Building date: 1840
Original use: Schoolhouse
Corner structures: Blue stone (gray sandstone)
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical, thin rounded
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Types and choice of windows: Lintels blue stone (gray sandstone)
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Poor quality, street level, very overgrown view Sep 2007 from Middlebury Rd. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°50'54.58"N 78°04'22.46"W. Current owner of record, Willequer as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Covington and Wyoming County Maps
This house at 716 Starr Road, Covington, was built between 1830 and 1835 by Joel Harrison. In 1836 he moved to Murray, Orleans County and sold it to James C. Ferris. It was in the Miller family from 1865 and 1922 and has seen extensive alterations over the years. Richard Palmer blog.
"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 first complete paragraph on page 13.
"Genealogies of the Covington Cobblestone Houses", by Doris A. Bannister, Historical Wyoming, Vol. 61 No. 1, July 2014, pages 23-28. Copyright permission granted 10/24/2022.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Coefield House
- Page 203
Editor's Note: Schmidt states that the structure is at the corner of W. Middlebury and Eastman Road. Eastman Road does not exist on the current map. The structure is at the west corner of W. Middlebury Road Rt. 52 and Starr Road Rt. 39.
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¹ Photography courtesy John Vrooman
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
4 Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
5 Photography courtesy Larry Warren, Councilman Town of Covington.
6 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
