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Home My WebLink AboutOR-26A FOR OFFICE USE ONLY BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION UNIQUE S[TE NO. fd3�fl,crpfd33 OR-26A � * QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY,NEW YORK (518)474-0474 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME:Town of Southold/SPLIA _ _ DATE: November 1987 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main fid.- TELEPHONE: 516 765 1892 _ Southold , LI, NY 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any):Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION I. BUILDING NAME(S): Rock Carvings 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Orient 3. STREET LOCATION: shore of L.I . Sound, east of Edwards Ln. 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public KI b. private El 5. PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS: G. USE: Original: Present: 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes ❑ No 19 Interior accessible: Explain site is accessible DESCRIPTION 8. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone 13 c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL. e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: natural rock '). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑ SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑ (if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing wads ❑ d. metal (explain) e. other- natural roeka '10. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good IN c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site PP h. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): 12. PHOTO: neg: KK fm E 13. MAP:NYS L)OT Orient quaff ae �o Fa " ar to \A`vS� a 4" •tea __ .__�1 .N� ,y.8' °fso i �t0 QBrflwns Hill 2's 4• 4 Mttnn a Lake a O i Village !' + em tCenln! HP-1 r gCHgq�e OR-26A 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known ❑ b. zoning❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: erosion, vandalism 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑ d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i, landscape features: surrounded by 11atl1ral j. other: 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open lander b. woodland c.scattered buildings ❑ d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential IN h.other: edge of shore below Shrubbed cliff 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Located on the shore of Long Island Sound, east of Edwards Ln. Below a small cliff with low shrubbery. 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): Finely chiseled carvings on natural rock. One is inscribed "Bear Rock Studios", another says "James 01stad 1934", and another, of an Indian on a horse, is marked "1933". That rock is very worn. Other designs include a bird and Indian head. The signature rock is marked "Cut by E.A. Brooks" (neg: KK V-17) . SIGNIFICANCE 19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1933 ARCHITECT: R -sherman-_Scuipter Elliott A. Bres_rs A BUILDER: 20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: Mr. Brooks, a great lover of Indian lore , conceived the idea of these carvings as a memorial to the long-van- ished Poquatuck Indians. 21. SOURCES: County Catalog, p. 25. L.I. Forum, December 1949. Historical Review, 1959, p. 14. 22. THznir: L.I. Commercial Review, "History Abounds in Southold", 7/6/67. Form prepared by Kurt Kahofer, research assistant. r DECE•`.]Vl10-M 1947 I.f7NG ISLAND FORLiAl Orient's eXillwheelS 01�-2 ,� . c�nd CJ�Lonurn.en is THERE is evidence that , corton turned to many years ago mill- - `� ✓` Painting. Now his evenings and rainy days (us- wheel-makers found the dences of an Indian burial ing a blue light) are spent at Sound shore at Orient a good The cabin inspection had to home doing marine subjects. Place to obtain stone for their wait while I dug around for landscapes and old landmarks. wheels. In support of the Indian relics. It proved to be Among his marines are a foregoing statement, Elliott a ceremonial burial mound. number of the old-time A. Brooks, sculptor and artist and I like to imagine that the schooners which he knew as a whose home is at Orient, re- Indian spirits led me to the boy, showing them coming in cently informed the Forum cache in appreciation of mw to the Orient wharf to load or that there are still two stone carving the memorial." unload. wheels on the beach at this Since paving his lasting "As with the carving," spot, one of which bears the tribute to the Indians in the writes Mr. Brooks, "My paint. inscription "B. Patty, 1824". rocky of Orient a decade and ing has to be done at odd mo- The spot referred to is on the a half ago, Mr. Brooks haG „ Lydia Brown estate between (e,ntintecJ un Page .+� Orient village and Orient Point and is reachable either by boat or by walking along the beach. Here in 1933 Mr. Brooks carved huge figures in a number of boulders, which unusual achievement was first disclosed in the Long Island Forum of November 1941 by Meade C. Dobson, managing director of The Long Island ,t Association. �- Recently, in response to an t - inquiry from the Forum. Mr. I' y y ► Brooks wrote: "I tried chisel- ing out some figures and. being a great lover of Indian lore, conceived the idea of ti leaving a monument to the own ►� °.. vanished Poquatucks by care- ,. �+�a• * � �1” 1 `t "� ` ,\tic g ing out the head of a chieftain. ^ This was done with ordinary chisels and took considerable . time as it had to be done in odd hours when I was not . • r busy at my regular work. There are about 25 sculptures �. of various subjects scattered along the beach for about two !_; "�'' hundred yards, one of them being a polar bear sitting on a block of ice. Some of the subjects took two or three months to complete, working A° a few hours at a time." Mr. Brooks described an un- usual discovery as follows: "One Sunday some Boy Scouts called to me to come up to _ .see the cabin which they had built on the hill above my carvings. As I went up, I noticed the soil where the boys had disturbed it and Sad;• a i- Two of Mr. Brooks' Rock Carvings „- LONG ISLAND FORUM DECEMBER 1947 s likewise taken to painting. A, Orient's e��CilluiheetT for the artist himself, some of . and eXonuments Whose paintings are on exhibi- OR-26A Conlinurd from Page 227 tion at Village House in Orient, since boyhood he has SHOP N O ments, but it is a great hobby been a collector of Indian arti- and has brought me many facts. In his extensive collec- hours of keen enjoyment." tion, on display at Village for your Mr. Brooks, a native of House, home of the Oyster Orient, comes from a line of fonds Historical Society, is seafarers. His grandfather a large clay pot which he dug GIFTS IN ART Richard Brooks was captain up in small pieces some years of a two-masted fishing smack ago and assembled with glue. and followed the sea as did his son Charles Alvah Brooks, father of the artist. The lat- Cash and Carry ter and his two brothers are Service 15% off all in the fishing business, UNQUA LAUNDRIES having fish-pounds in the Phone Amityville 1848 Sound and in Gardiner's Bay, Dixon Avenue Copiague and the artist's son Gordon E. Brooks is captain of the The Better China schooner-yacht Sea Gypsy in LEIGH'S TAXICABS Glassware of Distinction which during the war he made MOTOR VANS - STORING a splendid record with the At- WAREHOUSE lantic Coast Patrol. The two Auto Busses For Hire Sterling and Plater} Silver Phone Amityville of woodrnware of Original daughters of the artist and Near Amityville Depot two of his grandsons have Craftsmanship Auto Radiators Repaired, Recored and Boiled Out Electric Motors—Rewinding and Rebuilding AMITYVILLE BATTERY & IGNITION SERVICE, Inc. Broodwsy and Aron Place Phones 1179-2095 Amityville Miniature WE'VE NEVER PAID LESS THAN French Etchings 21 INTEREST �p n1v1t�ENa on Christmas Cards and your savings are insured up to $5,000 Write today for our hands, save-by-mail kit SUFFOLK COUNTY FEDERALSAVINGS ASSOCIATION Cadman H. Frederick. President Main Street Tel. 600 Babylon. N. Y. A'""Wr Fenlrni Hum&Htlre V Rack Memhrr Fedrra!Saw ins•t Loan Iri..unnce Corp. TOOM EYE]' B U l C K GIFTS SALES SERVICE PARTS Suffolk County's Largest Selection of 85 East MainStreet GUARANTEED USED CARS BAY SHORE Ande-McEwan Motors, Inc. Telephone 2S Tel. Bay Shore 2 228 East Maio St., Bay Shore WE, BUY USED CARS FOR CASH Rock Carvings OR-26A Orient 44 f Y Montauk Indian", neg: KK V-16, fm SE. h �.• ± r moi` ��-� t :e Various carvings, "Cut By E.A. Brooks" in upper left. neg: KK '` V-17, fm W.