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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION UNIQUE SITE NO. 163(D. r gil- "T QUAD
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.'' 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, LI, NY 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town. Community Development Office
IDENTIFICATION
I. BUILDING NAME(S): Charles D. Rafferty House
2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Fishers Island
3. STREET LOCATION: East End Rd. , north side, bet. Middle Farms Pond & Choco-
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b private El mount Cove.
5. PRESENT OWNER: Brendan Rafferty ADDRESS:
6. USE: Original: residence Present: residence
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes IN No KI private area
Interior accessible: Explain private residence
DESCRIPTION
8. BUILDING a. .clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick 91 d. board and batten
MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco 0 other:
1). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑
SYSTEM: b" wood frame with light members ❑
(if kn(avn) c. masonry load bearing walls FA
d. metal (explain)
e. other
10. CONDITION: a. excellent 0 b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑
11. INTEGRITY: a. original site% b, moved ❑ if so,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
1 casement window on north facade replaced.
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known ® b.zoning ❑ c. roads ❑
d. developers ❑ e. deterioration
f. tither:
15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY:
a. Karn❑ b. carriage house ❑ c. garage )
d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑
g. shop ❑ h. gardens ❑
i, landscape features:
j. tither:
1(.,- SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
a.open land El b. woodland
c. scattered buildings ❑
d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑
f. industrial ❑ g. residential 12
h.other:
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district)
Low density residential, in a private section of Fishers Island,
situated close to East End Rd. Chocomount Cove directly N. ,
predominantly wooded land to S, E, and W. Marsh to NW. House
in a hilly, grassy clearing. A garage, original to the house,
is directly west.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known).
Large, 2k story, gable roof stucco and brick house. Smaller, 2%2
story, stucco wing on east. 1% story, brick wing on west. Main
section with rounded entrance door framed in brick with wood
"keystone", wall face dormers, and iron balconies with scrolls.
Casement windows with transoms.
SIGNIFICANCE
19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: 1926
ARCHITECT: C.W. Fairweather, Metuclica,_-New_Jersey
BUILDER:
20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
This large , gountry_residence"In the French Provincial manner
is typical of the large summer residences here on the east end
of Fishers Island.
21. SOURCES:
Blueprints found in Wilderness Barn by K. Kahofer
and B. Reid, 1487.
Correspondence, Bagley Reid, December 1487. '
Interview, Mystic Isle Realty, inc. , 3/88.
L.I. Press, 3/23/1970.
Form prepared by Kurt Fahofer, research assistant.
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Odysse y to F1
Pre-Season Journey t
L.I . Press
3/23/70
i One of the lovely oldmansions on Fishers Island, accessible only by
this gravel path off the main road.
By DAVID GLAUBER MAN
Fishers Island is one of those wondrous
locales which would be irritably rejected by What is Fishers I
a Hollywood producer as unbelievable. off-season, the mond
What self-respecting capitalist would invest Day and Memorial I:
in a movie about an island with fabulous lionaire mansiomdwt
Fastles and mansions owned by Duponts and ning themselves elso
Firestones that no one lives in; with 500 resi- Press reporter
dents who have no place to go except one went to the little-"
aging, cramped inn; with no movies, no thea- cessible Long Islam
ters, no playgrounds, no public transporta- cently to find out. {'
tion; with one doctor (who also serves as a In the following M
pharmacist), no dentists,a part-time constable a two-part series,
and a part-time justice of the peace, two learned of the year
cemeteries, three churches, two gas stations the months of hiben
and a single grocery store, where milk-was lated Long Island S
last selling at 43 cents a quart.
Perhaps most insulting of all, you can't
even be born on Fisher Island. It lacks a
hospital; the nearest one Is in New London. Get there a little early
Conn,, and it may require an emergency Coast ferry: Long Islanders W
f Guard crew to get you over there foz the subways and bong Isl
r natal bliss. will find that without