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Corner structures: Quoins are square cut gray limestone. Tooled
Mortar application and content: Horizontal rounded. Vertical, slight embellishment. Vertical pyramids. Horizontal mortar is rounded, while the vertical is raised and has pyramids cut off at the bottom. One can find areas where the verticals are only slightly raised.
Types and uses of stones: Small red. Stones are red sandstone, lake washed and are fairly uniform in size. A few gray or mixed red and gray stones have been used.
Types and choice of windows: Lintels are square cut gray limestone
Structures with similar masonry details: Arc-3 Stuart
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°01'40.30"N 77°06'52.08"W. Current owner of record, Acquista as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Arcadia and Wayne County Maps
This one and one-half story house at 5598 Pardy-Smith Rd. has dormers added to the top floor. The quoins and lintels are square cut gray limestone. Stones are red sandstone, lake washed and are fairly uniform in size. A few gray or mixed red and gray stones have been used. Horizontal mortar is rounded, while the vertical is raised and has pyramids cut off at the bottom. One can find areas where the verticals are only slightly raised. Roudabush Survey page 108
"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 ninth paragraph on page 27.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Philip Rogers House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 54 and 55. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
House and rear wing connected by long roof (not a lean to). Gerda Peterich hand written notes. Cobblestone Museum.
Original and subsequent owners: Original owner unknown; Subsequent owner(s)?; 1921 Sold to Jackson and Perkins Company by Cornelius Finewood; 1951 Sold to Jean C. and Philip H. Rogers Jr.; Date unknown Carol Rogers Acquista.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house
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Additional xerography copy images. Attribution not provided.
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
