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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: March 1988
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Rd. TELEPHONE: 516 765 1892
Southold LI NY 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
L BUILDING NAME(S); Fort H.G. Wright Arsenal (?)
2. COUNTY: Suffolk - TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Fishers Island
3. STREET LOCATION: Tyler Ln at intersection of Greenwood Rd.
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private ❑
5. PRESENT OWNER: ADDRESS:
0. USE: Original: Present: vacant
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes ER No ❑
Interior accessible:, Explain yes «_
DESCRIPTION
8. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ® c. brick x❑ d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑' f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other:
13. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑
(if known) c. masonry load bearing walls ID
d. metal (explain)
e. other iron tie rods
10. CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good ❑ c. fair ® d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site b. moved ❑ if so,when?
c_ list major alterations and dates (if known):
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known ❑ b.zoning ❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers :0 e. deterioration
f. other: vandalism
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d.privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features:
rail car tracks j. other: other Fort H.G. Wright structures
16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land d b. woodland ❑
c.scattered buildings U
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial 12 light
light f. industrial IN g. residential ❑
h.other: water
17. INTFRRELA I IONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Located in a medium-high density area within the remnants
of Fort H.G. Wright, near the Fishers Island Ferry District
Terminal. Predominantly open land around the site, with
scattered vacant and semi-vacant buildings in the immediate
vicinity.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
Large, rectangular, multi-bay, hip roof brick building with
stone cornice and beveled, rusticated quoins. Diamond shaped,
iron tie rod ends visible at second story. Rusticated stone
lintels over 2/2 windows and doors. Interior with rail car
tracks in concrete floor run parallel through the building.
SIGNIFICANCE
19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: early 20th century
ARCHITECT:
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201 HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
This large abandoned building with its railroad tracks must
have been used to store ordinance. The tracks may have run
from the dock (?) . The building is # 209 on the 1948 map.
21. SOURCES: Fishers Island, A Book of Memories. James and Joanne
Wall, 1982, p. 1 9.
2. THL 1117
Form prepared by Turt Kahofer, research assistant.
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