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NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK 15191474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: April 1987
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE:(516) 765-1892
Southold L. T. , N.Y.1 971
ORGANIZATION (if any):Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
1. BLALDING NAME(S): QZ d Hs,shamornssek wood sc,-hnn1housP
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWNICITY: Southold VILLAGE. Arshamomaque
3. STRFET LOCATION: Pips Neck Road, west side, corner Route 25
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ E private 13
S. PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS:
G. USE: Original: school Present: residence
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes It No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
H. BUlt DINC. a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATF,RIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: asbestos
1). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints
SYSTEM: b. ,wood frame with light members ❑
(if known) c. masonry load bearing walls 0
d. metal (explain)
e. other
It). CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good ® C. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
1 1. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ h. moved 50 if so,when? several times
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
Wing on north is not original.
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12. PHOTO: From south east 13. MAP: N.Y.S . DOT Southold Quad
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known FK1 b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. other:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn(11 b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed Ek 3 f. greenhouse 1-71
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features:
j. other:
16. 'SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land Y b. woodland
c. scattered buildings tZ
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑
h.other:
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
On low density, historic Main Road, a dual lane highway,
at the corner of Pipe Neck Lane , a quiet, sparsely popu-
lated country lane.
18_ OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
Small 1-story, gable roof structure :
SIGNIFICANCE
11t. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION:- Prior to 1858
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
'Cl. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
It is believed that this is the school building that stood
north of Main Road on the east side of Albertson Drive in
1858. In 1873 it stood on the south side of Main Road about
opposite Albertson Drive. In 1897 it was further east on
the north side of Main Road.
21. SOURCES: Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical
Society. 19 C+, page 9
Chace. Map of Suffolk County. 1858
Beers, Comstock, Cline. Atlas of Lonp- Island. 1873
rH!NlF Hyde & Co. Map of Long Island. Brooklyn 1897
Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research
assistant.
Way 31"19M
Looking Back at Arsharnomaque School-
BY JOY SEAR attended Miss Isadore's classes,many of bricks sailed out of Pipes Neck to deliver Ironically,today these same textured
"The first schoolhouse on the North them the children of men working in them all over the world." bricks aro popular for([replaces and
Fork east of Mill Creek was built in Arshamomaque's two brickyards,Sage's How did the Arshamomaque brick decorative details,"headded.
Arshamomaque,"said Rodman Pell,the andSanford's. industry end? The building that housed the first
Greenport artist. He is in a position to Arshamomaque school still stands today.
know -- both his father and his "Thi brickmakers lived in a colony "The 1936 hurricane deposited salt in It can be seen on the southwest corner of
grandfather attended this first school. of salt-box houses,and they made the the clay," Pell said. "When the bricks the intersection of Pipes Neck.Road and
In the 1860's Rodman Pell's bricks used in Arshamomaque's second were fired the salt caused them to Main Road -- a white house with six t
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grandfather was walking from the schoolhouse," said Rodman Fell ID. expand.At that time those rough bricks arched windows.When the building was t
family farm to a red one-room "A_nhamomaque clay was the hest in the were considered undesirable,and the a schoolhouse the entrance was an the f
schoolhouse on the southwest corner of world. Schooners loaded with local Arshamomaque brick industry expired, south side,away from Main Road on the
Main Road and Ptpes ec oa , north. 4
Arshamomaque.The]ad of the 16W's
was John Ferdinand Pell.Under his arm Around the turn of the century
he carried a McGuffey's Reader printed t Arshamomaque's first schoolhouse
in 1847 and already worn by the time he began to have growing pains,and in 1903
studied it. He also used another book, a new school building was raised a short
"Elementary English,"printed in 1860. distance to the east,on the south side of
Both books are in Rodman Pell's library, Main Road in an area known as
with his grandfather's name written in Buttermilk Hill.
elegant Spencerian script on the flyleafs. Next week Arshamomaque's second
Possibly due to the stress of the Civil schoolhouse will be described by an early
War,John Ferdinand Pell had written on leacher,an early student,and an antique
another of his schoolbooks, "Every dealer who occupies it today.
young man should come to the aid of his
country„ About the Artist
A generation passed,but the one-room Rodman Pell II,the artist who painted
Arshamomaque schoolhouse remained, the schoolhouse picture,and from whom
the above information came,grew up in
and in time John Ferdinand Pall's son,odman Pell, also enrolled Greenport and established the Pell
the first Rl
there.Possibly young Rodman Pell the family's fish and seafood business in
first shared with other boys the chore of 1927-
lighting Gres in the pot-bellied stove on :+ :•' rq "' "I started with a capital consisting of a
chilly mornings. Certainly he was cigar box which served as my cash
greeted by Miss Isadore Corwin—"Aunt register, a knife, a fish-scaler and a
Isa"—who later became Mrs. Robert boat,"said 1Williaml Rdman Pell 11,
Judge.Miss Isadore was the school's His Son,William R. Pell 111,Southold
only teacher—she taught all grades from Town's recently retired supervisor,runs
one through high school,according to . tr . d, the family fish business today. Rodman
Rodman Pell fI,the Greenport artist. Pell Il retired from the business after a
Rodman Pell the first heartattack is 1966,and at that liana took
graduated from
Arshamomaque's one-roam school in o kir up painting as a hobby to wile away the
t= recuperating hours.In Lire intervene 16
1838,and after completing college is x ', Z4years, Rodman Pell has become
on Al be retuAlbertson
an to the Pell family farm — internationally recognized as a primitive
at Albertson inure.Arshamomaque,and .r `1
Later moved to Greenport to establish a artist. Among his clients have been
general store. �"^ t UNICEF,Grumman,Paine-Webber of
the New York Stock Exchange,and in
Brickyard Days Gone ARSHAMOMAQUE SCHOOLHOUSE,Southold France, Dubai Steel and Renault
In those days about 30 students Automobiles.
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ARSHAMOMAQUE MAP ARSHAMOMAQUE
(HASHAMOMACK)
NOTE: The Old Houses and Buildings bearing Historic Marken
and the Properties designated by Roadside Site Markets are not
open for public historical inspection unless otherwise stated.
(1) HASHAMOMACK
caNO 15LR1r0sar,n+ar_ OLD FAMILIES' BURYING GROUND
t�errA Se
roy,,y sc Many of the 17th, 18th, and 19th Century Settlers are at rest
h, in the earliest part of this cemetery, one of the ancient family
�op4� burial places in Southold Town.
Oldest of the stones now found are marked 2739.
pya er andr }'',.arlier unmarked ,graves probably exist.
(Location of Roadside Marker: Albertson's Lane, Arshamo-
maque, in front of the old part of the cemetery.)
oro 2• JAMES CORWIN HOUSE PRE 1814
d � � Prior Period Origin
G sw, '"` Later Period Changes
X xx (Adam Pukunka, Pipes Neck Lane. Arshamnma ue
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I - �� Farr 'q'�axr5 The first Corwin house in Hashamomack was originally
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and can be much older than 1814. Descended from
c the first Matthias, James Corwin, a miller at Joseph C. AI-
Pcne �lPE.13 bertson's Mill, married Polly Appleby, daughter of Mahala
ca y£ Conklynge and the John Appleby who came to America after
the Revolution with John Paul Jones. This house is on lands
YHc` 5,9y which were inherited from "Longhouse John Conklynge." The
omestead of Mahala and
,y homestead John Appleby was at the end of
+°~s Pipes Neck Lane on the site of the present Alfred and Mary I
(Corwin) Homan home, part of once widespread, family Iands.
This is a Neck rich in earliest local history. The Great
Pine Swamp and the Five Wigwams where much Indian ac-
tivity and Councils took place were there. The Osman Brick-
yard was near by. Pipes (barrels larger than hogsheads) were
made on Pipes Neck and were used for transporting; whale oil,
rum, sugar, and molasses. The historic Hashamomack school-
se built of wood , now an empty Ouse, stan s at e
louts-west corner o es ec ane 'U t e ajn oa ,
Ti—av—i—FT-Fa-T-several movings. Buttermilk Hill a ew ro s wes -
erly on the Main Road, was one of its last sites, given from
Albertson lands. The Hashamomack Burying Ground, old part
Ln
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Guide to Historic Markers. Southold Historical Society. 1960