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Corner structures: Red sandstone
Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment
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Types and choice of windows: Red stone, solid lintels
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°14'15.99"N 77°56'36.12"W. Current owner of record, Duff as of the 2018 Tax Roll.
Town of Clarkson and Monroe County Maps
"Old Houses of Monroe County", Town of Clarkson, Old Bellinger House, compiled by Miss Helen M. Hastings, 1938, Monroe Chapter D.A.R., Brockport New York. Courtesy Cobblestone Museum. 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 ninth paragraph on page 4.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Merrell House 7th Annual 06/10/1967, Mr. & Mrs. Nat W. Merrell House 19th Annual 06/09/1979
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Bowman - Merrell House
- Page 46
¹ Photography courtesy Miss Helen M. Hastings.
² Photography by Elizabeth Nibbelink, courtesy of the Emily L. Knapp Museum and Library of Local History.
³ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
4 Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
5 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
