Building date: 1839
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Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment
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Structures with similar masonry details: Mar-3 Young
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°03'55.74"N 77°18'37.11"W. Current owner of record, Nortan as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Macedon and Wayne County Maps
This house at 5 West Main St., Macedon, was built in 1839 by Nathan Reed, a Quaker. Cobblestones came from the shore of Lake Ontario near Pultneyville. 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 sixth paragraph on page 24.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Mrs. Van Casselle - William Gridley excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 129 and 130. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Reed - Van Casseele House
- Page 164, Various Types of Cobblestone Walls Page 258
Editor's Note: Schmidt states the name Van Casseele House, Klahn states Van Caescele, whereas Roudabush states Van Casselle.
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
