Building date:
Original use:
Corner structures: Regular quoins
Mortar application and content: Coarse gravel mortar. Horizontal and vertical similar, mortar looks square. Mortar is raised in wide vertical stripes between stones. Mortar contains coarse sand, some pieces being about the size of a dime.
Types and uses of stones: Stones are smoothed, but are irregular in shape but fairly uniform in size. There are 5 rows per quoin in the front and 4 rows on the sides.
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Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building: Boyd?
Unique features: One of 3 structures with coarse gravel mortar, all within a radius of about 5 miles from Geneseo. Roudabush Survey page 58.
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Street level view is not available. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°43'36.70"N 77°44'37.64"W. Current owner of record, Lo Turco as of date (YMD) 190416.
Town of Groveland and Livingston County Maps
On Morris Rd., off Maple Beach Rd., there is a two-story cobblestone House with regular quoins. Stones are smoothed, but are irregular in shape but fairly uniform in size. There are 5 rows per quoin in the front and 4 rows on the sides. Mortar is raised in wide vertical stripes between stones. Mortar contains coarse sand, some pieces being about the size of a dime. Roudabush Survey page 56.
Reverse of photograph "Gro-1 Groveland House 1.jpg" below: Mr. & Mrs. Kenyon W. Warner, Kenwar Marples Farm, purchased in 1919 by Warners. Built by Boyd?.
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
