Captain C. Goodale House

The Second Empire style mansion at 300 Hampton Road with the distinctive Mansard style flat roof with dormer windows is the Captain C. Goodale House. The house was built in 1875 and two small rear wings were added in the late nineteenth century. The Goodale family owned the house until 1920 when it was purchased by the Vanderveers. Others owned the house by the 1930s and turned it into a boarding house catering to the region's growing summer visitation. A modern, two-story addition abutting the rear of the building was constructed in the 1980s or 1990s, adjacent to a parking lot. The Captain C. Goodale House was listed in the New York and National Registers of Historic Places in 1986 for its architecture. The building now holds commercial offices, including those for Cook Maran, an insurance firm.

Charles Goodale was a prosperous local sea captain who bought the land for his new home on Hampton Road in 1873. The architect and builder of the large, five-bay, 2.5-story clapboard dwelling with a projecting central entrance pavilion are not known. In 1845 during the height of the whaling era, Captain Goodale was the master of a whaling ship named the Tuscany, one of 63 whaling ships sailing from Sag Harbor that year. Goodale was among the locals elected to a committee to plan Southampton Village's Fourth of July celebrations for the U.S. centennial in 1876. Goodale was on a special committee on the Liberty Pole, along with Captain George G. White and Barney Green; the day was to close with a clam bake at Shinnecock. Captain Goodale was injured in a threshing machine accident in early September 1878 and died a week later in Southampton from lockjaw; he was only 63 years and 8 months old. His widow, Eliza, continued to live in Southampton until her death in February 1897 at age 70 years, 4 months.

Several rooms in the house were rented out by the Goodale family from the late nineteenth century to 1912 for use as a community medical emergency facility. Hampton Road has been a major thoroughfare through Southampton heading toward Sag Harbor since the 1800s, with the Goodale House to the east of the village core. The house's street address was 219 Hampton Road in an older numbering system, as seen on the 1916 and 1926 Sanborn map image. The house lot included a number of wood frame outbuildings in the rear yard in 1916 including an auto garage, sheds, and a stable. The neighborhood in 1916 was primarily wood frame dwellings - some with hen houses in the rear yard - and an automobile repair garage.

When the Captain C. Goodale House was documented for New York and National Register eligibility in the early 1980s, the house retained much of its original interior trim and decorative fireplace mantels. The house was on a smaller lot than shown on the 1916 map, in a mixed-use non-historic commercial and residential neighborhood. A small privy from the nineteenth century, clad in vertical boards, was still standing in 1983, along with a grassy lawn and mature plantings. The privy was considered a contributing building to the property's significance. Local tax records indicate the building was classified as a single-family year-round residence from 2013 to 2015 and as an office building since 2015. The building with its historic and modern additions now contains over 3,600 square feet of office space on a 1.2-acre lot and was last sold in 2017.

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