Building date: 1833
Original use: Parsonage
Corner structures: Red sandstone
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids
Types and uses of stones: Irregular rough
Types and choice of windows: Lintels red cut stone
Structures with similar masonry details: Mac-3 Van Casselle
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°09'04.04"N 77°11'00.86"W. Current owner of record, Hardin as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Marion and Wayne County Maps
This house at 4057 N. Main St., Marion was built for the pastor of the Christian Church. 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 first paragraph on page 37.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Durfee Young House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 171 and 172. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
Realty fact sheet, date unknown.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Mrs. Durfee Young House 10th Annual 06/06/1970, Marion Homes Tour 12th Marion Heritage Festival 09/10/1988.
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.