Building-Structure Inventory Form

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Building Inventory Form

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Unless indicated below, this is a transcript of the original Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities/Town of Brookhaven survey form. Since most of the surveys were conducted in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, much of the information reflects that time period.

Corrections to obvious typographical and spelling errors have been made. Corrections to factual errors in the original surveys, and updates or comments on the information are either enclosed in [square brackets], or are clearly indicated as updated material from the context of the comments.

Sites which have a suffix of “S” are supplemental sites not included in the original surveys.

Building-Structure Inventory Form

Emma Hawkins House [Bartlett Hawkins House]

If checked, this is a Supplemental Form, not in the original surveys.

Inventory Code: SH10

Prepared Date: 07-17-1982

Last Modified: 01-01-1970

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Submitter

Submitter Name:

Town of Brookhaven/SPLIA

Submitter Address:

Town Hall
205 S. Ocean Ave.
Patchogue, NY 11772
631-634-7806

Organization:Brookhaven Community Development Agency

Identification

1-Building/Site Name:Emma Hawkins House [Bartlett Hawkins House]

2a-County:Suffolk

2b-Town:Brookhaven

2c-Village:Hamlet of Southaven

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

Ownership

4a-Public Site

4b-Private Site

5a-Owner (at original survey date):Thomas G. Thompson [1982

5b-Address:Montauk Highway, South Haven

Use

6a-Original:residence

6b-Present:residence

Accessibility

7a-Visible From Road

7b-Interior Accessible

7b-Interior Comment: by appointment

Building Materials

8a-Clapboard

8b-Stone

8c-Brick

8d-Board & Batten

8e-Cobblestone

8f-Shingles

8g-Stucco

8-Other:

Structural System

9a-Wood Frame Interlocking Joints

9b-Wood Frame Light Members

9c-Masonry

9d-Metal

9d-Metal Comment:

9e-Other

9e-Other Comment:

Condition

10a-Excellent

10b-Good

10c-Fair

10d-Deteriorated

Integrity

11a-Original Site

11b-Moved

If so, when?:

11c-Alterations:

Photo & Map

12-Photo:

13-Map:

Threats

14a-None Known

14b-Zoning

14c-Roads

14d-Developers

14e-Deterioration

14f-Other:

14-Comment:

Related Outbuildings and Property

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: base of water tower

15-Comment:

Surroundings of the Building

16a-Open Land

16b-Woodland

16c-Scattered Bldgs

16d-Densely Built-up

16e-Commercial

16f-Industrial

16g-Residential

16h-Other:

Interrelationship of Building and Surroundings

17-Interrelationships: Thiis structure is located in Southaven, which was first settled in the eighteenth century.

Other Notable Features of Building and Site

18-Notable Features: This house was owned by H. Hawkins in 1902, and Emma Hawkins in 1915. [We have been unable to identify either H. Hawkins or Emma Hawkins.]

Significance

19-Initial Const Date: c. 1902 [probably c. 1836. See supplemental material]

19-Architect:

19-Builder: [Perhaps Bartlett Tutthill Hawkins. See supplemental material]

Historic and Architectural Importance

20-Importance: 1 1/2 story, 3 bay, side entrance plan, shingle style, gable roof cottage with roof extending over front porch. Sawtooth shingle detail at window sill level and window head level, at both floors, and in the gables. Flaring shingles over paired windows on east and west facades. Interesting shingle detail at all roof edges. Porch with turned posts and original "Chinese" railing.

Base of water tower behind house with same shingle detail.

Sources

21-Sources: Atlas of the Ocean Shore of Suffolk Co., L.I., plate no. 3, New York: E. Belcher-Hyde, publisher, 1902.

Theme

22-Theme: residential

Prepared By

Ellen Williams, research assistant.

Supplemental Material

[* The original Building-Structure Inventory form, dated 17 July 1982, indicates that this was built in 1902. The 1873 Beers Map and the 1858 Chase Map indicates a home identified as "B.T. Hawkins" at this location. Photographs dated 1915 annotated by Clara (Clarissa) Hawkins as "The old South Haven home" are clearly of this house. Clarissa was a daughter of Bartlett Tuthill (B.T.) Hawkins and a sister of Erastus Corning Hawkins. It therefore seems likely that this house was built before 1858, Since Bartlett Hawkins married his first wife in 1836, it is likely that the house was built about then.]