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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION UNIQUE SITE NO. 10W,"1110 EM-59
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NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (518) 474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPS DATE. Sp_=Itpm-hpr 1982
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Rd . TELEPHONE: 51-6 705 1892
Southold, LI , NY 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any):Scuthold Town QOMMUnity Deye1Q1)mPnt Office
IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING NAME(S): Metcalf house , east
2. COUNTY: uffolk - TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Fast Mari nn
3. STREET LOCATION: Main rid. , north sides wgst of Dam Penned
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ la, private 12
S. PRESENT OWNER: Deane K. Fox ADDRESS: same
h. USI,: Original: residence Present: residence
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes ❑ No
Interior accessible: Explain Ori gra+a roc; d.@Iq Go
DESCRIPTION
9. BUILDING a, clapboard 0 b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other:
t). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members FK1
(if known) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e, other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent k] b. good ❑ c, fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site 110 b. moved ❑ if so,when?
c. List major alterations and dates (if known):
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known CR b.zoning Q c. roads ❑
d_ developers Q e. deterioration ❑ �'
f. other:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn❑ b. carriage huuse ❑ c. garage
d. privy ❑ e. shed F-1 f. greenhouse Q
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features: adjacent to Dam P nrl _
j. other:
16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land E b. woodland El
c. scattered buildings ❑
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential Lid
h.other: large mond
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Low density residential , set back from Main rid. , NYS
Rte . 25 (historic Kings Hwy. ) . foam Pond directly east ,
one of two similiar houses in the immediate area. Mix
of open and wooded land surrounds the house.
I& OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
Large 2� story, Shingle Style gambrel roof house with
2 large semi-hexagonal dormers on the main (south)
facade over a subsumedporch with squared posts . Main
door with large enframement and wide sidelights .
SIGNIFICANCE
11). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: Turn-of-the-century
ARCHITECT:
IITECT:
BUILDER:
'0. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
',chis house and the adjacent house to the west were
owned by Metcalf in 1909. They recall the era when
several large summer homes for city people were
being built among the farms ."
2I. SOURCES:.
E.Belcher Hyde , Atlas of Suffolk County L.I . , Vol. 2,
North Sade Sound Shore , 1909. �
The Suffolk Times , 8/15/1985, "75 Years Ago" .
22. THEME:
Form prepared by Kurt Kahofer, research assistant
Augu5c,15, 1985
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Let' s Look. Back
75 Years Ago
August 6, 1910
Married in Haste; Jersey Couple
Skip to Orient and Mother Swoons:
"It's all over Ma!"Then the woman at
the other end of the wire screamed,
swooned, but finally came to.
It happened this way.
Elmer Sherman Millard and Miss
Marion Thurston Tibbits, of Palisade,
N.J., have been pining away for each
other for a long time, but the girl's I
mother wanted her daughter to go slow
which was of course, quite out of the
question-
The
uestionThe mother, telephone talk says,
wanted a large and elaborate wedding.
The girl simply dreaded to think of such
a thing as all of her friends seeing her
joined in the holy bonds of wedlock,and
told her dear ma-ma so.
But it made no difference. Ma was
rich. So was Pa. Why not have a large
wedding?
Last Saturday the young couple hap-
pened to be guests of the Metcalf family
at their large country place in East
Marion. _
—: early in the morning, long before
the usual breakfast time of fashionable
metropolitan folk, they drifted toward
Orient.
They asked the way to a minister's
and some good friend of Domine
Longsworth sent them his way.
He knew he had a good job--one that
would buy his wife a new silk dress,or
something like that,for the inclinations
of a minister's wife are no different from
those of any other man's wife -- they
want all the"extras."
So the bride, who was fair of face,
sweet and slender, with apple blossom
cheeks,and with eyes that would make
the whole world obey her, stood blush-
ingly before the minister.
The young man looked at his bride
and said,"Will you he mine?"
""I will,"she said.
So it was done.
The young man,by this time,had for-
gotten to think of the consequences --
of telling his mother-in-law-
But he must do it,
And distance lends much safety.
So the telephone was sought,
"Oh! Oh! Oh!," groaned the mother,
then silence reigned,
The bride was induced to come to the
phone,and after a severe scolding,was
given the parental blessing.
May they live happly ever atter, is
the wish of the little village by the sea
who heard the church bell ring telling
of two happy hearts made one.