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Home My WebLink AboutOR-2 FOR OFFICE- USF ONLY BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM UNIQUE SITE NO. 103/1), G�Li3 DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD OR 2 NFW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY,NEW YORK (5191474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: October 1987 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Rd. TELEPHONE: 516 1892 Southold, LI, NY 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION I. BUILDING NAME(S1:_Stephenson Clam House 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Orient 3. STREET LOCATION: Main Rd. , south side, east of sea wall 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public C_1 h private 13 5. PRESENT OWNER: Lomas ADDRESS: Orient, NY h. USF.: Original: wash house Present: vacant 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC Exterior visible from public road: Yes IN No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain private property DESCRIPTION K. BUILDING; a. clapboard n 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(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls d. metal (explain) e. other 10. CONDITION: a. excellent 11 b. good ® c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ' 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ b. moved 91 if so,when'' early 2gth century, c. list major alterations and dates (if known): fro el • 12. PHOTO: neg: KK III-13 , .fm NW 13. MAP: NYS DOT Orient quad ,4 28 2e 3 if **Z 30 Tei ,y 6 2� pt: Munn q �, •" r! Lake eG. � 6' O,ienl B. •� r /7 Yacht club ++ ORIENT e ate. --- a HARBOR L OR 2 14 - THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known 12 b.zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. harn 11 b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑ d. privy 0 e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop El h. gardens 0 i. landscape features: within marshland (neiz; KK j. other: 111-8) . 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land E2 b. woodland ❑ c.scattered buildings ❑ d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ED g. residential 51 h.other: Orient Harbor 17. INTI�RRFLATIONSHIPOF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) This small structure is located on the shore of Orient Harbor, near Main Rd. (NYS ate. 25) , in a low density residential area. East of the sea wall/causeway (see attachments ) . I! - OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): 1 story, rectangular, gable roof building raised on pilings . Wood shingle roof. SIGNIFICANCE 111. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: Late nineteenth century ARCHITECT: BUILDER 20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITLCTURAL IMPORTANCE: According to the owners , this was once a washroom of the Mt. Pleasant Hotel which stood on the north side of Main ?d. , east of this site . Moved by Mr. W.W. Stephenson (OR- 3) for use as a shed to store clam rakes and other equipt- ment. This picturesque shack is part of the vista from the Orient/ East Marion causeway. This is called "picture card country, for its openness and sea flavor blend so well to give that effect of perfectness . " The shack has been the subject of local artists for many years . (see attachments ) 21. SOURCES: News Review, 12/13/79. Suffolk Times , 6/25/87 . Hyde and Co . , Atlas of Long Island , 1873. 22. THLNIF: Interview, Mrs . B. Lomas , 10/87 . Form prepared by Kurt Kahofdr, research assistant. OR-4 Al ( f i J.. ..4 '•" +�' f 047 ' , �. DETAIL of Flo Kemp's oil,"Fisherman's Cottage." Photo byY1laxine Necks Ork`Marjorie Freedman, master of pastel that i . she is, introduces you y " directly to "Girl on the Steps " a delicate, beautifully done portrait. ILENE WEINSTEIN SCHNEIDER'S oil,"New York Pond." -tvlcG Vil10.gC Stephenson Clam House f Main Road, Orient OR 2 t il{Y \Sl c° nprJ k3C S"9' . r Photo by Judy Ahrens Out East Crab Shack at Christmas" by Bev Lomas is one of the paintings currently on exhibit 'it the Oysterponds Historical Society's Old Point Schoolhouse. "Oysterponds: Local Scenes by Suffolk Times , LooWArtists"runs through September. 6/25/87 _ , • View of clam house , t fm W showing marsh -i�Acelift Eyed for Home of `Old Cracks ' . ORIENT—A favorite subject of art- veloped waterfront. "We intend to fix lighted star placed on the door at across the street, so it's got to be ists and photographers is the little it up again--we're not going to let it Christmastime by another Orient re- older than 54 years," Mrs. Lomas wooden shack standing on its piI ngs go to pieces," said Mr. Lomas this sident had all the bulbs snatched out, said. The late Mr. Young, an attor- on e s ore of Orient Harbor, just week. and the Lomases said they've put in ney who retired to Orient, used the east of the Orient Causeway. But a "Again" is the right word. The considerable amounts of money and shack to hold parties for a group of growing number of people fear that Lomases said they went to considera- effort to remove garbage dumped on his cronies, known variously as"The the shack is steadily going from pic- ble lengths to put in new windows the property. Old Crabs"or"The Old Crocks." tuiesque to dilapidated several ears ago, before Mrs. Lomas _ P 3' g It was larger then there was a purchased it. Two days later, all the Mrs. Lomas's uncle, Ezra Young, deck on pilings, but that disinteg- "Not true," say owners John and windows were smashed by vandals. moved the shack to its waterfront lo- rated in ice storms," said Mrs. Beverly Lomas. They say they have "When you spend a lot of money,and cation over 50 years ago. "I think it Lomas. A catwalk also existed at one every intention of preserving that then the vandals destroy it, it gets was originally one of the outbuild- time, connecting the high part of the symbol of the North Fork's unde- discouraging," said Mrs. Lomas. The ings from the Mount Pleasant Hotel waterfront to the shack. "We're not going to fix that up--if we did,every- body would be out there," she said, �0..: ; `" adding that she and her husband hope that the abundant growth of poison ivy around the base of the k shack would discourage trespassers. At one point, a couple of years ago, a group of Orient residents who wanted to see the shack preserved of- fered to help out with a repair effort. ' Not necessary, said the Lomases. "We prefer to do it ourselves," Mr. Lomas said. "It's private property," -, 1- -•* his wife added, voicing her concern ✓ ;. that the shack not be regarded as some kind of public facility. "We ."1U1114 don't want alot of people tying up to it or using it,"she said. = t Structurally, the shack is sound c. and its pilings in good shape, the Lomases report. As soon as the own- .. �,., ers are finished with a major renova- tion of their home, they plan to set to work on the shack once more, van- Photo by Judy Ahrens to permitting. "We love it too much to let it fall into the water," Mrs. RX-UP COMUM- Plans-aro brewing to ire-up-the is a*-shack on the hank of Orient H6rboF. N C+ N• m m tip•' � ,�,,.,,_.•,�._ „• In f�dd O Sa[tr+�urrrrtrr (n MM c ,>-iau'J�r ♦ _".•, ( {ba mwy ,,yy "" t.,a s, °w„rr r • , 1 e. W, r 1 x;.: �,'i. ° 1 .iNi i1Pr •5i 1C� y �i�d 1� r y • kt�:,4� a'4 �` t r . on the Roof Photo by JudyAhren As promised by its owners, John and Beverly Lomas, the "fisherman's with re-roofing by Sorenson Carpentry of Orient. The landmarks ac shack" on the shore of Orient Causeway is getting a facelift, starting is a favorite subject of artists and photographers. W N Suffolk Times , 11/12/37 .