67 South Carll Ave., Babylon
by Susan Herbst
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7.000 x 10.000 inches
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Title
67 South Carll Ave., Babylon
Artist
Susan Herbst
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
Dr. John H. Hinton House, c.1883, South Carll Avenue
This handsome residence sits beautifully on South Carll Avenue, but it was originally built on a plot of land on the corner of Deer Park Avenue and George Street in 1883. Sold to Dr. J. H. Hinton in 1881 by John S. Foster, builder Winfield S. Velsor was contracted to create a Queen Ann-style summer home for the doctor and his family.
On April 26, 1905, Dr. John H. Hinton died at his home in Manhattan. One of the best-known physicians in the city, he graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1852. His wife, Sarah, died a little over a year later, on July 30, 1906.
In 1907, the Dr. Hinton’s daughter Susan, sold the estate to Cyrus Miller. In June of 1907, Cyrus Miller purchased a vacant lot on the east side of South Carll Avenue to which Hinton House was moved in December 1907 – February 1908.
The South Side Signal provided periodic updates on the building’s journey.
December 14, 1907: “… The task is not an easy one, the building being the largest and heaviest ever moved in this locality. Its estimated weight is about 150 tons and the progress in consequence must be necessarily slow… our only fear is that a snowstorm may overtake the building while it is on the highway.”
December 28, 1907: “The route of the Hinton house … was changed. All danger of the house remaining on the highway during the winter, is now obviated ...”
February 1, 1908: “The Miller cottage, which for many weeks past, has been traveling southward by the circuitous route to Carll Avenue, is on its foundation ...”
For the Schellhorns, the gray house with a red roof on South Carll Avenue in Babylon in 1981, was "perfect … an old-house lover’s dream," but it would take a real labor of love and many man-hours to turn it into the beautiful, colorful dwelling it is today.
In the early 1900s the house had been white with a red roof and, said Maureen Schellhorn, "It would have been the fourth house in a row painted white on our side of the block if we restored the original colors." After seeing a Queen Anne-style house on Main Street in Disney World, the Schellhorns were inspired. Over the course of approximately year-and-a-half, they took the exterior down to bare wood, scraping and painting until it was done. The house now sports a blueish-green exterior base coat with cream trim and burgundy highlights.
This description was complied from two sources:
Babylon Village Historic Homes & Newsday
https://bvhistorichomes.blogspot.com/?m=1
https://www.newsday.com/classifieds/real-estate/li-colorful-vintage-homes-1.50102552?utm_source=appshare
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June 10th, 2021
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