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Home My WebLink AboutFI-40 r BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM FOR OFFICE USE ONLY FI-40 UNIQUE SITE NO,163,(D, , j3 5 j DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY, NEW YORK (518) 474-0479 NEG. N0. YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: April 1988 YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Rd. TELEPHONE: 516 765 1892 Southold LI NY 11971 ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Office IDENTIFICATION Harvey House 1. BUILDING NAME:(S): 2. COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: Fishers Island 3. STREET LOCATION: South of East End Rd. , at Isabella Beach 4. OWNERSHIP: a. public ❑ b. private Q S. PRESENT OWNER: F. Burton Harvey Sr, ADDRESS: 6. USE:: Original: residence Present: residence 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road: Yes ❑ No 91 Interior accessible: Explain private residence DESCRIPTION 8. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e. cobblestone ❑ f. shingles El g. stucco ❑ other: vinyl siding roof 9. STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑ SYSTEM: b. wood !Tame with light members R1 (ii' kn(xvn) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e. other 10. CONDITION: a. excellent R1 b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 11. INTEGRITY: a. original site lil b. moved ❑ if so,when'' c. list major alterations and dates (if known): Modern cladding added. I?_ PIIOTO: neg: KK XIV-14, fm W/NW 13. MAP: NYS DOT Mystic quad wl I V1 % arlowPid Beach ++ u Pon nd Pond 3 Brickyardo 'rte I L2 9/ I dr !i' s �]M U n x� 44 u O� p 9 HP-1 FI-40- 14. I-4Q14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known K1 b.zoning❑ c. roads ❑ d. developers ❑ e. deterioration ❑ f, other: 15. RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY: a. barn b. carriage house ❑ c. garage ®/cottage d. privy ❑ e. shed ❑ f. greenhouse ❑ g. shop ❑ h. gardens El i. landscape features: elevated bluff j. other: water to south IG. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a,open land ® b. woodland K c. scattered buildings ❑ d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential E h.other: Block Island Sound 17. INTI-.RRELATIONSHiP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Low density, private, residential area of large estates on Isabella Beach, House is high on a bluff overlooking Block Island Sound. Open and wooded surroundings, 18_ OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): Large, 1%2 story, symmetrical, gable roof house with large brick end chimneys. Flanking, 12 story, gable roof wings perpendicular to main house. 12 story, gable roof garage wing on west with pro- jecting gable peak held by console brackets. Main house with 5 gable roof dormers. -see below # 20- SIGNIFICANCE Circa 1930's or 40's M I1r. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: ARCI IITECT: BUILDER: -10. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE: This house illustrates the great variety of house types that were built here on Fishers Island by the summer residents. 18 - continued - Projecting gable roof entrance bay set between extended ground story. Entrance with segmental arch pediment. Small windows under the eaves, 6/6 and 12/18 windows. 21. SOURCES: Newsday, 7/25/62. Correspondence, Mystic Isle Realty Inc. , 4/88. 22. THE NIF f 1%11+ 11[: IYlI�L% Harvey House, Fishers Island FI-40 Bchind the ti privacy, sn itlt Longan Object of Dispute, the Island Today 1,1and Countr and tiler- can . • sp1I11�' C%cs. E Really Belongs to the Millionaires Who 111 the island's to the sutall 1 Have Made It Their Private Retreat the lllrc. f'a r ,in otl long, \without By John Cummings tori(,f the fail -- The f.nnil, dw.. Southold Supen-isor Lester AII)crtson and tm%n sulalllcr. the FSHERS Island—The Suite of Nc�w York had to fight os= .:als make regular trips to the island to nlake sure 56.000. ` a legal "100 }ears' war" tyitlt Connecticut befr+rc it th. _csiclents feel that they are not just audanders, urnic. "]thew %%°on undisputed control of this scemul,lw forotten yliccc 1: "lig as they are secure iii their isolation, the ]trillion- gia.rs ;itt:IchCcl of long Island. high Society accomplished wirtualh- the aii— don't seem to care %%ho collects their sizable tax bills. of the same task in less than half th:lt time. Here, astride the island's steep cliffs and along its left—actio to Though today a political subdivision of Suffolk Cnuuty TO, c woodlands and fresh-twater ponds, stand the sunt- '['he cvolu zy and Southold Town, but still bound! to Connecticut ,I1 homesteads'' of the du Punts, the Firestones, the from dist ire geographically and Cntotionalh•, the smcn-mile-long 11 'nets and the Simntonses. "here," says a real est.ttC th millionaire }look-shaped island belongs in fact to the bhtebloods who '�, ore that tempts the holdout nlelnbers of the 400, the f,lsllional] hme turned it into one of their last outposts in Aiu( ir•i. .I secluded island just far enoqlt off the coast to e:xclu,ile and ,rt,, the usual daily contacts ." ' bluclllofids. Ill The long legal tsar between the states is barely :r the influx of conversation piece now, although Long island is ]nen- Hie price of seclusion today comes high. But the fishers kland, tioned as though it were a place far away. The island, ;rn for insulation from the "usual daily contacts ' is are so cxtrent 12 miles northeast of Orient Point and a bare three wo,c:r into the history of fishers lslaild. The first am-body with miles from Connecticut, is accessible from Long Island suno,ler residents, the Pequot Indians, found the island other swith the only by airplane or private boat. Its mein contact with a ivtural retreat from other warring tribes and roaming But ]Host the rest of the world is by ferry, a 45-minute ride from beast, of prey. Each Summer thcv carte from {what is to thinL that ] New London, Conn. Because of its geography, the two now Connecticut and Rhode Islaird in their canoes to theme of life states argued for a century, in court and out, over posses. revi . themselves in the salt air breezes, to hunt its wood- The }tonic cion of the island. And it wasn't until 1379, after a careful ];W, and to dig for clangs in the island's quiet bays. Grant Simmo study of the original royal land grants, that Connecticut ' rom the redmen who found solitude 300 rears ago at the same gave in. to 6t bluebloods of today, the aim has been the same; to perched on tl and There was one final effort by residents in 1945 to prey{zi�e this natural refuge for their own. Colonr7crs of Rhode Islas secede and join Connecticut, but it came to nothing. 10- u-ith royal grants followed the disappearing Indians; after men �%Clconle, R* � ..p = � •Sk ha.. ' �`.� -- rbc. tr. "Gold Coast" area of the island is lined with fashionable buf not ostentatious homes. The Firesfones, the du Ponts and the Whifneys are among those who spend their summers here in splendid isolation. ON Y C ASj E 0 .. AW Newsday, 7125162.