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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSD-247 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY SD 247 BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM UNIQUE SITE NO. 31� DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY,NEW YORK (518' 474-0474 NEG NO YOUR NAMETQ'wn 6f- Southold,/SPLIA DATE: April _.98. YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road -TELEPHONE:_J516 ) 765-3-892 Southold, L.I. , N. Y. 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any):90,3tbol d TOM CnTnrmini tv novel opmentt Of f ne IDENTIFICATION I. BUILDING NAME(:S): 1pmainsq of CQeden esttate 2. COUNTY: 3uffolk TOWN/CITY: Sort oltj VILLAGE: Solltbol dl 3. STRE E"T LOCATION:#18'3H5 Sound Vi AW Roads & L750 Mt l_ Raua Avsa 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h. private S. PRESENT OWNER: I_iengstenberg/Tate ADDRESS: h. USF.: Original: Fatate nutbni lLngsL Present: s 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION x. BLIILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick EX d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL. e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: 1f. STRUCTLIRAI. a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑ SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑ (if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls EX d. metal (explain) e. other 10. CONDITION: a. excellent 13 b. good ❑ c. Fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a, original site EX h. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): Recently adapted for residential use. SD RSM XXIX-21 12. PHOTO: From south west 13. MAP: N. Y.S. DO'S° Southold Quad Front (west ) and south elevation SO 'h G fra 32 r• •I m 0377 � � �G � .h•y - a - /j• p0 - - Ra s A SD 247 � r 14, THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known ER b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barnZI b. carriage house ® c. garage 12 d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens 71 i. landscape features: large j. other: 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one il-necessary): a.open land 11 b. woodland [K] c. scattered buildings lX d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑ It.other: 17. INTI°RRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROLNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) The Cosden estate straddled Sound View Avenue . The mansion (demolished ) stood on the Sound bluffs on the north side of the road . The gate posts and gates with initial "C" still remain. 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): Magnificent cluster of handsome red brick service units , garages , and stables , each with high chateauesque slate roof. Cartouche with flanking balustrades on connecting 1-story gallery. Two separate sections of 2t-stories each, one with a subsumed porch, were for servants and SIGNIFICANCE guests. 111. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: Circa 1915 ARCI IITECT: James Burley* - BUILDER: 0. HISTORICAL AND ARCIIITECTURAL IMPORTANCE. This property was Isaac B. 1Remsen on the 1949 map. According to research by Ferris McGarity of New York, Cosden bought from Remsen. The preservation of these handsome buildings is an important contribution to the historic and aesthetic ambience of Southold . The complex is one of the few examples of estate architecture on the North Fork. E. Belcher-Hyde, Atlas of Suffolk County, LiI . North Side . Sound Shore . 1949 21. SOURCES: Helen W. Prince . The Descendants of Captain John Prince. 1983 - - *Telephone call from Ferris McGarity, New York, N.Y. Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt , research assistant. SD 247 COSDEN ESTATE k North gates to Cosden estate !� north side of _ Sound View Avenue it y- Photo# SD-RSM XXIX-ls -- From south west rr �- Looking east from Mt. Beulah Avenue showing converted garage bays with -� — - balustraded roof Photo # SD-RSM XXIX-22 From west SD 247 Ccsden Estate (continued ) t 1 - _ t .ell _ .).. . il. neg. Y- 1 RSM XXs IX-24A from NW ikk _ GGG Estate cottage No. 1 neg. 4 RSM XXIX-24 from NW r4 - Estate cottage No . 2 SD 247 Cosden Estate (continued). neg. �i RSM XXIX-20 from SW Estate cottage No . 3 neg. RSM XXIX-23 �wsrar���l. as - noun MEM 11110 lilm Menve MAN es MAMM do IIIIIIIIIINI now PON MAN NOW Close-up of Cartouche on garage showing owner' s initials A/C for Alfred Cosden. FIFTH GENERATION SD 247 43 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. L Orrin sold the farm in 1885. When Alfred H. Cosden later purchased the property, he had a pasture on the east -and a private golf corse on the west . (A description of the house , furnishings , 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 , 1873 , 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 . B. Moore ' s Cem. 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 SD 247 - ' �,' ,,:.,;,.r�Gr�r•r-,�tR*serrsre,�. SECOND SEt;wluN The SuMolk Tinnes.+Febuery 5,1lla7�e*s 4 THE SUFFOLK TIMES Out With the Caws, in With Elegance By JANET GARRELL A ',.. 5,.... Jacuzzi has replaced the row stalls, guest quarters occupy a former hay loft, and the host and hostess do their for- mal entertaining where a !Beet of cars once was sheltered. Two years ofextensive renovation have resulted in the Cinderella-like transformation of a dilapidated brisk barn and stable building an Mt. T t Beulah Road in Southold.The pm7ect n r requt aacammi ment on the part of owners Herbert and Irene Er- nest as we1tas the services of an en- gineer,an architectural firm,a mas- ter carpenter And a small army of Wit,>7 local contractors. A vision of the potential of the de- caying,.debris-littered building was strong enough to cause Mr.and Ernest, long-time city w� ellen, to give up their house in Manhattan to move to the wide-open spaces of Southold."We came out here because we loved the house" Mrs. Ernest a g Now_ 74 said. "We saw it on Sunday and owned it by Wednesday." .Tho building is one of the fow, _ w examples of estate architecture on pnrnoseu t the North Fork, according to land- TRANSFORMED--Above,a for- t scape architect Richard Ward, who mal living room; at right, slable supervised the renovation after his building prior 10 renovations; firm,Ward Associates in Ronkonk- ama,had worked up the plane.Mr. below,after the facalift. Ward,the Ernest's neighbor,is also - a member of the town Planning - Board. The 7,503-square-fool build- — in built a 1915 was designed esi d architect ameurlea Whose reaonsy Ivm also was for �n a number of estates in Connecticut and along Lang Island's North Share.The stable building and two adjacent brick residences were once part of the Alfred H-Cosden estate.The central portion of the U-shaped building was - converted into a residence by its pre- vious owner in the early 1980s. Going-Public Mr, and Mrs. Ernest describe themselves as private people who - wnuid normally prefer to stay out of the spotlight with their renovation project."We're willing to come out of seclusion because of what happened to the house on the corner in So - odO Rfre.Ernest said,referring the � malition - of the 113th-century Har- r tra house last November."When that came own,it was like a slap in the face.Here we are,trying to keep viable a building that nobody has noticed much, and they allow that l house to be tom down.Maybe if other people know about what we're doing to preserve this place,it will inspire them to do good things with the other old buildings in the area."If the spot- light were turned on anybody, it -. should be on Mr.Ward,the Emests insist, The architect stopped by nearly every morning,and his efforts :" .:- .'`' .` - '`--" t: See Ernest%,page 1 8A Once cow stalls... ...Now an exercise/Jacuzzi room SD 247 f 1 , HOME STRETCH—Architect Lawrence Feeley(ieftf,who helped de- sign the renovation,and landscape architect Richard Ward,who super- vised the overall project,stroll through the room designed around the former horse stables. Ernestse.a the elate shingles,reline the roof,re- place the copa3r flashing and gut- Continuedfrom page 1A tern,.and ther replace the shingles. west well beyond the call of duty, Before the reahingling, skylights were cut into the roof to open up the they say. gloomy loft areas on the second floor. The daily visits were necessary, 'Thal was one of the most rewarding Mr.Ward said."With the detail in- parts of the job," Mr. Ward said volved in the job, it required that "With a lot of light pouring in,you kind of coordination.There were de- could finally have a vision that the cisions to make every day."Although interior would!be livable." Ward Associates haadlee commercial The origins!appearance of the ex- projects almost exclusively,it made terior of the building was preserved an exception for the Ernests'project, as much sit possible.The interior lay- "It was a matter of preserving the out includes a large, high-ceilinged past and bringing it up to the pre- living room and an upstairs office for sent,and there was a lot of interest Mr. Eraest iY the former garage in our company in doing that kind of wing.The central wing includes the work,"Mr.Ward explained.. kitchen,an informal living and din- The many challenges began with ing area, and two bedrooms. The the need for a good foundation. A ;south wing,which once housed cows major flooding problem in the cellar and horses and a hayloft,was con- led engineer Merlon Wiggin of verted to a fully equipped exercise Peconic Associates in Greenport to area with Jacuzzi plus an upstairs discover major weaknesses in the suite of guest x ma. foundation and in the Pout-thick con- The meet outstanding feature of crete floor of the central wing. He the south win;is the preservation of 3 worked out plans for correcting the the box stall&With their mellowed problem, and the Eraests found wood paneling and brass hardware, themselves involved in an industrial- they were juE too beautiful to dis- strength conatruct"n program, in- mantle, Mr, Ernest explained, so volving prodigious quantities of ce- they were adapted.One is to be used mint, concrete blocks and steel as a sewing room for Mn,Ernest's beams,right under their living quer- sister,who has an apartment on the fere. premises. Anther is to be Mr. Er- Keeping Out the Elements nest's workshov."This small one is Not only the ground under the Er- my wife's gtaii,"jotted Mr. Ernest. nest's feet, but also the roof over , their heads needed serious work. Y11ing jaCheracter They ended up having to remove all Keeping the stella was part of the overall plan to retain original fea- tures and materials of the building. When you try to preserve the character of a building, it takes time,"Mr. Ward said, referring to the two-year span required for the work instead of the usual six to nine months mgdred to build a new house. Putting in heating and air conditioning was a difficult phase.. We had to cot through walla but do it in such a gray that it waan-t obtru- sive,"said M-.Ward.Another pm& lem was installing new windows and doors in nem-standard openings. There was a rat of pushing and shov- ing to make them fit,"he said. Cloth Mr. Ward and the Ernesta give a large share of credit to master carpenter Joe Diaz. "You have to have aomeme capable of executing what's on piper," said Mr. Ward. "Without his knowledge of how to do it,it would have been impossible." SD 247 ITT crest of a hill along the new highway, �. Lexington and Charles Smith,a fire- r this marvelous development in land- Burning of the Lei,a �0 man. Crawley floated upon a b^le scope and architecture opens suddenly i mark the of cotton and was carried to the on the view, and one rf-vels in a scene Next Thurs ay Wilf1 , seventy-sixth anniversary of the shore East of Old Field Point. Ile of unsurpassed beauty. Again and i burning of the steamer Lexington in reached a house near the shore and again have our neighbors extended the Sound off Eaton Neck, in which- was cared for. Some days after the the hospitality of.these homes, or awful fire 140 persons perished. The accident the lifeboat was found in shared their good fortune in any way Lexington which was a side wheeler, Smithtown Bay containing the froz- needed, in order to further our public H. J. Craig Interests. Yea, the first settlers-,on '220 feet in length and 26 feet beam, en bodies of two men, breezybluff have furnished nnmist:ak- ran between New York and Provi- and W. A. Greene of Providence, R. able evidence during their twenty derce. She was very fast for those I. Greene carried 65 letters to be years, residence among us that they ` days and made the trig in twelve delivered in Providence. He also are friends and neighbors of Southold. hours. It was a very cold afternoon had $6,650 on his person. Craig ` when at A o'clock,the ill fated boat carried $39 in money, some jewelrj, THE NEW-COMER 5vitli 144 people aboard left her New etc, The new year of 1916 saw the open- Fork pier for Providence. Soon, The late Dr. Darling B. Whitney, Ing of another beautiful home on the r sundown the mercury indicated then a resident of Commack, was bluff. When Mr. A. H. Coaden re- 'fie zero. coroner at that time and he took tired from usiness and would establish •tteamer that ay contained no charge of the bodies of Greene and a home for hie family, it was Southold dwith its simple country lite and the ®tatcrooma. rge cabin was Craig and saw to it that their rep-. Sound shore with its peerless outlook, used as a dining room later was resentatives and relatives received that attracted more than any other cleared for use as a saloon ocial heir valuables.—Huntington Bul- place this Captain of Industry. features for which all on boar in. la """ L� For more than a year all eyes have sembled. Soon aftetr 7 o'clock t pa�, �� hu�l� at U`� SOJMd been directed in friendly interest to- 1305 actors, Henry J. Finn and U ward the development of this fine ea- Charles Eberle, were entertaining s`""TAI+. FIRST SEMERS� ` tate. Everybody knows how a small the passengers and everyone was en- Two beautiful homes have crowned army of men have been busy on the joying the evening. This continued the bluff on the Sound Shore, and the old farming land; of the blasting, cut- s occupants of these hoSouthold can ting, and grading tbat have taken ,for some time and many of the pas- h { place. until now, only a feet spring- sengers had settled down in the big I claim truly as neighbors. They have times are necessary, and the stately w easy chairs of the cabin for the fulfilled perfectly, again and again, residence will become a part of a re- night, when the cry of „fire" rang in their attitude towards our interests. claimed and beautiful landscape. through the cabin. The Lexington The writer of these few words of was then only two miles ail' Eaton the definition given of old as to "who description is not an architect and can Neck and she was headed for the is a neighbor?" give no opinion of the fine architectural shore. The flames spread rapidly. More than a score of years ago, two features of the buildings on this estate. families closet connected by mar- boat was lowered and filled with' y The house crowning the bluff, and nage, came to this high, breezy spot, Heroes the wide laws and highway, the passengers. It was crushed by the camped in cosy cottages, and rollicked stables are. a and other outhuildl paddle wheet. Another boat met in a care-free, happy manner through the homes of the chauffeur and the the same fate, but a big life boat summer seasons. Gradually, quaint, gar ever^all present to any PYe a peifee with a few passengers got away from old Southold gripped them, as it has t unity in design. They are the 5teatner: the power of doing; cottages grew in- built of red tapestry brick a% permanent, with white marble trimmings. The Lexington was going full to houses; houses, into pe The style is English Colonial, beautiful homes, and it was decreedand the speed toward land and escape seem- possible until suddenly, almost these transients should go no more exterior, we are told, is models i after ed out forever. The time limit for re- a country home in Surrey, England. Without warning, a crash came, the maining was erased, and Dr, Marshall The interior, however, is according to engines stopped. The scene that and Mr. Cahoon were no longer Brook- the tastes and needs of -ewn- oliowed must have been awful. The lynites, but Southolders. Latterly, under whose watchful eyes all arrange- p9,ssengers were driven to the parts also, sons-in-law Richard C. Addy and menta have been made. It is in these of tfie boat most remote from the Frederick W. Bridge, came into the arrangements that human interest cen- fire. Some jumped on to bales of family of Dr. Marshall, and now their ters, and we believe no offense will be cotton which fl6ated from the sink- homes are added to the colony and to given anybody, if in a few lines, we ing ship. They were chilled in the our fiat of good neighbors at the Sound. transfer to our local paper the glimpse water in a very few moments. The During the poet year, the highway of this beautiful interior that we ob- has been moved farther to the rear of tained late one afternoon recently. steamer sank very quickly. I these homes and an opportunity thus We pause, before entering, on the The four men who were saved afforded for the owners to unify and wide brick-paved porch that extends were David Crowley, the second beautify in a manner that seems al- across the east end, and almost mate on the steamer, 8 Calit• 11il- most perfect, all that pertains to each I abuts over the Sound. What an _ -, lxtic.Hetrt'� #,r�ri the, of the estates. Aa one cornea ugar the inspiring entrance to It b o m e l Whitacker collections Huntington Scrip hook. Vol. B. p SI? 24"7 IL �Glanc ng dowts s Mutt, one—drw ings. This Rives an idea eGly of forty feet ignore, j wElch lihe kidd=iesA! greatest of all improvements is seen— tbo rare books that the owner is taking play and rule and reign without lot or a terraced approach by easy stages delight in adding to the usual collec- hindrance. In the basement, WO6ea from the almost inacceaaible beach to tion found in any well stocked library" manifested again the Individual tastes the house. The paintings are interesting because pf the host, a gun-roam containing : On entering the hail a glans l of their worth and the fact that they.his implements of the chase and of through several doorways reveals � reflect the taste of the owners. They fishing; and the billiard room es;tend- a vista that captivates the e7e- ` were done by some of the best artists iog across the entire width of the This effect is owing to sue of the nicest i in the world. We recall the names of house, perfectly equipped with bil- architectuat features of the house-- Jacque, Diaz, Harpignies, Sir John lisrd - tables and the furniture the building of the immenne living- Watson Gordon, A. P. Ryder, J. Fran- suited to an elegant lounging room around three sides of an interior cis. Murphy, Berne-Bellecour, and one room. On the walls hang the hall from which the staircase rises. by Thorborg (1600). A number of pictures of the famous horses of By this device the living-room loses its Sadler's print&adorn the walls in dif- the trotting world, as well as those of feeling of immensity. One can ant ferent parts of the house. On the his own famous trotters, for as is well apart cosily before the great fireplace low book-cases built around the known, Mr. Cosden's horses have 8 in the center, or by the great carved room, occasionally on a pedestal, are national reputation. ruing table in one end, or in the beautiful specimens In bronze or in It is night before we take a peep V otber-.listening to the music from a bronze and ivory, by French, Russian, li.nabe Grand or a Victrola, any one of and Japanese artists, while in a large, into the stables, that in their way are these parts giving the feeling of one well-lighted case by a window over- as perfectly built as the house is. heP room, yeof am- t all blending harmoniously lectin f ivories,carved moat intricate- mals and tor the ail feonveoience of comfortman hP s ;r into one. one recalls the color scheme y t as only the Japanese can carve. it been looked after in all the outhuiid- a ' of this room as perfecta soft brown y p in walls, woodwork, and rugs, into is hoped this brief mention may in ings. There is, in fact, no Part of this a pictures, and bronzes some way convey to 'the reader the establishment that dues nit bear evi- u- which furniture, p team out occas atmosphere of this home, that i dance of thought, of an effort to find s- softly blend. Colors g for some reason had not the feeling of always the beat means to a dertain til eionally in the beautiful bindings g newness, because, possibly, of the old end, however humble or exalted that J books and from paintings representing just this seeking or from subdued tints friends that we found there, and the end might be. . It is j i the best in arts friendliness of the now friends. There and adjusting and finding that makes in tapestry coverings. Columns might on9. be devoted W the treasures in this flus were costly specimens of beauty, but, any sort of undertaking a happy the costliest treasures appeared when l procasa, May the home life of our sly ing-room We wanted a place for the two little boys entered for their new Aeighbors a as enjoyable as their out books +and p I �iJl pictures, the hostess , re- � we glance at the evening music and frolic with lather. {hams building has been perfect. ' remarks simply, around The Name old stunts that every parent h of inviting book-cases extending ok de- knows and prizes beyond art treaaureN AWord About the Weat�leP the room. Publishers' rare b a beak must be gone through with" It was 7Oan partments have furnished man? on the afternoon of March 4, 18 2, ural One of the most in- then #hat we realized anew what the q for these eases• ver eatest thin in the world is and between sundown and dark, the w de, texesting and rare collections is a set y gr g burst out from the northwest and blew and that it is free to all. comprising in ten volumes the one from'the northeast to northwest. 'All the hundred wrwagazines put out originally Space, the editor says, is limited. through March and April and not until r `8s by Audubon that described the birds This life of the home is in the living- May loth did Ahe wind come to the the south and vessels bound up and down e a and quadrupeds of North America.. room. We can at least ttlt,nce Thera are autograph editions of the f r o m it in all directions. At Sound hugged the south shore. On the are morning of the btb there was no water ick works of Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and the rear and right is the dining-. fi �e John Burroughs; a rare set of books room, with its walls panelled to be seen in the'Sound from the Light oKs• an, done in Japan by the Japa- to the ceiling; at the left, one House towerthe , nothing but a solid mass w lit© on Sap it nese, describing thea land, people, of the moat charming rooms i dad of moving ice. On the night of the 3 iter flowers, and trees, exquisite- house, the 'breakfast room, loth a loaded schooner got caught in and. custom®' collections with morning light and furnished in ly illustrated; interesting the ice and drifted back and forth by g to ecial subjects-- light green Dutch or English celesta) 13artan's Paint for several done. At g� of books started on el one of thirty or forty volumes on the furniture, such as grandmother might last they managed to fret headed off y { sho -hese ck•, and went away down Sound. American Indian, each volume treating, used is her immense ltitchen- •age , of Borne one tribe of Indians; another dining-room. At the forepart of th Th+e,,Bay,was shut up tight. A sleigh- of ing,•party went straight from New Il be collection started, that incudes writ- house, at the right from the entrance i be cogs by individuals who were in some hall is a handsome smoking room, and Suffolk to Riverhead and returned.- On ' way connected with Southern condi- at the left a dainty sun-parlay. April,.lat Joshua Webb crossed over apse the period preceding and on the second floor are the bedroom from Conkiin's Point to Shelter Island I e oh- tione during suites with their fascinating draperies, at the time of our Civil War; also w with shores and sleigh and returned. magnificent edition of the Bible is their perfect up-to-date appolntments, On, April loth the bend west oil Nor- the Anted without the ' ' fourteen volumes, p such as baths, window and electric- .ton's quint was filled with ice, and , .Buds lighted closets, etc. On the third, is when ,we ploughed our garden the Chapter and verse di romns, and Paint- middle of May there was frost enough �r►est , ' � 'crated with etchings from noted P another specially attractive spat, the _ - an childrens' playroom, about thirty or Ina1 , dry, 'Fol . B. Whitacke Huntington Scrap Book. collections Ea,` Southold Free Library