HomeMy WebLinkAboutEM61 Fournier HouseBUILDING-STRUCTURE INVENTORY FORM
DIVISION FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION
NEW YOR'K STATE PARKS AND RECREATION
ALBANY, NEW YORK (51 R) 474-0479
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YOUR NAME: Town of Southold/SPLIA DATE:September 1987
YOUR ADDRESS: Town Hall, Main Rd. TELEPHON~: 516 765 1892
• Southold, LI, NY 11971
ORGANIZATION (if any): Southold Town Community ' Development Offic e
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IDENTIFICATION
I. BUI LDI NG NAM E (S): ._F:......::..o.,:.:u:.::.rn.::.=i::..::_e:..::r=----:h:.::.o=-u=.;.s..:.e_--;::;-----;-";--..,....-:;.--____---=~__;____;;_;,.__....---
2. COUNTY: Suffolk , TOWN/CITY: Southold
3. STREET LOCATION: 12935 Main Rd., north side,
4. OWNERSHIP: a . pU ,blic 0 ' . b. , private ~
5. PRESENT OWNER: LlmouZe ADDRESS: same
6, USE: Original : residence Present: -r-e-s-l....·'d-e-n-c-e------
7. ACCESSIBILlTX TO PUBLIC: Exterior visible from public road : yes [XJ No.O , "
Interior. accessible: Explain prl va te , res ldenc e
DESCRIPTION
8. BUILDING
MATERIAL:
9. STRUCTURAL
SYSTEM :
(if knlwn)
10. CONDITION:
II . INTEGRITY:
a. clapboard ,[J
e. 'cobblestone 0
b. stone 0 c. brick 0
f. shingles Kl . g. st~cco 0
a. wood frame with interlocking joints [2Q
b. wood frame with light members 0
c. masonry load bearing walls 0
other: -----
d. metal (explain) ________-,-___....!........:........:::..--=-___
• e. other.____---==-___----:~-------''--::_::__--____:_
a. excellent XX b. good, 0 c. fair 0
a. original site 'Kj. b . moved 0 if sO,when?
c. list major alterations and dates (if known): ---=---------
12 . PHOTO: 1983 photo, supplied
by ow.ner.
13. MAP: NY'Si nCS'T.I compos it e
Greenport and Orient quads
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6 21
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14. THREATS TO BUILDING: a. none known !Kl
d.developers 0
f. other: ----------..:...-----=.:....::.-:..:..!....--:-:=,=;.:,:~c:::::=:=:..:1~
15. RELATED PUTBUI LDINGS AND 'PROPERTY: '
a. barn 0 b. carriage house 0 c. garage 0
d. privy 0 . e. shed 0 \ f. greenhouse 0 1
g. shop 0 h. gardens 0 ' .
i. landscape fea t u res: _' ---,--,--__--:-___~_'__'c____,:::--.:;...;:;::~
j. other: small cottage
16 . SURROUNDINGS OF THE BUILDING (check more than one ' if necessary):
a. open land 0 b. woodland ex
c. scatter,ed buildings 0
d. densely built-up 0 e. commercial 0
f. 'indusirial 0 g. residen'tial 00
h.other: large pond directly
17. INTERRELATIONSHIP OF BUILDING AND SURROUNDINGS:
(Indicate if building or structure is in an historic distriCt)
Low density residential, surrounded by residences of
varying historic date. 'This is one of several vintage
houses of its type along Main 'Rd '~, NYS Rte. 25, his
toric Kings Hwy •. Woode~land to the north, and pond.
18. OTHER NOTABLE FEATURES OF BUILDING AND SITE (including interior features ifknown): '
f ! sto:,y" 5 bay, center entrance plan/~able.roof hOUS~.
wlth hlgh roof plate and small under eave wlndows. Seml
wrap around porch with delicate turned posts and blub
ber spade motif trim on edge of porch roof. Entrance
with sidelights, 6/6 windows. Interior features are
SIGNIFICANCE intact and well pres erved.
19. DATE OF INITIAL CONSTRUCTION: ' 1757, remOdelled
20.. HISTORIC'AL AND ARCHITKTURAt., IMPORTANCE : '
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. " Built in 1757 by a sea' captain 'from Connecticut, the
house stayed in the Fournier .,family until~ ' bought 'by
_Arthur Limouze in 1921 '. ' _' . .' , ,
capt. Josh Fournier was a trap fisherman ' (s'e.e attachmeni;).
Large trees obscure the vis~al im~act this house would '
· contribute to this historic area ito, '
SOURCES :
U.S. Coast Survey, T~55, 183~.
Summer of History, Town of Southold,
1984 Information, Oysterponds
THEME :
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Form prepared by Kurt Kahofer, ~a8earch
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Josh Fourniers Buildings, East Marion Suffolk County Historical Society I-'
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i"ournier House EM-61
East Marion
173. Captain Josh Fournier with His Boat and Fishing Outfit, East
Marion, ca. 1902. When Francis Fournier first emigrated from France to
Southampton during the American Revolution. the family name was er
roneously spelJed "Fomay" by Anglosaxon officials. Josh Fournier was a direct
descendant of this family, many of whom are now buried in a private cemetery
at Red Creek. Captain Fournier was, like many East Marion men, a trap
fisherman. A trap usuaJly consisted of a long "leader" net, placed perpen
dicular to the shore and supported by poles driven into the bay bottom, and a
net enclosure at its offshore end. This net intercepted schools of fish moving
along the beach which tended to head out along the leader into the net
enclosure. Men came out to the trap, closed off the entrance and scooped out
the fish. Some of the East Marion trap fishermen migrated as far north as
Maine in the spring, sending their baled-up nets and ropes by rail and buying
-new poles 10calJy to set up their traps. In the fall and winter. they might go as
far south as the St. Johns River in Florida. (Plwlograph by Hal B. Fullerton;
Suffolk C~u.n~ His.lon::al S~ciely, Fullerton ColleclUm, #L155.)
Suffolk Count Island, in hs
Llg htfoot, :;eldman, 19