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s NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK t51 KI 474-0479 NEG. N0.
YOUR NAME: Town of Southol d./S PT.TA DATE: September 1987
YOUR ADDRESS:Town Hall, Main Ed. TELEPHONE: 516 765 1 892
Southold, LI, NY 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
I. BUILDING NAME(S): Long Island Oyster Farms
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: East Marion
3, STREET LOCATION: —_end of Shipyard Ln. , east side, at Cleaves Pt.
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private
5. PRESENT OWNER: Neted of America ADDRESS: Patchogue, LI. NY
G. USE: Original: processing plant Present: vacant
7, ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes ® No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain priVatlV owned
DESCRIPTION
S, BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick KI d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e, cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: cement
1). STRUCTURAL. a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑
(if known) c. masonry load bearing walls ER
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good fel c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site EJ: b. moved ❑ if so,when"
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
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14, THREATS TO BUILDING. a. none known ❑ b. zoning c. roads ❑
C-1 marine resort d. developers e. deterioration ❑
zoned. F. other
15. 10A.ATLD OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn El b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features: pro w ad-joins Orient )--arbor.
j. other: Warebouee-, boat I aiinch, c-mokestar-k
I6. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land [X_1 b. woodland ❑
c. scattered buildings ❑
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential k]
h.other:
17. INTIRRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Located at the end of Shipyard Ln. , south of Main Rd . bet-
ween Greenport and Orient Harbors . Open land to north and
east , with recently constructed condominiums west of Ship-
Yard Ln.
K. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
Main structure is a 2 story, flat-roof rectangular building
with central stepped gable flanked by 1 story flat-roof
wings . Casement windows wrap the corners of the main fac-
ade . Adjoining large warehouse to south , tall brick smoke-
stack to the north.
SIGNIFICANCE
11). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1�940_
ARCHITECT: _-- -- _ --
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'0. IIISFORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
Built by General rood Corporation as a wholesale plant for
processing and packaging oysters , this is one of agricul-
tural East Marion's few industrial buildings . While this
building is of architectural interest as an example of
early Modernism, it is also of historic interest because
it relates to the once-thriving oyster industry.
21. SOURCES: Suffolk Times , 2/20/86, "50 Years Ago" .
"Landpaper" , 9/87 .
LI Traveller-watchman, Vol. 116, no. 9.
Suffolk Times , 4/1677 .
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Form prepared by Kurt Ka.hofer, research assistant.
Long Island Oyster Farms EM-5
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Overall view from NW
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50 Years Ago
February 21, 1936
Gentrot Foods Plans Seafood
Plant: If the present plans of the Gen-
eral Foods Corporation Inc., of which
the Long Island Oyster Farms,with an
r - Weniag and shipping plant at Green-
po"tr ;is i branch,materialize,there will
in the near future be erected in the vi-
cinity of Greenport one of the most com-
plete and modern plants for the handl-
ing of sea food in the country.
The General Foods Corporation,it is
reported,has purchased a tract of land
of about fifty acres at East Marion with
shore frontage. The property which is Suffolk Times
familiarly known as the "Wind Mill" 2
r property,is located east of the Figh es-
tate.
A large brick building of modern type
-construction, will be erected on the
property.A portion of this building will
be utilized as an oyster opening and
shipping plant for the Long Island Oys-
ter Farms of which Capt.Chris.Jensen
of Greenport,is the local manager.The
present *ping shops of the company
which have for a number of years been
located on the property of the H.W.
Sweet Ship Yard,have outgrown their
present location.
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