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South Shore Estuary Survey Form

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The information in this form is based on information in the original South Shore Estuary Survey. Corrections to obvious typographical and spelling errors have been made. Corrections to factual errors, updates or comments on the information are enclosed either in [square brackets] or are clearly indicated as updates in the text.. Since the surveys were conducted in the Summer of 2004, the information reflects that time period unless otherwise noted. Because the South Shore Estuary Survey report format is not entirely consistent with the original Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities/Town of Brookhaven survey formats, there are a few additional fields on this page not found on the original forms. The original South Shore Estuary Survey Report is available as a PDF document by clicking on the below.

South Shore Estuary Survey Form

15 Ocean Place

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

Br39.015-S

06-01-2004

01-01-1970

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Submitter

Submitter Name:
Jayme Breschard
Submitter Address:
382 Main Street

Port Washington, NY 11050
516-767-8803
Long Island Traditions, Inc

Identification

15 Ocean Place
Suffolk
Brookhaven
Hamlet of Brookhaven

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

Ownership

4a-Public
4b-Private
Nicholas C. Pressly (2004)
15 Ocean Place

Use

Residence
Residence

Accessibility

7a-Visible From Road
7b-Interior Accessible
By appointment

Architectural Style

Organic Bungalow

Description

The building at 15 Ocean Place sits on the north side of the street. Situated on the south side is an enclosed, sandy area overgrown with beach grass. To the west on the Great South Bay is Bellport Village Marina. To the east of Ocean Place are wetlands owned by Brookhaven Town and on the north and west are wetlands owned by New York State Department of Environmental Protection.

In the rear (north) lot, at the end of a north-south gravel drive along the building’s west elevation, sits a front-gabled garage with a poured concrete foundation, wood shingle cladding on its (north) façade, and asphalt roof shingles. Pink stucco covers the west and east elevations. The south façade has a circular gable louver and double cross batten swing garage doors with iron strap hinges.

Building Dimensions: 23’ x 55’. No. of Floors: 2

Decorative Features

Building Materials

8a-Clapboard
8b-Stone
8c-Brick
8d-Board & Batten
8e-Cobblestone
8f-Shingles
8g-Stucco
wood shingle, sawed, coursed

Structural System

9a-Wood Frame Interlocking Joints
9b-Wood Frame Light Members
9c-Masonry
9d-Metal
9e-Other

Roof Style

gambrel

Roofing Materials

asphalt shingle, plain

Foundation

concrete block with cement waterproofing and brick piers

Windows

one-over-one double-hung sash and plate glass

Entrances

centered entrance on façade (south) and rear wall entry of west elevation

Chimneys

exterior pipe chimney on east elevation

Condition

10a-Excellent
10b-Good
10c-Fair
10d-Deteriorated

Integrity

11a-Original Site
11b-Moved
second-story and gambrel roof additions and new fenestration throughout structure

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Threats

14a-None Known
14b-Zoning
14c-Roads
14d-Developers
14e-Deterioration
Site vunerable to floods and windstorms

Related Outbuildings and Property

15a-Barn
15b-Carriage House
15c-Garage
15d-Privy
15e-Shed
15f-Greenhouse
15g-Shop
15h-Gardens
15i-Landscape Features

Surroundings of the Building

16a-Open Land
16b-Woodland
16c-Scattered Bldgs
16d-Densely Built-up
16e-Commercial
16f-Industrial
16g-Residential
Surrounded by marshland

Interrelationship of Building and Surroundings

Other Notable Features of Building and Site

Situated on the shoreline of the Great South Bay

Significance

ca. 1936 [see supplemental material for updated comment]

Historic and Architectural Importance

[One of only three residences in Brookhaven Hamlet situated directly on the shore of the Great South Bay.]

According to homeowner, Jane Knapp, at 17 Ocean Place, the building at 15 Ocean Place was originally covered with pink stucco. This wall cladding now exists only on the west and east elevations of the front-gabled garage in its rear (north) lot.

Sources

Gottfried, Herbert and Jan Jennings. American Vernacular Design, 1870-1940. New York: Van Norstrand Reinhold, 1985.

Theme

Residential

Prepared By

John Deitz

Supplemental Material

[It is said that the three houses on Ocean Place were built in the 1920s. and they are thought to have been "kits," i.e., they arrived unassembled by train. They've been added on to and changed over the years but seemed to have survived many a storm, including the Hurricane of 1938.

The Post-Morrow Foundation owns two vacant lots in between two of the three houses (the most easterly one and the middle one. They also own one other lot at the east end of the row of the three houses.]