Building date: Destroyed by fire September 1965
Original use: Cobblestone hop kiln
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Map views courtesy Google Maps street level view. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°54'39.87"N 75°34'54.28"W. Current owner of record, Robbins as of the 2022 Tax Roll.
Town of Eaton and Madison County 1977 Highway Maps
"The Cobblestone Houses of Western New York" page 21 Figure 24 caption, by Richard "Dick" H. Backus (1922-2012), January 1947. A paper written for a class in the Department of Art, Dartmouth College. A copy of the original paper was returned to Mr. Backus June 12, 1963 by Hugh Morrison of the Art Department. The paper was forwarded on March 16, 2026 to the Cobblestone Museum by Carol and Steve Mackintosh who had received it from an unnamed neighbor who was downsizing. The existence and location of the original paper is unknown. Editor's Note: This is the only known structure in the vicinity noted by Richard Backus that would have appeared to be a silo as seen from the road.
A fire last week destroyed the barn and the cobblestone hop kiln at right on the James Nourse farm at 3877 Bear Path Rd., north of Pine Woods on Route 46. Thanks to the efforts the Morrisville Fire Department damage was restricted to the two structures mentioned but the fine old building is in a sad state at present. Thus we're glad we thought to take this picture last spring when all was as it should be. Mid-York Weekly, September 23, 1965.
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