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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD EM-3
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (51 Ki 474-0479 NEG, NO.
YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA1 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�: Fenton House
2. COUNTY: SUE fo k TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: East Marion
3. STREET LOCATION: Main Rd. , north side, west of Shipyard Ln.
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private
5. PRESENT OWNER:S _J . pntnwski ADDRESS: Main Rd. . East Marion
6. USE: Original: res i denr_tr Present: res 1 d enc e
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC. Exterior visible From public road, Yes R' No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain private residence
DESCRIPTION
H. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c- brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g, stucco ❑ other:aluminum siding
1 t. STRUCTURAL, a. wood frame with interlocking joints FX1
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑
Of kn(wrl) c. masonry load bearing walls❑
d. metal (explain)
e, other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent F� b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site CR h. moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alteratibns and dates (if known):
Front porch removed, shutters not original .
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a, none known I b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. other:
15. RLI_ATLD OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ C. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. ;greenhouse
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features: several large trees
j. other:
16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING {check more than one if necessary}:
a.open land 21 b. woodland F] light
c. scattered buildings 71
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential L
It.other:
17. INTFRRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Low density residential area of Main Rd . , historic Kings
Hwy. (NYS Rte. 25) . Open land to north and east , site of
recent land subdivision.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OI BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
22 story, 3 bay, side entrance plan, gable roof house
with slender off-center chimney. Small 11 story, gable
roof wing on rear. 2/2 windows .
SIGNIFICANCE
111. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: Prior to 1840
ARCHITECT:
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20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
Charles Fenton in 1909. Mrs . Fenton in 1906 and 1897 .
Mrs . Mallison in 1873 . Mr. Manson on 1858 map.
Apparently, this was originally a 1t story house .
None-the-less , it contributes to the ambience of
the historic streetscape.
This was the small farm where Emily Cleaves Ma.11ison
came as a. bride .
_'I. SOURCES: The Peconic Bay Shopper, 9/1,/82.
Beers , Comstock, Atlas of Long Island , 1873 .
Chace , Map of Suffolk County, 1858 .
Hyde & Co. , Atlas of Long; Island , 189',' .
!KK: E. Belcher Hyde & Co. , Map of Long; Island , 1906 .
E. Belcher Hyde, Atlas of Suffolk County, L.I . ,
Vol, 2 d Shore, 1909 .
Form prepared by Kurt Kahofer, research assistant.
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_$ "Preserving Your Bit of History" The Peconic aay Shopper September t, 1982
Grandma
mAs the girls grew to womanhood,Harriet married Abraham Tuthill,
Malfi6oqa farmer of Orient; Alice married W . Hollis Griffing, a fanner and writer
_ for local papers and the Brooklyn Times. Charles Jr. married Jennie Cooper
I and after her death, Ella Mulford of East Hampton.
Cl►arleswasacaptain of many seagoing vessels. He held a master's
(-4 6outhold I oqtr T r l r license for steam or sail, which I have in my keepsakes. One of his last
- posts was as mate and pilot of the yacht Vergana, owned by a son of one
time Governor Flower of New York.
Sam Sander Grandma contracted a cough which gave her some trouble and
annoyance. She was very fortunate in having Dr. John Ireland, one of
Greenport's best doctors, prescribe for her troubles. He very often told
her the cough would not be the means of her death.
Good Dr. Ireland charged her half price, fifty cents, for a house
} call and sometimes gave her a nice large orange. At times on his way back
from Orient he would leave a quart of milk which could not be purchased
in East Marion at that particular time.-
Grandma
ime:Grandma was not a very profitable patient, but she surely did a
lot of advertising of the good doctor's virtues, as hundreds of others living
on the east end of Long Island could do.
Dr. Ireland had a large practice,with his faithful Jim to drive the
y horse. He made his calls any time of day or night, in all kinds of weather.
Not-only did he dispense medicine,but good cheer went with the dose he
left at the bedside. 1 know, for he was our doctor, and what a welcome
sight it was to see him coming.
After Grandma's children were all married, having homes of their
Wthiiebrowsing through the Long Island Forum, I came upon the own,she sold the farm and purchased a small house, built on a half-acre of
following letter in the January, 1957 issue. I think it will inter- land located in the center of the village. The house is still standing, un-
the readers of P.B.S. Since it is a period piece containing occupied by the present owners and sorely in need of repairs.
some local genealogy together with bits of relaxed humor. Grandma lived to a good old age,even as Dr. Ireland had prophe-
Emily (nee Cleaves) Mallison was born in Franklinville, (now lied. She was an honor to her family,church and village.
Laurel), Long Island,on September 27, 1824. Captain Eugene S. Grift'ing,
She often spoke of a cousin Addison Cleaves, who, in his days of St. Petersburg, Fla.
retirement, combed all the eastend villages for information concerning the
Cleaves family. My father,Wm. 11. Griffing,was able to send him consider-
able data. I have often wondered if lie put this information in a book or
pamphlet.
Another cousin was in partnership with G. H. Corwin in a well es-
tablished drugstore in Greenport.
Grandmawasmarried early in life to Charles Mallison, an English-
man. They settled in Rocky Point (now East Marion)on a small farm of
about six acres which was located on the north side of the main highway [?
in the westerly end of the village. The one-and-a-half story frame dwelling
was the second homestead as you entered the village.
After several years of prosperity, her husband died rather sudden-
1v h-nvincy Grandma With three Slllall Children: Harriet, ten years of age; y