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DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD FI-7
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES
ALBANY, NEW YORK (5181474-0474 NEG. NO
YOUR NAME:Town of Southold/SPLIA1 DATE: December 1987
YOUR ADDRESS: Tnwn Hal I , Main Rd. TELEPHONE: 516 765 1892
Southold, LI, NY 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any):Southold Town Comtr=ity Develgpment Office
IDENTIFICATION
1. BUILDING NAME(S): Old Winthrop House
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY:._ Southold VILLAGE:>tisbe.rs Tsland
3. STREET LOCATION: Tin of East End Rd. North, west of Ice Pond.
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h private
S. PRESENT OWNER: Kelsey ADDRESS:
ti. USE: Original: residence Present: residence
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes ❑ No
Interior accessible: Explain l rivate residence
DESCRIPTION
A. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick 1� d. board and batten ❑
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles 1Z g. stucco ❑ other:
t). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints 0
SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ❑
(if kn(vn) c. masonry load bearing walls Q
d. metal (explain)
e. other brick foundation, stone foundation.
10_ CONDITION: a. excellent 0 b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTL•'GRITY: a. original site j_1 b. moved ❑ if so,when`'
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
West wing added.
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known ® b.zoning❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑
f. other:
I5. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
neg: KK VIII-11 a. barn® b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ❑
d. privy ❑ e. shed 0 f. greenhouse
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i. landscape features: stone walls/terrace, slate walkway.
j. other: stable - recently constructed
10. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land CR b. woodland Fx] light
c..scattered buildings ❑
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential ED
h.other:
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Located in a low density, private residential area of predominantly
open land, with light woodland at the perimeters of the immediate
property. Fishers Island Sound to the north, below a bluff.
Golf grounds to the south.
IS. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known):
lz story, 5 bay, center entrance plan gambrel roof house. 2 story, ,
narrow, gable roof central extension on main facade. 2 story,
gable roof wing on rear. 619 windows on ground story. Windows
with lintel moldings and drop pendant brackets. Dormers with
unusual decorative cut-outs as hood moldings. Brick interior end
SIGNIFICANCE chimney on west. -see attached-
11). DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: Circa 1780, replacing a arlier house.
ARCHITECT:
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20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
This is one of three Winthrop houses on the island. The Winthrop
family owned fishers Island from 1640 to 1863. William H. Winthrop
Jr. lived in this house in 1843. Later, Thomas Winthrop made it
his home. When Mr. Fox bought Fishers Island in 1863, he put on
the two-storied "porch" and the addition on the rear.
21. SOURCES: Fishers Island, NY, by H.L. Ferguson, 1925.
The Winthrop Manor of Fishers Island, 1927.
Manor_ Houses and Historic Houses of Long Island and Staten Island,
H.D. Eberlein, 1928, p. 73.
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House is built of brick with outer facing of wood. In 1870 the cladding
was vertical board and batten.
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1'he East End Form of Fishers island.The Winthrop
house is on'the left. Note the sign in the foreground
saying,"Do not go near the coops."
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located a large poultry farm. Here were raised all varieties of
"'•"""�""' _ chickens from Cornish game hens to Rhode Island Reds,
ewsrCNojecnoN including birds raised for competition in poultry shows. A
a 4 "� fence that ran from north to south, shore to shore, was
Top:a stone-lined storage vault west of the Winthrop designated as the poultry yard fence. This fence became the Overlertf. 14tiddle F
house.Below:u poultry farm cottage, now owned by dividing line between the west end and the east end when the !lwellin.4sIt tiros
Mr.and Mrs.Allen F.senlohr. Fishers Island Corp, purchaser) the east end from Walton with a heal of
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in Connecticut, and he remained in England for twenty-
one years, dying when about sixty-six years of age. He
was of a scientific turn of mind and became a Fellow
of the Royal Society. We find him usually referred to
as John Winthrop, F.R.S.
While Winthrop was in England his wife, Madam
Winthrop, and their family resided in New London.
They appointed Joshua Hempstead, a friend and confi-
dential agent, to look out for their affairs, both on the
mainland and on the Island. There are many records in
his diary of trips to the Island, which he usually made
to look about and count the live stock. We find one
entry on November 16th, 1727.
"Fair. I went to fishers Island in their boat. Madm
Winthrop Mr Wan [ton] Molly & Cate Peg Jus
Bagill Friday 17 fair. We Rid about ye Island to y�e
East & found things in good order.
"Saturday i8 a little Rain & yn fair. Wee came all r
home by day light. Mr Wanton killed a young Buck in
the forenoon wch wee brot over. ,
"April 1731. Saturday 10 fair and cold. I went to
fishers Island with Mr Mumford & I Recd al the Stock
& gave a Rectt. I viewed the house at ye East End &
finished. Cary Latham carryed us over."
On November 13th, 1738, Hempstead writes:
"In the morn, About 7 Oe Clock I set of Designed
for Sag harbour in Jno Roger's Boat with Joshua &
Daughter Starr John Bolles & Jno Waterhose passengers
& had the wind about W.N.W. & the Latter end of the
flood. as the Sun Rise the wind Rise & blew exceeding
high. wee were got near or quite half over & the Sea
very big & angry we found the wind too hard for us.
Fishers Island, NY, H.L. Ferguson, 1925.
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IT is difficult to tell how old are any of the Winthrop ; Until 0
houses on the Island. We know that Winthrop, in ance save
178o, stated that the houses were all burned, which 4� made on r
would make it seem that nothing remains older than those resie
that date. On the contrary, however, tradition has it was being
that they are over two hundred years old. On Fric
The Winthrop House at the East End was added to came alone
by Mr, ox, who put on the two-storied porch and the The oaks, i
addition in the rear. The Mansion House consisted part of th,
originally of only the front part, now used as the hotel had once
office. An old Dutch doorway, covered by a small porch animals be
with seats on either side, opened into a narrow hall, on to this da,
the right of which was the music room. On the left was seen lying
the kitchen with a huge fireplace. A different roof, the wind.
present mansard, was put on by Mr. Fox. So strorr
The Brick Yard House, or, as it was formerly called, London w
the White House, was one of the three Winthrop houses. feet higher
It has always been haunted, according to tradition, but and floodil
for many years the inhabitants have not been visited, and sels were c
what the story is no one knows. It is probably of the down, and
same period as the East End house, which is a brick every vesso
house covered with shingles. No mention has ever been forty were
made of this house, and its real history is unknown, the wind r
save that it was used as an office for the brick company such an e+
for several years. borhood,
The old lock and key of the Mansion House are still day, becar
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fishers Island, NY, H.L. Ferguson, 1925.