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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWE-25 BUILf)ING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM FOR OFFICE USE ONLY UNIQUE SITE NO.1©310 .om'�t 2, WE-25 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 L1 NY 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION 1. BUILDING NAMES): Cononacus House Hotel/Pe not Inn 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE:Fishers Island 3. STREET LOCATION: Montauk Ave. , west side, north of Hedge St. 4..OWN F RSH I P: a. public ❑ b. PPrivate IN 5. PRESENT OWNER: Stephen More ll ADDRESS: 6. USE. Original: Inn Present: Inn 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes 10 No ❑ Interior accessible: Explain yes DESCRIPTION K. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d, board and batten MATERIAL. e_ cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑x g. stucco ❑ other: '). STRUCTURAL. a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑ SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members U (il' kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e. other IU. CONDITION: a. excellent 0 b. good ❑ e. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site ER b. moved ❑ if so,when? c, list major alterations and dates (if known): Windows replaced, ground story altered, wing at SE added. 12. PHOTO: neg: KK XII-16, fm SE 13. MAP: NYS DOT New London quad Poinil Plle •54�Ixs I ). •s ��' Dolpn Pile n• J ' �i�- �/ . . 1�7• r r West Harbor' GO } pl ! •� Island• l 7a � e k i ~ - } •" I S `. {�, .rl I 1•1. JJ S• '� •% 1. Golf Cours Island �� rat 1 „ `` Prospect 8r(31�w1'RiC3FiT 4� � tI1.IIrtFS s 6 U 12 Wilderness Point HP-1 OCK ISLAND WE-2'5 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known b.zoning❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. either: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn 0 b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑ d. privy ❑ e. shed n f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑ i. landscape features: Harhnr to FINE j. other: storage hui ldings 16- SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land ER b. woodland Q C. scattered buildings ❑ d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial 1-1 f. industrial ❑ g. residential rl h.other: 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Located near the edge of the road, overlooking West Harbor. Low-medium density, residential surroundings. 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): Large, 31-2 story, gambrel roof building with 3-story porch and balcony at 3rd floor. Large gambrel roof wing on rear. Shed roof dormers. SIGNIFICANCE 1901 at a cost of $24 400. 1e). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: ' ' ARCHITECT: BUILDER: `o HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: This was also known as the Elliot House in the early 20th century. Originally, it was a boarding house built by the Fergusons. The lay-out included guest rooms in the upper three stories and kitchen and dining room in the high basement. In the 1920's, the boarding house accomodated many of the construction workers who came to the island during the era of prolific east end home building. 1. SOURCES: Fishers Island, A Book of Memories. James and Joanne Wall, 1982, pp. 137-138. 22. THLMF Form prepared by Kurt Kahofer , research assistant . Pequot: Inn WE-25 Fishers Island E " structures on the is were part ofF�4� At`lfiy post is long I and sold to a corpm leading citizens for stately officers, Avenue are now re by second homeow is now the island ai! house next to the in Police office. The i turrets are still overgrowth along tt .- - Some even en have homes.There's one (D a bunker for a bases of space...and anal concrete lookout There's sti 1 a i E� IIIllilllii1111i1 Fisher's; the Nav b ? Systems Jborata �* research in technoh a �1 marines. .. �,., Fisher's Island hL n Navy lab; the old fo Pond" where Capt.-, "t left buried treasure L7• ``' "'"' tle house near the Sinclair Pharmacec N ---�5 ing Boroleum ointiT remains of numero, 00 �-�-• But Fishers'grea! and age is its 6 simplicity, and its c —physically and sl everything the Ham; try's other resort a idyllic retreat when, can be left behind,i spend. The people ' Fishers do not feet order to define :: themselves. They'r Thanks to their century-old grip o! have succeeded at k and-sell world at ba That's not to sa) worries. They weig) Fishers Island Civic Burnham 62,a rebs Ea on arpor anon small electrical mai Ohio, where he live nham's family is an The island's only hostelry, the Pequot Inn has seven rooms. ed among the sum (Continued from Preceding Page) from William C. Ridgeway Ill,president of having started the post office on the village green (it's ^n the FIDCO, telling the constables that it's all island with his par same building as the phone company right for them to enter FIDCO's private Mr. Burnham, who office). The hand-written posters on July 5 roads in pursuit of speeders, drunk drivers third of the island proclaimed in felt-tip ink that on July 1, or anybody else to"enforce applicable laws house overlooking_* "Hoosiers" was scheduled at 8:15 p.m., $3 and motor vehicle regulations." Accidents who flies his own ai for adults and $2 for children. On Jaly 3, on the island's narrow, winding roads are and his home in 0 "Round Midnight" was the feature. There not uncommon even though the speed come from all over were no posters hinting at future selections. limit everywhere is 30 mph. Florida, the MidwiYork or Boston.) Among some of the other notices at the Also posted was a list from the Island Mr.Burnham des post office was a warning from the fire Health Project Inc. showing the summer new homes are t department to "the individual(s) whc stole schedule of visiting doctors. There is no manv av fiva nr cir WE-25 P,equot Inn Fishers Island MARCH 23, 1970 Page 17 Odyssey tIslond Pre-Season Journey to a Lovely Isle Off Ll , sr s ;e �i< sok a y ,, x; ,Iy'"" s; -..r....... `- -• ,� ' Now I ..------- w,yM` x 11E s" .:. y w M € I. - ' S € y s s he lovely old mansions on Fishers Island, accessible only by The Pequot Inn off the main road of Fishers Island. In the background, this gravel path off the main road. you can see West Harbor. 7 GLAUBERMAN rpar Qf inn charming houses and a minimum of occasional Island is one of those wondrous Stores, but nothing to suggest the splendor of hich would be irritably rejected by 1K7hat is Fiters Island like in the the opposite side of the island. w)d producer as unbelievable. off-season, t months be.ween Labor All the stolidity of the West End is for- elf-respecting; capitalist would invest Day and M morial Day %hen its mil- gotten with a drive down the main road into pie about an island with fabulous lionaire mansion-dwellers are off sun- the never-never-land of the East End. There A mansions owned by Duponts and ning themselves elsewhere? are no streetlights, and there are potholes ; that no one lives in; with 500 resi- Press reporter David Glauberman enough to make Mayor Lindsay envious, and o have no place to go except one went to the little-known, almost inac- if you need the AAA you're in trouble. Upped inn; with no movies, no thea- cessible Long Island community re- but ah! the estates! Back through the dirt playgrounds, no public transporta- cently to find out. roads and the wild bushes, past an occasional i one doctor (who also serves as a In the following article, the first in jumpy rabbit, you will find where the Whit- :t),no dentists,a part-time constable a two-part series, he tells what he neys and DuPonts frolic in June, July and trt-time justice of the peace, two learned of the year-rounders' life and August, as inaccessible to the rest of us in s, three churches, two gas stations the months of hibernation on the iso-. the winter when the mansions are locked up, ogle grocery store, where` miTk was lated Long Island Sound island. as in the summer when their owners are g at 43 cents a quart. locked in. most Insulting of all, you can't I Their gravel driveways and private beaches horn on Fishers Island. It lacks a and great pines and towering~ ivy shield the the nearest one is in New London, Get there a little early to fit your car into the gabled estates from the curious outside, and I it may require an emergency Coast ferry; Lon; Islanders who grumble about their the neatly printed "Ideal Security" on the aw to get you over there for the subways and Long Island Railroad and buses screen door handle is a rare anachronistic .....,.............. ♦.. •t.- 4---Holt, ....*n .