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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION 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 Hall, Main Rd. TELEPHONE: 516 765 1892
Southold
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION L.H. Hallock/Berks House
1. BUILDING Np �(.
2. COUNTY: 5u oTOWNICITY: Southold VILLAGE Orient
3. STREET LOCATION: a you a ve. , bet. Orchard SE.-T—Platt Ra.
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h. private FX1
5_ PRESENT OWNER: Robert Berks ADDRESS: Halyoake ave. , Orient
6. USE: Original: residence Present: residence
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road. Yes R] No
Interior accessible: Explain private ruidence
DESCRIPTION
S. Bl1ILDINC a. clapboard ® b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other:.
Cl_ STRUCTURAL a_ wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members JD
(if kn(wvn) C. masonry load bearing walls ❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
It). CONDITION: a. excellent 0 b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ED b. moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
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14, THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known 0 b.zoning❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. other:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a, barn❑ b. carna a house c. garage Eld. privy ❑ e. shed f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features:
j. other: former school artists studio OR-
Ifi. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a,open land ® b. woodland ❑
c. scattered buildings ❑
d,densely built-up ❑ e. commercial
f. industrial ❑ g. residential K
h.other: agricultural
17. INTI•RRELATIONSIIIP 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. Open land surrounds the house, dotted
with large trees.
IH. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
Large, 2k story, 5 bay, gable roof house with wide facade gable.
Flanking, single bay, 1k2 story wings with similiar facade gables.
Projecting, twin, semi-octagonal bay windows at corners of main
house. 1/1 windows with hood molds and double leaf front door
under segmental arch. Porch across front of main house with
-see attachment-
SIGNIFICANCE
1t). DAJE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION:— Last quarter of 19th century
ARCHITECT:
�-- BUILDER:
10. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
Toward the end of the last century, the prosperous Hallock
family built a dock on their waterfront on Long Beach Bay to
export produce.
The large old farmhouse has been the home of the prominent scul-
ptor, Robert Berks, and his family since 1967. For the artist's
studio, see form OR-77.
Also see form OR--78 for Hallock Farm.
21, SOURCES:
Southampton Press. 9/3187.
E. Belcher Hyde, Atlas od Suffolk County, L.I. , Vol. 2, North
Side, Sound Shore, 1909.
>>. it %IF
yde & Co. , Map of Long Island, 1897.
Form prepared by Kurt Kahofer, research assistant.
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segmental arches between squared posts on high pedestals. Queen Anne
decorative shingles in gables.
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Down the road,the old I Iallock Farm hasn't fared as well.
ie land here was considered some of the poorest on ong
Island at the end of the last century, so the I lallocks brought '~ '
in tons of stable manure,until it had some of the richest earth ,
in Orient. "then they introduced overhead irrigation, built a
dock for their steamship,and exported their produce to New
England. In their prosperity, they started their own small
acetylene plant and even bought a printing press, which
eventually became the cornerstone of an advanced, pro-
gressive hamlet.
Hobert Berks,who has made monuments of Einstein, Lin-
naeus, and John and Robert Kennedy, came here with his r+`
wife, Tod, in 1966. Thex built a life around music and art—
aT very mucl7in the I iallocktMM-7hai changed,though,
when Charles Horowitz bought the 67 acres between their
house and I lallock Bay. "' }
A South Fork developer of unusual sensitivity, Horowitz ;
wanted to build what he considered attractive and authentic r r
cluster houses with unexcelled water views. He did not quite
understand how Tod Berks and others in this community feel
about their water.
"Orient has the shallowest water table in Southold," she
explains. "Our fresh water is a thin lens on top of a kettle of
salt water. At the end of the dry season, farmers often draw The Farmlands Preservation Bill has helped save North Forkfields,
salt water from their wells. We pump our own water here—
and if we run out, replacement would be the most expensive rage apartment and two cats. But just over a year ago, she
on Long Island. Mr. Horowitz has parcels of land that float in became alarmed at the prospect that a 160-unit condominium
any rainstorm. It's our fear that his cesspools will drain into called Seacroft would be built in Cutchogue. In five days,she
Hallock Bay,a shellfish nursery that,according to one study, gathered 900 signatures on a petition against it and took her
produces $2 million of shellfish a year." petition to town hall—only to be told that she'd missed the
In the face of such opposition,Horowitz abandoned cluster public hearing held a month before and was therefore out of
housing and divided the property into five-acre-arQgls.Tod order. Now, more than a year too late, her committee was
Berks and her concerned neighbors in Orient knew what that trying to make itself heard.
meant: With five-acre zoning, a developer doesn't have to Sawastynowicz spoke briefly. Robert Pike, a lawyer with
provide potable water. They petitioned the town--unsuc- Twomey, Latham & Shea, a Riverhead law firm that special-
cessfully—to force Horowitz to alert buyers to their potential izes in public-interest law, added a few details. Then the
water problems. meeting was turned into a community debate on topics as
"These 'problems' can be 'solved' with a $775 Culligan : familiar here as work boots: water and open space.
water purifier," Horowitz says. "What's interesting is that at : "The county and town have decided it takes one full acre
no point have any of these people picked up the phone and to provide water for one family," John Wickham pointed out,
called me. The problem isn't what I'm doing—when I get "Now we find the town board blithely allowing six units an
done. I'll be proud of what I did there—but that these people : acre. I'm very upset that this is happening to one of the most
t want this land forever without paying for it. And the result is ; beautiful villages on the North Shore."
that instead of building housing that sells for as little as Robert Pike pointed to an architect's map that showed 36
$95,000, I'm going to be building luxury homes." : open acres—suitable, it had been said, for leasing to a
vineyard or farmer—snaking between the condos. "The only
open space 1 can see in that site plan," Pike said,"is between
4 The Activist : the statement that there is some and the truth."
Paul Stoutenburgh noted sadly that a man who buys a piece
HE DEPOT LANL SCHOOL, 11, CUICIiOGUE, ISN T .ANY- of land has also bought the right to use it. Danny Lyon called
one's idea of a hot spot, but one weekday evening in condos as deadly an invader as any enemy. And in the
May, it was the only place to be. Frank Bear,chairman vituperative venting that followed, the specific steps that
of the Southold Water Advisory Committee, was there. might he taken to stop the development were for a time
John Wickham, who has ,g forgotten.
headed the planning In all that emotion,one thing
board in Southold for 24 years, _ seemed to be heard clearly.
was there. By 7:30, the kinder- 1: "We have a unique opportunity
garten chairs had been here," Robert Pike said. "to
plundered, and there were 120 learn from every mistake that's
people jammed into the lunch- been made all along the is-
room—all to hear a self-de- land."The persistent refusal of
scribed hermi who had never the people of the North Fork to
led a mectint before. be like their southern neigh-
ti'ancy Saillyhowgrieczw
is an bors may not, in the end, stop
unlikely acti up in the future from happening—
a 200-year-o d house, spends but it certainly alerts anyone
two nights a week taking care else with the bright idea to re-
of a 92-yea -old woman, re- make this place that he's going
finishes woo boats in summer, to have a helluva fight on his
and, at 34, oes home to a ga- Alone an a marshy shore.Newhands. �
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