7a-Visible From Road

7b-Interior Accessible

7b-Interior Comment: By Appointment

8a-Clapboard

8b-Stone

8c-Brick

8d-Board & Batten

8e-Cobblestone

8f-Shingles

8g-Stucco

8-Other:

9a-Wood Frame Interlocking Joints

9b-Wood Frame Light Members

9c-Masonry

9d-Metal

9d-Metal Comment:

9e-Other

9e-Other Comment:

10a-Excellent

10b-Good

10c-Fair

10d-Deteriorated

11a-Original Site

11b-Moved

If so, when?:

11c-Alterations:

12-Photo:

13-Map:

14a-None Known

14b-Zoning

14c-Roads

14d-Developers

14e-Deterioration

14f-Other:

14-Comment:

15a-Barn

15b-Carriage House

15c-Garage

15d-Privy

15e-Shed

15f-Greenhouse

15g-Shop

15h-Gardens

15i-Landscape Features

15i-Landscape Features:

15j-Other:

15-Comment:

16a-Open Land

16b-Woodland

16c-Scattered Bldgs

16d-Densely Built-up

16e-Commercial

16f-Industrial

16g-Residential

16h-Other:

17-Interrelationships:

18-Notable Features:

19-Initial Const Date: 1902

19-Architect:

19-Builder:

20-Importance: From George Borthwick, The Church at the South, p. 246:
"Towards the close of [1902] the construction of a manse in Brookhaven village was started. During the century since 1800, when the first manse and land were sold, the ministers at South Haven had to live, at first in the one at Middle Island, and later, in the one at Bellport. Mr. James H. Post gave the lots on which it stands, and with a group of communicants from Mastic, of which Mr. William B. Dana, prominent editor of 'The Commercial and Financial Chronicle,' and Mr. Augustus Floyd were contributors, furnished the money for its erection. It was build during the fall of 1902.
"The first minister to occupy the new manse was the Rev. William Fryling …."

The Manse was reported by Rev. Borthwick and especially his wife, in a private conversation, as being cold and drafty in Winter. By the late 1950's, the building was deemed by both the congregation and its ministers as no longer suitable for a Manse. A smaller more comfortable Manse was erected adjacent to the north. The new Manse was a Shirley model home that was moved to the site.

After the new manse was constructed, the old manse was used in the later 1950s as a "parish hall," and principally housed the church school. The number of children had increased dramatically during the "baby-boom" years following WWII, and the main building on Beaver Dam road could no longer accomodate them.

The original property containing both the old and new manse was split, and the original Manse and out buildings sold for $10,500 to Hanse V. Boehler. This sale was authorized 19 October 1961 by congregational vote.

A "Manse" in Presbyterian parlance is the name given to a home supplied to a minister by the parish. In it's original meaning, it was intended to include sufficient land to support the pastorate. The original "manse" of the South Haven Presbyterian Church was a small farm along the east side of Beaverdam Creek, about where the Long Island Railroad passes.

21-Sources: Borthwick, Rev. George. The Church at the South: A History of the South Haven Church Written about 1935 while he was pastor of the South Haven Church, published 1989 by the Cutchogue Presbyterian Church, which was his pastorate at the time.

22-Theme:

John Deitz