Structure name; AKA: Stewart-Canfield; Jeremiah Stewart House *, Stewart Canfield House. * Preferred name requested by Diane Ham, The Honeoye Falls - Town of Mendon Historical Society".
Building date: 1830's
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Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment
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Unique features: Utilized as a lodge in the Monroe County Mendon Ponds Park.
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°01'57.92"N 77°33'22.30"W. Current owner of record, Monroe County since 1928.
Town of Mendon and Monroe 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 fifteenth paragraph on page 16.
Subject #30, pages 21-22, "Survey of Cobblestone Masonry in the Rush - Mendon Area", by Richard Burton Wood (1934-1992), May 18, 1955. Essay submitted to Dr. Hersey, Art 146, Class of 1956 University of Rochester.
Jeremiah Stewart built this home in 1825 [1835], it is a fine example of colonial architecture. Constructed of "hardheads" [A large, smooth, rounded stone found especially in coarse gravel.] gathered from the adjoining slopes, with door and window sills of flagstone hauled by ox team from Scottsville quarry, and its frame of oak and tamarack from the surrounding hills, it still contains many pioneer relics including a massive fireplace with Dutch oven and powder compartments in the kitchen, hand wrought fireplace fixtures, hand hewn timbers, beautiful hand hewn stair rail, and old smoke house. From hand written comment in the Permanent File of Cobblestone Structures, Cobblestone Museum archives.
Now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Roger Greitens, Mendon Park Superintendent. Cobblestone Museum survey, Pittsford - Mendon area, handwritten notes 10/13/1968, and Mr. and Mrs. Wilber Wright noted in 1965.
"The Geological Origin of Cobblestone Architecture", by Gerda Peterich. Specific reference to this structure on page 16.
"Cobblestone Architecture in the Rochester Area", by Gerda Peterich, 1953. Reference Mendon Pond Park House and figure 27. Editor's Note: This digitized version of the original typescript manuscript is reformatted for digital display, edited for errors, and includes blue tinted highlighted links to improve access within the document, to the appropriate structure pages in the Cobblestone Info Base, or to external resources on the internet. This document is one of two known typescript drafts, likely a thesis or essay bound as a book and apparently never published. One is available in the Cobblestone Museum Resource Center, the other in the University of Rochester Art and Music Library. A companion or precursor typed paper of the same title exists, perhaps used for a talk and/or photographic display of cobblestone structures.
This house at 10 Douglas Road in Mendon Ponds Park was built by Jeremiah Stewart in 1835. It has been owned by Monroe County since 1928. Richard Palmer blog.
The Cobblestone House and attached facility is a park lodge rental with a capacity of 68 people.
For additional information, see the book "Cobblestone Quest: Road Tours of New York's Historic Buildings", Page 97, #10 Stewart House. By Rich Freeman, Sue Freeman.
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National Register of Historic Places Registration
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Stewart - Canfield House
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 Men-1 Stewart-Canfield 1.jpg ¹ Charles Hopkins Collection 11/2/1931 |  Men-1 Stewart-Canfield 2.jpg ¹ Charles Hopkins Collection 11/2/1931 |  Men-1_1 Pease Collection 1940s.jpg ¹ 1940-41 |  Men-1 Stewart-Canfield 3.jpg ¹ Van Houten Collection c. 1941 - 1946 |
 Men-1 Stewart-Canfield 4.jpg ¹ Van Houten Collection c. 1941 - 1946 |  GP Monroe Mendon Men-1 1_1 N.jpg |  Men_1_1.jpg |  Men_1_2.jpg |
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 Men-1 Stewart-Canfield 5.jpg ¹ |  Men-1 10 Douglas Rd 1.jpg ² |  Men-1 10 Douglas Rd 2.jpg ² |  Men-1 10 Douglas Rd 3.jpg ² |
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¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
