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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
UNIQUE SITE NO /03/0.
DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD AS 3
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (519) 474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME:Town of Southold/SPLIA DATEipril 1982— -
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road _TELEPHONE: ( 5116) 265-1892
Southold L. I. , N.Y.119?1
ORGANIZATION (if any);. Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING NAME(S): Albertson/Wickham house
2. COUNTY: Suffolk+ TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Arshamomaque
3. STREET LOCATION: South of Kerwin Blvd
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h private
5. PRESENT OWNER: Bladzinski ADDRESS. same
G. USE: Original: residence Present: residence
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC Exterior visible from public road: Yes ❑ No
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
H. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MA1 RIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles W g. stucco ❑ other:
't. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints 9
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑
(if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent E b. good KI c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
1 I. INTI-GRI I Y: a. original site X h. moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known 2 b. coning❑ 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 ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features:
j. other:
lo. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land ® b, woodland
c.scattered buildings ❑
d,densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑
h.other:
17. INTI•RRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Isolated historic house surrounded by open fields
and wooded areas.
The area is currently being subdivided, as Peconic
Bay Estates.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
1?-story, 5-bay gambrel roof house with 2 interior
chimneys. 11-story gable roof wing on rear.
SIGNIFICANCE
I(). DATE: OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION:_ ri rr_a _ 1 752
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
'10. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTi'RAL IMPORTANCF:
A plaque readst "WILLIAM ALBERTSON HOUSE CA. 1752
WILLIAM WICKHAM 1868
OLDEST PART POSSIBLY MID 1660s"
This important early house was the Albertson homestead
and farm. It is a mansion of the 18th and early 19th
century period. It may very well date from the 17th
century in its oldest parts - in particular an older
kitchen wing that is now removed.
Ann Hallock Currie-Bell. Old Southold Town' s
Tercentenary. 1940
21. SOURCES: Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical
Society. 1960, page 10
Joy Bear. Historic Houses of the North Fork and
Shelter Island. Greenport. 1981. ># 30
2' fHIAtE Long Island Daily Press. 4/9/1961
Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
assistant.
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of the Albertson's Lane Cemetery, is not far distant — early rich farmlands; rented it out to various tenants. Since 1926
family burial place of Conklynges and other Hashamomack the wide acreage has acquired man home owners and holds
families where the graves of Corwins of this house are found. the name of Wickham Park. y
3. WILLIAM ALBERTSON HOUSE c. 1752 The house itself, it would appear, should be, in part of its
William Wickham construction, older than 1752. There was once a very old kit-
chen wing, now removed. The removed wing held a great
Oldest Part, possibly mid d 16QQ's fireplace and enormous brick oven; smoked, wide spaced
(Mrs. Stanley Barsezewski, Wickham Park, Arshamomaque), rafters, windows small and crude. The present house shows
The Albertsons of historic Dutch, New Amsterdam, New itself a mansion of the 18th-19th century period, with gambrel
Utrecht ancestry, held large Hashamomack land areas and roof, fireplace in every room and its stone and rock cellar
extended from
a small
homes in the 18th and part of the 19th centuries. The "Four- of the house. l The earliest bu ldthrough t erf the oldestycoo strue tion
score Acres" tract granted to John Conklynge of Common
Lands, 1684, by the inhabitants came eventually into William, in the house might well belong to the mid or latter 1600's.
Albertson's hands by 1779 and 1798 (J. Wickham Case, South-
old Town Records), It was claimed by Lawyer Albertson
Case, deceased descendant, that William Albertson, son of
William Albertson and Mary Parker, was born in this Hasha-
momack homestead 1752. He married Sarah Conklynge, daugh-
ter of Capt. Joseph Conklynge, 1780, Their son, Joseph C.
Albertson, was born there; William and William C. of follow-
mg ge,ierations.
By wills and deeds recorded in Riverhead, searched by
Earle Linton, Historical Society member, Joseph C. Albertson,
son Albert and William C. Albertson later are found with
homes and farms southerly (Conklins Point) and westerly
bordering Mill Creek; with William Albertson, son of Joseph
C., in this homestead under description. The southerly and
westerly parcels by deeds of 1887 passed into the hands of -
DeWitt C. Sage, founder of Sage's Brick Yard 1888.
The Albertsons were farm owners, mill owners and prom-
inent citizens. Three were Town Supervisors, William, Joseph
C. and Albert.
The Wickham family ownership of this homestead and
lands was dated in a deed, August 27, 1868. Albertson family
heirs of several generations were the grantors of this old •- +
homestead and farm, described as where William Albertson
(deceased 1818) lived. to Lawyer William Wickham, descen-
dant of Col. Joseph Wickham (1648, Wethersfield, Conn., later
Southold). William Wickham was distinguished as lawyer,
District Attorney and able public leader. He married Sarah E.
Havens, daughter of Col. John Havens of Patchogue and had
chldren, James, William H. and Julia M. The Wickhams lived c,
in Cutchogue and retained the Hashamomack property for its
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This house in"5outhhold was 'the home"
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_. Wickham family, originally of Swalicliff, England.
;v first Wickham to come to America was Thomas,who Sr-`'._1
rived in Boston in 1635. About 1690,his son,Joseph,-whd
made manev as a tanner In Southampton bought;
property in Cutchogue and was the first of the name to
Z- .settle in the Southhoid area. At about the same time,
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Nathan Landon from Antigua and Benjamin L"Hom- .'.. _
medieu from New Rochelle also came to Southhold. +
A' Through the years, these three families became prom-
inent in the town's affairs and maintained -J4 rnue,,
friendly relations until the American Revolution. Then,.
.:' the third generating_ descendants, Parker 1w'ickham, ? �►
Jared Landon and Erza L'Hommedieu developed great 1`: 4
differences in their political opinions. 'Wickham remain,,60.,
ed solidly conservative while Landon and L'Hotn-
edieu were very liberal,` Wickham was eleeted
supervisor of" Southhold nt the fawn meetings its
1 i r,1, but as the British army of occupation increasingly, }f
dominated the district, and feelings became more bitter,. :.
'f Wickham was suspected of being a Tory by his neigh=;' '% +
hors, At the next election 'in 1778, he was defeated for,?
i.. this office by Daniel Osborn,a liberal, whereupon Wick-, i
ham left Southold for Connecticut- After this, Jared
Landon was made: leader of Cutchogue and Ezra ; ?
L`l-lommedieu, took over the leadership of Southold. a'
When peace finally came, differences were forgotten.
Joseph Wickham and Jared Landon were partners in a # ;
brickyard and Landon also handled all Job Wickharn's t
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SOUTHOLD—in 1638, the Dutch were
on the western tip of Long Island, in a
tinypro cluster N Amsterdam
under the y y e P` J �t -
protection of New Amsterdam. Adriaen li:.
Block, possibly the first European to
enter Long Island Sound,had sailed past
the North Fork in 1914. He described
Long Island as being covered with forests j
and marshes.teeming with wildlife and
abounding in fruits,fish and shellfish.
Wickham — However,the first recorded Europeans
to live on and gather the bounty of the
r] aC Z111Sk� pio-
neering
East End were individual Pio-
iL�r.�r11II 1Y1 nearing adventurers who came for tur-
pentine,or for"distillinge sperrits from "�" ■■
_ye trees in ye great swampe." They
HOUSE worked in the area east of Arsha-
momaque Pond,in 1638,and are thought
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be the earliest European residents of
the East End.
Arshamomaque, late 1600'9 'PIS
Mr.
Mr. aad Mrs. This gives Arshamomaque the dislinc ~�~ ,�t, ,1 f
tion of deep historic roots. Later came I.I r7AI ! O t f f
Stanley Bladzinski Lion Gardiner's acquisition of his island
1639) and the settlement of the two
"plantations". Southold and Southamp-
ton(1640).
This also gives the old homes of Arsha-
momaque special historic value. One John Conklynge was granted a"four- Helen Bladzinski attended the little rc
house,sketched above,has existed in one score acres"tract of Common Lands in brick schoolhouse of Arsharnomagt
form or another through all the signif- 1684. His lands passed through other frgm the first through the fourth grade
icanl eras of our nation's history, and hands,and then to the Albertson family. She remembers the teacher,Jay Gallo
Colonial times as well. Researchers of In 1752 William Albertson was born in the as being strict but one of the by
the Southold Historical Society think that house sketched above.Other members of teachers she ever had.The school hour
the oldest part of this house may have the Albertson family lived in other areas now the home of North Fork Weidin
been built in the mid-to-late 16W's, and of these vast Albertson land holdings—at may be seen on the south ifde of Ms
have worked out the home's lineage as Conklin Point and bordering Mill Creek. Road,Atshamomaque.
follows, The Albertsons were farm and mill
owners, and three were Town Super- Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Bladzinski a
visors:William,Joseph C.and Albert.In the present owners of this gambrel-ro,
1885,William Wickham,a lawyer,bought ed house with its fireplace in every root
the home and lands.Some of this tract is Mrs.Bladzinski is the second generati-
now an area of homes which once was of her family to live here,following h
This pause has CXlStefl
called Wickham Park and is now known parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley B.
as Petonic Flay Estates. In 1687, the szczewski.
through all the eras southern and western parcels of the
original land holdings were bought by This house is set far back to the eves)
Of our Country's history DeWitt. C. Sage, the founder of Sage's Kerwin Road,and is reached by apriv:
brick yard. access road.
Joy Bear. Historic Houses of the forth
62 Fork and Shelter Island. 19 1 ,
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