Building date: 1834
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Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy
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Types and choice of windows: Lentils wood
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°03'36.26"N 76°58'05.69"W. Current owner of record, Schutt as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Lyons and Wayne County Maps
Roudabush stated the street address as 8728 Old Route 31, whereas the current address is 8729 Old Route 31.
This house at 8279 Old Route 31 was built for Elias Richmond in 1834. It has wooden lintels and transom over inset front door. 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 and ninth paragraphs on page 29.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Boreman and Richmond House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 29, 111 and 112. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
Cobblestone house for sale April 13, 1993.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Richmond - Hawkins House
- Page 163
- "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, House
- Page 41
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 136. Wayne County, Loveless House.
 Lyo-7 Coons 2.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41 |  GP Wayne Lyons Lyo-7 1-1 N.jpg ² 10/31/1971 |  Lyo_7_1.jpg |  Lyo_7_2.jpg |
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 Lyo-7 Coons 3.jpg ¹ |  Lyo-7 Coons 1.jpg ¹ |  Lyo-7 8729 Old Route 31 1.jpg ³ |  Lyo-7 8729 Old Route 31 2.jpg ³ |
 Lyo-7 8729 Old Route 31 3.jpg ³ |  Lyo-7 8729 Old Route 31 4.jpg ³ |  Lyo-7 Coons 4.jpg ¹ 10/13/1996 |  8729 Old Route 31, Lyons.jpg 4 |
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
