HomeMy WebLinkAbout06/27/1985 MINUTES OF THE LANDMARK COMMISSION MEETING OF JUNE 27, 1985
The Southold Town Landmark Preservation Commission met at 7;30 p.m.
Thursday evening, June 27, at Town Hall. Present were Ralph Williams,
William Peters, John Stack, Joy Bear, and from the Town Board, Joe Townsend .
The Commission's request for a grant from the N.y.State Council on the
Arts resulted in ars award of $6,000 for 1985 and $6,000 for 1986, to be used
in hiring the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities to
in�entory Southold Town. This was a cause of satisfaction.,,The Commission
would like to give the Town Attorney, Robert Tasker, guidelines for drawing
up the contract with SPLIA. To this end a meeting will 1e arranged with
Jim McMahon on June to spell out monetary and scheduling details .
Our first exhibit in Town Hall was discussed . Joe Townsend had propose(
that we mount several consecutive exhibits relating to Southold Town history
and architecture. The Town Board agreed to finance these exhibits . The
first will be "Southold Houses of Worship Now In Secular Use1° The research
for this project Was done by Bill Peters, who also took the photographs .
Joy Bear will put up the exhibit, which will be in place in two or three wee)
Future programs, which could also result in exhibits, were discussed .
-� Magdalene Goodrich, Town Historian, has recently acquired an excellent and
comprehensive collection of photos of mile markers - shoeing all but three
of the markers from the first Post Office in Riverhead, out to Orient, she s�
Sites for the markers 'were laid out by Benjamin Franklin in the mid-1700's,
when he was Postmaster-General for the Colonies .The Commission will ask Mitz
to present this program at our next meeting, July 25.
Ralph Williams has a slide documentary on "H'o'w To Restore a Historic
House . " We look forward to this program, remembering his outstanding program
on Southold 's Colonial and Georgian- architecture. This also is a possibility
for a future Town Hall exhibit.
Ralph Williams has been interpreting old houses, at the request of thei
owners, for the past year, as a service from the Landmark Commission. During
the last two inspections he has been accompanied by Landmark' s new member,
John Stack. Reports of the last two houses interpreted were shown - the home
of Teddy James in Peconic, and the Rosenstone-Brice home in Cutchogue .
Ralph showed additional slides of the Rosenstone house . .All these reports ar(
in the Landmark Commission's file at Town Hall.
Joe Townsend spoke of the overgrown condition of one of Southold Town's
oldest cemeteries, the Brown's Hill Cemetery, Orient. Ralph Williams said
he has texts from each stone, and will give a report on this cemetery to the
Commission.
Bill Peters presented a list of Cutchogue homes for landmark des ignati or
Two were unanimously accpeted by the four members present : the Richard Hallo(
House, 1750, owned by Dr. Larry Waitz and Hurricane Hall, c . 1700, owned by
Edward Nixon.
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A form letter from NYSCA, offering erin.g a program on four topics, was read .
The topics were "Children's Educational Programs in Architecture, Planning
Design and EnvironmE!nt, 2 : Cultural Facility Renovatign, 3: Main Street
Revitalization and 4 : Waterfront Development. The secretary was instructed to
indicate to SPLIA that we were interested, and can furnish a Meeting space .
We are also asking them to send us 5 copies of their -1985®86 Program
Guidelines for NYSCA Funding.
The next house to be visited by Ralph Williams, Bill Peters and Joy Dear;
will be the home of Sam and Beryl Epstein in Southold, on June 29.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:30 P.M.
Joy Bear., Secretary
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