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Home My WebLink AboutOR-25 w FOR OFFICE USE ONLY BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM UNIQUE SITE NO."2310.022 31 DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD OR-25 NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY,NEW YORK (518)474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: November 1987 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Pd. TELEPHONE: 516 abs 1892 Southold, L1, NY 1197 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION I. BUILDING N M ` 0 stPrnonds Manor (Adult IIome)/Edwards Hoose 2. COUNTY: u 1K TOWN/CITY. Southold VILLAGE: Orient 3. STREET LOCATION: 25-500 Main Rd• south side westof Edwards • 4. OWNERSHIP. a_ public ❑ h. private 91 5, PRESENT OWNER: Mordi Yaron ADDRESS: same - 6. USE: Original: residence Present: adult home 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes E No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain by appointment DESCRIPTION H- BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone '❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles LX g. stucco ❑ other: °t. STRUCTURAL, a. wood frame with interlocking joints SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members EX (i1• kn(wn) 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,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): 12. PHOTO: neg. KK V--2 , fm NW 13. MAP: NYS DOT Orient quad N 10 Vk �tO� 6 B4ro,c ` SO wns Hill � •, • eQ . �. f9 64 !!! i P. . p I C • t Munn 'iiy� cf Lake �r 71 7 ' Village Ctm s , yGen[ral oOrient :'icem 9p WP-1 b u r DR 25 OR-25 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known ® b.zoning❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn 1j] b. carriage house ❑ c. garage il Big barn. d.privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i. landscape features: j. other: 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land IN b. woodland E2 light c.scattered buildings d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial f. industrial ❑ g. residential D-11 h.other: 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Low density residential area on Main Rd. , historic Kings Hwy. (NYS Rte. 25). Predominantly open land surrounds the house, especially to the south. 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): Large 22 story, Shingle Style house. Enveloping gambrel roof extending down to first story over subsumed porch, with high, 4 bay facade gable. Interesting Queen Anne type groupings of windows in gables with curving sunburst panel and small central spandrels. Typical Queen Anne sash, SI{AN&NC`jap around porch with squared shingled supports. Interior wood- 11?. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 12o6* work in excellent condition. ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: This house was built by Edward Edwards in 1906. Date 1906 was found by the owner on the chimney wall, now enclosed. 21. SOURCES: *Interview, Janet Yaron, 11/$7. "Background of the Edwards House, Orient", by Phyllis Edwards Hale. 22. THENIF: Fora prepared by Kurt Kahofer, research assistant. OR-25 BACKGROUND OF THE EDWARDS HOUSE, ORIENT by Phyllis Edwards Hale (Mrs . Rode M. Hale) Mrs . Rode Hale has been familiar with the Edwards house since her childhood, and has lived near it - and once in it - during most of her life . Her family gave the Edwards name to the house and the lane just west of it. As a little girl named Phyllis Edwards, Mrs . Hale lived in the John Appelt house which still stands across Main Road from the Edwards house, and which originally was the east wing of the Italianate house, "Eastholme", built by Isaac Edwards , father of George, Nathaniel and Edward, c . 1850, on land owned by him. The land stretched from Main Road north to Long Island Sound . Mrs . Hale 's parents knew the last members of the Terry family to live in the house . Terrys had owned this home since 1800. Two elderly ladies, Miss Helen and Miss Maria, were the final Terry owners in 1900. It is said that Miss Maria liked to sit in the bay window and watch the world go by . . . and that Miss Helen sometimes was heard to ask her: "Who be that, Maria?" Mrs . Hale says that Helen and Maria, in their wills, left the Terry property to her grandfather, George Edwards, and his two brothers, Nathaniel and Edward. The three men took claim in 1906, and eventually divided the property, which stretched from the house which is now called the Nathaniel Edwards house, across Main Road (with farm land ) going all the way to the bay. They divided this property between themselves . George kept his father's Italianate-style house, and what had been his father's land, running north to Long Island Sound. Part of this property also extended south to the bay. Nathaniel lived in the Nathaniel Edwards house, then known as the Terry house, and he kept only that house and the land on which it is situated today. Edward built and lived in what is today, 1987, known as the Adult Home , and he kept some of the family land from the main road south to the bay. Around 1930 Nathaniel left the Edwards house to his son, Charles Edwards . Later in the 1930' s Mrs . Hale ' s cousin Pat (Patricia) , granddaughter of Edward S. Edwards, and Pat's husband David Gillispie, owned the home. Thus the home was in the Edwards family for half a century. It was sold to Helen Gilbert in the 1950's . Back to the Edwards house : -- During Nathaniel Edward 's tenure he added a bedroom to the northeast corner of the house. This wing has since been removed. Mrs . Hale says that there was a porch across the front of the west house -- the Cape-Cod half-house -- and that it wrapped around OR-25 ` BACKGROUND OF EDWARDS HOUSE, page 2 the west end of the home. She has a photograph of her mother and father on their wedding day in 1916, and the wrap-around porch is visible in the background. The porch was removed when Charley inherited the house c . 1930. Later a porch was added to the west end of the house, which also has been removed . The Edwards are an old Orient family. They are recorded as having arrived in East Hampton c . 1640, and came to the North Fork c . 1850. On the other side of her family tree, Mrs . Hate 's grandfather was a whaling captain, Edwin Peter Brown, whose family can be traced back to Richard Brown, one of the first seven men to settle the Orient area in 1550. Captain Brown's house can be seen on Main Road in Orient today, ,just across the Street from the Candy Man store. Prepared by Phyllis Edwards Hale -•�- -fir _ _ ('dr1N aaS)proH uiey\l jo apAs ry8ij ay uo si jourN spuod {[ t N -jars-.0 savor£Z oq j.',njj SZ)8+t arnoa sawwiq q,-)t4.% �✓- anua.%y punoy uo rySLJ u2(lr'(sal1w i)peoj 3413o pua ayr orSol-aidssra-(a�(dwnj311!.tyuoN)gUONit-gat rZ)Irw `8[ -aril uo'4rls '(Prayja. H) rse3 88 'alli 01 '£L pxa j-pua ayr of)jjok,,aaN wojj ;rtmssajdxa puclsi 'Sucrl ayi ayrl � s •4 ewe _�' �r�ti (.(J!:)rljoA MaN wojj sammw 06 Aluo) P-od,2,4o, �,�Mew H3,200 v Y10 C, • _ y 4 t� 25-500 MAIN ROAD • ORIENT NEW YORK 11957 . (516) 323-3555 N Brochure, Oysterponds Manor. OR-25 The Suffo4 Times MIMI o w..■,,,' . 171 L. r . Bs, B Photo by Judy Ahrens New Owners Janet and Mordi Yaron, who recently took over the Oysterponds Adult Home, came to these parts in a roundabout fashion. He was born in Israel, she in China. "How we ended up in Orient, we don't know, but we love it," said Mrs. Yaron, who holds a master's degree in nursing. The home, located on Main Road in Orient, hosts 19 elderly residents.