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HomeMy WebLinkAboutEM-37 BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM FOR OFFICE USE ONLY _37 UNIQUE SITE NO. /03/0tO//6 DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY,NEW YORK (51 ii) 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(Sl: East Marion Cemetery 2. COUNTY: Suffo TOWN/ .ITY: ou © VI AGE: s arson 3. STREET LOCATION: en o CemeUry . , a a e Marion 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private ❑ 5. PRESENT OWNER: E.M. Comm. Church ADDRESS, MaiI2 Rd. , East Marion 6. USE: Original: ceme ery Present: ceme ery — 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes IN No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain yes DESCRIPTION 8. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone KI c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e- cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: r). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑ SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑ (if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls mausoleum d. metal (explain) e. other gravestones 10. CONDITION: a- excellent X] b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site 91 b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): 12. PHOTO: neg: KK II-15, fm S 13. MAP: NYS DOT composite Greenport and Orient quads I r Pam Pond C - M r a R U 4 N - Mariort�, a % Y. v i 25 35 '• 5" r Marr 3 i a 'ti/ ? ro _,,_!Lake 1 •: tll±F. �rto 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known KI b. zoning Q c. roads El EM-37 d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage U d. privy C7 e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i, landscape features: borders Lake Marion on south and ). other: hand pump, le cannon. east . 16_ SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land M b. woodland IN c.scattered buildings ❑ d.densely built-up Q e, commercial f. industrial ❑ g. residential h.other: large lake 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Located south of Main Rd. on a narrow lane that ends at Lake Marion, the small cemetery is surrounded by scat- tered buildings of varying historic date , and is directly south of the 1886 East Marion Chapel. (ENI-38) 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): Gravestones are predominantly 19th and early 20th centuries . A seperate section at the west side of the property is devoted to those who served in 4NI and WdII with a com- memorative field cannon as a memorial. Notable granite mausoleum with elaborate bronze doors . (nega KK II-16) SIGNIFICANCE 19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: prior to 1873 , 1845# ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: "While this cemetery is not visible from Main Load , it never- the-less contributes to the historic ambience of the area. (Mark Rothko , the prominent artist, was buried here in 1976. ) " 21. SOURCES: Permanent New Yorkers. Culbertson and Randall 1987 . R.M. Bayles , Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Suffolk County, 1874, P. 385./ Beers , Comstock, Atlas of LI, 22. THLMI_ / 1873 . *interview, Mrs . Freston, East Marion, 12/87 Form prepared by Kurt Kahofer, research assistant East Marion Cenetery Cemetery Ave. , East Marion EM-37 Y Ik Miller • • ack Mausoleum, fm. r rw 16. Grave marker, 111-5. S I�� � - � 1� •' '�s r ''-rr #.moi 4 y � 3 C H A P 7' E R 20 East Marion and St. James And what of the dead? They lie without shoes v in their stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse w to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone. — ANNE SEXTON EAST MARION CEMETERY Mark Rothko seems out of place in East Marion Cem- etery. It is not just the quiet sense of small-town life which pervades much of the northeastern fork,but also the anti- quity of many of the stones here. Perhaps the scorn would be mutual. What would the abstract artist, whose later works were all black, think of a marble ribbon with"Our Little Willie" carved on it?And how would the Victorians respond to a plain boulder with just Rothko's name? Rothko's monument is not difficult to find. Take a right off Route 25 onto Cemetery Road and follow it around. Proceed onto the left side of the cemetery. Soon you will see the marker of this talented but tormented spirit: MARK ROTHKO(Marcus Rothkowitz)b. September 25, 1903, Dvinsk, Russia; d. February 25, 19 70, New York City. Mark Rothko's strongest memory of his Russian childhood in the Jewish Pale was that of a Cossack on ' horseback sweeping down on him, sword in hand, ef- fecting another pogrom. Yet most of his oldest friends would discount the story—not to suggest that such hap- penings did not occur with all-too-great regularity in f czarist Russia, but rather that his family history and that i; �i Opposite: Stanford White 1 Permanent New Yorkers .. u bertson an an a 1, 1987 267 m`� 1 P Long Island East Marion and St.James Of Dvinsk did not bear out the memory.Yet this memory, elusive of art forms, that Rothkowitz found his greatest born of horror stories of pogroms past and present, as inspiration and comfort. He reveled in the music of well as of the anxiety of swift and sudden death,stuck Mozart,particularly in the tragedy and sublime beauty of with the young boy as though it had happened. Don Giovanni. It was a combination he would try to y f Indeed there were few foetid memories.If the emulate on canvas. ro f =tile unnervingenough, Pogroms In 1938 Rothkowitz obtained his citizenship. Several y a ltostile world without his father.The cider Rothkowitz Years later he shortened his name to RoLhko.Around this time 3 t emigrated to Portland, Oregon, in 1909 so he might his he also obtained a divorce from his fist wife,Edith, Prepare for his family to join him.To avoid conscription, thus ending an unhappy mix of personalities.In 1944 he N the two oldest boys Joined their father two years later. met Mary Alice"Melt" Beistle,an attractive 23-year-old Marcus and his mother followed in 1913.Sudden death illustrator. Married the following March, they had two c�+ was not left behind. Marcus' father died seven months children: Kate, born in 1950, and Christopher, bum in after the boy's arrival in Portland.Now the whole family 1964.It was Kate who was later to play such an instrumen- to pitch in to survive,and Marcus hawked newspapers tal role in successfully suing for the proper disposition after school. He would later complain that he had had ; of her father's estate. f no childhood, With a youth marked by death, fear,and During the thirties and forties, Rothko's artistic in- K separation, it is little wonder that he felt this way. fluences shifted from European expressionism to sur- O # Rothkowitz adapted quickly to his new country,com- realism,and then to abstract expressionism.He attracted F� i pleting high school in three years and en[ increasing Dv" entering Yale ir, easing notice through group shows and then one-man � If 1921. Influenced in high school by the writings and ac. shows.By the late forties he was entrenched in his abstrac- tions of Emma Goldman,he became apassion to defender tionist style, and b 1952 he was one of 15 Americans " Y Y of unionism,a cause which he carried to Yale. Such in- who exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art,each given - • terests did little to endear him to his predominantly a room of his or her own.Such success proved too much wealthy, WASPish classmates and only furthered thefor the starved artistic egos,and soon petty disputes arose ostracism experienced by most of the Jews on campus, tearing old Friendships apart forever.As art historian Sam Upon graduating in 1925,Rothkowitz quickly headed Hunter put it, "Thoughts of enshrinement had entered for New York.There he first took up theater(Clark Gable their heads. It was a question of who would be bishop, d was once his understudy).Unable to iand a successful role, who would be pope." cD and enchanted by a female model in a life drawing class, Throughout the fifties and sixties Rothko's prestige con- y he turned his attention to air. Enrolling at the Art Stu- tinued to grow,leading to commissions for murals from `a dent's League,he studied briefly under Max Weber.This Seagram and Harvard,which he executed brilliantly.Con- was the beginning and end of his formal training.Although comitant with this fame was a general rapid rise in the � he liked to think of himself as an autodidact he was prices fetched by works of art.Starting in the fifties,an strongly influenced by Milton Avery, who, though 15 became increasingly recognized as an excellent invest- Years his senior,took young Rothkowitz in as par[of his merit. The wealthy and would-be wealthy outbid each household and treated him as an equal,even allowing and other and drove up prices enormously. Rothko gained � giving serious consideration to the younger man's crit- from this,of course,but not as much as he should have. 2i icisms. From Avery, Rothkowitz learned much about Like many of his fellow artists,he was an innocent in the color;he also borrowed from Avery's distorted Figures, world of finance and preferred to stay that way. They Weber continued to be an influence during this period, fell prey to the seductive murmurings and flattery of ac- while other Rothkowitz paintings took on a strong countant Bernard Reis and Marlborough Gallery owner, zaFes+ resemblance to the work of Ccnne. Frank Lloyd.Despite their assurances of international ex- F' Rothkowitz'search for a personal style was marked by posure, substantial guaranteed incomes, and long-term + a rigorous intellectual search as well.A voluble,ebullient security for the artists' families, these men were out Personality, he loved to meet with fellow artists and primarily to line their already bulging er discuss and dissect the latest theories and trends.His own y well-stroked egos.11 ags only throug Katts and e's pip readingcentered most prominently on Nietzsche,Aesch persistent d ours actions after her father's death that the --] P Y Itis,and Shakespeare.It was in music,however,that most 268 L 269 3 'S4,.moir--a- W e � � t t I i Long Island r i ! true depths of their scandalous machinations were re- veiled,and the family was restored its appropriate share �: •; '° ' of the estate. With time Rothko's brooding Slavic predilections deepened and became more apparent. By the sixties he �' i was seriously abusing alcohol as well as various tran- cfl quilizers and mood elevators.It was not only his nature and the demands of his work that blackened his outlook, 1 it was a deterioration in the family Itself.His marriage was in trouble,and Mell was also drinking heavily. Further, �S Rothko felt unable to fulfill his parental responsibilties. +t @ ` f Outride the family, his dealings with Lloyd and Reis in- creased Rothko's innate suspiciousness. ti. '" . e+ In 1968 Rothko suffered an aneurism.His recovery was y• '; ,Ss slow and marked by an increasing reliance on medica- tion.To add to his misery, he continued to be plagued by gout. Refusing therapy and taking refuge in drugs, alcohol,and self-pity,Rothko's mood swirled in an ever- identifying information. K quickening descent. Sometime in the early hours of in the Sherrill plot is another common symbol for this 0 February 25, 1970,alone in his studio,Rothko slit his arms time, disembodied clasped hands. They are on the �_l at the elbows and bled to death.He was buried three days gravestone of Darius Sherrill, who died in 1858 at 28. tD later in the family plot of the artist Theodorus Stamos In His brother Charles M,Sherrill died In 1863 at 26,"Lost y East Marion. In the Sinacle Delaware on Cape Cod." The monument fit While some see his abstractions as repetitive intellec• shows an anchor and the words, which were meant to tual or decorative studies in color,Rothko never felt that be comforting, "Early heaven with Early death." he was abandoning the realm of the spirit. He wrote The plot of the Mulls gives a touching family saga.The Q "Rather be prodigal than niggardly.I would sooner con- monuments get progressively larger, from the infant Iv fer anthropomorphic attributes upon a stone, than daughter who died in 1868,up to 3-year-old"Our Darl- H dehumanize the slightest Possibility of consciousness," - ing May"in 1879.Her flower•decormed scroll implores, & His sense and display of color is extraordinary,The can- "papa—Mama Come."Mama,Harriet Mull,came two vasses glow with an aura, with a spirit.Horizontal bars years later in 1881 at 42,"Gone to see her darlings."The ci- of color float in relation to other colors and create ten- last member of the family,Papa,Benjamin E,Mull,joined fp sions which,according to Robert Goldwater,are"close- the others in 1891 at 54. O ly akin to violent self-control." Rothko's crowning in the same area,baby Joseph Madison, who died in � achievement is his chapel in Houston. There his large 1860 at age 1,has a hand pointing up to a blossom atop somber paintings create a feeling of peace,awe,and deep his stone and the melancholy observation: emotion.Some people cry,others sit in reverence.There Rothko achieved the combination of sublime beauty y and Fr fades the lovely blooming flower, Frill smiling solace of an hour. tragedy that he so admired in Mozart. So soon our transient corn ;:dfom fly, � While you are at East Marion, you may want to take And pleasure only blooms to die. a look at some of the midnineteenth-century markers. Nearby Is a more upbeat sentiment on the marker of [3. These are located down the road from Rothko and on Daniel C. Brown (1842-1885) and Celia E. Brown the other side. (1849-1871). Their epitaph reads: F, There is a nice bas-relief of a Iamb resting between two In labor and in love allied, trees on a monument erected to a child who appears to 1n death they sleep here side by side. have died in 1859 at age 2. Unfortunately the sugaring We mourn our loss though t'i5 their gain, of the marble is so bad that it is difficult to make out any For Christ shall raise them up again. r. • 270 271 Long Island East Marion and St.James I _ Circling around the cemetery as you leave,you win see ' I g r}' Y Y ible member. His interests were manifold; his presence a number of artillery cones with a cannon. Veterans of ubiquitous.He set the standards,both public and private, various wars are buried together in this pleasant corner, of taste.Money was no abject,even if his wealthy clients the circumstances which brought them to this company demurred. He designed public buildings, churches, long forgotten. estates, summer homes, apartment buildings, arches, 1; I pedestals, picture frames, and gravestones. Among his ST.JAMES EPISCOPAL CEMETERY contributions are the Washington Square Arch,the doors i and porticoes of St.Bartholomew's,the background and i `d Proceeding due west down Long Island on 25A, you landscaping for Saint-Gaudens'Adams Memorial,Madison will come to another quiet cemetery,this one in the corn- Square Presbyterian Church (long since gone, it was munity of St.James. It is behind the Episcopal Church possibly his greatest work),and the Tiffany Building.His , and is attractive both for its plantings—azaleas,Forsythia, firm was responsible For rebuilding the White House, ' conifers,weeping willows—and its best-known inhabi. redesigning campuses at West Point,Harvard,Columbia, Cant,Stanford White. The graves are placed throughout the University of Virginia,and New York University,and at random,as if seeds had been broadcast by a very large designing,at the company's expense, the Mall in Wash- 1. hand and stones sprung up where they landed.The stones ington, DC. 71 tzl are nearly an plain:Florence Thompson(1890-1960)has White's daily routines would have exhausted any two (D an ink pot with a quill pen etched on hers, and that of or three average men.Hearty,ebullient,and decisive,he i an infant in the Smith family shows an angel bearing away cajoled and encouraged employees,supervised projects, a child. Otherwise, except for some Celtic crosses with originated designs, attended numerous meetings, gave Q swirling designs, the key is simplicity. substantial time to public projects, traveled whirlwind FJ Stanford White's family plot is on the west half of thetours of Europe to purchase furnishings and objets d'art horseshoe road,halfway back.It is sheltered in an alcovefor his wealthy clients,belonged to the best clubs,went fp of evergreens.The rall monument to his wife and himself to the races, the theater, and the opera; he hosted the y.', has a shell motif, most famous and envied dinners in the tower of the s. STANFORD WHITE b. November 9, 1853,.New York original Madison Square Garden(designed,of course,by City;d.Jane 25, 1906, Neu, York City. Stanford While White). His guests might include Saint-Gaudens, Mark was born at a time when the New York City skyline was j Twain, Ethel Rarrymore, Vice President Morton — in t` C dominated by church steeples.By the time of his death, 3` short, luminaries from all walks. And always, for spice N buildings of finance and empire ruled the view,The sym. and beauty,there were the girls. If the party did not last holism can be taken quite literally. In those 50 years all night White would often return to his office to sketch (D churches had lost their hold as focal points of morality out new inspirations. Next morning, the first clerk in t� and the organizers of social life. In 1900 Broadway ruled might find hitn asleep,surrounded by a sea of crumpled, f+ the entertainment world and Fifth Avenue the social whirl. discarded designs. O Those worlds overlapped in the private parties of the White's energy and erudition were firmly based within richest and most famous men of the day, many of them the family lines. Starting with John White, an early set- self-made Millionaires."Floradora"girls and other chorus- tier and friend of Thomas Hooker, the line eventually moved through a clergyman and a merchant to Stanford's line figures were their Frequent guests and paramours.If one was discrete, these Masons were acceptable. It was father, Richard Grant White,one of the leading literary, a world and a time that glittered with wealth and begged an,and music critics and scholars of his day.Richard was for style,and no man was better equipped or more anx intimate with the most famous authors.A skilled and pas- ious to supply that style than Stanford White, sionate amateur musician,he formed a string quartet bear- White was a stocky man with square features and in, ing his name, collected fine cellos, and filled his house C, tense eyes. His moustache and close-cropped red hair with music. Ideas floated through the home just as en- N bristled as an indication of his extraordinary energy.The ticingly. Abolition and civil service reform were sup- F firm of McKim, Mead, and White was the dominant ar- ported.Politics and the arts were dissected;opinions were chitectural force of its day, and White was its most vis- expressed and formulated.Richard Grant White was"an N •.D 272 273 �)o k `�.sYk; RM 37 Page 28A'The Suffolk TimesiOctober 22, 1987 Orient News traveled U f Something new and different is ����������� grandpare - coming up at the Orient Congrega Beebe, cel tional Church this year to celebrate anniversa Halloween. The Community Youth Orient-East Marion given at t Group is inviting members, old and Shirley Carlsson/323-2571 of his grz young,to attend an All-Church party Lois Thorp 1477-2392 Paul Me( on Sunday evening, Oct. 25, from 7 married O 'til 9 p.m.Come and join the fun.Cos- turves not required. t East M Jessie Pemberton called to say her R *- r � � I '; The folic daughter Marie has recently re- at the me turned from 10 days in Landon and - Y Craft Club surrounding environs. Marie, who president; has the greenest of thumbs as evi- president; danced by the roses she grows, was Rabb, seer entranced by the gardens t surer_ Lill everywhere, especially the most fa- man with mous of them all, the gardens of Sis- Dzenkows' singham Castle. She stayed in a man. Hens fabulous hotel on the Thames, the Jardine w. Royal Horseguards, and is prepared ,� ing.The m to return at a moment's notice. ing craft With the fall weather in the offing, Christmas hunting is on the minds of those who w Pamela like it. Jay Bredemeyer is the hunt- weekend ing safety instructor of the Oyster :� Buena ViE ponds Rod and Gun Club, an_jT'd wife LindE e everyone to know that they are for a bel, sponsoring a hunting safety educa- grandfath tion course on Oct. 25 and Nov. 1. �� �` , +� day Oct. 9 Preregistration is required. You may , dale visit/ register at the Country Store or by `� A st y Martin, ai calling Jay at 323-2708. ia �., ` the weekei ., t The Eas Substance Abuse Week .w a and the L Our area is marking "Substance b; � �„ ;�,.,� coring a H Abuse Week" from this Sunday, Oct. tr1Ct's Clll 25 through 31- As part of this most Photo by Tom Randall sixth grac serious of problems, nationwide, from 2-4 members of the Orient Con a a- s s ecial tre tional Church have invited Christ- A Permanent New Yorker all his fi opher McLaughlin,assistant director rmanent New Yorkers," a new book by Tom Randall and Judi Cul' games an, of the Suffolk County Division of ` be son, exptxe5 1 re cemeteries of–N or City and Long Island. refreshme Drug Abuse Services, to speak to us Shown is the East Marion grave of abstract expressionist artist Mark good time± about the problem at a meeting on Rothko. — Peter T Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m. The : home in date and time were chosen to coin- ing the su cide with the "Goofy Games" for the on South 1 young in Southold that evening. Mr. Recent McLaughlin is well equipped to were Jig speak on substance abuse and to an- daughter