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Corner structures: Quoins protrude past corner.
Mortar application and content: Vertical, very heavy, bold
Types and uses of stones: Herringbone anywhere
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Unique features: Quoins protrude
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Street level view is not available. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°59'54.57"N 77°08'40.92"W. Current owner of record, Reedland Farms, LLC as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Manchester and Ontario County Maps
"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 ninth paragraph on page 18.
Prior owners listed on Maps: 1852: "P Vanderhoof"; 1859: "J Flood"; 1874: "P Walker"; 1904 "J Driscoll".
John A. Reed purchased the Jeremiah Driscoll farm adjoining the farm of his father, Albert Reed, to the south. Both farms had a cobblestone house (Man-12 Albert Reed House). John worked along with his father on his father's farm in addition to working his own farm. Over time John's two sons, John and Jim, followed in their grandfather's and father's footsteps in the management and operation of the combined farm, forming the Reed Land Partnership in 1995. Today they are the 5th generation owners of the "Reedland Farms, LLC". Their children, the 6th generation, now work alongside them in all facets of working and managing the farm.
John Reed, Sr. lived until 2005, at age 79. The cobblestone house is part of the Reedland Farms, LLC and is still owned by the Reed family. Karen Crandall email 7/12/2021.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, John Reed House
- Page 99, John Reed House. Carl Schmidt documents this same house twice, the other reference is on Page 101, Walker - Driscoll House. Both Walker and Driscoll were owners of this property prior to John Reed.
Page 265, Walker-Driscoll House, shows a drawing of the unique arrangement of quoins on this house at 835 Country Road 27 - CUTSTONE QUOINS... Updated by Karen Crandall email 7/12/2021. Editor's Note: In all of North America, the unusual quoin arrangement is unique to the Walker-Driscoll House.
¹ 1852 Ontario County Map Man-7 and 12 excerpt courtesy Library of Congress.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
4 Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
