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 Ma ) 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 the 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 was 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 Monselll [Edith Fanning and Vera
Fanning Brush]
Helen W. Prince. The Descendants of Captain John .Prince. 1983