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Corner structures: Gray limestone and red sandstone
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy
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Types and choice of windows: Brick, length vertical lintels
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°15'06.98"N 77°52'45.24"W. Current owner of record, Gargan as of the 2018 Tax Roll.
Town of Clarkson and Monroe County Maps
R.E. Summerhays, 2892 Sweden-Walker Rd. This is a large 2-story L-shaped house. The front faces west and on the east side there is an entrance to the basement. It appears to be in good condition. Roudabush Survey page 66
"Some Old Houses of Monroe County - Town of Clarkson". Old David Moore House, compiled by Miss Helen M. Hastings, c. 1930's, Monroe Chapter D.A.R., Brockport New York. Original draft version from Helen Hasting's notebook with handwritten edits and comments. Courtesy Emily L. Knapp Museum and Library of Local History.
Miss Hastings (1871-1953) was a keen amateur historian, and a great niece of William Seymour, a key participant in the reaper industry, manufacturing the horse drawn farm implements in Brockport. NY, ca. 1840s-1880s. She wrote a number of articles about the history of the Brockport, NY area, and was a talented artist and illustrator ca. 1987-1904 whose large portfolio of art work was unknown until discovered in January of 2016 by the Emily L. Knapp Museum and Library of Local History.
"The Cobblestone Houses of Upstate New York", compiled by Dorothy Wells Pease 1941. Research done in collaboration with Hazed B. Jeffery, supplemented with material furnished by Carl F. Schmidt. Reference the seventh paragraph on page 4.
This house, built well back from the road could avoid the mud and dust of the nineteenth century dirt road.
David Moore, the son of the first pioneers in the neighborhood, was the first owner of the cobblestone house. The owners lived in a log cabin, which stood behind the present house, until the cobblestone structure was complete. David had four sons and six daughters.
During the Civil War he made a long journey south to Gettysburg to return the bodies of two sons and two nephews killed in that battle. The house faces the spot across the road where they were buried. A succession of Moore family descendants later owned the property.
The present owners, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Summerhays purchased the property from Mrs Louis Cowen who told them the interesting story of the odd shaped rock in the yard believed to be a meteorite. One summer evening in the mid nineteenth century about 9 PM a meteorite flashed into the cornfield across the road. The green corn was burned to cinders for a radius ten feet around. Later the stone was dragged up to the house where it now rests beside the driveway. It has never been authenticated.
Hand written notes for the planned Seventh Annual Cobblestone Tour 06/10/1967, Eastern Orleans and Western Monroe Counties. This home was not included in the tour.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Spencer Family House 19th Annual 06/09/1979
¹ Photography courtesy Miss Helen M. Hastings.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
