Building date: Mid 1830s, abandoned circa 1977-1978, demolished 1987-88.
Original use: Combination house & Post Office, later residence.
Corner structures: Tooled
Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment
Types and uses of stones: Decoration by stone color
Types and choice of windows: Lintels wood
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building: Thomas Robinson
Unique features:
Courtesy Google Maps
Google Maps street level view of approximate area where this structure would have stood. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°11'21.89"N 76°47'48.42"W.
Town of Butler and Wayne County Maps
"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 fourth paragraph on page 40.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Soule-Youngman House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 74 and 75. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
Joseph Watson House history sheet. From the personal research of cobblestone historian Karen Crandall.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Soule - Youngman House
- Page 157
 1853 Wayne County But-2 Excerpt Map.jpg ¹ |  But_2_1.jpg |  But_2_2.jpg |  But_2_3.jpg |
 But_2_4.jpg |  But-2 Soule-Youngman 1.jpg ² |
¹ 1853 Wayne County Was-13 Excerpt Map courtesy Library of Congress.
² Image provided by Jim and Ruth Chatfield, courtesy Karen Crandall.
