Building date: 1839
Original use: Church. Residence since 1968.
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Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°57'22.27"N 76°52'56.80"W. Current owner of record, Weideman as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Junius and Seneca County Maps
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Junius at 1432 Old State Road Extension off State Route 318 was erected in 1839 is of Greek Revival style. A wooden porch is said to have once extended across the front with wooden steps on all three sides. The church today is privately owned. Date stone also contains two verses from Psalms. It has artistic stained glass windows. 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 seventh paragraph on page 30.
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Junius, NY, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.
"Manual of the Churches of Seneca County with sketches of their pastors, 1895-96", compiled and published by the Courier Printing Co., Seneca Falls, NY 1896.
Cobblestone Buildings in Seneca County, photographs and text by Walter Gable, Seneca County Historian, revised 10/25/2019.
"Historic Tales of Seneca County, New York, by Walter Gable, Pages 60-61, Seneca County Historian, Arcadia Publishing, July 10, 2017.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, First Methodist E. Church
- Page 148
- "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, First Methodist Episcopal Church
- Page 135
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 123. Seneca County, First Methodist Episcopal Church.
 Junius Cobblestone Meeting House 1838.jpg ¹ Circa 1890-1900. |  Jun-2 Stone Church Sen-2 1.jpg ² Pease Collection 1940-41 |  04.jpg ¹ |  Jun-2 Stone Church Sen-2 2.jpg ³ March 1964 |
 Jun-2 Stone Church Sen-2 3.jpg ³ March 1964 |  Jun-2 Stone Church Sen-2 4.jpg ³ June 1964 |  GP Seneca Junius Jun-2 1-1 N.jpg 4 8/21/1971 |  Sen_2_1.jpg |
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 Sen_2_6.jpg |  Jun-2 1434 Old State Rd Extension 1.jpg 5 |  Jun-2 1434 Old State Rd Extension 2.jpg 5 |  Jun-2 1434 Old State Rd Extension 3.jpg 5 |
 Jun-2 1434 Old State Rd Extension 4.jpg 5 |  Jun-2 Stone Church Sen-2 5.jpg ² 10/12/1998 |  Jun-2 Stone Church Sen-2 6.jpg ² 10/12/1998 |  Church 2.jpg 6 |
¹ Image courtesy John Genung, former Curator, Waterloo Library and Historical Society.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Robert W. Frasch.
4 Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
5 Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
6 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
