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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY,NEW YORK (51 K) 473-0479 NEG. N0.
YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/'SPLIA, DATE: September 1987
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Road TELEPHONE: 16 6_5_-_lB
Southold, L.I. , N.Y. 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any):Southold Torun Community Development Off ee
IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING NAMHS): Younge-Coyle house
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold_ VILLAGE:Qrae -M# 6m ncor-
1 STREET LOCATION4220 Champlin Place, north side. - _s»cted )
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private
S. PRESENT OWNER: -coy] a _ ADDRESS: same
h. USE: Origiwil _- Present: re Si rl Pnee
7, ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: YesTX No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain
DESCRIPTION
B, BUILDING a. clapboard M b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL.: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other:
tl, STRUCTURAL. a_ wood frame with interlocking joints [X
SYSTEM: h, wood frame with light members ❑
01' known} c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good (X c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. iNTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ b. moved IN if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (it known):
Moved - circa 1900.
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING. a. none known M b. zoning❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ® e. deterioration ❑
f. ether:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn EX b. Carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features:
j. other:
16, SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land ❑ b. woodland IX
c.scattered buildings ❑
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential ►]
h.other:
17. 1NTI�RRF.LATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure k in an historic district)
Picturesquely set house on quiet residential street
of historic Greenport.
18. 01111:11 NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
21-story, 3-bay, side entrance plan, high ,gable roof
house . 6/6 windows A -and semi wrap-around porch with
Tuscan columns. Salt box profile on east elevat=ion .
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SIGNIFICANCE
11►. DATE. OF INITIAL_ CONSTRUCTION: Reportedly 1688 with later alter—
at ons.
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
'[l. HISTORICAL AND ARCIIITECTURAL IMPORTANCE'
This house is part of one of the oldest houses in the
Town of Southold.
E.K. & F.L. Corwin, Greenport Yesterdax andToday.
1972, page 12. -
?1. SOLIRCFS Warren Hall. pa ns_ Puritans Patriots. 1975 , page
29 .
Joy Bear. Historic Houses of the North Fork and
Shelter Ts an . 1961. M
XXXXXXxxi Queens Borough Public Library Scrapbook 11:233 ,
Brookla Eagle . Clipping (n.d . )
Form prepared by Rosemary Skye Moritt, research assistant.
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Pastor John Youngs in 1640 led a band
of adventurous Puritans across Long
Island Sound and into a safe harbor at
Founders" Landing on the forth Fork,
thus establishing a little settlement in the
wilderness which has endured for 341
years and is known today as Southold. Appropriately, this historic house is
46today the home of the president of the
Stirling Historical Society of Greenport,
- � With Pastor Youngs on that momen- Frank Coyle.A porch has been added and
tous voyage was his 17-year-old son John small changes made during restoration,
--the Col.John Youngs who built, in 1688, but the character of the original house is
the house sketched, evident throughout. Hand-hewn 16x16
` inch oak beams-span the attic ceiling.
Col. Youngs became known as one of The extra wide and extra long planks of
the Colony's most prominent men of the the pine flooring are so hard a nail can
1 — 17th century. He had vast land holdings, scarcely be driven in when they need
extending from the North Sea (the repairing.
Sound)to the Bay.The farm surrounding
1 this house covered all of what today is
Greenport, and much more. Col. Youngs owned another house in
`+`�`'1 1l1]II IIIl1lI hh =1 — Southold,built across the road from that
of his father, the pastor. It is said,
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For his homestead Col. Youngs select- however, that he preferred living in this
ed a wooded site at the head of Stirling Greenport house,which he referred to as
'.�i iiuW,,..-, Creek, Greenport. The original house hic "hummer home'
must have been twice the size of the
present home. At some very early date
the original house was cut in half at a
33 point where the great chimney stands in
the present building. The house shown
here remained on Sterling Creek, but the
severed portion was moved to North .
Youngs-Coyle. H Road, Greenport, where it stands today. home of one of the
Al an undetermined date a kitchen 17th Century Colony's
wing was removed from the original most prominent citizens
Greenport, 1688 homestead and relocated on Third Street,
Greenport, where it is being occupied at
present. Finally, perhaps around 1900,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Coyle the remaining home, above, also was
moved from Sterling Creek to its present
location on Champlin Place, Greenport.
Historic Houses of the North Fork and Shelter Island, by Jop Bear 1981
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aw it a u l rr ATTACHPiTENT
Pt1iCh& A Albert DelaSeld of Me�
York Who Ra* rdered It to -f ,
Y. ;` »e aThe Youngs Homestead
• t- Ape" to th^7�'agli '
Greenport.1�,r'' February z--dike boauti-
RLLs
. knelt mrerloakin ,Sterlinar,Creek, luski
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outslda of-thi�4f IA4Me al'-dreetlpart; foo they
ofd Youngs hotneatead,as old-rasbloded tarns:.
house that:was+built about tilt year IM
Manly of, tliosev-lltterested' lartboi+ tandmark;
wilts regret to MOM their the.htusaw IS'.pbaut�
to bo movW,he it's taeds between the ltand=+
countrl sedit of bert"Delafield, and.
Greea r there y, o trttat,4
desirable vow.
The Youn&s estate, eompriaing upward of
twenty-tvo;actee,,with. the oid.homestead,
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1900
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YOTINGS SOffiEBTEAD.
passed into tMb=da'of aeoego-T. Picker-' The West end Of this house , which
Ing and EIl M Pollard several.years ago4dud'
� m
they used`t7ie" YEoestead as a:dwe ling was the old mill , was moved by 1r.
and turned the place into duck farm. In' Delafield . The 2"F—story section was
meantime Sir. Delafield of Manhattan had
erected a line residence on his property,which. moved to 220 Champlin Place .
adjoits tTie-Ttmrt�a estate to the north,and.,
finding that-the did homestead completely,
hid hisview of Greenport harbor, he suc-
ceeded in buylnq-the dale of the estates on.
which stood the historic homestead, and From a circa 1900 newspaper clipping,
then It was anuounced that the old.•hoeae
mast be removed by May L Thuyone of the Oue ensb o ro Public i+ib racy 11 : 233
few remaining relics'oMe early settlestenc;
of Southold Town w111 soon pass away. {
The house originally, was upward of sixty 1
feet In length and-about thirty'feet wide,,
with a square front door, directly In the
middle and a large flat stone as a door step.
The nails used lu building Were hand..made
and the timbers were hewn directly from the
ferests which ilned.the shores of Sterling;
Creek. inside.the house and running-directly.
across the ceiling of the parlor Is sw ex=
posed beam twelve Inches wide and six Incher
thick of hard oak. About seventy-years,r
the house was cut is half and one pry
was moved north about a-quarter of
where it wap rebuilt into the resi3
d by, Miss Grace Flagd,,r
�irr nrpgar a�vners in Cfie-v'
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Capt.John's"country John Fitz Youngs was in Lieut. Joshua Young's militia company and, extensi
house"at the head of like so many others, fled to Connecticut after the Battle of Brooklyn the pea
Sterling Creek. This turned everything topsy-turvy at home_ While he was gone, and his wife, The
early oil is owned by Mehitable, was struggling to make the farm support herself and her appeal
Miss Lillian Wiggins of three children,a British foraging party arrived with the obvious intent have b
Greenport,a Youngs of seizing everything edible. John I
descendant. It was Many years later, after the widowed Mehitable had gone to live with times.
fainted for carpenter,
her daughter in Cutcho ue, her grandson, David Billard was fond of With
father,a carpenter, itr g g
return for work he did recounting what happened. 1 Under
for an artist. 77ie shed in "Grandma said the commanding officer of the raiders must have insteaf
the foreground is said been drinking. Anyhow, he came into the house and suddenly caught the Co
to have been slave sight of a man in a colonel's uniform glaring at him. It was that picture stead i
quarters• on the wall. He straightened up, saluted, then turned and left. The party Aiden
rode off without touching a thing." Cap,
The portrait fell into the hands of Mehitable's son, John, who took it profes
with him to Coxackie, N.Y., and liked it so much he had it copied on a eulog}
wooden panel. But his nephew and heir, Jacob Armstrong, nailed it on "the o
the head of a barrel of goods when he moved to Ohio and it was never Purita
seen again.The copy on wood was sent to the garret after it had warped , valor
and split. No trace of it,either.Such a pity. crush(
Nethe
Pawns Puritans iatriots
Warren hall 1975 3
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GREENpORT,YESTERDAY AND TODAY THE
his land from what was called Oyster fonds, Upper Neck,
East Marion and Lower Neck, Orient. land of 200
bounded on t;
Hashamamock, being a separate purchase or ownership,
was not at first a part of the town but in 1662 it was voted head of it to
mite, but it pt
that it be taken into the town.
' Germania Ave
The first house built on the Youngs' land was in 1688
on elevated land at the head of "Winter Harbor" (Sterling Sterling (from
' ords was called
Creek), a prominent structure for those days, substantially
=i built, with oak beams l8 inches thick, hewn b hand. This The Indy
house was greatly enlarged in 1727, and an old weavingmill rived p what
on a ace was attac a to it. Here the household fabrics quite peaceful
menace to ma
1 of wool, Iinen, cotton, carpets, bedspreads, and yarns were nearby at all t
spun and woven. The house had a- large kitchen fireplace
hem
accommodating 8 ft. logs. The Oakwood flooringof ad planks a a useful fertilin
2 ft. wide was scoured daily. Two doors opposite each other tden
opened out from the kitchen through which it is said a horse them and dragl
rows of corn c
passed in bringing logs of wood drawn by chains to use in the
there, near the
J fireplace. The Youngs were slave owners up to the time slav-
wtth saplings a
ery was abolished in New York StAte. Years later after the the top. The ft
division of the land among -descendants, the house was cutin the center o
apart and the old mill forty years later became the basis of v, cooking pot off
Albert Dela ie 's home, a terward the home of Miss Grace Nearby was a sr
Floyd. Sterling Cemetery was part of the Youngs" arm and s uash and
`t1 a3 its beginnings in the setting apart of a plot of land fora p per
burial ground. f spring at hand,
After the division of the land by the town, the vicinity noes. The men
was designated as The Farms and Sterling. In 1682 Capt. with bow and
Youngs records, "One parcel of woodland lying on the north were foxes, rac(
turkeys. In fishi
side of Sterling Harbor." Such was the piece of land now oc-
cupied by the Village of Greenport. In addition Y)ungs'ob- siones. but Ind
tained a tract of land on the east side of Sterling Creek i, stones. The prize
about 250 rods wide, from Sound to Bay. o n were prize
In 1687 Capt. Youngs sold to William Booth a tract of a oped.
- ` Practically
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E.K. & F.L. Corwin. Gree art Yesterda ad oda zg72