Building date: 1835 or 1836
Original use:
Corner structures:
Mortar application and content: Vertical pyramids, bottom of vertical expanded into a pyramid.
Types and uses of stones: Irregular rough. The left and right sides have 3-4 rows of stones per quoin.
Types and choice of windows:
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Street level view is not available. Address is GIS Database and Google Earth confirmed; 42°45'33.23"N 76°40'47.92"W. Current owner of record, Jackson as of date (YMD) 190311.
The Cayuga County records and Palmer disagree on the street address.
NOTE
Town of Ledyard and Cayuga County Maps
House at 906 Sherwood Road built in 1835 by Sylvanus Husey, an early settler. The wing at the rear appears to be much older than the main part of the house. It is mentioned in an account written by David Thomas. Richard Palmer blog.
About three miles west of Sherwood is a fine two-story house built by Sylvanus Hussey and his son during the middle 1830s. On the death of his father, John came into the possession in 1838. The John Rafferty family has owned it since 1905. The stones here lack the finished "V" in the vertical joints found in some sections. Excerpt from "Cobblestone House Tour", Citizen-Advertiser, Auburn, N.Y., May 29, 1963. Richard Palmer blog.
New Genesee Farmer", Volume 2 No. 5, 1841. A detailed description of materials, construction techniques, and comparisons to other types of construction of the period related in part to this structure. Cobble Stone Buildings", excerpts from a column in "The Cultivator", March 1841, p. 51.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Hussey - Rafferty House 3nd Annual 06/1/1963
- "Cayugas Cobblestones", by Ward O'Hara 1991
- Pages 42 - 43
¹ Attribution not provided.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum
³ Photograph courtesy Richard Palmer. The image file name 2348_Center_Road_282_29.jpg implies this image is for Sci-2 McHale Cay-10; however, satellite and realtor imagery confirms it is the Led-2 Rafferty Cay-8 structure.
