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Home My WebLink AboutSD-241 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM UNIQUE SITE NO.hve,Cox f-5 DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY, NEW YORK (51 K)474-0479 NEG. NO YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLZA DATE: April 1987 SD 241 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Rall, Main Road TELEPHONE016) 765-1892 Southold L. 1. , N.Y. 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION 1. BUILDING NAME(S): J. Albert Tillinghast house 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Southold 3. STREET LOCATION: Lighthouse Road, east side 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private 71 S. PRESENT OWNER: Mrs Blake ADDRESS. same 0. USE: Original: residence Present: residence 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC. Exterior visible from public road: Yes 0 No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION S. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles C9 g. stucco ❑ other: 9. STRUCTURAL, a. wood frame with interlocking joints EN SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑ (if known) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e. other 10. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good ® c. fair ❑ d. deterioialed ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site 191 b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): The four windows in the front gable are not original. SD RSM XX1X-(lee early photo. ) - 13. PHOTO: 13. MAP: N. Y.S . DOT Southold Quad Rear of house from east Horton t Lightho e: •G�' �5 � r x v � @OLS •�;, •)i `a$ . ." 0 Ot 32 T f ?_0 _,44 r Alk SD 241 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known ® b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: 15, RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn® 2 b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑ d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i. landscape features: evergreens j. other: — 16, SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land LJ b. woodland El c. scattered buildings C 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) Quiet country lane that leads to the lighthouse and has retained its 19th century ambience. 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): 12-story, 3-bay, side entrance plan, gable roof house, gable end to the street. Porch across the front. Small windows under the eaves. Shoulder surround at front door. 1-story gable roof wing on north with pergola. SIGNIFICANCE 19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1835-4Q* ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: The photo on this form shows the rear (east) side of this house. Here the windows on the 2nd floor have not been re- placed. The 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' 22. l-HENIF: Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Mori.tt , research assistant, SIXTH GENERATION SD 241 113 [Undated clipping] [Hntnq v. 5, p.67, v.7, p.94] [US Census, Sthld: 1880] Jessie graduated from Southold Academy and later had millinery positions in several far-flung cities including New York. She was an agent for a millinery firm and went south each spring and fall. In 1898 after vacationing in Southold, she return- ed to her position as head trimmer in a millinery es- tablishment in Lynn MA. At another time she accepted a Position as head of millinery in a department store in Houston TX. "Miss Jessie Prince of Paris, Texas, visited Southold. " In Oct. 1915 the Macon (GA) Telegraph contained a Plate XIII #100. Catherine Mehrer Prince House, Southold. (she b. 1845, d. 1918) 0. Rr #147. Mary H. Conklin, present owner. (she b. 1892) This is the historically marked 1653 Joseph Horton House written about in the Historical Society's Guide to Historic Markers, pp. 32,33. Kate, the widow of Sidney A. Prince, bought this house eight years after Sidney's death and lived here with her daughters, May and Marcia, until 1909, after both were married. Marcia had a hat shop in the two rooms at the right in the photo; the front one was furnished with a few little stands where hats were dis- played on holders and the floor stacked with boxes of hats she bought in the city each fall and spring. The room in back was her workroom. Mary Conklin, the present owner and also a Prince descendant, remembers walk- ing over to the shop with her mother to get her Easter hat each year and says "Marcia was nice" . Mary taught piano lessons here for many years; the second enterprising independent resident "Miss" .. #105. J. Albert and Fannie S. Tillinghast ?louse, Southold. (he b. 1834, d, 1904) This attractive home of Albert and Fannie's is on the east side of Lighthouse Road. Much of this area "Northside" was owned by the children of Albert J. and Mary (Prince) Tillinghast. John R.. Tillinghast owned the farm to the north. Albert's daughter Eva Belle and her husband Edward P. Baker (shown in photo with their daugh- ter Leila) lived on this farm until they sold it and bought Gilder S. Conklin's farm at the west end of the village. The small photo indicates that all the second floor windows were subsequently changed. (Plate XI) (App.A, 1909 Map) #107. Horace P. and Jennie R. Tillinghast Fouse, Southold. (he b. 1838, d. 1898) This house is on the sharp bend on Albertscn Lane. It was owned by Jennie's father Charles Reeve, who raised and shipped cut roses to the market and was also a land- scapist. Jennie and Horace moved to the farm in 1872. Jennie had a music room on the east side with an outside door for her piano students. This door and twelve others from both inside and outside doorways are lying on the attic floor beams. A back stairway as well as doors were eliminated when Jennie's great granddaughter Betty Jane Copin and her husband Samuel, the present owners, remodelled the house. Helen W. Prince. The Descendants of Ca twin- John Prince . 1983 i PLATE XIII SD 241 x # 105 Early Photo ' '.. Courtesy Inez M. Kaelin � ,�•� #105 Photo 19'70 k rr c,. `TT � 4fY kY' v #100 ka Photo 1982 ar � N, a• � #1 U tI Painting by Rich Fiedler , 1976 Courtesy Betty Jane C opin Helen W. Prince, The Descendants of Captain John Prince. 19 3