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Home My WebLink AboutFI-41 f FOR OFFICE: USE ONLY FI-41 BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM UNIQUE SITE NO. /a31�• 13C DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION QUAD f NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATION SERIES ALBANY, NEW YORK (5181474-0479 NEG. NO. YOUR NAME:_ Town of Southold/SPINA 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 I. BUILDING NAME(S): Parrott House 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 KI S. PRESENT OWNER: Andrew Brown ADDRESS: t;. USE: Original: residence Present: residence 7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC. Exterior visible from public road: Yes ❑ No Interior accessible: Explain private residence DESCRIPTION S. BUILDING a. clapboard ❑ b. stone ❑ c. brick ❑ d. board and batten ❑ MATERIAL: e_ cobblestone ❑ f. shingles ❑ g. stucco ❑ other:Q,0ftQQsiLi-0I.-shingle 1). STRUCTURAL, a. wood frame with interlocking joints ❑ SYSTEM: b. wood frame with light members ID (if known) c. masonry load bearing walls ❑ d. metal (explain) e. other 1(). CONDITION: a. excellent IN b. good ❑ c. fair ❑ d. deteriorated ❑ 1 1_ INTEGRITY: a. original site IN b. moved ❑ if so,when? c. list major alterations and dates (if known): Modern cladding 12. PHOTO, neg: KK XIV-32, fin N 13. MAP: NYS DOT Mystic quad d 01, klf- Barlb Po�id „ ;�44 1A ! Beach Pon LIP ,N Pond a Ap I •� t5'y.�`y _ I 4 s ,gam and QP r= Iz n a' Ilt �1 11 i Name an _ R i FI-41 14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a.none known Cl 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: elevated bluff j. ether: water to south 16. SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary): a.open land EN b. woodland 19 c. scattered buildings ❑ d.densely built-up ❑ e. commercial ❑ f. industrial ❑ g. residential h.other: Block Island Sound 17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS: (indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) Located in a low density, private, residential area on Isabella Beach. Douse is high above Block Island Sound on a steep bluff. Mix of open and wooded surroundings. 18. O fHER NOTABLE; FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known): Large, 22 story, gable roof house with wings on east, west, and south. Attached garage also on south, and 2 bay projections on north and south facades. Semi-circukar fanlights in gable peaks. Entrance porch with paired columns and balcony above. 6/6 windows. Wood shingle roof. SIGNIFICANCE 19. DA'IL OF INI1lAl CONSTRUCTION: Circa 1930's (?) ARCHITECT: BUILDER: 'q. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:. This house, in the "Colonial" manner, is typical of the houses built by summer residents here on Fishers Island.. '1. SOURCES: Correspondence, Mystic. Isle Realty, Inc. , 4/88. New York, July 1-8, 1985, p. 39. s 7/25/62. i Parrott House, Fishers IsIand FI-41 F�• � �+�Y� , r i r` '�,gig" y '.a,« x � t r _ rQ` The Summons mansion,financed by Beaulyresl mattr--ises. t I ,1 i Nonce of the houses is higher than the treeline or visible from the road. ■ c I JULY 1-8. 1g851NEw YORK 39 j l� ,�� millionaires' p Parrott House `y'� ,rill he prey 1- /� Behind the u Fishers Island FI-41 privacy, swim Long an Abject of DispiAte, the Island Today Island cUtnttr, and tile%- can Spring (i cs. I- Really Belongs to the _Niillionaires Who in tete island's to the small li Have Made It 'their. Private Retreat the h r�.:t„ attl long. without # B ,john (:U miC1 S told of the fair By g Newsday, 7/25162., I'he f.ttnil, �., d::,. Southold Super\isor Lcstcr Albertson and to%Nn suntnter. the FNIERS 1�1.and--The State of New fork had to fight of Js make regular trips to the island to make sure 46.000. ". . . a legal "100 sears' war" %%lth Connecticut before it th residents feel that they are not just auslandcrs. wre. "Shed %%-oil undisputed control of this seemingly forgotten piece A> ng as tile%• are secure in their isolation, the million- glass of Long Island. high Socicty accomplished virtually the air: don't seem to care %%ho collects their sizable tax bills. I f the `cyto smne task in less than half that time. l Icre. astride the island's steep cliffs and along its left- ne r cr to I'hc c%ola Though today a political subdivision of Suffolk County rol':nT woodlands and fresh-water ponds, stand the stun- Ernnt %what :1n and Southold Town, but still bound to Connecticut mi 'liontesteads" of the du Ponts, the Firestonc4, tltc „ — nulhnuairc ccographically and cmotion:il►v. the sc.,en-mile-long X1: .`uc%c and the Simmonses. "here, says a real estate the fashionah hnok-shaped island bclongs in fact to the hlnebloods who brr ARM that tempts the holdout members of the 400, vxcluske and have turned it into one of their last outposts ill America. "{is .1 secluded island just far enon;lt off the coast to hluchloods h T1te long lcg:il war hchyeen the states is barely a avfm'. the usual daily contacts . . ." the influx of Conversation piece now, although Long Island is men- 1 he price of seclusion today comes high. But the 1.)OMS Island tioned as though it were a place Gtr a%Nati. The island, yen for insulation from the "usual claily contacts" is are so cxtreni 12 utiles northeast of Oricnt Point and a bare three wo, n into the history of Fishers Island. The first anvbodv with miles from Connecticut. is accessible from Long Island suno )cr residents, the Pequot Indians, found the island other%rith the only by airplane or prixate boat. Its naailt Contact with a n n,r;tl retreat from other warring tribes and roaming But most the rest of the world is by ferry, a 45•ininute ride from beast, of prey. Each summer they came from what is to think that New London, Conn. Because of its geography, the two now Connecticut and Riede Island in their canoes to theme of life states argued for a cenhtn. in court and out, over posses- Teri.:- themselves in the salt air breezes, to hunt its wood- 'I-he hone slot% of the island. And it 1.:i.n`t until 13;9, after a careful lane, and to dig for clams to the island's quiet bays. Grant Simmc sttldv of the original royal land grants, that Connecticut l rout the redmen who found solitude 300 Nears ago at the sane gave M. to ti)o( bluebloods of today, the aim has been the sante; to perched on J Bund There was one final effort by residents in 1945 to presir%'c this natural refuge for their ot%n. Colonizers of Rhode Isla secede and join Connecticut, but it came to nothing. 1'o- with royal grants followed the disappearing Indians; after nten wcicoute 1.144,14 r j.M 1 A T 8 •r ,c v'y +ag: "Gold Coast" area of the island is lined with fashionable but not ostentatious homes. The Firestones, the du Ponts and the Whitneys are among those who spend their summers here in splendid isolation.