Building date: Ca. 1837
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Corner structures: Smooth, uniformly rectangular
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids. Vertical mortar between stones is depressed below the top horizontal, and cut off at the lower horizontal.
Types and uses of stones: Irregular and only slightly smoothed. The main front has 4 rows of stones per quoin, while the wing contains larger stones laid in 3 courses per quoin.
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°51'48.17"N 77°16'54.90"W. Current owner of record, LoVerde as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
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This house, at 3402 West Lake Rd., is 1½ stories and has smooth, uniformly rectangular quoins. There are two gables on the east side of the upper story. Stones are irregular and only slightly smoothed. The southern wing may have been added at a later date. The main front has 4 rows of stones per quoin, while the wing contains larger stones laid in 3 courses per quoin. The vertical mortar between stones is depressed below the top horizontal, and cut off at the lower horizontal. Roudabush Survey page 84
This attractive home at 3402 West Lake Road, now known as the 1837 Cobblestone Cottage Bed and Breakfast, was built about 1837 in the Italianate style by Isaac Parrish, the son of famed Indian interpreter Jasper Parrish who was the original pilot of the "Lady of the Lake," first steamboat on Canandaigua Lake. The home was purchased in 1858 by Robert and Maggie Gorham Benedict. Tradition has it as a stop on the Underground Railroad, evidenced by a secret room on the second floor. The driveway to the house is circular with cobblestone columns at each end. Cobblestones in wall construction were sorted by size and but not by color, four rows per quoin on the front, three rows per quoin on the south wing. The mortar is "vee'd" in continuous horizontal bands. It is apparent that a tool was used. The front doorway has leaded and beveled windows. The stone front porch was added at a later period.
The house has six original Rumford style fireplaces. The front entrance opens into a large greeting area, living room and dining room. An addition at the back of the house was built as a "honeymoon cottage" in the early 1900s. The "Attic Quilt Suite" is the entire second floor and has a constricted access to the hidden room which is tucked behind a chimney and is constructed of horsehair plaster. Kathleen LoVerde is proprietor. For further information go to: http://www.1837cobblestonecottage.com. Richard Palmer blog.
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
