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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION UNIQUE SITE NO. 1031D,M /0.35 Oaf-27A
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NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY,NEW YORK (518)474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLI�i DATE: November 1987
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Rd. TELEPHONE: 516 765 1892
Southold, LI, NY 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING NAME(S): Edwards/Appelt Haase
2. COUNTY-: Suf f 01k TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Orient
3. STREET LOCATION: Main Rd. , south Side, east of Edwards Ln.
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b, private 1:3
5. PRESENT OWNER: John Appelt ADDRESS: same _
6. USE: Original: res i enc a Present: residence
7. Affl1 SS1BILITY TO PUBLIC Exterior visible from public road: Yeses No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain private residence
DESCRIPTION
H. BUILDING a. clapboard M b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles IN g. stucco ❑ other:
1t. STRUCTURAL, a. wood frame with interlocking joints Pq
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members N
(if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent 91 1a. good ❑ c, fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site b. moved a if so,when'. C, 1907, from across the
c. list major alterations and dates (if known): street.
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known X] b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f: other:
15, RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed X1 f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features:
j. other: stable
lo. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land ® b. woodlandIC
c.scattered buildings ❑
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential
h.other:
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Low density residential area of Main Rd. (NYS Rte. 25) , historic
Kings Hwy. Predominantly open land surrounds the house. Large
field directly east and south.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
2t'a story, 3 bay, side entrance plan house with low gable roof.
Semi-octagonal, 1 story bay window on west. Porch ac) oss front
with decorative lattice posts. Shouldered surrounds c,n windows
and dooL. 2/2 wirdows.
SIGNIFICANCE
19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTIo., _ 185P's - -- --
ARCI(ITEC"I':
BUILDER:
20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE.
This house was the east wing of the ItaLianate house "Eastholme"
(OR-26) , built by Isaac Edwards c. 1850.
The m-ea -is called Edwardsville because of the Edwards Douses and
land orout,d Edwards Lai ie.
A cornerstone marked 1907 indicates date house was moved.
21. SOURCES:
*Interview, John Appelt , 11/87
Typescript by Phyllis Edwards Hale, n.d.
22. CHLNIE:
Edwards/Appelt House
Orient OR-27A
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 gust
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 . Hake '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 19.06, 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 lard 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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BACKGROUN ?e OF ED14ARDS HOUSE, page 2 OR 7A
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 . Hale ' s grandfather was a whaling
captain, Edwin peter Brown, whose family can be traced back to Richard
Brawn, one of the first seven men to settle the Orient area in 1650.
Captain Brown'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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