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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWE-6B BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORMFOR OFFICE USE ONLY UNIQUE SITE NO, 103,,7-tyy-V0 WE 6B '1 DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION [QUAD NEIN' YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIFS ALBANY, NEW YORK (519)474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: April 1988 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Rd. TELEPHONE: 516 765 1892 Southold LI NY 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Develo ment Office IDENTIFICATION 1. BUILDING NAMI:(S): Colonel Terriberry house 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/C'1TY: Southold VILLAGE Fishers Island ;j. 'STREET LOCATION: SW corner Ettrick Ave. and Oriental Ave. 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public r7 h private FKI 5- PRESLNT OWNER: ADDRESS: h. USE.: Original: residence Present: residence 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes R) No Interior accessible: Explain private residence DESCRIPTION 9. BUILDINC; a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten C MATERIAL; C. cobblestone ❑ 1'. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other: steel sheathing cement cladding 1). STRUCTURAL_ a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑ SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members Gd (if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls❑ d. metal (explain) e. other ' Rt-onp foundation Ill. CONDITION: a- excellent 5d b. goad ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site lid b. moved ❑ if sol C. list major alterations and dates (if known): 12. PHOTO: neg: KK XIV-24, fm SE 13- MAP: NYS DOT New London quad 9J. !l Pili T r 7 +Pti — DOIA7�n 6 .Jd".�' L IJ ' Pile e _ - West r s Harborl 1 r4 111 1 S H E 2S Goose F �i ale i,1 ?�w'r lalan&' 1, (r 'I• T !" _ 1"-*1. �. ■ 11 __ _ L -iTi)l , ��� •r ° 1` .,� _ VUT 4� � Ge •.n { �l ,. ori• •� s. 1 If Cou se w n 1 �=F13 'MIL"�f�EJ and-,, �� Mt 1 1 • '� jog' Prospect f' i r7f;4VR7©tST ` 2 r !' "•s $ he Wilderness � ty .s► ,. 44BLOCK. ,' `r�t> ISLAND Part r � IIP-1 — WE- ,6B C 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known [I b. zoning❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn b. carriage house ❑ c. garage IN d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑ g, shop ❑ h. gardens I i. landscape features: ._aei jnrPj3tgo1f c©tirse j. other: stone terrace vial i c_ to. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a,open land 0 b. woodland ❑ c. scattered buildings ❑ d,densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential C� h.other:_go7 f (nrTrcis 17. INTI-.RRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Located high on a hill overlooking Hay Harbor Golf Club and Block Island Sound to the south. Low density residen- tial. 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): Large, rectangular, multi-bay house. Enveloping roof has gable ends with center valley to form a double peak. Shed roof dor- mer across entire slope of roof. Similiar, smaller wing on. west. Garage west of house with similiar roof. S1GN1F1CANCE It). DA'L'E OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1913 ARCHITECT: BUILDER: ?Q. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: A 1929 article titled "A Miniature Estate of Fishers Island" describes the construction of this house and also the gardens, terrace, and landscaping-which remain today. Construction materials include stone, cypress, cement, steel sheathing, and paraffin waterproofing. This construction method is virtually weather and fireproof. 21. SOURCES: Fishers Island, A Book of Memories. James and Joanne Wall, 1982, p. 71. 22. -rriL mr. Form prepared by Kurt Kahofer, research assistant . house was most recently the residence of Martha Pendleton, nee Martha Ferguson.She was the widow of Major Alexander Pendleton and, as previously noted, the daughter of the late 1'_ O Edmund Morewood Ferguson,the original owner of the house. p For all who knew Mrs.Pendleton and how much she loved her h � home and Fishers Island, it was a mixed blessing that at the v+ I_A time of the fire she was residing in a nursing home and[hat she passed away without knowing that her beloved home had been c destroyed. The property today remains in the hands of her sv h descendants.On the site of the original house,"Miramar,"now �, stands the home of her grandson, Henry Osborne III. Across CrC the street, beyond Mrs. Pendleton's favorite;.-garden, is the r� ,*,,hnome of Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. McKown Sr., her son-in-law `C and daughter. Once the garage of the estate, it is now a o beautiful home. G From a 1929 article entitled "A Miniature Estate of Fishers 0 Island," written by Virginia Stephens, is this item about its techniques used in the construction of a home for Colonel and Mrs. W.S.Terriberry in 1913: "Plans for the house were laid out by Col.Terriberry himself and he and Mrs. Terriberry personally supervised the actual building. It has a stone foundation with cypress framing and Phan by Charles Morgan sills and the two-inch wails of solid cement are laid on an p w expanded steel sheathing. The construction is substantial and �T virtually fireproof. The walls were waterproofed with paraffin and underneath the steel sheathing is a layer of heavy building paper. Not only does this structure prevent moisture from penetrating (of importance where a house is exposed to oceanx [ tp T T r t r Gf gales)" but also keeps out the heat in summer and cold in r r r! !4-'' winter." The same article described the beautiful gardens, terrace and immaculate landscaping that today remain a drawing point _ to the house. The presorll owners of the Terribern- house are Mr, and Mrs. H. Lawrence Rouen. Not all a of the summer collages 11nl homes were as sulrstan tial as the ones already menlioned. However, the one floror buil!by Colonel and Mrs. 'I'erri- described in the following newspaper article, probably printed Iwrry, nowowned b, Afr crud Mrs. in the mid-18110's, has an interesting and practical concept of II-f.. fir.lgert. Rutherfurd and sold in 1480 to Mr. and Mrs. George! construction. herrn. When the Unnborns look ownership, there wns ly imy view at all. Opening up the area around the house "Mr. George Roberts of the ser-relary of stale's office has gone uderl Il'umm wilh it panoramic view of the South Beac[, 10 f=ishers Island and has nrcupied his cotiage.'I'll is collage is.] Thilt a1111V house, !luring the time of the Adams family, curiosity in its way ;incl is said to he the joint device of Chief r:nmmNnlled it view• of I lay Harhor. Clerk Hinman and Mr. Roberts. Thu latler h;is r.ortainly a very VII other hortsoerec:tell in the general aren of the Adams novel and cool house in which to spteld the siminwr and rme Irnry were 11w prnst•nl summer Irnmr• 1-1 Mrs. Thomas li. which is not open to the nhjeclion ul r.lost•linnss so often the IY11111. Inrik ht thr Mirnewgnr. hirnilt ill Ihrt rely- yrnrs cif bane of the S1111111 snnn for collages Infill for coolness hue failing 1A :0111 cr11t11r%, ;11111 is irtmn•tinct•cllslrll%rd by lir, Till. 1,111rr to secure it. A dt-st:riloimi of this lull r:ulinge will Ill•of init-ri,st rn 71 Fishers Island, A Book of Memories. James and Joanne Wall, 1982. 1