Building date: 1844
Original use:
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Mortar application and content: Horizontal rounded. Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids
Types and uses of stones: Small red
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Google Maps street level view is not available from Old State Road or blocked by vegetation from Earl's Hill Road. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°45'27.68"N 76°58'41.98"W. Current owner of record, Bostrom as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Benton and Yates County Maps.
Jephthah Earl House at 100 Old State Road (just off Route 14) was built in 1844 of washed cobblestones hauled 45 miles from near Sodus Point on a stone boat. Some alterations have been made over the years. Richard Palmer blog.
"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 22.
Realtor Realtor Ad Advertisement. Date and attribution not provided.
"Stately Cobblestone Home Commands Panoramic View", by Mildred Jennings, Geneva Daily Times, 9/14/1954.
"Historic Yates Area Homes", Geneva Daily Times, Monday, February 2, 1955.
"Permanent File of Cobblestone Structures".
"Gateways To Cobblestone Houses of Yates County", by Crooked Lake Yorkers, Penn Yan Academy, pages 3 and 4, 1967.
"A Brief History of Cobblestone Architecture in Yates County, New York", By Richard F. Palmer
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Earl - Boener - Abbot House 8th Annual 06/15/1968"Cobblestone buffs visit historic homes in Geneva-Penn Yan area", Syracuse Herald-American, 6/16/1968.
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National Register of Historic Places Registration
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Earl - Boerner House
- Page 206
- "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, Earl House
- Pages 138 - 139
- Editor's Note: Provided address is Route 14, whereas the correct address is 100 Old State Road at Earl's Hill Road.
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 160, 161. Yates County, Earl-MacGlashan House, and 180. Porch:, Earl-MacGlashan House.
- Editor's Note: Provided address is Route 14, whereas the correct address is 100 Old State Road at Earl's Hill Road.
 Ben-1 Abbott 8.jpg ¹ 1876 |  Earl closeup.jpg ¹ Earl House, 1876 |  historyofyatesco00aldr_0_0389.jpg ² |  Ben-1 Abbott 3.jpg ³ Charles Hopkins 1934 |
 Ben-1 Abbott 2.jpg ³ Pease Collection 1940-41 |  Ben-1 Abbott 4.jpg ³ Pease Collection 1940-41 |  Ben-1 Abbott 5.jpg ³ |  Ben-1 Abbott 6.jpg ³ |
 Ben-1 Abbott 7.jpg ³ Deteriorating instant print photograph with un-retouchable vertical streaks. |  GP Yates Benton Ben-1 1-1 N.jpg 4 |  GP Yates Benton Ben-1 2-1 P.jpg 4 |  GP Yates Benton Ben-1 3-1 P.jpg 4 |
 GP Yates Benton Ben-1 4-1 N.jpg 4 |  Yat_1_1.jpg |  Yat_1_2.jpg |  Yat_1_3.jpg |
 Yat_1_4.jpg |  Yat_1_5.jpg |  Yat_1_6.jpg |  Yat_1_7.jpg |
 Yat_1_8.jpg |  Ben-1 100 Old State Rd 1.jpg 5 |  Ben-1 100 Old State Rd 2.jpg 5 |  Ben-1 100 Old State Rd 3.jpg 5 |
 Ben-1 100 Old State Rd 4.jpg 5 |  Earl House 2.jpg 6 |  IMG_1311.jpg 6 |
¹ Old prints from Combination Atlas Map of Yates County, N.Y. Everts, Ensign & Everts, Philadelphia, Pa., 1876, page 25.
² History of Yates County, N.Y., D. Mason & Co., Syracuse, N.Y. 1892, illustration page following page 354.
³ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
4 Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
5 Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
6 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
