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BUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
OIVISION fOR HISTORIC PRESERVA T!ON
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREA T!ON
ALBANY, NEW YORK (51 il) 474-0479
FOR OFFICE USE ONLY
UNIQUE SITE NO. ______ EM-2'QUAD _____________
SERIES~_________
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YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE: September 1987
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Rd. TELEPHONE: 516 765 1892
Southold, LI, NY 11971 ,
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community Development Offic e
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!DENT! FICA TION
I. BUI LDI NG NAME (S): --=B=r=-o:::...wn.:..:..:..::~H=oc..::u::..::s:....:e~__________________________
2 . COUNTY: Suffolk TOWN/CITY: Southold VILLAGE: East Marion
3. STREET LOCATION : Main Rd •• north side. east of Maple Ln.
4. OWNERSHIP: a. public 0 b. private :KJ
S. PRESENT OWNER : John Giannaris ADDRESS: Main Rd., East Marion
6. USE: OriginaL ....cr=--=.e-'s-=i:....:d=-e..:..;n:..:....:.c-...:e'-________ Pre sen t: res idenc e
7. ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior vi sible from public road: Yes KJ No 0
Interior accessible: Explain private residence
DESCRIPTION
X. Btll LD) NC a. clapboard~' b. stone 0 c, brick 0 d. board and batten 0
MATFRIAL: e. cobblestone 0 f. shingles ~ g. stucco 0 other:
(). STRUCTURAL a. wood frame with interlocking joints Kl
SYSTEM: b. wood rrame with light members 0
(if kJJO,vn) c. ma so nry load bearing walls 0
d. metal (e,xplain) ____________________
e. other ____--==-____-=-_____________
)0. CONDITION: a. excellent 0 b. good Q!: c. fair 0 d. deteriorated 0
II. INTECRITY: a. original site 0 b. moved 0 if so,when~
c. list major alterations and dates (if known):
All windows replaced.
12. PHOTO: neg: KK I-I, fm SE 13. MAP: NYS DOT composite
Greenport and Orient quads
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING : a. none known IXI
d. developers 0
b. zoning .0 . c. roads 0
e. deterioration 0
f. other:_~_________-----::,..=~=_~~~:::::::
15 . RE LATED OUrBUI LDINGS AND PROPERTY: .
a . barn 0 b. carriage house 0 c. garage 0
' .. d. privy O · e. shedD f. greenhouse 0
·g. shop 0 . h. gardens D ' .
. i. landscape features: ____-,--___________
. j. other:small cabins. modern restaurant
16 . SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necessary):
. . a. open land 5a . b. woodland ex
· c.scat tered buildings 50
·d. densely built,up 0 e.commercial 0
f. industrial 0 g. residential [Xl
h. other: .
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17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS ;
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic district) LOW density resident
ial area, close to Main Rd. (historic Kings Hwy.). One of
the older houses in the area, it is now part of "Hellenic .
Cabins", an early 20th century roadside motel complex. Open
land to the north, arid wooded . to the south, across Main .
Rd. (NYS 'Rte. 2SL . . . .. .. " .
18. OtHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including int~ri6r features if known):
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lt story, 3 bay, side entrance pian, gable roof house '~
Turn-of-the-century porch across front. Original shin
gles remain on west elevation. Front entrance with tran
som.
SICNIFICANCE
19 . DATE OF IN ITlA L CONSTRUCT!ON :_ ..................,.""-....lL-"O!""""'''''''''--DL~__---.:.....::.....:..--=._.......:..~=-_
. 20. HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE:
Mrs. Atwood. Brown owned the house in 1909. House appears
on 1838 map put is not identified by name. This is one
of the North Fork's many blassiq ' early hous~s. It con
tributes . to the sense of place. . .
21. SOURCES: U.S. Coast · Survey, ,..~~55, 1838.
Interview, John Giannaris, 9~7.
E. Belcher Hyde, "Atlas of Suffolk County, L.I.,
2, North Side, Sound Shore, 1909.
22. J HeME:
Form prepared by' Kurt Kahofer, research
..IS so laughable he kept quiet about it. True, half of the town
"as farmland or undeveloped shoreline-but what New
Yorker would want to tell his friends that he was buying a
summer home in Riverhead?
Four years Inter , unemployment in Riverhead has been
pared down to 6.2 percent. The tax base is up $15 million .
And although the town lies in the shadow of L1LCO'S ruinously
expensive. potentially dangerous, and possibly doomed nu
clear-power plant at Shoreham, there's a 126-unit, SI8-mil
lion condominium community-"the very best of California
on Long Island "-just opening on 204 acres at Baiting Hollow
Bluffs.
The developers had wanted to spend $38 million and build
300 units. Their bankers were more cautious-they divided
the project into thirds . But after the developers sold 45 /
apartments the first day and all th' penthouses in a matter of
weeks, they got approval to build the second and third parcels
simultaneously.
Ja noski couldn't be more delighted. The Farmlands Preser
vation Bill-a way of foiling developers by allowing farmers
to sell the development rights to their land to the county
had lowered the ta x bills for 5,00 0 Riverhead acres. And
a lthou gh he 's quick to point out that, historically, Riverhead
is the child of Southold, Ja no ski doesn't s hare his nei g hbors '
enthusiasm for this law.
"In one ruling, that's since been reversed, a farmer was
denied permission to construc:t a barn." Janoski says. "It's no
longer a Farmlands Preservation Bill but an 'Open Space
Preservation Bill.' ..
So Janoski finds projects like Baiting Hollow Bluffs and the
recently proposed SeaWatch, a development that could
crowd as many as 190 un its on 55 acres, necessary to keep the
boom going in Riverhead. What's more, he argues, they will
reduc e the pressure for development on t he ~orth Fork by
putt ing second hom es w here the y are mOre convenient.
more practica l-and more welcome.
Greg Blass, who represents Riverhead and the No rth Fork
in the Suffolk CountyLe g i srn tur~, worries that this campaign
sets a pro-condo tone that will eventually spill beyond Riv
erhead's borders: "Suffolk is the chief agricultural county in
the state, and most of those farms are in eastern Suffolk. The
Brecknock Hall. in Greenport. is being eyed for development .i!tlN' 0_-......,..,...-";;IJ'