A TRUE TEAM-EFFORT-OF-OWNERSHIP GREENPORT BRIX & RYE BAR IS TRULY ABLE TO LITERALLY “KEEP ON SHINING” – THAT PAIR HAS A “SIGN FROM THE FORMER TIMES"
BY DANNY McCARTHY
Partners Evan Bucholz and Matthew Michel joined together to organize something where they “mind their business” & that business is Brix & Rye Bar located in Greenport Village, NY.
????This establishment began August 2014 down below in the basement of the Greenport located Stirling Square.
????Brix & Rye Bar patrons are able to “be above the bar” {“so to speak”} as their eyes have been known to focus directly upon some beautiful framed items.
????One such “well-framed” “now a novelty” is a former sign from the Southold New York General Wayne Inn.
????It’s such a draw for righteous attention from customers and that does seem to be just what thirty-year-olds Evan Bucholz and Matthew Michel dreamed about when they were able to obtain it from a friend. It a “sign of the times” {as I say} and deserves attention.
????Evan Bucholz also “serves” as Brix & Rye bartender and has garnered such a sensationally respectable master-craft of delving right into the true assemblage{s} of a cocktail{s}.
????I met Matthew Michel at a?Dandelion Festival?and his home-made?dandelion-added pizza?was truly, truly sensational! It was terrific to be handed a postcard highlighting his other business that he owns: Rolling in Dough/1943 Pizza Bar.
????Brix & Rye is located at: 308A Main St, Greenport, NY 11944.
????Rolling in Dough/1943 Pizza Bar street address is: 308 Main St, Greenport, NY 11944.
My birthday is August 12 and was I so honored to definitely take note to catch that there was an August 12, 2010 edition that is placed on board the Suffolk Historic Newspapers website - there was “something so relevant to this” in that issue. I was able to repeat realizing that “everything and everyone connects {!}”:
????You see – There was a “Great Chefs Dinner held at the Hayground School in Bridgehampton” on Sunday, August 8th {2010}.”
????Hayground School was founded in 1996. For six years, the “Great Chefs Dinner” was held as honor and a tribute to Jeff Salaway who had passed away on Labor Day, Monday, September 2001, after a horrific car accident at the age of 46. Jeff Salaway had been the owner along with his wife Toni Ross of Nick & Toni’s which they first opened in 1988 in East Hampton.
????According to that August 12, 2010 article, “The Great Chefs Dinner {began} six years {prior} in honor of the late Jeff Salaway, {and} the original mission of the charity event was to build a kitchen for the students at the school. The kitchen {had} been built and a {slow-food} greenhouse {had} been added, {and} so much of the benefit proceeds {afterwards then would} go toward the {school’s} scholarship fund.”
????“Some notable additions to the event were{:} … John and Betsy Liegey of Greenport Harbor Brewery serving their Light Summer and Harbor ales, and the only fellow with a line waiting for his sublimes pies, {was} Matt Michel of Rolling in Dough Pizza, based in Greenport, cooking from his traveling wood-burning pizza oven built into a 1943 International Harvester.”
????The Peconic Bay Shopper dated August 2014 carried my joint-article regarding the Reydon Country Club, the Cedar Beach Inn, & the General Wayne Inn. I cannot supply the link of that edition since there were some Southold Historical Society-related original pages of my article in that issue and Southold Historical Society actually does not wish their photos exchanged online!
What I will do here is place my original article version in word document form:
There’s No Room in the Inn! The House Is Not a Home!
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By Dan McCarthy
Reydon is a village in England about two miles distant from Southwold, where many of the original settling families of Southold hailed from. The name Reydon is a conjunction of two words – “Rey” being “rye” and “don” as being “hill.” Reydon is linked with Southwold and Reverend John Youngs, the first pastor of Southold. He was connected in some way with the parish church of St. Margaret’s in Reydon, Suffolk County, England. It is that county which provided the name for the one in New York State, which was created in 1683. There are two locales in Southold located in Bayview named after Reydon, England. The first is Reydon Shores and the second is Reydon Heights, both located north of Main Bayview Road.
????It was in this area that the Reydon Country Club opened in 1924. The club was the brainchild of Edwin H. Brown, a successful golf developer from western Long Island. The organizers of the club were: Theodore W. Brigham, Edwin H. Brown, Charles B. Brown, Frank G. Carter, John B. Coleman, Silas A. H. Dayton, Charles W. Elmer, Ferris L. Francisco, Daniel D. Jackson, John S. Jenkins, E. L’Hommedieu McGinnis, and Edward Mills.
????Many different parcels of the property were assembled to create the club, including one on the east side of Cedar Beach Road where Main Bayview Road intersects it. It was here that the clubhouse for the golf course was planned. An old home – originally erected for Major Gilbert Horton around 1784 which was by 1884 operating as a hotel – became the nucleus of the clubhouse. However, when it was getting close to completion a more attractive and better situated piece of property came up for sale further west and a new clubhouse was built at that location instead.
????The Cedar Beach Road property was instead used as a restaurant afterwards and would be known first as the Cedar Beach Inn and then later as the General Wayne Inn. The Reydon Country Club itself was a victim of the Great Depression, and went bankrupt in 1939. However, it seems that the club did remain open during the 1940s until it was finally developed for housing between 1949 and 1956.
????The Cedar Beach Inn continued on as a separate entity, serving as a location for Rum Runners to land during prohibition and as a popular dining spot on the East End of Long Island. The name change to the General Wayne Inn occurred in 1965 when Tony Snyder took over the restaurant.
????It was named after Revolutionary War hero Anthony Wayne who died in 1796 (You can also check the publication Hotels & Inns of Southold Town by Geoffrey K. Fleming and Amy Kasuga Folk for related information).
????Anthony Wayne was referred to as “Mad” Anthony. It could have been due to the fact that he was “hot-headed” or because of his attitude. His battle ability was always in the forefront. A story states that under President George Washington he was chosen to lead a mission in Stony Point, New York, that everyone thought was doomed to fail, but due to his abilities, it became a resounding success. For someone of his fame, it is strange that Major General “Mad” Anthony Wayne is supposedly buried in two locations. Was he buried in Erie, Pennsylvania or Radnor, Pennsylvania? We may never know.
????Just three years later, in 1968, it was taken over from Tony Snyder by Herb McCarthy. McCarthy was the well-known proprietor of the Bowden Square restaurant, located in downtown in Southampton. Victor Farinha Jr. owned the building for 17 years in the 1980s and 1990s.
????According to Jeff Miller in his 1998 Suffolk Times article, Vince Rossi of West Babylon was joined by his partner Christine Larsen in acquiring the Inn that year. Rossi was attracted to the “glorious, colorful past” of the inn and wanted to become known as “the man who restored the General Wayne Inn.” An Executive Chef named Robert Corbett who was known for his “endless repertoire” was to be on hand to prepare varieties of many succulent and delicious foods.
????Rossi also planned to offer live music on different days of the week. Among the music offered would be Broadway show tunes, Dixieland, Big Band, and more. The possibility of adding buffet service was also being planned so that there could be “a day for firemen, vintners, antique collectors, and so on.” In addition, there were plans to install a “75-foot glass-top piano, a restored sleigh, and a 1902 Coachman Buggy” inside the restaurant.
????In 1998, the business closed despite Vince Rossi’s dream. The building stayed vacant as the years progressed, and the building continued to fall into disrepair. But no action was taken. The building was foreclosed on eventually, and though many ideas were discussed, a stable owner with enough money to restore the building was never found.
????According to Cyndi Murray in her September 5, 2013 Suffolk Times article, “Earlier this year {2013}, the Town Board declared the historic inn ‘unsafe and dangerous to the public in its current state.’” Southold Supervisor Scott Russell confirmed in early September that there were new owners of the General Wayne Inn, “whose names have not yet been made public.” He announced that they were, in fact, actually neighbors of the foreclosed property and that their goal was “to demolish the building and preserve the land as open space” for the benefit of the community. The inn was demolished a few months later in early 2014.
JUST-FOR-SAKE-OF-IT:
https://academyprintingservices.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/PBS_AugPg1-11.21875654.pdf
https://academyprintingservices.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/PBS_AugPg1-11.21875654.pdf
????As former Southold Historical Society director Geoffrey K. Fleming reminded us in his March 25, 2014 Newsday spot about the Southold General Wayne Inn, “In the end, the building came down.” ????It is a great shame that more is not done to preserve our historic buildings!
Academy Printing Services Co-Owner Mike Hagerman placed this following announcement at the end of my article that appeared in The Peconic Bay Shopper dated August 2014:
{Editor’s Note: Having been to the General Wayne Inn for a high school reunion, a wedding and Southold Kiwanis Club functions, we were sad to see the building raised. Dan’s article helps preserve it in our records. (Southold Kiwanis Club was dissolved.}
Just for the sake of it – below is something that is so definitely “not that far from a missing link” regarding Southold Kiwanis Club:
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5 年Dan, I love it! I'd love to be a part of it. If there is anything I could do. Best, John Strangi?