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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM FOR OFFICE USE ONLY WE- I 6A
UNIQUE SITE NO. M i'M
DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALIIANY,NEW YORK (5I8) 474.0479 NEG. NO. -
YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: April 1988
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Rd. TELEPHONE: 516 765 1892
SouthoId NY 119/1
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office
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IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING NAME(S); fest End Boarding House
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Fishers Island
3. STREET LOCATION: Fox Ave. . south side, opp. Munnatawket Ave.
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private 12
S. PRE.SI:NT OWNER: ADDRESS:
f,. USE: Original: boarding house Present: vacant
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public read: Yes 12 No ❑
Interior accessible: Explain 12rimate property
DESCRIPTION
8. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b- stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d- board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ® g. stucco ❑ other:aluminum siding
11. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members R]
(if kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls❑
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10- CONDITION: a. excellent ❑ b. good ❑ c. fair d. deteriorated ❑
I L INTEGRITY: a. original site R1 b. moved ❑ if so,when'
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
Semi-enclosed stair well added.
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known ❑ b. zoning❑ c. roads❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration
f. other:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. barn C1 b. carriage house ❑ c. garage
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features:
j. other:
16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land ID b. woodland ❑
c.scattered buildings U
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ® light
f. industrial ❑ g. residential
h.other:
17. INTFRRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS.
(indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Located in a low density, mixed use area at the NW end of
Fishers Island, surrounded by open land.
In. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
Long, narrow, 3%2 story south side, 2'2 story north side, rectangular
building. Heavy overhanging gambrel roof with flared returns
and shingled gable ends. Multiple shed roof dormers. Semi-
circular windows in gable peaks. 6/2 windows. Brick foundation.
SIGNIFICANCE
I1}. DATE, OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1903
ARCHITECT:
BUILDER:
20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
Lhis remarkable structure is a rare survivor of a turn-of-
che-century boarding house. It dram{,*.ically recalls the
development pattern of this island.
21. SOURCES:
Fishers Island, A Book of Memories. James and Joanne Wall,
1982, pp. 137-138.
22. -fHLAfE':
Form prepared by Kurt Kahofer , research assistant .
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The building on the right was known as
the West End Boardinghouse. It is cur-
rently owned by Mrs. Henry Zabohon-
Boardinghouses ski(Walsh). Earlier,it was renamed the
Highland Hotel. It was built in 1903 at
For vacationers who could not or chose not to stay at the un estimated cost of$21,700. Note the
building to the left, known since the
Mansion House. Munnatawket or Mononotto, the Ferguson early 1940's as the Harbor Restaurant.
,ruthers operated two boardinghouses: the West End Board-
mghouse and the Cononacus House. The West End Boarding-
house, currently owned by Mrs. Henry Zabohonski, sits
adjacent to the large barn-type structure housing the Harbor
Restaurant. Originally, the boardinghouse layout included
guest rooms in the upper three stories and kitchen and dining
rooms in the basement.
Henry Zabohonski recalled shortly before his death that, in
11w mid-1920'x,the boardinghouse accommodated many of the
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Fishers Island, A Book of Memories. James and Joanne Wall, 1982.