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HomeMy WebLinkAboutEM-2 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY �.- ,.. BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM UNIQUE SITE N0. I19.3/4•dt3lf0f EM-2 DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY, NEW YORK (516) 474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: September 1987 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Rd. TELEPHONE: 516 765 1892 Southold , LI , NY 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION 1. BUILDING NAME(S): Brown House 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWNJCITY: Southold VILLAGE: East Marion 3. STREET LOCATION: Main Rd. , north side, east of Maple Ln. 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ to private KI 5. PRE-SENT OWNER: John Gi_a_nnaris ADDRESS: Main Rd . , East Marion r,. USI:: Original: residence Present: residence 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC. Exterior visible from public road: Yes :F No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain private residence DESCRIPTION n. BUILDING a. clapboard ® b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles IN g. stucco ❑ other: 1). STRUCTURAL. a. wood frarne with interlocking joints KI SYSTEM: b. wood frarne with light members (if knoxn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e. ether 10. CONDITION: ' a. excellent ❑ b. good [X c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site FA b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): All windows replaced. 12. PHOTO: neg: KK I-1 , fm SE 13. MAP: NYS DOT composite ` Greenport and Orient quads O `4 •r m JO O BM• 25 35 _ _ }' a I +• � e,�5 N a 25 n ss •— - 4- 13m, t3M' Q X16 ry leave tY Z. �r�St Ag e5j SI A EM-2 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known Fj b.zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPLRTY: a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑ d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f, greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i, landscape features: j. other:small cabins , modern restaurant 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land 12 b. woodland l c. scattered buildings 12 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) Low density resident— ial area, close, to Main Rd . (historic Kings Hwy. ) . One of the older houses in the area., it is now part of "Hellenic Cabins" , an early 20th century roadside motel complex . Open land to the north, and wooded to the south, across Main Rd . (NYS Rte, 25) . I S. 011 It,R NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): lz story, 3 bay, side entrance plan, gable roof house. Turn-of-the-century porch across front . Original shin- gles remain on west elevation. Front entrance with tran- som. SIGNIFICANCE 19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION:_ Prior to 1838 ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITFCTl1RAI. IMPORTANCE: Mrs . Atwood Brown owned the house in 1909 . House appears on 1838 map but is not identified by name . This is one of the North Fork's many classic early houses . It con- tributes to the sense of place. 21. SOURCES: U ,S , Coast Survey, T-55, 1838. Interview, John Gianna.ris , 9/87 . E . Belcher Hyde , Atlas of Suffolk County, L.I . , Vol. 2, North Side, Sound Shore , 1909 . Form prepared by 'Kurt 'Kahofer, research assistant . New York, July 29 1984 EM-2 as so laughable he kept quiet about it.True,half of the town .vas farmland or undeveloped shoreline—but what New Yorker would want to tell his friends that he was buying a summer home in Riverhead? Four years later, unemployment in Riverhead has been pared down to 6.2 percent. The tax base is up $15 million. '` .And although the town lies in the shadow of t.tt-Co's ruinously expensive, potentially dangerous, and possibly doomed nu- _ clear-power plant at Shoreham, there's a 126-unit, $18-mil- ! lion condominium community—"the very best of California I on Long Island"—just opening on 204 acres at Baiting Hollow Bluffs. The developers had wanted to spend$38 million and build 300 units. Their bankers were more cautious—they divided the project into thirds. But after the developers sold 45 apartments the first day and all the penthouses in a matter of ; weeks,they got approval to build the second and third parcels Hellenic Cabins,in East Marion,offers modest summer housing. simultaneously. — lanoski couldn't be more delighted.The Farmlands Preser- vation Bill—a way of foiling developers by allowing farmers to sell the development rights to their land to the county , had lowered the tax bills for 5,000 Riverhead acres. And - although he's quick to point out that, historically, Riverhead : f is the Child of outhollanoski Southold, share his neighbors' enthusiasm for this law, :"In one one ruling, that's since been reversed, a farmer was ` denied permission to construct a barn," Janoski says. "It's no longer a Farmlands Preservation Bill but an '©pen Space Preservation Bill.' ' So lanoski finds projects like Baiting Hollow Bluffs and the , - ■ recently proposed SeaWatch, a development that could crowd as many as 190 units on 55 acres,necessary to keep the boom going in Riverhead. What's more, he argues, they will reduce the pressure for development on the North Fork by Brecknock HalUn Greenport, is beinc eyed for development. putting second homes where they are more convenient. more practical--and more welcome. Greg Blass, who represents Riverhead and the North Fork in the Suffolk County Legislature,worries that this campaign sets a pro-condo tone that will eventually spill beyond Riv- erhead's borders: "Suffolk is the chief agricultural county in / the state, and most of those farms are in eastern Suffolk.The #!' " f 25 l�' I "'` •fr+' � A lovely Cutchogue home raptures the look of the North Fork, t: P i 'ter4117 ad f `~ moogift Sam r1 - __ --