January 25, 2001 - Cutchogue's downtown domiciles6A • The Suffolk Times • January 25, 2001
Cutchogue's
downtown domiciles
The George A. Gould house,
yesterday and today. Above,
a recent photo of the house
taken by Barbara Stouten-
burgh. Right, as seen in a
1917 booklet, courtesy of
town historian Toni Booth.
WHERE THE WICKHAM FRUIT
Farm is today there used to be just a
long, straight road heading south to
the Wickham homestead. It was
there in the old days we picked up
our milk that was half cream in the
back kitchen of the farmhouse. My
mother had a special device that
when lowered into the bottle could
be closed and enabled her to bring
out the heavy cream from the top.
Focus
ON THE
PAST
by Paul
and Barbara
Stoutenburgh
Gould house acros
• course, we
always had to
bring our
washed bottles
back to be
refilled.
Coming out
of the Wickham
driveway you
can see the old
s the street.
the train all the time to get in and out of the city. On
time I took a photograph of him standing waiting for
the train to come into the station. When you went to
get the train Jim could be seen tapping away his
Morse Code messages at his desk in the old station
across from what is now the Wild Goose, but most
will remember it for many years as the Blue Top Inn.
Memories still linger of the old station with its pot-
bellied stove glowing on cold winter days while fami-
lies waited to meet or see people off.
Going up to the station on Depot Lane you had to
pass another potato house in the area that served the
farmers. Frank Machinchick ran it opposite Our Lady
of Ostrabrama Roman Catholic Church. The potato
building, though unused, still stands today.
Meanwhile, back in the village, we-just passed the
chiropractic office and the typing office. Believe it or
not the building just re- stuccoed, where Granite
Financial has new signs in the windows, was once a
garage run by Ernest Morrell handling "Chalmers
Motor Cars, Motorcycle Supplies." He also did "Ford
work and Ford parts were a specialty."
Fret lutnillS Flumbmg and Heating store (so well
restored today with a antique store called Thistle
Bees) has changed little over the years, Mary Tuthill
told us.
The diner, run by Olin Glover (called a "lunch
room" in the old days), has changed hands many
times and today locals as well as visitors stop by the
Cutchogue Diner for some good homemade favorites.
I remember when they had fried eels there. As Cotty
Tuthill tells us: "The original part in back was situated
in the other direction. The newer front part was
added by the highway facing'the road."
When Barbara was in grade school at East
Cutchogue she remembers that they used to go up
street to the Parish Hall next to the diner for a place
to put on school plays. She remembers they put on
"Hansel and Gretel" one time in that building. She
was an angel, she tells me, standing up on a ladder
during the play with other angels. If she remembers
right she thinks Otis Davids played the part of Hansel
and Phyllis Horton was Gretel.
Looking eastward In Cutchogue village as it appeared in "Suffolk County's Ten Great Townsnips or Long
Island" in 1939. The small building to the right of the car heading east is the first Silleck Agency building
(now the TikTok Shop) in the village that had started as a corn crib on the Silleck farm on Skunk Lane.