Building date: About 1828
Original use:
Corner structures: Quoins made with terra cotta colored brick, laid 1½ bricks in length and 3 bricks high.
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy
Types and uses of stones:
Types and choice of windows: Brick, vertical length
Structures with similar masonry details: Pit-5 Garland-Menzie
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°02'12.01"N 77°35'10.07"W. Current owner of record, West as of the 2018 Tax Roll.
Town of Henrietta and Monroe County Maps
[This structure] Hen-7 on Tobin Rd, and Pit-5 on Clover St., are only about 3/4 miles apart, and while the bricks and the manner in which they are laid are similar, the handling of the cobblestones is distinctly different. Roudabush Survey page 17
This house at 255 Tobin Road was built about 1828 and is one of the oldest cobblestone houses in the area. Bricks instead of limestone quoins were use. It was built by a Mr. Matthews. Richard Palmer blog. Editor's Note: Possible contradiction with following documentation.
"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 paragraph on page 16.
Subject #43, pages 32 and 33, "Survey of Cobblestone Masonry in the Rush - Mendon Area", by Richard Burton Wood (1934-1992), May 18, 1955. Essay submitted to Dr. Hersey, Art 146, Class of 1956 University of Rochester.
Known as Bumpus House - Earliest known owner Sherman and Chevelier DeWitt 1858. African American family by name of White occupied it before next owner Michael Tobin who sold cobblestone house to Bentley Corby in 1909 (present owner states). Mr. Henry Schrieber bought it and sold it to Mr. Clarence Matthews in 1945. Ownership then passed to Russel Matthews. Further transactions not known. Cobblestone Museum archives.
Added to the Town of Henrietta Historic Sites on 12/16/1981.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Tobin - Mathews House
- Page 54, Brick Quoins Page 265
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 28. Monroe County, Matthews House. This structure is not included in the subsequent book "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978.
 Hen-7 Tobin-Mathews 3.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41 |  Hen-7 Tobin-Mathews 1.jpg ¹ Jun-71 |  Hen-7 Tobin-Mathews 2.jpg ¹ Jun-71 |  GP Monroe Henrietta Hen-7 1_1 N.jpg ² 1971 |
 GP Monroe Henrietta Hen-7 2_1 N.jpg ² 1971 |  Hen_7_1.jpg |  Hen_7_2.jpg |  Hen-7 255 Tobin Rd 1.jpg ³ |
 Hen-7 255 Tobin Rd 2.jpg ³ |  255+Tobin+Road+Henrietta+29.jpg 4 |  255+Tobin+Road+Henrietta.jpg 4 |
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
