Mattituck, New York Circa 1760 Town Landmark MK-84

A house with four centuries
of North Fork history.

Built into the heart of the original Reeve family estate, where a single timber-frame farmhouse has stood steadily through the founding of a town, a Revolution, and the rise of a coastline.

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750 Reeve Avenue · Mattituck

A surviving piece of colonial America.

When the timber frame of 750 Reeve Avenue was raised around 1760, the United States did not yet exist. The house has watched the Revolution pass through its fields, the Reeve family farm be subdivided into a village, and the North Fork of Long Island transform from a colonial breadbasket into one of the most beautiful coastal landscapes on the eastern seaboard.

What survives is a four-bedroom, three-bath farmhouse of 3,200 square feet, set on half an acre of established gardens — with original wide-plank floors, hand-hewn ceiling beams, six fireplaces, and a two-story carriage house. It is officially recognized by the Town of Southold Landmarks Preservation Commission as Reeve-Pim House, MK-84.

Offered Exclusively by Douglas Elliman
$1,250,000.
Private & Public Showings by Appointment
c.1760
Year Built
4
Bedrooms
3
Bathrooms
6
Fireplaces
3,200
Square Feet
.51
Acres
About the Property

A charming and historic Mattituck farmhouse.

Welcome to the charming and historic, circa 1760, Mattituck farmhouse — updated and renovated throughout the years while still featuring its historic details, including original wide-plank wood flooring, exposed wood beams and period detail.

There are six fireplaces throughout the home, including one in each of the three bedrooms, the downstairs den, living room and dining room.

The first floor offers two kitchens, a den, living room, formal dining room, and a butler's pantry and wet bar. Between the renovated kitchen — with a gas cooktop and the original, working brick beehive oven — sits a sunlit butler's pantry with glass-front cabinetry, rich wood countertops, a small sink, wide-plank floors, wet bar, and beautiful vintage character. The second kitchen features a walk-in pantry, two doors that access the front or rear yard, and a dedicated laundry area. Both kitchens lead to the formal dining room, with a half bathroom off the hallway. In addition, there is a brand-new 4-zone furnace and hot water heater in the basement.

The second floor offers three spacious bedrooms — each with its own fireplace — and the primary bedroom features an expansive walk-in closet, formerly used as a small adjacent room. There are two full bathrooms on the second floor, and one of the guest bedrooms features built-in bookcases and a lounge area with a couch and coffee table next to large windows.

Heading to the third floor, you'll find two additional finished bonus rooms, also with original hardwood flooring. Finally, on the fourth level, an unfinished attic space with a 7-foot peak to the roofline provides plenty of room to move around.

Outside, meticulously landscaped grounds and gardens, two stone patios, healthy mature trees, and a two-story carriage house — set for a studio, workshop, garage, or whatever fits the new owner's needs. There is plenty of room for an in-ground pool to be situated in the backyard without taking away from the already established variety of shrubs, flowers, and trees.

Hand-hewn beam ceiling, original 1760 timber frame
Hand-hewn beam ceiling · Living Room
The Original Timber Frame

Beams hewn by hand, more than two centuries before yours.

The ceiling beams of the front living room have been here since the home was raised. You can still see the marks of the broadaxe — each beam shaped by a single craftsman, fitted to its neighbors with mortise-and-tenon joinery and pegged with white oak.

This is the kind of detail that cannot be rebuilt. It can only be inherited.

Original wide-plank pumpkin pine floors
Wide-plank pumpkin pine floors · Primary Bedroom
1700s Wide-Plank Floors

Floorboards as wide as a man's stride.

The floors throughout much of the house are original pumpkin pine — boards eighteen and twenty inches wide, cut from old-growth timber that no longer exists in the eastern United States.

They have been lived with by ten generations. Sanded gently, oiled, and left to keep their honest patina.

PROPERTY LINE · 0.5 ACRE N West Wing KITCHEN · BEEHIVE OVEN originally separate building Central Section FEDERAL HALF-HOUSE · c.1820 2.5 stories · 3 bays · sidelights & transom East Wing OLDEST · c.1760 1.5 stories · 3 bays · single chimney FRONT ENTRANCE II III VI I IV V Carriage House 2-STORY · STUDIO & GARAGE REAR FACES NEW SUFFOLK AVENUE
Three Sections, Three Centuries

The house is three buildings that learned to live together.

East Wing · c.1760 — oldest section, single chimney, watched the Revolution pass.
Central Section · c.1820 — Federal half-house with sidelight-and-transom entrance.
West Wing · kitchen — originally a separate outbuilding; houses the beehive oven.
Carriage House — two-story rear outbuilding, currently studio & garage.
Six fireplaces — I–VI, each original with hand-built mantel and brick hearth.

From the 1985 SPLIA inventory. Full floor plans shown below.

Floor Plans

2,916 square feet across three floors.

Main floor, second floor, and finished third floor — plus a two-story carriage house and .51-acre grounds.

Main floor plan — 1,517 sq ft
First Floor

1,517 sq ft

  • Foyer 8'1" × 18'5" · entry hall
  • Living Room 14'11" × 14'6" · fireplace
  • Dining Room 15'1" × 14'8" · fireplace
  • Family Room 12'3" × 11'5" · 2 fireplaces
  • Kitchen 9'1" × 11'5" · gas cooktop, brick beehive oven
  • Breakfast Nook 12'3" × 11'5"
  • Laundry Room 19'7" × 17'6" · walk-in pantry
  • Half Bathroom · storage closet

Floor plans provided by Douglas Elliman Real Estate. All measurements are approximate. Contact agent for full details.

Imagine It Yours

The same rooms, reimagined.

Drag each handle to slide between the home as it stands today and the home as it could feel — a glimpse of how the original wide-plank floors, brick chimneys, and beam ceilings live alongside a calm, modern hand. Move slowly. Look at the floors.

The Primary Bedroom

Wide-plank pumpkin pine, c.1760
Primary bedroom — as it stands today
Primary bedroom — reimagined
As It Is
Reimagined

The Beamed Living Room

Hand-hewn timber ceiling · Original brick hearth
Beamed living room — as it stands today
Beamed living room — reimagined
As It Is
Reimagined

The Formal Parlor

Original mantel · Wide-plank floors
Formal parlor — as it stands today
Formal parlor — reimagined
As It Is
Reimagined

The Brick-Chimney Bedroom

Original brick masonry passing through the room
Brick chimney bedroom — as it stands today
Brick chimney bedroom — reimagined
As It Is
Reimagined

The Sun-Lit Parlor

Deep-set 12/12 windows · Period wallpaper
Yellow parlor — as it stands today
Yellow parlor — reimagined
As It Is
Reimagined

The Double Sitting Room

Two original fireplaces · Wide-plank pine
Sitting room — as it stands today
Sitting room — reimagined
As It Is
Reimagined

The Guest Bedroom

Hand-built mantel · Wide-plank floors
Guest bedroom — as it stands today
Guest bedroom — reimagined
As It Is
Reimagined

The Floral Bedroom

Period floral wallpaper · Exposed brick chimney
Wallpaper bedroom — as it stands today
Wallpaper bedroom — reimagined
As It Is
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The Upper Bedroom

Original ladder to loft · Exposed beams
Upper bedroom — as it stands today
Upper bedroom — reimagined
As It Is
Reimagined

The Loft Bedroom

Hand-hewn rafters · Wide-plank floors
Loft bedroom — as it stands today
Loft bedroom — reimagined
As It Is
Reimagined
The North Fork

Explore what's nearby.

Click any marker or listing to locate it on the map · distances from 750 Reeve Avenue

A Garden Reimagined

The half-acre, with a pool thoughtfully added.

An illustration of how a discreetly placed pool would sit within the existing established plantings — without disturbing the historic carriage house or the front facade.

The half-acre garden, reimagined with a pool
Conceptual rendering · Pool placement on existing rear lawn
The North Fork

A property set between water and water.

750 Reeve Avenue sits on the southern edge of Mattituck — the original heart of the Reeve estate — minutes from Marratooka Lake to the west, the Bay to the south, and the Long Island Sound to the north. Vineyards, oyster farms, and the working harbors of Mattituck Creek define the surrounding miles.

Aerial view showing 750 Reeve Avenue on the North Fork
Aerial view · 750 Reeve Avenue, Mattituck
Four Centuries on One Property

The history that survives here.

From the founding of Southold, through the British occupation of 1776, the manumission of Elymus Reeve in 1813, and into the modern North Fork — every era has left its mark on these grounds.

Era One

Founding & Early Reeve Ownership

1640 — c.1760 · 5 milestones

No photographic record survives from this era — photography was a century away. The land itself, the wide-plank floors, and the timber frame are the only evidence that remain.

1640

Southold & Mattituck are founded.

English colonists from Connecticut found the Town of Southold — the first English settlement in New York State. The meadowlands that will become Mattituck are used as shared pasture, setting the rural, agricultural tone that still defines the North Fork today.

1661–62

Mattituck lands are laid out.

Southold divides its common lands into individual allotments running from Mattituck Creek to the Sound. These early grants shape the future footprint of the Reeve family farm and the land where 750 Reeve Avenue now stands.

Late 1600s

The Purrier–Reeve "Great Farm."

William Purrier assembles a 400+ acre farm at Mattituck. His grandson James Reeve is placed on the property and later inherits the "dwelling house, lands and meadows," establishing the long Reeve connection to this landscape.

1715

A church, a cemetery, and a hamlet anchor.

The Mattituck Presbyterian Church is organized. Parishioner James Reeve 2nd donates land for the burying ground, tying the Reeve name permanently to the spiritual and social center of the hamlet.

c.1760

The homestead is built.

Construction of the timber-frame house that survives today as 750 Reeve Avenue. Built during the colonial period, the home sits within the heart of the multi-generation Reeve farm at Mattituck.

The descendants of James Reeve had retained most of the great farm.
Rev. Charles E. Craven · A History of Mattituck, Long Island, N.Y., 1906
1858 map of Mattituck showing Reeve family parcels along Reeve Avenue Charles Reeves D. Reeve J. Reeve E. Reeve G.B. Reeve Subject parcel · approx.
Map of Mattituck, 1858 — Charles, J., D., E., G.B. & Pike Reeve parcels along Reeve Avenue. Click to enlarge.
Reeve family parcel · 1858 Approximate location of 750 Reeve Avenue
A Document of the Land

Six generations on one farm.

The 1858 map of Mattituck names the Reeve family on parcel after parcel along what is now Reeve Avenue — including the land on which 750 Reeve Avenue stands. By 1906, the historian Rev. Charles E. Craven could write that the descendants of James Reeve had retained "most of the great farm" for over two hundred and fifty years.

The home you see today survives from that same continuous chapter — a chapter that began before the United States and continues, intact, into the twenty-first century.

The Reeve-Pim House. The home was occupied by the Pim family from the late twentieth century, and is recorded in town documents as the "Reeve-Pim House." It has been continuously cared for, restored where necessary, and lived in as a working home — never abandoned, never gut-renovated. Its woodwork, plaster, wrought-iron hardware, and 12/12 windows remain almost entirely original.

Three Decades, Unchanged

The same facade, thirty years apart.

A snapshot from a photo album in the 1990s alongside the house today. Untouched in form, carefully maintained in detail.

The front facade in the 1990s
1990s · Photo Album
The front facade today
Today · 2026
Market Context

Recent comparable North Fork sales.

A short selection of comparable historic and pre-1900 homes across Mattituck, Cutchogue, Southold and Orient. Prices reflect adjusted closing values; the full CMA is available in the property package.

Address Hamlet Built BR / BA Sq Ft Sale Price Status
750 Reeve Avenue Mattituck c.1760 4 / 2.5 3,200 $1,250,000 Subject
1360 S Harbor Road Southold 1740 4 / 4 3,000 $1,675,000 Sold
28775 Main Road Orient 1850 4 / 3 2,800 $1,645,000 Sold
3615 Vanston Road Cutchogue 1863 4 / 3.5 $1,600,000 Sold
11115 Main Bayview Road Southold 1827 6 / 3.5 5,250 $1,250,000 Sold
4595 Skunk Lane Cutchogue 1760 4 / 2 2,500 $1,200,000 Sold
15405 Main Road Mattituck 1765 4 / 2 $1,299,000 Active
3615 Vanston Road Cutchogue 1863 4 / 3.5 3,205 $1,495,000 Active
Avg. Closed Price
$1.47M
Avg. Adjusted Closing
$1.41M
Avg. Days on Market
109 days

Designations & Public Record

MK-84
Town of Southold Landmark
Reeve-Pim House
SCTM 1000-114-11-30
Suffolk County Tax Map
Of public record
NYS Marker
Elymus Reeve, Manumitted 1813
Main Road · Mattituck
SPLIA · 1985
NY State Historic Inventory
Originally surveyed Fall 1985
Preserved & Restored

What's original, what's been restored.

A house this old earns the right to be specific about what's been touched and what hasn't. Here's the abbreviated record — the long version is in the property package.

Original to the House

  • c.1760Hand-hewn timber frame, east wing
  • c.1760Wide-plank pumpkin pine floors throughout the original rooms
  • c.1760+Six fireplace mantels and brick hearths
  • c.1760+Brick beehive oven in the kitchen wing
  • c.1820Federal-period entrance with sidelights, transom, and modillions
  • c.182012-over-12 sash windows throughout the central section
  • 19th c.Wrought-iron hardware, latches, and door pulls

Restored or Updated

  • 2007–08East-wall cedar shingles fully restored by hand
  • 2010sKitchen modernized while preserving the beehive oven and beam ceiling
  • 2010sBathrooms updated; original fixtures preserved where possible
  • 2010sMechanical systems serviced — heating, electrical, septic
  • OngoingEstablished gardens and plantings maintained continuously

A complete inspection-summary and capital-improvement record is available upon request.

A Note from the Sellers

"What we'll miss most."

We have lived in this house for many years, and in that time it has hosted four generations, several thousand cups of coffee in the keeping room, and one or two memorable winter-evening fires that lasted until breakfast.

What we'll miss most are the floors — the wide pumpkin-pine boards that our children grew up on, and that our grandchildren still race down in stocking feet. The way the dining room glows yellow at sunset when the tile wallpaper catches the western light. The brick beehive oven still warm in the morning after a long bake.

The next people to live here will inherit something rare: a house that has been continuously cared for, never gut-renovated, and lived in as a working home for two and a half centuries. We hope you fill it with the kind of small, ordinary moments that have made it what it is.

— The Pim Family
Represented By

Two North Forkers, one rare listing.

The Reeve-Pim House is jointly represented by Alexander Aquino and Jill Dunbar of Douglas Elliman's Greenport office — a pairing that brings a working knowledge of historic North Fork properties, the Town of Southold's preservation framework, and the families who steward these homes through generations.

Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker
Jill Dunbar

A devoted North Forker for more than two decades, Jill has been a top producer on the North Fork for many years at Douglas Elliman. Her specialty, as she puts it, is "putting people and properties together" — a phrase carried over from an earlier life as a bookseller.

In 1978, Jill co-founded Three Lives & Company in Greenwich Village — still one of New York City's most beloved independent bookstores — and ran it for twenty-three years before the natural beauty of the North Fork drew her east.

Office
631.333.4058
Mobile
631.278.5324
Address
124 Front Street, Greenport, NY 11944
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Licensed Real Estate Salesperson
Alexander Aquino

Alexander represents historic and waterfront properties across the North and South Forks of Long Island from Douglas Elliman's Greenport office. He is regularly quoted in regional coverage of the North Fork market — including Douglas Elliman's own feature on the area as an emerging property destination.

His practice focuses on the kind of property where due-diligence and storytelling matter equally: landmark-listed homes, multi-generation estates, and properties where the chain of title is part of the value.

Mobile
631.902.7351
Email
alexanderfranklinaquino@gmail.com
Address
124 Front Street, Greenport, NY 11944
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