Building date: ca. 1850
Original use:
Corner structures: Variable
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy
Types and uses of stones: Fieldstones
Types and choice of windows: Wood lintels
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is GIS Database and Google Earth confirmed; 43°10'03.43"N 76°34'37.26"W. Current owner of record, Fellows as of date (YMD) 190304.
Town of Cato and Cayuga County Maps
The following are modifications of Schmidt's descriptions, made from observations of photographs. Quoins are variable. Stones in the front wall are in 4-5 rows per quoin. On the left end, stones are in 4-6 rows per quoin and the vertical mortar is heavier. The right end has 3-4 rows per quoin. Roudabush Survey page 46.
"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 tenth paragraph on page 40.
Built by Dr. Parker. Stone from Oswego, front lake washed layers horizontally. Before 1900 converted to two apartments. Notations included with Gerda Peterich photograph below.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Fellows House
- Pages 17 - 18
- "Cayugas Cobblestones", by Ward O'Hara 1991
- Page 15
¹ Image courtesy Gerda Peterich.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
