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HomeMy WebLinkAboutEM-62 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION UNIQUE SITE NO. /03/0.d 156 QUAD EM-62 NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY.NEW YORK (518)474-4479 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 Off ice IDENTIFICATION 1. BUILDING NAMES): Truman house 2. COUNTY: Suf�olk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: East Marlon 3. STREET LOCATION: Main Rd. , north side, east of Dam Pond 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b private S. PRESENT OWNER: Gillespie ADDRESS: same 6. USE: Original: residence Present: residence 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes IN No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain private residence DESCRIPTION 8. BIJILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone L] c. brick ❑ d. board and batten MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f- shingles P9 g. stucco ❑ other: 1). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑ Ofknown) c. masonry load bearing walls❑ d. metal (explain) e. other 10. CONDITION: a. excellent El b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTFGRITY: a. original site ® b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): 12. PHOTO: neg; I ll j 115, fm 13. MAP: NYS DOT composite S�S N E Greenport and Orient quads .-k ry 30 25 22 --- - 49A a s !4 !a 7 0®b 25 r a d ¢. �+ 9 fl. , ao ::�• s m n A, GARDI, EM-62 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known ❑ b.zoning❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barnC?S b, carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑ d. privy ❑ e. shed 11� F. greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i. landscape features: peninsula in Dam Pond j. other: 10. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land 9q b. woodland ❑ c. scattered buildings ❑ d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑ h.other: water to N, -0 , W. 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Low density residential , set on a hill on a narrow stretch of land between L.I . Sound and Orient Harbor. Oper. land surrounds the house. 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): 21 story, 3 bay, side entrance plan,gable roof house with center chimney. 2-story gable roof wing on west followed by small 11 story wing. 6/6 windows . Open pergola on main (south) facade. SIGNIFICANCE c . 1760# 11). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: - ARCHITECT: BUILDER:. ?0_ HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: This house and a barn are shown on the 1838 map, when owned by Truman. On the 1858 map, it is a Truman house; on 1873 , Dermott, in 1897 , L.H. Rackett ; in 1906, J. Dallett; in 1909, Mrs . John Dallett; and in 1929 it was owned by Gillespie , as it is today. This very old house is of special interest because the Truman prop- erty included historic Truman's Beach . (EM-65) ;'.Belcher Hyde , Atlas of Suffolk County, L. I . , Vol . 2 , North Side Sound Shore , 1909. 21 : Hyde & Co. , Map of Long Island , 1897 . *Interview, owner Gillespie, 9/8 .. U .S . Coast Surve , T-55, 1838./ Chace, Map of Suffolk 2.2. THEME- Count 1858.. . / Beers , Comstock, Atlas of L n Island , 1-g� Hyde & Co. , Map of Long 1 Form IWFJ red by Kurt Kah—er, research assistant Elul 6 2 i r The Suffolk Times February 27,'086 The" Su`©lk'i �r Ilion F 1, DAM POND, East Marion Photo by Judy Ahrens from south f Truman House Em-62 East Marion y r' A _ �J Truman barn neg: KK III-15, fm NE This is the back of the Barr_ that is shown in the attached photograph by Judy Ahrens . EM 62 t GRiFFtN's ]uURNAL. 31 at like, in na►ne; h,: Ieft it ie► 177' or 1773. 11 %vat, in the t'a►L,ily ,od about about ogle hundred and twenty years. ; and on client resi- Oysterj,ou►l;--M tt:►n►ed by the #ir,t while utet► Who r. bring— posseszed it----previonsly called by the natives, as wo we are r►r,t have 'It„win, and in I S30, by a resolve of one othero its initabitanta, re-christernecl '• Orient," (aigilit}•inn sts r of years '> we undorStaaaui, `Trait," or '` I.;t;tcrat, ) is a ponitanula, es. What and is the extreme point of the norlb branch (,f L,,ttg titther to Island. At the east bounds of East Marion,forn►erly orally sup- known ars Rocky Point, is a north and south narrow ► c;anie as bead, ; through this, last „ne mans a creek some two .n east wata rods wide, which is crossed by u substantial bridge to Caine into what eras,for►uerly called Crook's Island, which con- here near tains perhapa sixty acres of food tilable land. For It is now the last hundred yearn it has been nearly equally divi- The first ded into two fatrtnis, o►► wl►icl► are eotnvcancnt cln-ellings, of the old with very thriving fat►tikes. 'llne T►ttbilis and Tru- n►eutiuned_ manta have •�n its nc� rietom for the above men- tiolaed terns. The creek lots the wuter of the Harbor he eust byd tutu at puucalled Dam Pond, which, oat the north, is I Sucath lay bc,uu;lc,l by the ndred and This beach, of ab;,nt three roots wide and about eighty or 1656 b ^' y roofs lotag, is the nilly la►►d link �ti1►icl► tutite3 Orient to tbout 1650. the main land of Long Island. In this pond, whicl► tliis place, contains about sixty acres, is a rock sonte feet above ,tinily yearn, tide water, and oil which is engraved tl►e initials of #' -front 1600 Samuel Urook, tl►ua:—"`a'. C.-1745." At the time, f' onathatt F. we suppose,lie owned these lands,bounded on the cant i, Jeremiah and south and west by said hurbor,and on the north by tar of that the Sound. Over a sued beach, you pttGs about one au s•tus Griffin' s Journal. 1857