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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION UNIQUE SITE NO- PI-2
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NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (519) 474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: March 19$$ `� L
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Rd. TELEPHONE: 516 765 1$9 11�p ootq I?)-
Southolff LI NY 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office
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IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING NAME(S): Fort Terry Gun Emplacement and Observation Tower
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWNJCITY: Southold VILLAGE:Plum Island
3. STREET LOCATION: - End of dirt rd. at SE corner of Plum Island.
4. OWNERSHIP: a. PU.S.
ublic F-1 b. private ElU-S. Government property
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5_ PRESENT OWNER: .S. Government ADDRESS:
6, USEOriginal: gun emp acement o Servation present: vac-apt
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: xterJor'visible from public road: Yes ❑ No
Interior accessible: Explain No ga3zernmentnri1e-rt,v
DESCRIPTION restricted.
33. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten El
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: reinforced concrete
1). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members []
(i1' kno.vn) c. masonry load bearing walls
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good ❑ c. fair 119 d. deteriorated K
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site EX b. moved ❑ if so,when"!
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
Armaments removed from emplacement, observation tower
partially destroyed.
12. PHOTO: neg: KK XIII-29a, fm NW 13. MAP: NYS DOT Plum Island quad
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known ❑ b. zoning❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration P9
f. other:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse El
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features: waterfront location
). other:
10. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land KI b. woodland ❑
c. scattered buildings ❑
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ e. residential F❑
h.other. Laboratories to N/NE
17. IN1TRRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
The gun emplacement and observation tower face Gardiners
Bay and are located along the sea-grass beachfront S/SW of
one of the Plum Island Animal Disease Research Center lab-
oratories. (PI-4-) Low density, restricted area.
IH. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
Large, partially underground reinforced concrete gun emplacement.
NW side has 3 bays flanked by steps to platform facing water.
SE side, facing water, with central rounded projection and
rounded platforms at each end. Fire Control Station (obser-
vation tower) directly NE is partially underground, with con-
SIGNIFICANCE trete lower part and upper narrow window band.
le. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION:— Circa 1942
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
_'o. msTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
This WWII gun emplacement, or bunker, served an important role
in the Harbor Defense of Long Island Sound. A series of these
gun emplacements was located across the Eastern Seaboard to
ward off enemy attack. This emplacement on Plum Island is
especially significant because it is coupled with a Fire
l Control station, which aided in relaying the correct co-
ordinates to various gun emplacements in order to destroy
an enemy target.
21. SOURCES:
Lewis, Emanuel Raymond. Seacoast Fortifications of the United
States, An Introductory History, (1970) , 1979.
2. 'i-ti t i,I f. Montauk Light House Museum, File HDLIS.
Form prepared by Kurt Kahofer, research assistant.
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