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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (519)474-0479 NEG. NO.
YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: March 1988
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Rd. TELEPHONE: 516 765 1892
Southold LI NY 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Communtiy Development//Office
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IDENTIFICATION
I. BUILDING NAME(S): Mine Storage Building (Bldng. 257)
2. COUNTY:Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE:Plw2 Islari
3. STREET LOCATION: Southeast shore, NE of PI-2.
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h private ❑
5. PRESENT OWNER: U.S. Government ADDRESS-Plum Island Animal Disease Cntr.
6USE: Original: mine storage Present:animal laboratories (Building 4257)
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes ❑ No
Interior accessible: Explain restricted
DESCRIPTION
8. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. beard and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e, cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other:tile, reinforced
concrete, concrete block.
1). STRUCTURAL. a_ wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑
(if known) c. masonry load bearing walls N
d. metal (explain)
e. other reinforced concrete
10. CONDITION: a• excellent ❑ b. good 0 c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site 91 b. moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
1954 - rehabilitated into laboratory.
1956 & 1966 - wings added.
12. PHOTO: neg: KK XIII-25a, fm SE 13. MAP: NYS DOT Plum Island quad
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known 1� b.zoning❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. ether:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
multiple a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed ® f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features: behind low dunes.
j. other. animal pens, access ramp.
IES. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land ,KI b. woodland ❑
c. scattered buildings a
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑
h.other: Other Fort Terry buildings to N/NE.
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Located in an open, low density area, behind low dunes,
parallel to Gardiners Bay. This is the most isolated of
the former Fort Terry buildings now used by the Plum
Island Animal Disease Center.
18- OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
Large, rectangular, flat roofed, multi-bay building. Quoined
windows divided into single and double bays with slightly pro-
jecting piers and large masonry stringcourses at midsection.
Large cornice below roof line to create a parapet wall.
SIGNIFICANCE 1911
N. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION:
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
HISTORICAL AND ARCIi1TECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
This pre WWI military building is an important component in
this historically significant military complex. As part of
the Harbor Defense of Long Island Sound, it was built to
store mines for use in averting a foreign attack on the
East Coast of the U.S. early in this century.
Its present use as a high level animal disease laboratory
for the USDA enhances the significance of this building.
21. SOURCES:
Peconic Bay Shoppar, 12/3/86.
Master Plan. Perkins & will, 1977.
27. fHLNI£:
Form prepared by Kurt Kahofer, research assistant.
Mine Storage Building (Bldng. 257) 111-4
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Plum Island
Perkins & Will
Plum Island Animal Disease Center MASTER PLAN
Greenport, L.I. , New York acistin Buildin Evaluation
Building 257 - Laboratories
June 20, 1977
DATE BUILT 1911; rehabilitated to lab, with 5,780 GSF addition in
1954; 11485 GSF addition in 1956; 2,755 GSF addition
in 1966.
FUNCTIONAL USE Gross Height
Functional Use
Floor Level Area1 Mechanical, incinerator, sewage 23,080 GSF F1' to F1_
decontamination, change rooms,
labs
2 Animal rooms, labs, autopsy �.17,657 GSF
TOTAL40,750 GSF
Note: The areas indicated above reflect existing space
planned and work presently under construction.
STRUCTURE
Type & Condition steel, reinforced concrete, Rile.
EXITS
Location & Adequacy
EXTERIOR Painted concrete block in good condition.
Type & Condition
INTERIOR Painted concrete block; concrete block and drywall
Type & Condition partitions.
HVAC oil-fired steam from boilers; chilled water air
Type & Condition conditioning.
PLUMBING Water and sanita
Services & Condition rY systems are in satisfactory condi-
tion.
ELECTRICAL-POWER Fluorescent and incandescent lighting.
Type & Condition
SPECIAL SYSTEMS Distilled water,
gas, vacuum, sewage decontimination
unit.
OCCUPANCY Sixty (60) persons, of which 12 rotate shifts 24 hrs/day.
EVALUATION Building is in generally
ondition. New
incinerator has facilitated wworkyoncthe al canimals. Stor-
age and building services are greatly undersized. up-
grading of labls required to meet OSHA and ARS stand-
dards.
RECOMMENDATION Retain for generally restricted use to diagnostic and
training. Transfer the research functions to plant
additions - Laboratory 101.
Master Plan, Plum Island Animal Disease Center. Perkins & Will, 1977.
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Mine, storage Building (Bldng. 257)
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PJ.11llt Island PreseMrig Your'81r of History Thr Pernik Bry Shur�y,er ne�emb6r 3, 1486
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Plum Island Miscellany
by Sam Sander
he stay of the f,rsf white settlers on Plum Island has not beenJMBofflkls a Gift that can be opened
clearly outlined We are told that the island was originally ac- Again&Again
quired by Samuel Wyllys of Hartford.Connecticut from Wyan-
danch, the Sachem of the Montaukelt and Shinnecock Indian
tribes.This chieftain was extremely powerful on long Island.His influence
extended from Montauk to Hempstead, The purchase price was said to
be a coal,a barrel of biscuits and 100 fishhooks.Eventually Wyllys sold r
it to Joseph Beebe of Plymouth.Incidentally,the year of the purchase from f
Wyandanch is thought to be 1659, r r
It is of interest to nate here that what is now an island was many ,
years ago attached to Orient Point by a land bridge.A family story handed r'
down through generations depicts an ancestor walking across this narrow
bridge each year to eny some fishing.He noticed that every year the
sir of Land between the Sound and Gardiner's Bay was growing narrower
ar narrower. Now, of course, the deep waters of Plum Gut with their Books ular • Classics •Chirdren's
racing tidal currents separate Plum Island from the eastern extremity of po F a 0
the North Fork of Long Island. Books • Specials •Casserles
Sul how did Plum Island gel its name?There are two versions of the Games •X.mas Cards Used Books + o e
answer.The prosaic explanation is that the early explorers,impressed with Bookbinding&Restoration o
the wealth of beach plums growing along the shore,named it"Plum Island".
The second and mae imaginative version has it that when Plum Gut had ^
been formed,vessels sailed here between Sound and 13ay for the first time.
In order to avoid running aground or being wrecked on the rocks,they
studiously checked the depth with their plumb-bobs.Hence,'Plumb Is.
land"! pq���@
Coming back to the land owners,by 1800 the island had been divided
up into several sections and was in the possession of a numberof individual
owners.We shalt we that it was acquired by the U.S.Government who
put it to various uses.For one thing,it was a strategic observation point Merry Christmas
from which to protect Connecticut's shore on the Sound and the approaches IN
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from there to New York Harbor.The last individual owner was Abraham If to everyone on,your list
Hewitt,Mayor of New York City D with a special gift from �
In 1897 the eastern end of Plum Island was purchased by the Govern-
merit and Fort Terry was commissioned as a coast a1illery post. It was our great Collection of
active in this capacity from the Spanish American War through World War
11.By 1901 the entire island had been purchased from its owners, Most ' pot racks,ice Cream machines, 16
' of the buildings presently on Plum Island were built by the Government pot holders,cutting boards,and
around that time. gadgets,gadgets,gadgets.
One of the uses of Plum Island in the Second World War was to act
as a storage area for some munitions including mines to be placed in the 9f 14
surrounding waters against enemy submarines.A sturdy warehouse building {gyp 2:11
for tfre32 devices was eroded about the yards from the wharf. Narrow �]
Vgauge tracks were installed between these Iwo_-points. Pictured here in
.-c',-.T i�ie starage bui -ing is t smallsteam engine which hauled the
mires toteboars picked them up there and depositedtem 132 M.in 5b.1t,c—.part.N.T.I)9N(5T6)477-0059
in the waters as planned. The Plum Island Railroad was probably the 52 sora L—.so�lh.mpwn,NY.,1968(516)283-31 S6
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After the war the Government felt they had no further use for the Whatever tate weatF .
property and decided 10 sell it in the interest of economy. When they r r
advenised their wish to do so there were numerous applicants for this enjoy the ZUannth (ji]Z-�]ivtng brings/
purchase. Southold Town made a sizeable deposit since they hoped to J Ll J-U
make Plum Island a recreation area for their people.On Seplember 141h,
1948.the N.Y.Herald Tribune carried an article about Fort Terry on Plum Give a
Island,saying that a pact of 840 acres would be sold together with perma-
nent brick barracks,a chapel and other buildings which made up a complete
army post.It was mentioned that all armaments had been removed.
On September 22nd, 1949,the Traveler stated that Suffolk County MAN imumwindwtsarc
was Interested in buying Fort Terry.The War Department wanted to excess the I imst on the nuat.ct
it.This was one of wveralLong Island sites to be disposed of.They had UWAv, The"Maenro"Le1b
been an integral part of the Eastern Harbor Defense System, but the you windspccd,direct inn,
Department stated that this move would not imperil national security. And reciu(Is the maximum gusts
However,the outbreak of the Korean War In 1950 prevented the sale. for the day dll in one dial.
Federal regulations prohibited selling such land at a lime of national crisis. 8rushpd Aluminum dial housed
The GDeernmeru retained its possession,and,as we know,the Plum Island in a solid brass ease,Come,
Animal Disease Center where the U.S.Department of Agriculture provides complete with sensors,h.edwate,
Agricultural Research Service working tont the spread of the dreaded instructions Anda 5 year
animal fool and mouth disease, swine lever, and other possible animal warrant).And hest news to all.,.
and sometimes human epidemics. _ we meet lhis lu yuu ar rwr usual
The Wall Street Joumal on July 15th,1954,mentioned that on Plum I.
Island such research as that on Foot and mouth disease was being carried ° I D%DISCOUNT.
on by a team of Federal scientists"in a fortress-type military warehouse
here that once held a stockpile of explosive mines." S 7 C
Although we cannot go into detail,we must give credit to the many 1 J.
dedicated people who have devoted and continue to devote themselves
5owholme a6 wQwlely to he benermentof the ow in order.th
nd The writee of r
to COMPLETE SELECTION OF WEATHER INSTRUMENTS
Same adtrtvwledgemenls are now in order.The writer wishes to note
that Dr.JJ.CaN5,the Senior Scientific Advisor here and in other centers Barometers,thermometers.humidlry indicators&more.Come bro%,v?
of research service. generously provided the photograph of the steam
engine shown here together with other helpful information, GIVE AN UNUSUAL G11171'...AND OPEN THE
Amst Vincent Quatroche of Greenport suggested the topic of this DOOR TO NATURE'S FASCINATING DIMENSIONSI
paper and furnished information about the railroad.He mentioned that a
story had been circulated that the mini steam engine lies buried somewhere star dwrts -$a4r darcapa< prisms'
on Plum Island, Neither Vincent nor I have managed to confirm $his. hokyrams—cdatiat'giiotres- ravdts4ha
although I have consulted a number of those who are well-acquainted with sun dials—barometers comptrasar
Pium Island such as Dr.Callis,Dr.Ahmed Dardiri,Walter Mengewelt and
Railroader Dan Monahan of Orient.
The east end of Plum ]stand has suffered certain erosion from the
ins
surrounding wafers since the end of the Second World War,and remains
of the batteries and undergground passagewaysconnectingthem are now FUREC116TER
visible.Perhaps railroad buNs and/or archaeologists may form an expedition WIND CWEATNEItSHOP
bringing metal detectors and shovels to find'The Little Engine That Could"! omw Your complete weather instrument shop,
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