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: The site, at the northwest corner of Bay Rd and Fire Place Lane, sits between Bay Road and Beaverdam Creek. It included a vegatable garden, orchard, and marsh.

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: About 1900

19-Architect:

19-Builder: August Starke

20-Importance: About 1900, August Starke purchased about 22 acres of largely undeveloped land between Bay Road and Beaver Dam Creek from James H. Post and others. His brother, Charles, purchased a similar site of about 14 acres immediately to the south, between August's land and the Great South Bay (see Historic Site ID Br38.150-S). August built the present house about 1900. Various lots were subsequently sold, reducing the site to its present size, about 4 acres.

21-Sources: Post Morrow Foundation Newsletter, March 2003: Interview with Robert Starke (also reprinted this site): " After the war and my discharge from the Navy in 1946, Helen and I wanted to live in Brookhaven and for a while used the old barn, which was renovated into a house for a year and a half. At that time, 1947, my stepmother, since we had homes in Flatbush and in Brookhaven, decided to sell the Brookhaven property. Accordingly, it was listed for sale and Daniel Bohan, a developer from Bellport, made an offer of $25,000 for the house-barn [now 1 River Lane] and 22 acres. I opted for the house [68 Bay Road] and property to the Beaver Dam Creek, a plot 200 feet on Bay Road and 150 on the creek, a total of about four acres, which we still own today. We also bought an additional three acres, the property adjacent and just north of us, from Mrs. Morasco."
Suffolk County News (Sayville), 30 November 1900: "James H. Post and wife to August L. Starke, twenty acres, at Brookhaven, consideration $1,700."
Suffolk County News (Sayville), 2 November 1900: "Ellen P. Miller to Charles P. Starke, lot on highway, Brookhaven, consideration nominal. Same to August L. Starke, lot on highway, Brookhaven, consideration nominal."

22-Theme: Residential

John Deitz