Building date: Circa 1853
Original use:
Corner structures: gray limestone
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy
Types and uses of stones: Stones vary in color, and many are elongated and smooth. 4-6 rows of stones per quoin. Built with field stones.
Types and choice of windows: Wood lintels
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is GIS Database and Google Earth confirmed; 43°10'09.89"N 76°34'10.30"W. Current owner of record, Rothenburg as of date (YMD) 190310.
Town of Ira and Cayuga County Maps
Photographs Ira_2_5 and Ira_2_6 were not labeled and followed the Ira_2_4 photograph in the Roudabush Survey photograph album. Anything resembling these images could not be found in the Google Maps satellite imagery around the Ira-2 Breese property.
Additions to Schmidt's list - There is a two story cobblestone house at 2601 E. Main St., Cato with extensive frame additions. In the cobble stone section, the quoins are of gray limestone and have 4-6 rows of stones per quoin. The stones vary in color, and many are elongated and smooth. Window lintels are made of wood. Roudabush Survey page 44. Editor's Note: Street number address contradiction of 2601 whereas the confirmed address is 2587.
"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 twelfth paragraph on page 40.
Only the center part of this house is cobblestone. Richard Palmer email excerpt.
Known colloquially as Conger House, 2587 E. Main St., Cato, build circa 1853 with field stones. Richard Palmer blog.
- "Cayugas Cobblestones", by Ward O'Hara 1991
- Page 17
- Photographs
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Ira-2 2587 E Main St Cato 1.jpg ¹
Ira-2 2587 E Main St Cato 2.jpg ¹
Ira-2 Breese.jpg ² Sep 1997
IMG_0944.jpg ³¹ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.