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Home My WebLink AboutOR-77 FOR OFFICE USE ONLY BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION UNIQUE SITE NO. /630 kzz%4 OR-77 QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY, NEW YORK (518)474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: January 1988 YOUR ADDRESS:Town Hall2Main Rd. TELEPHONE:516 765 1892 Southold, LI, NY 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION 1. BUILDING NAM[,-(S):— Old School 2, COUNTY:.';riffQik TOWN/CITY:Seutho1A VILLAGE: Orient 3. STREET LOCATION: Halt' ake Aire north chin batt nrchard� St - and Platt Rd. 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ E private [2 5. PRESENT OWNER: RnhPrt RPrks ADDRESS Hal3rnake Ayp. ; Qrj nye h. USE: Original: _ school - Present: arti Gt's studi-h_ 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes Cxl No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain DESCRIPTION 8, BUILDING a. clapboard lia 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 ❑ b. good k] c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ❑ b. moved El if so.when? 1965 from Main Road, c. list major alterations and dates (if known): 17. PHOTO: neg: KK IX-8, fm S 13. MAP: NYS DOT Orient quad Lake ptJ,yi ,•,. o .1 R a a ° •'E5 .?loge Cem t lCenlral A �+. .'Orlertt a,f Cem �t Q �4 �pr,e �RCyg • i _ - 4 B • � �� Vis✓ ��a��Yr S 9r, �+ J r _ 9 2 - - - 2 HP-1 S OR-77 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known h. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. tither: 15. RI_LATLD OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑ d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse 0 g. shop ❑ It, gardens i. landscape features: j. other: 16. SURROUNDINGS OF 'I IIE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land @ b. woodland ❑ c. scattered buildings ❑ d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial 0 f. industrial ❑ g. residential k] h.other: 2 story pr'efahricated extension at rear 17. INTI-RRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Located in a low density agricultural area east of the Orient Historic District , surrounded predominantly by open land . Stone posts front the property along Halvoake Ave . The artist' s sculp- tures dot the property around this building. 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): Large 21-story, hipped roof schoolhouse . Belfry with pyramidal roof. @verhanging roof with exposed rafter ends . Double leaf door with sidelights and transom. entrance porch with paired columns on high pedestals. 2/2 windows. Modern extension on rear for artist' s studio. SIGNIFICANCE 11). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1872 109rl remodel-led) ARCHITECT: amps Henry Ynnng in 1 IA72__ BUI LDER: 'R HISTORICAL AND ARC+LCTURAL IMPORTANCE: This adaptive re-use of an old schoolhouse as an artists studio contributes to the ambience of the area. 21. SOURCES: Historical Record . Oysterponds Historical society. 1959. Maurtion Failev. Old School Houses Nassau and Suffolk Counties. 1977 22. THLNIF� r" Form prepared by Kurt Knhofer, research Fssistant �r � x— �f THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1978 the Kennedy Center for the Performing so much, he says, when one con Einstelen Sculpture Approaching LStage Arts being a good example of his style. inflation,the cast of loyedrat one (:He says,however, that the facets are sores have been employed at one ti not random, but are placed the way a another,including metal and wood By IRVIN MOLOTSKYcomposer places the recurring theme of a cators, sculptors, tool and die n sculpture of Einstein, and this week he Princeton, lasted two days, April 18 and sonata, varying it, broadening it, level- and machinists) and the cost of s Special to The New York Times began preparing the statue for its casting 19, 1953, and what resulted was a bust OR1El'}"1`, L,1.—The old man sat ata oping it. In the Einstein work,the theme devices Mr.Berks designed. table and scribbled he a pad while the in bronze. By the time it is finished and based on five hours of working in clay. begins with three rings over the right eye, For the next two weeks,Mr. Bur erected in Washington, the statue will "He came into his study,'" Mr. Berks and that device is repeated throughout. his crew will be working in a shed young man tried to capture his image in a have cost its sponsor, the National said. "He put his pad on his lap and "Nothing in life is smooth," Mr. Berks lump of clay. Academy of Sciences,$1.6 million. started on his trip into space,trying to get said."This texture simulates motion. As can control the temperature That was 25 years ago in Princeton, the formula to et the whole universe to- preparing the statue for its final t N.J. The old man was Albert Einstein, Between bursts of activity Mr. Berks t g you move around it,the light moves,New in bronze at the Modern Art Four: and the young man, Robert Berks, grew tried the other day to explain the affinity g@ her'" sets of parallel facets come to your vl- Long Island City, Queens. Mr. y �� When the sculptor had finished, Ein- cion.and it is an entirel new vision. to middle age trying unsuccessfully to he felt with Einstein. stein looked at the piece.Mr.Berks said. y plans to have rhe monument rea find a sponsor to commission a giant "1 asked him why he was allowing me p he work was done outdoors, perched Einstein's Centennial next March Po and told him: it 1 had my lite to sive over �a 28-{Dart turntable Mr. Berks built so statue of the scientist. to steal his time," Mr. Berks said, "and far the annual convention of the Na again,i would be a sculptor." he could rotate the statue, studying how When the commission finally came he answered that he had long ago recog- Academy of Sciences on April 22. the sun struck it at various angles.Over- earlier this year,the sculptor was given a nixed that the works needed lleras and "Which he also said to his plumber," It will be placed outside the aca2 deadline of fess than a year to complete that it was better to have `someone as interjected Mr.Berks's wife,Tod. head is a cable-hung: jib that can be headquarters at 22d Street and Ca the work in time for Einstein's 104th bir- harmless as I am than a Hitler or a Mus- Mr. Berks uses what at first seems to o!pened like a tent to protect the clay from tion Avenue in Washington, an day anniversary next spring. soi int.'" be the random placement of facets on the suaor ram Berks said: "I would like it if Last week Mr. Berks finished a 21-foot Their session, in Einstein's study in surface, his bust of John F.Kennedy at Mr. Berkg's fee is$350,000. This is not would sit at his feet and read and tb t. " 0 OR 7? W.S�Aolk"�V'mesyAugus120 187,Pimys 9 _t. Unveiled 4 Orient sculptor Robert Berks's`Meant'Memorial" was unveiled at the new George Meant'Archives 0 Building at the George Meant' . ( Center for Labor Studies in Silver Spring,Md.,on Mon- s day.Photo shows the sculptor at work on the monu- p� Ment last year, It is Mr. 4r' _ r Berks's fourth monument and 15th public work in the Washington,D.C.,area,more "* " than any other living sculptor. He spent 21/2 years on the work,cast in bronze on a �,I base of Roman travertine. Some 600 guests,including l top AFL-CIO personnel,at- tended the dedication cere- mony. * _ Pholo by Judy Ahrens I