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Home My WebLink AboutSD-240 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM UNIQUE SITE NO. I'-,3,0-Mrb7gS( DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD SD 240 NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY,NEW YORK (5181474-0479 NEG. NO, YOUR NAME: Tnvm of Sou thold.SPLTA DATE: April .1.9.87 YOUR ADDRESS:Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE: (516) 765-189.2 Southold Z. S. , N.Y. 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION I. BUILDING; NAME(S): Orrin Prince house 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY Southold VILLAGE: Southold 3. STREET LOCATION: # 2585, sound View Road 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ K private 5, PRFSL NT OWNER: J. Bitses ADDRESS: same 6, USF.: Original: Inn-residence Present: residence 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes Y No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION fi, BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ h. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d- board and batten ❑ MATERIAL., e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles W g. stucco ❑' other: 4). STRUC'T'URAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints Ej SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members KI 01' known) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e. other 10. CONDITION: a. excellent F b. goad ® c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTIA;RITY: a. original site ❑ b. moved ❑x if sa,when?1913 _From Mt. Beulah Ave. c. list major alterations and dates (if known): Remodeled with porches and porte-cochare added. SD RSM xXzx-5 12. PHOrO:FrOm south east 13 MAPN.Y.S. DOT Southold Quad East and north elevation ��: 'i' I •�. L6NG ISLRXdSWN�''': Y t IFS r ; • �- 00 __ •- Q 0 r, Y SE, ISO : = " SD 240 14, THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known ® b.zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ F. ether: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn b. carriage house ❑ c. garage1 d. privy ❑ e_ shed ❑ f. greenhouse El g. shop ❑ h- gardens ❑ i. landscape features: j. other: 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land n b. woodland l c. scattered buildings ❑ d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑ h.other: Pond 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Attractively landscaped house on an incline overlooking Lilly Pond. 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): 12-story, 3-bay gable roof house with 1-story wing. Re- modeled after moving and porches added. North wing was part of the Soundview Inn on Sound Avenue burned down in 1912. SIGNIFICANCE 11). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1 701 fpr SnuthPrn part ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: Historically and aesthetically this house contributes to the ambience of the area. 21. SOURCES: Helen W. Prince . The Descendants of Captain John Prince. 1983 *Interview James Bitses. 2/20/8' IHL\If Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research assistant. SIS 240 e Grattan told me a- t!", -t!", left it there and *. titans lived for Mk Residences on Sound View Adefti 10, ih'Id," years. the Sound, enlarged NN it was successful I had our graduating I hands from gather- We didn't have any to impressed by the ' there having a con- �� 4 he names. Does any :1 nd Bluff that L.D. - Cosden built their ioutholders, joining r vities. hater Edna Booth, bought and A s Bank building in E. D. Cahoon & Dr. I. H. Marshall Homes on the bluff. w Southold Savings Avenue and Main PaUMORA in% Southold, L.I. 2 x, �x ..Z Later called Sound View Hotel. Rose Remembers Newell 1976 SD 240 FIFTH GENERATION but that year he attended two Music Parties, one at Uncle Orrin' s and one at Pipe 's Neck, went clamming, fishing, eeling, gunning, helped other farmers , built a sleigh, visited back and forth with brother Gilder, but mostly "Worked round home . " In 1877 he was in the grocery business with Mr. Gomez, first in the George Simons building, then the Post Office building. #50 . Lucretia Prince (1811-1901) b. Sthld 14 Apr. 1811, d. Sthld 29 Oct . 1901 . m. Sthld 9 Mar. 1841 Henry D. Glover, farmer. (b. 1810 , d . 21 Nov. 1881, age 71. Both bur. Sthld Pres. C em. ) son of Joseph (b. Sthld) and Sophia (---) Glover. (b. E Hmptn) [Twn Clerk, Deaths , p.31 [Hen W. Prince Papers] Lucretia's home was on Youngs Ave . , now owned by Gil and May Miner. (Plate VI) Her daughter died a few years after her husband, whom she outlived by 20 years. Toward the end of her life she had several housekeepers: Mrs . Catherine Prince , and Bertha Barth who tended her during her last illness. Her financial affairs were handled by her nephew, Henry Prince , who was also executor of her will . She was a member of the M.E. Church and contributed a considerable amount toward its 1900 rebuilding. #86 . Martha P. Glover ( 1841.-1886) m. 1862 William C . Salmon. #87. Phebe A. Glover b. ca. 1849 , d. 16 Jan. 1857 . "She was a remarkable good little girl," wrote Henry Prince in his diary. #52 . Orrin Ezra Prince ( 1816-1890) Sea Captain and Farmer. b. Sthld 14 Nov. 1816 , d . Sthld 6 Nov. 1890 . m 1 16 Jan. 1839 ° Maria L. Wells of Sthld. (b. Orient 18 Oct . 1816, d . Sthld r' 22 Feb. 1886. Both bur. Sthld Pres. Cem. ) dau. of Capt . Abner and Harriet Lucretia (Griffin) Wells and g.dau. of Augustus and Lucretia (Tuthill) Griffin. m/2 March 1889 Althea --- , of Sea Cliff , NY [Sal. Rec .] [O.E. Prince Bible] [Hayes , Wells Genealogy, pp .204 ,2051 [Hen W . Prince 1854-1861 Diary] [E. S. Prince 1876-1880 Diary] [Portr . & Bio r. Rec . , P• 5981 Prince , Civil War Letters] [Hntng, v. 1 , pp. 74 , 78c v •4 , pp. 73 , 79, v. 5 + P •16 ; v .A , p .142] [Henry &'-Jennie Prince Scrapbooks] Helen W. Prince. The Descendants of Captain John Prince. 1983 42 ' FIFTH GENERATION SD 240 - Xg- 1 � :J . Coprrt.pr 1aTp,h Gumanln.. �` #52. Orrin E. and Maria W. Prince House Orrin captained many vessels , sailing as far as the "Banks" for fish. One vessel was the George Moon whose owner jumped up and down on the wharf in N.Y.C . when he brought in a thousand dollars worth of halibut . In 1878 Orrin pur- chased the Schooner Georgians to engage in the fishing busi- ness , letting 19 year old son Ezra run the farm. At Block Island on one trip, he returned with 1800 lbs of codfish. Orrin and Maria first lived east of the village in the Rev. Howell House , where their first child , Henry, was born. In 1849 he bought a thirty acre farm on the Sound . The ILI house, shown above, was on the S.W. corner of the property and it witnessed many happy gatherings. His two sons' diaries portray a stream of callers, young and old , rela- tives and friends, who often stayed overnight . Intermittent- ly in late summer, they might have boarders , such as a city family on vacation. There were many musical evenings , Louise playing the organ or guitar , Orrin wearing "his usual bright smile, playing his violin and singing, his deep sonorous voice going into a light falsetto on the high notes . " Orrin like other farmers , had to be able to do about everything and always put his time to good use: he would "dress out pickets, " weave baskets for home use , paint and varnish the schooner wagon and the top buggy, build things like the one-horse cart he designed and used mostly for Helen W. Prince. The Descendants of Captain John Prince. 1983 43 FIFTH GENERATION SD z40 getting out muck, press and sell cider. (Once they picked 44 bu. from one tree . ) In 1879 Orrin put bricks on the bottom of the ice house. It "made a first-rate cellar" for their cabbages and turnips. To combat the hard winters in the poorly insulated house , he moved the cookstove from the sum- mer kitchen into the dining room from late fall until spring. The North Road farmers owned a seiner, appropriately named "The Canadian. " Orrin had a J right and he (or one of his sons) put in his share of time seining for the bunkers he used to fertilize his crops. One day in 1855 the "Cana- dians" got 800 , 000 shad , a record catch. ,Orrin sold the farm in 1885 , When Alfred H. Cosden later purchased the property, he cut Mt . Beulah Ave. through the middle, making a pasture on the east and a private golf course on the west . (A description of the house , furnishings, g stables, servants ' homes, and landscaping can be found in Huntting, v.B, pp. 66,67) . Orrin's house was sold and moved to land Fred Hummel had bought in 1888 from Joseph A. Til- linghast on Light House Road. It stands on the N.W. side of the pond where the present Sound View Ave . crosses it and has been extensively remodelled. (now owned by James Bitses) A month after selling the farm Orrin bought a house on Cot- tage Place , Southold , and lived there until his death. (APp•A , 18Z3 , 1909 Maps) #88 . Henry Wells Prince ( 1839-1925) m. 1867 Jennie P. Wells. #89 , Harriet Desiah Prince (1843-1924) m. 1867 Andrew F. Beebe. #90 . Charles Orrin Prince ( 1847-1848) b. 19 Oct . 1847 , d. 27 Feb, 1848 , 4 mo . 8 da. [C , $. Moore ' s C em. Notebook] #91 , Orrin Abner Prince ( 1849-1937) m. 1872 Harriet Hobart . #92 . Maria Louise Prince (1855-1931) m. 1887 Frederic E . Booth. #93 . Ezra S. Prince (1858-1883) b. Sthld 3 Aug. 1858 , d. Sthld 23 May 1883 age 24 years , of organic heart disease . Unmarried. [E. S. Prince 1876-1880 Diary] [Prince , Civil War Letters . . .] [Twn, Clerk , Deaths , p.9] Eddie S . , as he was called, attended Southold Acad- emy until he was seventeen and confided that he liked Helen W. Prince . The Descendants of Captain John Prince, 1983 l