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NEW YORK STATE PARKS.AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (519) 474-0479 NEG. N0.
YOUR NAME: DATE: Nnizomber 1987
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Rd._ TELEPHONE:516 769 1897
Southold, LI, NY 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any):. Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING; NAME(S): "Eastholme", Isaac war-ds TTrr,se
2. COUNTY:Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE:Ori Pnt
3. STREET LOCATIONNain Rd. , north side, NW corner Fr.wards Tn_
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private G
5. PRESENT OWNER: Keogh ADDRESS:
6. USE': Original: residence Present: re=i dencP
7, ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes 1� No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain private res_fienr•e
DESCRIPTION
g. BUILDING a. clapboard 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 framc with light members ❑
(if known) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent ;� b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTLGRITY: a. original site k] b. moved ❑ if so,when"
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
East wing removed and moved across the road, now the home
of Sohn Appelt. (OR-27A)
"Picture window" is modern.
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known Q b.zoning ❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration 171
f. other:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barnfl b. carriage house ❑ c. garage
d. privy ❑ e. shed il f_ greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features: 2 large beech trees
j. other farm storage building
10. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land K) b. woodland
c. scattered buildings ❑
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial L] g. residential Ud
h.other:
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Low-medium density residential section of Main Rd. , historic Kings
Hwy. (NYS Rte. 25). One of the larger residences in the area, it
is surrounded predominantly by open land, partially wooded.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
Large 2k story, 3 bay, flat roof house with frieze windows and
brackets under the eaves. 3 bay, lx story wing on west. Octagonal
bracketed cupola with round arched 2/2 windows. Wrap-around porch
with Tuscan columns and curved pavilions at each end.
SIGNIFICANCE
117. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: Circa 1853
ARCHITECT:
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BUILDER:
?Q. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
This flat roof Italianate house is typical of a style
that was very popular in Orient just before the Civil
'far. A number of these houses will be found along
Main Road. This one is a fine, well-preserved example.
21. SOURCES: Typescript by Phyllis Edwards Hale, n.d.
Munsell. History of Suffolk County. 18€32 ,
22. THENI17:
Form prepared by Kurt Xahofer, research assistant.
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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 Isaac _Edwards,_ father of George, Nathaniel
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and Edwar c . 5on land owned by him. Th—e--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: 1°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 prope=rty also' extended south to the bay. Nathaniel ii'ved' iz 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, 1937, 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
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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 1690.
Captain Brawn's house can be seen on Main Road in Orient today, just across
the Street from the Candy Man store.
By Phyllis Edwards Hale.
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Orient
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