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Home My WebLink AboutFI-8 BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM FOR OFFICE USE ONLY r UNIQUE SITE NO. 10312- 'Fa/ DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY, NEW YORK (519)474.0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME: own of Southold/SPLIA DATE;December 1987 YOUR ADDRESS:Town Hall, Main Rd. -TELEPHONE:__51.6 765__1892 Southold, LI, NY 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION 1. BUILDING, NAME(S): U.S. Life Saving Station, Fishers Island 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE:Fishers Island of East 3. STRFET LOCATION: NEt End Rd. , at East Harbor 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ h private El 5. PRESENT OWNER: Rolla Campbell ADDRESS G,. UsI:: Original:life saving station Present: residence 7. ACCE.SSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes ❑ No Interior accessible: Explain private residence DESCRIPTION H. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d, board and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles 0 g. stucco ❑ other: 4). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑ SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members 10 01 kn(wn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e. other 10. CONDITION: a. excellent Q b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site FO b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): Windows replaced. 12. PHOTO:neg: KK VIII-14, fm SE 13. MAP: NYS DOT Mystic Quad f CRs xrl4no {� lee G 65 ` Pon _ A k • 2 .i • 11 F 1 • ,* "» East E ,- R 6 L / ud b o r &i Point NN 'ry , r- st G s''�¢~-aa• mac- ,PSICP L.J o 44 D 1V e *W* d � k 40 f' 11 IB�JtF ISIVINO S�✓NQ �F f FI-8 14, THREATS TO BUILDING. a.none known 0 b. zoning ❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f. other: 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: neg: KK VIII-13 j. tither: boat house, boat shed 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE. BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land ❑ b. woodland ❑ c. scattered buildings ❑ d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential ❑ 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, north of East End Rd. , the east-west route through this part of Fishers Island. East Harbor to the N and E. Open land of meadow, marsh, and golf grounds surrounds the building. 18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): 2 story, multi bay, gable roof building with prominent 3 story, octagonal lookout tower set between 2 jerkinhead roof dormers. Finial on tower roof. Gsble roof entrance porch on main facade. SIGNIFICANCE 11t. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1902 ARCHITECT: 11 2 Life Saving Sesvioe, regulation design BUILDER: U.S. Life Saving Service, local crews '0. HISTORICAL_ AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: This was formerly the Coast Ijuard station. In 1902, the Mssrs. Ferguson deeded to the U.S. Government a tract of land at East Harbor for a life saving station. In 1907 this ranked as one of the most important on the Atlantic coast. ?I. SOURCES: Fishers Island, Its History and Development, F.E. Hine, 1907, p. 201. 22. THLN1F Form prepared b7 Turt "a.hofer, research assistant. r U.S. Life Saving Station, Fishers Island FI-8 -7=7- Odiseos photo, 1974, Coll. SPLIA. Fishers Island Its History and Deve ent, F.E. Hine, 1907. zw FISHERS ISLAND. FISHERS ISLAND. jot r CHAPTER vrt, with fourteen of the sixteen men of the crews half frozen in the rigging. STORY of WRECKS. Two of the men had succeeded in reaching the shore after losing their boat, Mrs. Fox, with the assistance of her tenants launched the life- An account of the disasters that have occurred here would formaH. boat from the near-by Life Saving Station, and succeeded after great long chapter of accidents. The first wrecked vessel of which we have effort in saving the crew. record, foundered on the rocks of Race Point, March fifteenth, 1 „ to �' Isabella Beach is named atter the schooner Isabella Blake, w The English ship "John & Lucy" was lost in 1671, and the bark which went ashore there some years ago. � Providence on November twenty-eighth,1674, The first vessel sent out At the extreme western end is Race Rock, a most serious menace 0q from New London on a whaling voyage was lost here on January to navigation until the erection of a lighthouse in 1878 by the Govern- thirteenth, 1753, and in 1775 a ship sent out by Captain Biddle as a stent. After many ,rt fruitless attempts in this fierce passageway of 1✓ prize, met here the same fate. In 1788, Captain John Chapman and waters, Captain T. A. Scott of New London was successful in its cors- a nine other persons, chiefly immigrants from Ireland, were drowned s<truction, the story of which has been immortalized in F. llopkinson within twenty rods of the shore of Fishers Island by the capsizing of .Smith's"Caleb West." N two boats. The Government purchased a small tract of land on the extreme m The, most notable of all the disasters was that of the steamer western point in 1870 and erected a life saving station, and furnished rl Atlantic," which went ashore on North Hill on Thanksgiving night, ra equipment,which could be used by the volunteers on the island. M November twenty-seventh, 1846, when forty-two lives were lost. The In igo2, the Messrs. Ferguson deeded to the Government a tract Fes, "Atlantic" left New London in a blinding snow storm for New York, on East Harbor life w for a e saving station on which has been erected and when near Bartlett's Reef the steam pipe broke, leaving her at theCLruitable buildings for this purpose. This station ranks as one of the mercy of the waves, gradually drifting to our shores. The survivors most important along the Atlantic coast. were carried to the Mansion House, where they received all the COA- fort and relief passible in such a harrowing scene. Long after the CHAPTER vtt1. wreck, the ship's bell remained suspended in its frame, and continued, PLACES OF INTEREST. to toll in mournful tones, as told by Mrs. Hemans in a poem,—"The Atlantic so familiar to every school boy and girl. Fort H. G. Wright—One of the greatest changes noticed by "Toll, toll, toll, people who have resided here for ten years, or more, is the wonderful Thou bell by billows swung, growth and development of the west end of the island, in which a And night and day thy warning words tract of land of two hundred and sixteen acres has been converted Repeat with mournful tongue. into a large army post, Fort H. G. Wright, the headquarters of this 'roll for the queenly boat, military district. In 1898, the United 'States acquired this land for Wrecked on yon rocky shore, fortification purposes, thus realizing what the colonial Governor saw Seaweed is in her palace hall, and utilized 250 years ago. She rides the surges no more." This fort was named after Horatio Gouvernour Wright, who was On a snowy, squally day in January, 1875, two schooners went born in Clinton, Conn., in t820, and graduated from West Point ashore on Race Point, and were seen by Mrs. Fox, who had gone to in 1842, He rose rapidly in rank during the civil war,and,after General Race Point to watch the surf. Both schooners were on the rocks, . gedgwick's death, was in command of the Sixth Corps, which he led � M { WISHElk§ 41811AN D c9kBook ofc5%lemorie 1 By JAMES and JOANNE WALL PENINSULA PRESS 1982 F s ` a ti d am_ t �,- -f. ;1i* v:• :'fi, +� :5�'^ T, _l..ti.4„�. t JA �j :ti'- �� _ ':.` r �•� ISL _ tiwIp n.+r'";�K' Mt'�j' _�`•. PXJ �fs ri'"'Xf `Y"r � ::'.~ J� r y�y,y�-0'�.• ,�+-.�''' � �5 �*�,�a� � � 00