Building date: 1840
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Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment. Vertical pyramids
Types and uses of stones: Irregular rough
Types and choice of windows: Lintels gray cut stone
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°10'50.82"N 77°09'25.00"W. Current owner of record, Williams as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Marion and Wayne County Maps
"The Cobblestone Houses of Upstate New York", compiled by Dorothy Wells Pease. Research done in collaboration with Hazed B. Jeffery, supplemented with material furnished by Carl F. Schmidt, 1941. Reference the eleventh paragraph on page 37.
"A note that is of interest: the Congdon House on the Marion-East Williamson Road, now owned by Ida Schultz, tradition says, was a station of the Underground Railroad. It has a Dutch oven and a large fireplace in the center of the house. There is a concealed cupboard near the fireplace big enough to hold a person, where it is said slaves were hidden until they could be conveyed to the next station." "Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County", Verlyn E. Klahn, Newark Courier-Gazette, December 22, 1955.
This house is at 4778 Marion-East Williamson Road just south of White Road. This is known as the Congdon house as at one time it was owned by Lyman Congdon whose family was involved in the founding of Lima Seminary. Tradition says it was a station on the Underground Railroad. There is a concealed area near the fireplace large enough to house a person. But these Underground Railroad stories are apocryphal. Glass in the windows of the kitchen and living room are hand blown. It is constructed of multi-colored fieldstones. Richard Palmer blog.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Mrs. Stanley Richmond House 10th Annual 06/06/1970
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Welch House
- Page 169
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 130. Wayne County, Richmond House. This structure is not included in the subsequent book "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978.
 GP Wayne Marion Mar-16 1-1 P.jpg ¹ August 1971 |  Mar_16_1.jpg |  Mar_16_2.jpg |  Mar_16_3.jpg |
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 IMG_4209.jpg 5 School house as it appeared c. March 2018. |  IMG_4208.jpg 5 Herringbone design is evident on the building. |
¹ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Gene Bavis.
5 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
