Structure name; AKA: Adzit-Reber, Benjamin Adsit House *, old Steffer farm, Adsit Cobblestone Farmhouse. * Preferred name requested by Diane Ham, The Honeoye Falls - Town of Mendon Historical Society".
Building date: 1832
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Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment
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Masons who worked on building: Constructed by Mr. Atzet, house and 100 acres farm land $6000.00
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°01'30.12"N 77°35'00.59"W. Current owner of record, Carlson as of the 2018 Tax Roll.
Town of Mendon and Monroe County Maps
3871 Clover Road (now 1 Dixon Woods) served as an inn during the mid-19th century and was a popular stopover for farmers delivering grain on the road from Canandaigua to Rochester. Richard Palmer blog.
The current street address is 1 Dixon Woods. The Roudabush Survey states the street address as 3871 Clover Rd.
Editor's Note: The National Register of Historic Places and Wikipedia state Adsit Cobblestone Farmhouse, but Carl Schmidt "Cobblestone Architecture" pages 22 and 46, "Cobblestone Masonry" page 56, and the Roudabush Survey state Adzit-Reber. The spelling variation appears in other documentation as well.
"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 eighth paragraph on page 16.
The history of the Adzet Homestead.
Subject #29, page 20, "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.
Town Crier Ltd. realtor sales flyer. Date unknown. Includes complete floor plans.
Cobblestone House to Be Restored By Owners
The coming of spring is more than welcome to Mr. and Mrs. Max Reber of Clover Street this year for they now have more time to work on the quaint cobblestone homestead which they purchased and took possession of late last autumn. Mr. and Mrs. Reber with their daughter and son, Linda and Thomas, came from Pittsford, and, having keen appreciation and love for older home-places, they are putting a great deal of time and effort into restoring the property known here-about for the past 47 years as the "old Steffer farm". It is a matter of regret that some of the stately old trees shading the yard were rotted deep down in the trunks and had to be removed for safety reasons. The Rebers plan to grade, set young trees and fill in vacant places with shrubbery as time goes on. It is a pleasure to know that one of the oldest properties in the community will soon be renovate and preserved as it deserves to be.
Linda is a freshman and Thomas a seventh grader in Honeoye Falls Central School where their father and mother are also interested in the growth and broadening of the educational program. Courtesy Cobblestone Museum. Attribution not provided.
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National Register of Historic Places Registration
- "Cobblestone Architecture", 1944, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Adzit House
- Page 22, Page 46
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Adzit-Reber House
- Page 56, Page 256
¹ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
