HomeMy WebLinkAboutEM59 Metcalf House, EastBUILDING-STRUCTURE INVEN,TORY FORM
DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVA TlON
NEW YORK STATE PARKS AND RECREATlO1'l
ALBANY, NEW YORK (Sl~) 474-0479
YOUR NAME : Town of Southold/SPLIAi
FOR OFFICE USE ONLY
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QUAD ________-=~~~~~
SERIES ______~~~~~~~
NEG. NO.
DATE: September 1987
YOUR -ADDRESS: Town Hatl. Main Rd. TELEPHONE: S16 765 1892
Southold, LI, NY 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any):Southold Town Community Deve] opment offi ce '
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IDENTIFICA TION .
I. BUILDING NAME(S): Metcalf house, east '
2 . COUNTY: Suffolk ' TOWN/CITY : Southold VILLAGE: ....J..:.L<."'-">-L..........u.L<6.J-....J...J..J
3 . STREET LOCATION : Main Rd. , · northside. west of Dam
4 , OWNERSHIP: a. public 0 h private ' Gil
S. PR ES ENT OWN ER: De an e K. Fox ADDRESS : ---'s""a=m........",e'--__________-==-=::_=:
6 . USE: Original: residence Present : residence
7 . ACCESSIBILITY TO PUBLIC: Exterior 'visible from public -road :, Yes 0 No I!I
DESCRIPTION .
8. BUILDING
MATERIAL:
9. STRUCTURAL
SYSTEM :
(if' kno.vn)
10. CONDITION:
II. INTEGRITY:
Interior accessible : Explain private residence
a. clapboard £)
e. cobblestone 0
. b, 'stone 0 .
r. shingles 0
c. brick' 0 , '
g. stucco 0 other :
a. wood frame with interlocking joints 0 ,
b. wood frame with light members OCJ
c. masonry load bearing walls 0
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d. metal (ex plain) _________-'--__________:..:-.-'--__-'--__--=-~~
e. other._______---==-______---==-______________=-______---,
a. excellent £J b. good 0 c . fair 0
a. original site 0 b. moved 0 if sO,when?
---------~-------, c. list major alterations and dates (if known) :
12 . PHOTO : neg: KK . III-4, fm S W .~3 .. MAP : NyS DOT composite
Greenport and , Orient ~~ads
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING : a. rione known [J[
d. developers ' 0
f. other : ___~-:-::-----:_-:--_---:-~~..:..:..::,,....--.!~:..:=::-:-~~~...,...-;-.,,.,
15 . RELATED OUTBUILDINGS AND PROPERTY : ,
a. barn 0 b. carriage house 0 c. garage ~
d. privy O. e. shed 0 f. greenhouse 0 ,
g. shop 0 , h . gard ~ns 0 , .
j. landscape features: ad jacent to Dam
j . other: ___________----:----;--=---::-:~~:::_:
16 . SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one if necess ar:r) :
a. open land XJ b. woodland 0 .
c. scattered buildings 0 .
d. densely built -up 0 e . commercial 0
f. industrial 0 g. residenti.al [i\
h.other: large pond
17 . , INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BuilDING AND SURROUNDINGS:.
(Indicate if building or Strl!cture is in an histori~ district)
LoW density residential, set back from Main Rd., NYS
Rte. '25 (historic Kihgs . Hwy.). Dam Pond directly east,
one of two similiar houses in the immediate area. Mix
of ' open and wooded .land .surrounds the house..
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features if known) :
Large 2t story, Shingle Style )gambrel roof house with
2 ~arge semi~hexagonal dormers on -the main (south)
facade Over a subsum~porch with squared posts. Main
door with large enframement and wide ' sidelights.
SIGNIFICANCE _
19 . DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION : Turn-of-the-century
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,':W . HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE::
21. SOURCES:
E.Belcher Hyde, Atlas of Suffolk County,
North Side, Sound Shore, 1909.
The Suffolk Times, 8/15/1985, "75 Years Ago".
22. THOlE :
Form prepared by Kurt Kahofer, research assistant ,- (i
A!lgu~t ,15, ~9S5
1 n~ ~uUOiK.;fimes lt4 07--I}i {/\.;rl "'01V
,...... Let's Look ·Back
75 Years Ago
August 6, 1910
Married in Haste; Jersey Couple
Skip to Orient and Mother Swoons:
"It's all over Ma'" Then the woman at
the other end of the wire screamed,
swooned, but finally came to.
It happened this way.
Elmer Shennan Millard and Miss
Marion Thurston Tibbits, of Palisade,
N.J., have been pining away for each
other for a long time, but the girl's
mother wanted her daughter to go slow
which was of course, quite out of the
question.
The mother, telephone talk says.
wanted a large and elaborate wedding.
The girl simply dreaded to think of such
a thing as all of her friends seeing her
joined in the holy bonds of wedlock, and
told her dear rna-rna so .
But it made no difference. Ma was
rich . So was Pa. Why not have a large
wedding? \
Last Saturday the young couple hap-____________~
pened to be guests of the Metcalffamily ! ~_________
at their large country place in East ~
MariOri: ..... ------=--
--=-'-SOearly in the morning, long before
the usual breakfast time of fashionable
metropolitan folk, they drifted toward '
Orient.
They asked the way to a minister's
and some good friend of Dom i ne
Longsworth sent them his way.
He knew he had a good job --one that
would buy his wife a new silk dress, or
something like that, for the inclinations
of a minister:s wife are no different from
those of any other man's wife --they
want all the "extras."
So the bride, who was fair of face ,
sweet and slender, with apple blossom
cheeks, and with eyes that would make
the whole world obey her, stood blush
ingly before the minister.
The young man looked at his bride
and said. "Will you be mine?"
"I will." she said .
l So it was done.
The young man, by this time, had for
gotten to think of the consequences -
of telling his mother-in-law .
But he mu s t do it.
And distance lends much safety .
So the telephone was sought.
"Oh l Oh! Oh!," groaned the mother,
then silence reigned .
The bride was induced to come to the
phone, and aller a severe scolding, was
given the parental blessing.
May they live hnpply ever alter, is
the wish of the little village by the sea
who heard the church bell ring telling
of two happy hearts made one.