Mar-9, Means, 4513 Eddy Ridge Rd.

    Documentation

    Building date: 1930

    Original use:

    Corner structures:

    Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy

    Types and uses of stones: Irregular rough

    Types and choice of windows: Lintels gray cut stone

    Structures with similar masonry details: Mar-7 Boerman

    Masons who worked on building:

    Unique features: Late Greek with entrance porch. Gerda Peterich

    Map Location

    Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°09'59.81"N 77°12'25.45"W. Current owner of record, Skidmore as of the 2019 Tax Roll.

    Town of Marion and Wayne County Maps

    Editor's Note: The Roudabush Survey number 9 map location for this structure was incorrectly marked too far north on Eddy Ridge Road. The Cobblestone Info Base map has been corrected. New location confirmed by comparing 1853 Wayne County Map with Google Maps satellite view and street level view.

    Comments, Additional Information, References

    "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 sixth paragraph on page 36.

    Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house

    The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:

    David and Susan Means, Marion Homes Tour 12th Marion Heritage Festival 09/10/1988.

    "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Eddy - Smith House
    Page 166

    Photographs

    Residence of John Smith
    Residence of John Smith.jpg ¹ 1877 John Smith Jr. biography
    1853 Wayne County Mar-9 Excerpt Map
    1853 Wayne County Mar-9 Excerpt Map.jpg ²
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    Mar-9 Means 1
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    Mar-9 4513 Eddy Ridge Rd 1
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    Mar-9 4513 Eddy Ridge Rd 2
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    ¹ Documentation courtesy "History of Wayne County New York", Everts, Ensign & Everts, Philadelphia 1877, page preceding 125 and on page 128.
    ² 1853 Wayne County NY Map courtesy Library of Congress.
    ³ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
    4 Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
    5 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.

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