In the mid 1920s Konstanty and Adela (Lipnicka) Cichanowicz (both born in Poland) bought the 35-acre farm consisting of the Little Hallock House east of the current Cich farm garage, the circa 1832 Isaiah Hallock barn and various outbuildings. Konstanty and Adela married in Glen Head, LI in 1912 and started their family in Glen Cove. They moved to Mattituck c. 1920 to work as a farm laborer.
Circa 1931, Konstanty hired two brothers named Zucaski who lived on Oregon Road to build the current house on the footprint of the …show more content…
Only the parish priest and the undertaker used the front door. From the original shingles on the inside wall, this small room was added after original construction. It may have been an open porch in the original design. It appears in pictures from the early 1940s and was probably an early addition to keep the cold winter wind blowing off the Sound from coming directly into the kitchen. When the family was called in from the fields for meals, this room was a place to wash up and leave their muddy boots.
Unlike the Hallock homestead that contains many original furnishings and artifacts from the Hallock family, few remain from the Cichanowicz family. This house has been restored and furnished with items appropriate to a Depression-era farmhouse of this area. A canning jar used by Adela is displayed in the entryway.
Visitors, as they go through the house, may want to think about how this house that belonged to first-generation Polish immigrants differed from the homes of neighboring farmers whose families had been on the North Fork for many generations. Other than a few religious symbols, the differences were probably very