Zachariah Hallock House History
Following the Puritan tradition of carving out a piece of the Hallock farm for male heirs of marrying age begun by his grandfather, Capt. Zachariah Hallock, Isaiah Hallock built a farmhouse on this spot around 1832. It burned to the ground in 1915.
In the mid 1920s Konstanty and Adela (Lipnicka) Cichanowicz (both born in Poland) bought the 35-acre farm consisting of the Little Hallock House east of the current Cich farm garage, the circa 1832 Isaiah Hallock barn and various outbuildings. Konstanty and Adela married in Glen Head, LI in 1912 and started their family in Glen Cove. They moved to Mattituck c. 1920 to work as a farm laborer.
Circa 1931, Konstanty hired two brothers named Zucaski who lived on Oregon Road to build the current house on the footprint of the …show more content…
Isaiah Hallock house (probably to utilize the hand dug well still behind the house and parts of the original foundation.)
Konstanty and Adela had 6 children. Charles (Charlie), Stanley (Stosh), Albertine (Tina), John, Helen, and Ann. Tina and Ann were born in the Little Hallock house. The others were born in Glen Cove, NY.
Soon after Stanley's marriage in 1952, he and his wife moved in and the house was converted into a 2-family dwelling. Adela lived in the three rooms on the west side of the house (Konstanty had died in 1944.) and Stanley's family lived in the east rooms. An addition was put on east of the museum kitchen for a second kitchen and bath. All used the upstairs bedrooms. Both Adela and Stanley's family moved out c. 1960 and the house was rented for a few years.
The house became a field office for Levon Corp. beginning in 1963 and for LILCO beginning in 1973 since it was newest house on KeySpan property. It was during that period that the interior was "modernized" and many original details removed. It was abandoned and vacant after 1980. Hallockville acquired the land and buildings in 1999. The house was in severe disrepair with large holes in back roof. The kitchen floor unusable due to water damage. Hallockville restored the house over a 3 year period from 2003-2006.
Some have thought this was a Sears Catalogue house. However, while Sears certainly sold similar houses, there is no direct evidence this was a catalogue house (Rafters and studs are numbered in catalog kits and there are none in this house) - and the Cichanowicz family insists that it was custom built on site.
The dug well, visible under the low shed in the rear, survives from the Isaiah Hallock house that occupied the site previously. A well like this was bricked from the top down. Water is approximately 70 feet below ground level. Dug wells were used both for bucket operation and were also done for the earliest mechanical pumps, either wind or gasoline driven. Cichanowicz Farmhouse in 2006 Architectural historians now describe houses such as this as "foursquare" - a style popular during the first three decades of the 20th century. All the typical features are present here: square shape, two-story, hipped (or pyramidal) roof, dormer with hipped roof, symmetrical façade and porch across the entire front. The style allowed a room in each corner, with windows to two sides. It also was the most economical style to build, since a cube encloses the maximum volume of living space with the minimum surface area. Often, as here, the front door opened into one of the main rooms. Sometimes these homes were decorated with colonial or prairie style details. Also notice the one-over-one windows, typical of the period. Shingled exterior was originally unpainted, but had received a full coat of white paint by the 1940's.
As with most farmhouses, almost everyone used the back door.
Only the parish priest and the undertaker used the front door. From the original shingles on the inside wall, this small room was added after original construction. It may have been an open porch in the original design. It appears in pictures from the early 1940s and was probably an early addition to keep the cold winter wind blowing off the Sound from coming directly into the kitchen. When the family was called in from the fields for meals, this room was a place to wash up and leave their muddy boots.
Unlike the Hallock homestead that contains many original furnishings and artifacts from the Hallock family, few remain from the Cichanowicz family. This house has been restored and furnished with items appropriate to a Depression-era farmhouse of this area. A canning jar used by Adela is displayed in the entryway.
Visitors, as they go through the house, may want to think about how this house that belonged to first-generation Polish immigrants differed from the homes of neighboring farmers whose families had been on the North Fork for many generations. Other than a few religious symbols, the differences were probably very
minor!
In a house with eight residents, rooms had to serve multiple purposes. The dining room was most likely used as a dining area for a large family, a farm office and a play area for small children. Floors in the dining room, living room and bedroom are original.
Exposed brick chimney is where a coal and wood parlor stove provided the central heating system for the entire house. The parents' bedroom adjoins so that they could leave their door ajar and close the other dining room doors to capture some of the heat. The only heat to the children's bedrooms upstairs was what rose through the grate in the ceiling.
The arch in this room is part of the original construction of this room. It is presented as a more formal parlor to the west and a family gathering place to the east. Interior photographs during Cich residence do not exist. Moldings, window casings and door trim are based upon a house built by Konstanty's brother, Frank, that was built in the 1920s and remodeled in the 1930s. It is located across Sound Ave. to the east and is home of Henry and C.C. Bookout and retains original features. Sheet rock was invented in the 1920s and was used in the original construction of this house. However, spackling tape to make corners was not developed until the late 1930s, so wood lathe was used to cover seams. Notice the front door opens directly into the living room rather than a front hall- an economy measure common in the foursquare design.
In the mid 1920s Konstanty and Adela (Lipnicka) Cichanowicz (both born in Poland) bought the 35-acre farm consisting of the Little Hallock House east of the current Cich farm garage, the circa 1832 Isaiah Hallock barn and various outbuildings. Konstanty and Adela married in Glen Head, LI in 1912 and started their family in Glen Cove. They moved to Mattituck c. 1920 to work as a farm laborer.
Circa 1931, Konstanty hired two brothers named Zucaski who lived on Oregon Road to build the current house on the footprint of the …show more content…
Isaiah Hallock house (probably to utilize the hand dug well still behind the house and parts of the original foundation.)
Konstanty and Adela had 6 children. Charles (Charlie), Stanley (Stosh), Albertine (Tina), John, Helen, and Ann. Tina and Ann were born in the Little Hallock house. The others were born in Glen Cove, NY.
Soon after Stanley's marriage in 1952, he and his wife moved in and the house was converted into a 2-family dwelling. Adela lived in the three rooms on the west side of the house (Konstanty had died in 1944.) and Stanley's family lived in the east rooms. An addition was put on east of the museum kitchen for a second kitchen and bath. All used the upstairs bedrooms. Both Adela and Stanley's family moved out c. 1960 and the house was rented for a few years.
The house became a field office for Levon Corp. beginning in 1963 and for LILCO beginning in 1973 since it was newest house on KeySpan property. It was during that period that the interior was "modernized" and many original details removed. It was abandoned and vacant after 1980. Hallockville acquired the land and buildings in 1999. The house was in severe disrepair with large holes in back roof. The kitchen floor unusable due to water damage. Hallockville restored the house over a 3 year period from 2003-2006.
Some have thought this was a Sears Catalogue house. However, while Sears certainly sold similar houses, there is no direct evidence this was a catalogue house (Rafters and studs are numbered in catalog kits and there are none in this house) - and the Cichanowicz family insists that it was custom built on site.
The dug well, visible under the low shed in the rear, survives from the Isaiah Hallock house that occupied the site previously. A well like this was bricked from the top down. Water is approximately 70 feet below ground level. Dug wells were used both for bucket operation and were also done for the earliest mechanical pumps, either wind or gasoline driven. Cichanowicz Farmhouse in 2006 Architectural historians now describe houses such as this as "foursquare" - a style popular during the first three decades of the 20th century. All the typical features are present here: square shape, two-story, hipped (or pyramidal) roof, dormer with hipped roof, symmetrical façade and porch across the entire front. The style allowed a room in each corner, with windows to two sides. It also was the most economical style to build, since a cube encloses the maximum volume of living space with the minimum surface area. Often, as here, the front door opened into one of the main rooms. Sometimes these homes were decorated with colonial or prairie style details. Also notice the one-over-one windows, typical of the period. Shingled exterior was originally unpainted, but had received a full coat of white paint by the 1940's.
As with most farmhouses, almost everyone used the back door.
Only the parish priest and the undertaker used the front door. From the original shingles on the inside wall, this small room was added after original construction. It may have been an open porch in the original design. It appears in pictures from the early 1940s and was probably an early addition to keep the cold winter wind blowing off the Sound from coming directly into the kitchen. When the family was called in from the fields for meals, this room was a place to wash up and leave their muddy boots.
Unlike the Hallock homestead that contains many original furnishings and artifacts from the Hallock family, few remain from the Cichanowicz family. This house has been restored and furnished with items appropriate to a Depression-era farmhouse of this area. A canning jar used by Adela is displayed in the entryway.
Visitors, as they go through the house, may want to think about how this house that belonged to first-generation Polish immigrants differed from the homes of neighboring farmers whose families had been on the North Fork for many generations. Other than a few religious symbols, the differences were probably very
minor!
In a house with eight residents, rooms had to serve multiple purposes. The dining room was most likely used as a dining area for a large family, a farm office and a play area for small children. Floors in the dining room, living room and bedroom are original.
Exposed brick chimney is where a coal and wood parlor stove provided the central heating system for the entire house. The parents' bedroom adjoins so that they could leave their door ajar and close the other dining room doors to capture some of the heat. The only heat to the children's bedrooms upstairs was what rose through the grate in the ceiling.
The arch in this room is part of the original construction of this room. It is presented as a more formal parlor to the west and a family gathering place to the east. Interior photographs during Cich residence do not exist. Moldings, window casings and door trim are based upon a house built by Konstanty's brother, Frank, that was built in the 1920s and remodeled in the 1930s. It is located across Sound Ave. to the east and is home of Henry and C.C. Bookout and retains original features. Sheet rock was invented in the 1920s and was used in the original construction of this house. However, spackling tape to make corners was not developed until the late 1930s, so wood lathe was used to cover seams. Notice the front door opens directly into the living room rather than a front hall- an economy measure common in the foursquare design.