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Building-Structure Inventory Form
Old Brook Store
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If checked, this is a Supplemental Form, not included in the original surveys.
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Inventory Code:
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Br07
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Prepared Date:
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7/26/1982
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Last modified:
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9/16/2010
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Original Submitter
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Submitter Name:
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Town of Brookhaven/SPLIA
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Submitter Address:
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Town Hall
205 S. Ocean Ave.
631-634-7806
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Organization:
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Brookhaven Community Development Agency
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Identification
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1-Building/Site Name:
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Suffolk
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2b-Town:
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Brookhaven
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2c-Village:
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Hamlet of Brookhaven
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| 3-Street Location:
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378 South Country Road
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If checked, this site is within the
Fire Place (Brookhaven Hamlet)
Historic District
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Ownership
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4a-Public
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4b-Private
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| 5a-Owner
(at original survey date):
Valerie Lysloff
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5b-Address:
378 S. Country Rd., Brookhaven
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Use
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6a-Original:
store and post office
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6b-Present:
antique shop
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Accessibility
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7a-Visible From Road
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7b-Interior Accessible:
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Building Materials
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8a-Clapboard
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8b-Stone
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8c-Brick
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8d-Board & Batten
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8e-Cobblestone
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8f-Shingles
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8g-Stucco |
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8-Other:
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Structural System
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9a-Wood Frame Interlocking Joints
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9b-Wood Frame Light Members:
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9c-Masonry:
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9d-Metal
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9e-Other
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| 9e-Other Comment:
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Condition
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10a-Excellent
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10b-Good
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10c-Fair
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10d-Deteriorated
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Integrity
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11a-Original Site |
11b-Moved |
If so, when?
early 1900's
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| 11c-Alterations:
Store moved to its present site beside Beaver Dam Creek from just east on South Country Road and because of the curve, the opposite bank of the creek.
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Photo & Map
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Threats
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14a-None Known:
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14b-Zoning
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14c-Roads
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14d-Developers
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14e-Deterioration
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Related Outbuildings
and Property |
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15a-Barn
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15b-Carriage House |
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15c-Garage
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15d-Privy
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15e-Shed
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15f-Greenhouse
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15g-Shop
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15h-Gardens
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15i-Landscape Features
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| 15i-Landscape Features:
on west bank of creek
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| 15-Comment:
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Surroundings of the Building
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16a-Open Land
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16b-Woodland
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16c-Scattered Bldgs.
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16d-Densely Built-up
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16e-Commercial
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16f-Industrial
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16g-Residential
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16h-Other:
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Interrelationship of Building and Surroundings
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17-Interrelationships:
This structure is located on South Country Road, formerly the Montauk Highway, in the hamlet of Brookhaven.
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Other Notable Features of Building and Site
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18-Notable Features: T. Ellison owned the store and hotel in1858. In 1873, H. Bishop owned it, and in 1902 and 1915, the Valentines owned it. It had become the post office by then. It had not yet been moved by 1915. According to local history, it was first opened in 1815 on land bought by R. Ellison in 1805. It has been enlarged and added to. See Br (sic).
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Significance
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19-Initial Const Date:
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c. 1815
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19-Architect:
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19-Builder:
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Historic and Architectural Importance
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20-Importance:
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2 1/2 story, gable roof store with large shop front windows flanking center doorway. 1 story flat roofed wing on west added later and used for U.S. Post Office. 6/6 windows on second floor and arch-topped window in attic. Porch with roof across front.
An example of the typical store now disappearing from the Long Island landscape.
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Sources
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21-Sources:
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* Bigelow, Stephanie, "Bellport and Brookhaven, " Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society: 1968, p. 7.
"Map of Suffolk County, by J.L. Chace, 1858, repository: Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society
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Theme
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Prepared By:
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Ellen Williams, research assistant
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Supplemental
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Copy of "Old Brook Store, A Building of Many Years". Long Island Heritage, July 1982. P.42.
Picture from "Long Island Heritage," October, 1981, page 21.
Copy of map showing Beaver Dam Creek in the hamlet of Brookhaven (then called Fireplace) with the Valentine store shown in its original location. As H. Bishop owned the store at least until 1873, this map may be dated between 1873 and 1902. "From leather-bound book of legal cases of Judge J. Lawrence Smith."
[Big Tom Ellison and his mother ran the original store and tavern during the early 1800's. In 1860 the store was purchased by Hallack Bishop and rebuilt. The store and adjacent house were later purchased by Charles Valentine who ran it with Forrest Reeves. At this time the store included a post office. The property became known as "Valentines Corner" and "Valentine's Brook." When Mr. Noble purchased the property in 1916, he moved the house to 3 Fire Place Neck Road (Historic Structure ID Br30B), and the store, by then called the "Brook Store," to its present location at 378 South Country Road.
Adapted from "Bellport Village and Brookhaven Hamlet" by Victor Principe.]
[Patchogue Advance, 4 May 1945, p. 10: "Thomas Lyons has opened the former Valentine Store as a general store."]
[Letter, Osborne Shaw, Brookhaven Town Historian, to Thomas Lyons, 5 September 1956, Post Morrow Foundation Heritage Collection, Post Morrow Foundation, Brookhaven, NY 11719.: In August 1947, Thomas Lyons was appointed postmaster for Brookhaven hamlet, which duties were conducted from the Brook Store. Thomas Lyons was still the proprietor of the Brook Store in 1956, when the letter was written.]
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