If checked, this site is within the Fire Place (Brookhaven Hamlet) Historic District

19-Initial Const Date: before 1818, by John rose, born 1768

19-Architect:

19-Builder: Same carpenter who had built Miller house, few years earlier.

** [George Perley Morse indicates -- "Located on north side of Beaver Dam Road near South Country Road is all original and a fine example of well-to-do Long Island home. It has been in the Rose family nearly all the time. Built by John Rose (born 1768) son of Lieutenant (Revolutionary War) Thomas Rose. He married a daughter of David (Priest) Rose (no relative) and became Town Trustee, Town Supervisor and a New York State Senator. He had five sons and the fifth son inherited the home and died in 1914 at the age of 98 years. Mulford Rose, the fifth son had four children. His daughters Harriet and Cornalia lived in the home and did not marry. (see photos) The fourth child Elizabeth [[error]] married and her first or second cousins through marriages inherited the old home, Miss Clara Steckel and Mrs. Alma Sleter. "George Miller once told the writer that this home was built by the same carpenter that built the Nathaniel Miller home a few years earlier.

" It is said that the small part of the John Rose house was once a small store, located on Bay Road."]

[According to Bigelow, the home was built before 1818 for Senator John Rose. She indicates that the smaller wing on the right was once used as a store. She also indicates that the house was built by the same builder who built the Nathaniel Miller (see) house on Fire Place Neck Rd. It was known to be occupied by members of the Rose family in the late 19th/early 20th century.

The home on the 1858 map of Fire Place (see) is labeled "C. G. Hawkins" (see Charles Greenville Hawkins.) The home on the1873 map of Fire Place is labeled "J. L. Ireland" (see John Lawrence Ireland). The 1888 map of the Hamlet has it labeled J. B. Ireland (see John Busteed Ireland). The local tradition has the home being occupied by the Rose family from the early 19th until the early 20th century.

Was C. G. Hawkins living there in the 1850's? He was a seaman, not of great wealth. Could the home have been more modest in the 1850's when the Hawkins family resided there -- perhaps just the wing to the right? This wing appears to be of cape design, and in a 19th century picture of the house a single dormer appears on this section, suggestive of a second floor bedroom. On the other hand, John Rose by 1818 was a relatively wealthy and prominent citizen of the Town and Hamlet -- one would not have expected him to build just a modest cape cod.

I believe the 1858 map is likely mislabeled, and that C. G. Hawkins did not live there in 1858, but probably further east on Beaverdam Rd.

J. L. Ireland was a wealthy landowner who acquired much of the Rose family holdings in Brookhaven Hamlet. Apparently this includes ownership of the Rose house. He dies in 1879, and the property passes to his son, J. B. Ireland. Again, I think the tradition is likely correct -- the Rose family occupied the house until into the 20th century, but that the family was forced to sell the property to the Ireland's as their finances deteriorated. It was not uncommon for purchasers of property to guarantee occupancy of homes until the death of the family members.]