About the Property

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 and the North Fork of Long Island transform from a colonial breadbasket into one of the most beautiful coastal landscapes on the eastern seaboard — and survives today as a three-bedroom, 3,200-square-foot farmhouse on half an acre of established gardens, recognized by the Town of Southold as Reeve-Pim House, MK-84.

A circa-1760 farmhouse, updated over the years while keeping its historic character — original wide-plank wood floors, exposed beams, period detail, and six working fireplaces, including one in each of the three bedrooms. The first floor holds two kitchens — one with a gas cooktop and the original, working brick beehive oven — plus a den, living room, formal dining room, a sunlit butler's pantry and wet bar, a half bath, and a brand-new 4-zone furnace and hot-water heater.

Upstairs, three spacious bedrooms each with their own fireplace — the primary with an expansive walk-in closet — and two full baths; above them, two finished third-floor bonus rooms and a walk-up attic. Outside: landscaped grounds and gardens, two stone patios, mature trees, a two-story carriage house ready as a studio, workshop or garage, and ample room for an in-ground pool among the established plantings.

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.

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. Tap the diagram to enlarge.

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Imagine It Yours

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

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.

Era Two

The Revolutionary War & British Occupation, 1775–1783

1775 — 1783 · 5 milestones

Still pre-photographic. What survives from this era are written records — militia rolls, refugee petitions, and town minutes — preserved in Southold and Connecticut archives.

1776

War reaches the North Fork.

Following the Battle of Long Island, British forces occupy Southold. Fertile farms — including the Reeve holdings — are turned into a "breadbasket" to supply troops based in New York City.

1776–80

Refugees & divided loyalties.

Nearly half of Southold's residents flee across Long Island Sound to Connecticut as "refugees of 1776." Members of the extended Reeve family appear on militia rolls and refugee petitions, while other relatives likely remain on the Mattituck farm to safeguard the homestead.

1776–83

Mattituck under military rule.

British troops are stationed in and around Mattituck; the hamlet serves as an administrative hub. The Reeve farm lies within this occupied zone, its fields and livestock subject to requisition and patrols.

1776–83

The creeks as lifelines.

Mattituck Creek and nearby inlets become covert crossing points between Patriot Connecticut and occupied Long Island. Goods and people move along the same shoreline that frames the wider Reeve estate today.

1783

Peace, & a return.

With the war's end, refugees return to find farms strained by debt and wartime damage. The Reeve property endures through this upheaval, remaining in family hands and continuing as a working North Fork farm.

Era Three

19th Century — Farming, Faith & Freedom

1783 — 1858 · 4 milestones · 1 historic record

1858 map of Mattituck showing Reeve family parcels — 1858 — Mattituck Cadastral Map · Reeve parcels along Reeve Avenue

1783–1813

Slavery & a path to freedom.

Like many large Long Island farms, Reeve-held lands rely in part on enslaved labor. In 1813, Elymus (Limas) Reeve — born enslaved in Southold Town — is formally manumitted, his freedom recorded in town documents.

1810s–70

Elymus Reeve, farmer & community leader.

After manumission, Elymus establishes his own farm along Main Road in Mattituck and becomes a respected farmer and lay religious leader. His son, Reverend John B. Reeve, later becomes a professor at Howard University. A New York State historic marker on Main Road today commemorates this chapter.

Mid-1800s

The village grows around the farm.

Mills, shops and homes begin to cluster around Main Road and Mattituck Creek. Through it all, the Reeve farms remain reference points in local descriptions — evidence of their enduring size and importance.

1858

The Mattituck map is published.

An 1858 map of Mattituck — included in the historic record below — clearly identifies multiple Reeve parcels along what is now Reeve Avenue, including the property on which 750 Reeve Avenue stands.

Era Four

Subdivision, Preservation & the Modern Home

Late 1800s — Today · 4 milestones · 9 historic photographs

The Reeve-Pim house in winter, early 1900s — Early 1900s — The homestead in winter, twin chimneys and field

House with vintage automobile, c.1920s–30s — c.1920s — A neighboring period home with early automobile

The homestead with vintage car, c.1930s — c.1930s — The house with twin brick chimneys

The homestead from rear, early 1900s — Early 1900s — Rear elevation with covered porch

The house with flowering hedges, mid-1900s — Mid-1900s — In bloom, hedges along the front

A neighboring c.1900 saltbox homestead in Mattituck — c.1900 — A nearby Mattituck saltbox of the same era

Vintage Long Island promotional booklet — Long Island, vintage tourism booklet

The front facade in the 1990s — 1990s — The front facade, largely unchanged

Restoration of east-wall shingles, 2007–2008 — 2007–08 — Hand restoration of the east-wall shingles

Late 1800s

From great farm to village neighborhood.

As transportation improves and tourism grows, large estates on the North Fork slowly subdivide. Portions of the historic Reeve farm become smaller homesteads along what will be known as Reeve Avenue, while core agricultural parcels remain in cultivation.

1906

History captured in print.

Rev. Charles E. Craven publishes A History of Mattituck, Long Island, N.Y., noting that six generations of James Reeve's descendants have retained most of the original "great farm." The book preserves the memory of the Reeve estate and its central place in the hamlet.

Late 20th c.

Recognized as a landmark.

Southold's historic preservation efforts identify the Reeve-Pim House on Reeve Avenue as a significant 18th-century dwelling tied to one of the town's founding families. The property is formally inventoried by the Town of Southold Landmarks Preservation Commission as MK-84.

2020s

Honoring the Reeve story.

A New York State historic marker on Main Road commemorates Elymus Reeve, while local records recognize 750 Reeve Avenue as a circa-1760 home set within the original Reeve family estate at Mattituck — where centuries of North Fork history converge on a single property.

1858 map of Mattituck showing Reeve family parcels along Reeve Avenue — 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 today — **Today** · 2026

Address	Hamlet	Built	BR / BA	Sq Ft	Sale Price	Status
750 Reeve Avenue	Mattituck	c.1760	3 / 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

A surviving piece of colonial America.

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

Floorboards as wide as a man's stride.

The house is three buildings that learned to live together.

2,916 square feet across three floors.

1,517 sq ft

1,018 sq ft

351 sq ft

Living spaces.

Three bedrooms, three fireplaces.

Half an acre, well-established.

The same rooms, reimagined.

The Primary Bedroom

The Beamed Living Room

The Formal Parlor

The Brick-Chimney Bedroom

The Sun-Lit Parlor

The Double Sitting Room

The Guest Bedroom

The Floral Bedroom

The Upper Bedroom

The Loft Bedroom