Building date: About 1833
Original use: Residence
Corner structures: Untooled.
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
Structures with similar masonry details: Arc-6 Hicks
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°05'48.47"N 77°07'02.80"W. Current owner of record, Gee as of the 2023 Tax Roll.
Town of Arcadia and Wayne County Maps
This house at 2467 Parker Road may be one of the oldest cobblestone houses in Wayne County. It was built about 1833 for the Rev. Preston Parker. Four generations of the Parker family live here. It originally had 14 rooms. There was a meeting room on the second floor where religious services were held for a group known as the "Parker Neighborhood". Later this became East Palmyra Methodist Church. Richard Palmer blog.
The cobblestone house [originally had] 14 rooms, however, [today] the cobblestone house itself only has 11 rooms plus a basement. The other rooms [were] included the wood addition that my great grandfather and his wife lived in. However, it was torn down in 1952 when he passed away. Courtesy Kenneth Parker email 27JAN2024.
A xerox copy of the original deed dated November 1, 1833 and filed Ontario County, New York and recorded on January 9, 1834 NY for 72 1/2 acres of land for $365, plus barter farm crops. The back of the deed states it was recorded in liber 13, of Deeds at folio 554 by Collen Foster, Town Clerk. For several years my grandmother had the original deed in a frame on her living room wall. She made copies for all my family and cousins on a post office xerox machine. However, when she passed away we could not find the original. Kenneth Parker email 25JAN2024.
"The North Seventy two and one half acres of lot number 43, north of Mud Creeks in Township number twelve in the first range of Townships, and bounded as follows, on the east, west and north, by the respective east, west and north boundary lines of said lines of said lot, and on the south by a line to be run parallel with the north line of said lot, and sofar south of the same as to contain the said quantity of seventy two and one half acres of land and no more."Transcription of the hand written description of the property boundaries in the 1833 deed.
Reverend Preston R. Parker History.
History of the Parker Farm. Attribution not provided.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Parker House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 19, 32, 48 and 49. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
Houses and the People Who Lived in Them, The Cobblestone Story, The Annals of Arcadia, by Cecilia B. Jackson 1984, pages 45 and 46.
Old cobblestone house in family 150 years. By Cecilia B. Jackson, Town Historian, No. 58 in a series of articles on old homes in the Newark area, 1978, reprinted in 2021. Provided by owner Kenneth Parker email 25JAN2024.
The Parker Home. Attribution not provided. Provided by Kenneth Parker email 25JAN2024.
Tour of Historic Homes, 10/25/1999, #5 The Parker Homestead, 2467 Parker Road, pages 12-13, sponsored by the Arcadia Historical Society, Newark, NY. Courtesy Kenneth Parker email 21JAN2024.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Parker House
- Page 156
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¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
