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Corner structures: Rough cut gray limestone quoins.
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids. Vertical mortar is raised into pyramids which originate below the upper horizontal and are cut off when the lower horizontal is intersected. Some stones interrupt the lower horizontal mortar and protrude through it.
Types and uses of stones: Stones are smoothed and are variable in size, shape and color.
Types and choice of windows: Window lintels are cut limestone blocks arranged in flat arches.
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°11'55.54"N 77°11'20.19"W. Current owner of record, Catchpole as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Marion and Wayne County Maps
The one and one-half story house at 5445 Route 21 has rough cut gray limestone quoins. Window lintels are cut limestone blocks arranged in flat arches. Stones are arranged four courses to a quoin on both the front and side walls. Stones are smoothed and are variable in size, shape and color. Vertical mortar is raised into pyramids which originate below the upper horizontal and are cut off when the lower horizontal is intersected. Some stones interrupt the lower horizontal mortar and protrude through it. Roudabush Survey page 110
"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 fifth paragraph on page 37.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house
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¹ Documentation courtesy "History of Wayne County New York", Everts, Ensign & Everts, Philadelphia 1877, page following 126 and on page 128.
² 1853 Wayne County Mar-20 Excerpt Map courtesy Library of Congress.
³ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
4 Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
5 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
