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Home My WebLink AboutEM-44 •` FOR OFFICE USE ONLY BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM iouo. UNIQUE SITE NO. ''`�//"6� DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION` QUAD EM-44 NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES RED ALBANY,NEW YORK (518) 474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: Tom of Southold./SPLIA DATE: September 1987 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Rd. TELEPHONE:_516 76� 1892 Southold, Li, NY 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any):Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION 1. BUILDING NAME(S): Harmon Tuthill house 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: east Marion 1. STREET LOCATION: Main Rd. , north side, NW corner Private Rd. #1 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private C3 5. PRESENT OWNER: Cobert Crag ; ADDRESS: Washington St . , Green- b. USE: Original: residence Present: residence -port 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes 1R No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain 'private residence T DESCRIPTION ii. BUILDING a. clapboard KI b. stone ❑ c. brick 0 d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL.: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles tRJ g. stucco ❑ other: 1t. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑ 01' known) c. masonry load bearing walls❑ d. metal (explain) e. other stone foundation 10. CONDITION: a. excellent fE b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site 31 b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): Integrity is excellent. 12. PHOTO: neg: KK II-30 , G 13. MAP- NYS DOT composite fm SW Greenport and Orient quads 17 k=` a .'Ft r a +ourN AN �+ ter.*� a �Ci712 Pond Eas Marion 1. - — ° BM.�ZS Laky HP-1 �r , of r EM-44 ., RED 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known E?F b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e, deterioration ❑ F. other: IS. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn 21 b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑ d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens El i. landscape features: ), other: 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land X1 b, woodland KI c.scattered buildings ❑ d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential h.other: 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Located on Main rd. , NYS Rte . 25, historic Kings Hwy. , in a medium-love density residential area. This is a prime farming community. 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): lz story, 3 bay, side entrance plan, gable roof Greek Revival house with high roof plate. Small 1 story, 3 bay, gable roof wing on west. Clapboards on front fac- ade , shingles elsewhere . Amon Tabor entrance with flut- ed pilasters and dentils embraces a doorway notable for SIGNIFICANCE (see continuation sheet ) I�). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: ' 1$3o rS ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 10. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: "A very important landmark, this house has an unusually high style Greek revival entrance . It is one of the major components in this historic Fast Marion street- scape :' 21. SOURCES: Heckscher Museum, Architecture of Suffolk County, 1971 , PP. 15 & 17 ./Long Island Landmarks , NYS Office of Plan- ning Coordination, 1969, p. 0. Summer of History, Map 22. THEME: 3, 1965, No . 6. Form prepared by Kurt Ka.hofer, research assistant. ~ Continuation Sheet EM-44 RED 18 - its free standing Ionic columns and blue paterae or rosettes on doonray jambs . 9/6 windows . Cor- nice with modillions above frieze with lentils matching the dentils at the entrance . Interior woodwork is also exceptional . Magnif- icent mantel in parlor. _ Entrance doorway "= by Amon Tabor . Transom glass is cobalt blue , as are the dots on the door ,iambs . rte__. Note classic Greek Revival door with egg ►.. * and dart mold- ing , and orig- r inal knob and • key plate . r neg ; KK II-30 i F Harmon Tuthill house Em-44 East • J Herzel photograph ti t 1 r { � r p � § Harmon Tuthill house EM-44 East Mari ort roof are more or less Greek Revival, while the freedom with which Greek forms were interpret- bracketed cornice presages the Italianate man- ed. The handsomely proportioned gabled portico ner. This attractively modest old building has is very similar to one at 111 Nall Street in Hunt- been saved by being made economically viable ington.21 and presents an admirable example of adaptive The free adaptation of Greek forms is even use, more strikingly apparant in the Benjamin Hunt- The doorway of the Tuthill-Schaefer House, ting House (now the Suffolk County Whaling a one-and-a-half-story Greek Revival cottage Museum) at Sag Harbor. The house was built in built circa 1840 at East \larion by Amon Tabor 1845-46, probably from designs by the New York III, carpenter, displays an interesting combin- architect \linard Lafever," The basic form breaks ation of sophisticated and vernacular details: the away from the strict rectangle typical of earlier moldings of the single vertical door panel and Greek Revival work to allow a greater flexibility the paterae, or rosettes, ornamenting the door- of plan.2" Although the columns are accurately way jambs are faithful to Greek models, but the based on an ancient Greek precedent, the Chor- Ionic columns are gauche and "incorrect." The agic \loniunent of Lysicrates in Athens, the acro- reason for this is clear: Tabor used manufaet}ired teria on the roof suggest harpoons and blubber stock composition trim for the ornaments but spades, an imaginative reference to the source of produced the columns himself. The use of inane- the original owner's wealth. The dome-liglited factured Ftock ornaments was already common in main staircase is a masterpiece of the stair-build- the 1830`s. By contrast the handsome doorway of er's art." The Huntting House is one of the finest the "Hampton House" with its correct Ionic and most sumptuous mansions produced by whal- columns and carved door panels in the anthem- ing profits in Suffolk County. ion motif is in its entirety a sophisticated com- position. The First Presbyterian Church (Old Whalers' Church), built in 1843-44 at Sag Harbor has also A much grander Greek Revival house, been attributed to Nfinard Lafever on stylistic "Deepwells" at St. James, was constructed for evidence, but confirming documentation has not Joel L. G. Smith 1847 by George Curtis, the been found." Until the 1937 hurricane, the builder of the First Presbyterian Church at Smith- church had a spectacularly high spire somewhat town. "Deepwells" is similar to the nearby "Mills resembling a telescope set upon a round belfry Pond," built in 1837 from designs by the New of Choragic \lonument of Lysicrates form. The York architect Calvin Pollard, but the Iater house slightly projecting shingled square tower and flat- has somewhat richer trim and a low square cu- roofed flanking pavilions have battered walls de- pola, and its one-storied porch is carried across rived from ancient Egyptian forms and mask the the whole five-hayed front. Both houses have plain, rectangular, gable-roofed church behind low rectangular attic windows set in their en- them. The astonishing eclectic design of this ex- tablature friezes."' The tripartite windows above traordinarily large and fine church is rumored to their entrances echo the Palladian form popular have been meant to resemble Solomon's Temple. in the preceding Federal period. The Greek Revival interior has both side and rear The most familiar form of Greek Revival ,galleries, a flat coffered ceiling, and an,_apse house, the "temple-front" hype, is exemplified by painted oil the flat wall behind the pulpit.- the Townsend \Manor Inn, altered to its present The Presbyterian (now \Ietliodist) Church at form, except for modern additions, in 1835 at Bellport, built in 1850, is much more typical of Greenport. Here square piers instead of columns country, churches of its period than is the Sag are used. This, and such details as the continn- harbor church of town churches. The Doric pil- ous guttae hand of the entablature, illustrates the asters, full entablature, and relatively low-pitched 1� The Architecture of Suffolk County, Heckscher Museum, 1971 . Harmon Tuthill. house EM-44 East Marion THE DIARY OF A COUNTRY NEWSPAPER boards were put on top. The oil from the decaying fish floated to the surface and was skimmed off by hand. They later adopted the practice of boiling the fish, which was a quicker and much better process, rendering more and richer oil. Later they installed a small steam boiler by which the fish f were cooked by steam.Their factory was supplied by the fish caught off Orient and East Marion. In those days the fish r scrap was spread by hand on open wooden racks to dry in the sun. After conducting their plant at Chequit Point, Shelter Island, near the present location of the Shelter Island Yacht Club, for about two years, they purchased a site at White Hill, Shelter Island, and erected a new factory. Before this plant was completed,however, they sold all of the equipment to a Colonel Morgan from Connecticut, who moved it to Groton, Conn., this being the first fish factory in the State of Connecticut. The same autumn they built another factory at ` White Hill, Shelter Island. By this time Harnton 'i'uth 11 end his brother, Maxon Tuthill, of East anon had erected a second fish factory at White Hill. About the same time, Captain Benjamin Tallman of Portsmouth, R.I., invented the purse seine for the catching of qsh in deep water. This same style purse seine with some slight improvements is still in use today in the menhaden fishing industry. The first man to use a purse seine in Peconic Bay was Captain David Smith in the year 1852. While in the past years Greenport had been interested in fitting out whale ships, a younger class of fishermen were growing up who were vitally interested in the catching of menhaden for fish oil and fertilizer. At the same time the farmers were finding that the practice of spreading dead fish on their fields for fertilizer often caused sickness among their livestock and so the use of dried fish scrap as fertilizer Corwin, Elsie. Greenport, Yesterday and Today, 1972 . 215 Harmon Tuthill house EM-44 East Marion Tuthill-Schafer House The community of East Marion lies about two miles east of Green- port in a rich farming district, stretching along the main road which runs to the extremity of the peninsula. One of the often mentioned"points of interest" in this north fork village is the Har- Photo courtesy of mon Tuthill (Tuthill-Schafer) Mrs.A.Halsey Brown house, which is pictured here. The travel guide published by the Long Island Association of Commerce and Industry describes it as "The House with the Amon Taber Doorway, directly opposite the Baptish Church," and explains that "Taber was a wood-worker famous for his carvings." TThe doorway is one of several beautiful entrances in the neighborhood designed and built by Amon Taber III (or "Tabor", as some spell it). However this doorway is especially remembered for its two verticle rows of blue dots. A one-and-a- haif story wood-built "half-house" of the side-entrance plan, this post-colonial building is also notable for some interesting interior woodwork, heavy and deeply carved—unusual for such a small house. Amon Taber III was a local carpenter who some- times used themes of fish and shell-fish and, upon occasion built kitchens with scuppers like a ship. He was the third of that name to reside in Orient, according to local historians, his ancestor having settled there in the first half of the i 8th century. The Tuthill family progenitor, Henry, was one of the founders of Southold Town. From him Harmon Tuthill was 6th in descent. Harmon was, in his early years, the master of a vessel, subse- quently retiring to his fine farm. He was a man "of large means and excellent character" and was a deacon of the East Marion Baptish Church. His son, Harmon Jr,, had a son George, who presumably inherited the property and left it to his only child, Emma Tuthill Schafer. The house is now owned by Mr. Robert Long of Greenport. June 1968 6 Preservation Notes, SPLIA ' '• ` FOR OFFICE USE ONLY BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM UNIQUE SITE NO. EM_44 DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY,NEW YORK (518)474-0479 NEG, NO. Y(}i1R NAME Ra_llh Williams,_John Dorman DATE:march 16_ 19E14 YOUR ADDRESS: POB 165, Orient, N.Y. TELEPHONE: S2--564 f ORGANIZATION (if any): Historic Monuments Commission _ r IDENTIFICATION I. BUILDING NAME(S): Harmon Tuthill House 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY:_ &uthold VILLAGE: Eaal Mario 3. STREET LOCATION: Rte,_ 25 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private L� 5. PRESENT OWNER: Robert ILong ADDRESS: 25 Washington Ave., Greenport(477-1427) 6_ USE: Original: Residence Present: Ilea deage (nentad to Joseph Verity) 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public read. Yes ® No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain By appaintment _. DESCRIPTION , 8. BUILDING a. clapboard FL] b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: 1). STRUCTURAL a, wood frame with interlocking joints SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑. (if kn(wq) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e. other 10. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good ® c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site b. moved ❑ if so,when9 c. list major alterations and dates (if known): 12. PHOTO: 13. MAP- 14/ yl/� _ S NARMD� T TN1.t 2. 4 I�eUs£ 0 40 Cpl3I M UNITY tr. Y -im-44 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known ❑ b.zoning❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: In digging el n , old santinn has hppn undo mind and needs S_ DELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: I Ii .1 support. a. barn® b. carriage house @0 c. garage ❑ d. privy ❑ e. shed,❑ f. greethQuse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i. V c. 1835. j. ether: Carriage house with - from c. 1920. 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land ® b. woodland ❑ c.scattered buildings D d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f_ industrial ❑ g. residential ❑ . h.other: 12 acres of farmland behind the houz, 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) One of the earliest of the farm houses in the immediate area, many dating from the 19th century, along Route 25 in East Marion. Farmland extends northward to the Sound. 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): Ornate front door frames by two Ionic columns with two vertical rows ofcarved rosettes surmounted by double frieze and leaded colored glass transom attributed to Amon Tabor III. Original front Rarior has fireplace mantel with carved Doric columns and Greek revival motif , ornate door frame with double-quirk molding, random-width floor boards with adze marks, 9 over 6 windows with old glass. top of chimney has been removed. SIGNIFICANCE 19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: c. 1800 ARCHITECT: unknown BUILDER: Unknown -10. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: Original building was one and a half story wood-built "half house" of side-entrance pian, dating from c. 1800. Smaller half-house west wing was added c. 1835 and original building was extended in rear in salt-box derivative style during 19th century. Latest extension, i.e., the present kitchen area, probably dates from the 1920'x. Original building has following characteristics: studs notched to carry the joists, mortise and tenon with wooden pegs, rabbited clapboards, vertical saw marks (indicating mechanical saw) on roofers and studs, half-lapped wind braces. Fine used throughout - no oak. The Tuthill family progenitor, Henry, was one of the founders of Southold Town. From him Harmon Tuthill was 6th in descent. Harmon was, in his earlier years, the master of a vessel, subsequently retiring to his fine farm. He was a man "of large means and excellent character" and was a deacon of the East Marion Baptist Church. His son, Harmon Jr. , had a son George, who presumably inherited the property and left it to his only child, Emma Tuthill Schafer. The house is ngw o &_Robert Long of Greenport. Sources: Inspection; last paragraph (above) from SPLIA Preservation Notes, Vol. IV, No. 2, June 1968. 22. THEME: Ass ra NEW YORK STATE HISTORIC TRUST STATEWIDE SURVEY OF HISTORIC SITES AND PUTLDINGS 1. Name (Common and Historic) Ionic House Location 2. Suffolk 3. Southold 4. F . Marcor) County Town Village or City 5. Address or Location maj" F�b i oov+tj -;i&, ea-A- o•G StGOS Pd. MpAwt, 6. Type Greek Reirival 7 . Subject or Theme Architectural S. Date of Construction c. 1830 9. Architect (If Known) 10. Builder (If known) 11. Original Owner 12. Original Use Reside ice 13. Present Owner Schaefer (?) Name E. Marion, L. I. Address 14. Present Use Summer Res. 15. Physical Condition Fair 16. Surveys L. I. Survey, ( Office of Planning Coordination) 17 . Future Action Federal Register 18. Surveyed by R. Wiggins, Cuddeba.ckyille, N. Y. , Mardh, 68. Date Surveyed DSP-23 r History and Significance: Small excellent Greek :Revival house with unusually good details such as full cornice and highly refined ionic doorway. Further restorations would be advisable. Sources of Information: L. I . Survey, (Office of Planning Coordination) . Photograph: Date Direction of View Feb. , 68. N. Map Location: GS Coordinates b ! h _ Q n iV T