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Town Clerk SotSVITHOLD TOWN LANDMARK PRE SERVAT ION C OMM I S S ION
February 18, 1987
Present : John Stack, Joseph Townsend, William Peters, Ralph Williams
and Joy Bear
Visitors : Wesley Dickinson, Gary Williams
Minutes of the January 28, 1987 ,meeting were read, discussed and__ _________
accepted .
Southold Town Local Law ,#1, 1983, established the Landmark Preservation
Commission and proscribed its duties . The Commission in 1987 is updating
this law to qualify Southold Town to be a Certified .Local Government
according to N.Y.State Office of Historic Preservation standards . A side
benefit of this certification is that it would qualify us to receive grants
from the state .
Joe Townsend forwarded a completed copy of this draft update to
Katherine Ridley in the Albany office, and she has responded that there
seems to be no question of our being qualified for certification under
the regulations , in the updated rules . John Stack was in Albany the week of
February 23, and spoke to Lucy Brier and Austin O'Brien about this update
of our local law . They indicated that under the updated law we seem to be
eligible to be designated a Certified Local Government . Meanwhile, the
Southold Town Code Committee is studying this document.
Ralph ,Williams mentioned that, as the chairman of the L4ndmark
Preservation Commission's 1990 celebration of the Town's 350th anniversary,
he already has some plans and ideas in mind .
- Wesley Dickinson is interested in restoring a little schoolhouse that
was at the junction of Bay View Road and Elijah's Lane in Southold. It
stood in the middle of the road at that spot before 1900. The LAndmark
Commission asked Wesley to be the chairman of this project, and 'to explore
its possibilities . Wesley met with James Bitses, Bill Albertson, the Park
Commissioner of Southold Town, and Becky Terry, ' and is planning to contact
service clubs . Wesley was told the Kiwanis was looking for a project .
Gary Williams offered to move the building to a suitable location, when
such a place is found .
BETWEEN MEETING ACTIVITIES
ROTARY PROGRAM
Ralph Williams and John Stack gave a program at the Rotary Club on
February- 17 that was well received . John introduced the program and Ralph
showed his slides of Southold houses and gave a narrative that was really
a lesson in local architectural history.
"HOW OLD IS YOUR HOUSE" BOOK PROJECT
John Stack invited Nicholas Langhart, architectural consultant of the
Smithtown Historic Advisory Board, to advise us on the funding for toe
- over -
LANDMARK COMMISSIO ,18/87, page 2
book we are planning to publish, "How Old Is Your House?" Nick met at
Town Hall with the Commission and Jim McMahon on February 20. He and Jim
worked out a grant application, which has been mailed.
FORT CORCHAUG PROPE TY
William Peters) and John Stack met with John Chapin and real estate
agent Donna Geraghty at the Cutchogue Library on February 27 to discuss
a possible use for �he 100 acres on which Fort Corchaug is located. William
Baxter owns the pro erty. Mr. Chapin is exploring the idea of creating an
organic farm on the site, and building a few houses for farmers who would
live in them and w o k the land to demonstrate early farm life. The houses
would be built from lumber felled and milled on the property, and vintage
toold,,iand equipment would be used to demonstrate how farming was done in
Southold in times past. Naturally, the Fort- Corchaug site would be preserved .
CHAPIN FARM PLAN AND LIZEfnTSKI FARM MUSEUM
William Peters met with Paul Stoutenburg of :the Southold Town Board and
John Halsey of Peconr�ic Land Trust at the Peters ' home on March 4 to
discuss 1) the Chap3In Farm Plan (above) and 2) Dr. Joseph Lizewski's 186o's
barn on Depot Lane In Cutchogue . (For more on barn, see Landmark minutes,
January 1987. ) The utchogue-New Suffolk Historical Council is mulling the
possibility of creating a farm museum in this vintage barn.
REVISED LANDMARK ORDINANCE
The Southold Town Code Committee met at Town Hall on March 4 . The first
item on its agends w�is the revised Landmark responsibilities . Chairman Jay
Schondebare and the committee took up the proposal item by item, "and made no
major changes or suggggestions. The ordinance will now go to lawyer Robert
Tasker. After he examines it, it will be forwarded to the Town Board. If
the Town Board appro�, es the -document, it will then be presented to the people
at a public hearing.
Joy Bear, Secretary
PLEASE NOTE:
Next Landmark Meeting - March 18 (third Wddnesday)