One of the four windmill arms at the historic Pantigo Mill, behind the Home, Sweet Home Museum, fell off in Thursday's storm.
The broken arm was first discovered by the Rev. Benjamin Shambaugh of St. Luke's Episcopal Church on his morning walk Friday.
Dave Collins, the superintendent for public works for the village, said there was no timeline for repair. "We're in contact with a contractor who is working on a windmill project at Westhampton Beach. He has to complete that project and one in Sag Harbor before he gets to us. It's very specialized work," said Mr. Collins.
The mill was built by Samuel Schellinger for Huntting Miller in 1804, and originally stood at the end of Mill Hill Lane. It was moved two times before being disabled by a storm in 1879, and then purchased by the Buek family, who moved it to its final location.
"Of course we want to fix it immediately," said Mayor Jerry Larsen. "We just don't know what immediately means."
When sails were accidentally left on the Hook Mill a couple of years ago, a wind gale damaged its arms and it, too, required repair. "My goal since then is to develop a plan to replace the stocks and sails on all the windmills," said Mr. Collins. "Unlike the damage to the Hook Mill, this is not something we can just repair and stick it back up. A whole new stock has to be rebuilt."
"All the stuff is old-growth wood. It's hard to source."
"When this happened a few years ago, we anticipated this could happen again," said Marcos Baladron, the village administrator. "We contacted Bob Hefner" -- Mr. Hefner is the village's historic district consultant -- "and he recently completed blueprints of the windmills, a set of plans. We didn't have that previously, which was crazy."
