Building date: 1871-72
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°42'55.76"N 81°04'41.18"W.
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This large cobblestone house was built by Isaac Chase, formerly of Farmington, New York in 1871-72 for his nephew, Anasa. It is of the Gothic Cottage design popular in the middle Victorian era. The walls are two feet thick with facing water washed stones, the size and shape of hen's eggs. This area was first settled in the 1820s by Quakers from Pennsylvania. 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 third paragraph on page 43.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Cobblestone House Sparta, Ontario
- Page 228
Editor's Note: Schmidt states that the builder was Isaac Clease, whereas Palmer states the name was Isaac Chase.
¹ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
² Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
