Structure name; AKA: Gates-Livermore; ~1835 Luther & Bathseheba Gaits, Luther Gates House *, 1842 William Cornell, 1877 John J. Cornell, 1896 Fred E. Lord, 1920 K. C. Livermore, Quaker Hill Farm. * Preferred name requested by Diane Ham, The Honeoye Falls - Town of Mendon Historical Society".
Building date: 1833
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Mortar application and content: Vertical, heavy
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°59'27.29"N 77°34'41.60"W. Current owner of record, Livermore as of the 2018 Tax Roll.
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 ninth paragraph on page 16.
Subject #38, page 29, "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.
Cobblestone Museum Permanent File of Cobblestone Structures.
The K.C. Livermore or "Quaker Hill Farm" at 4389 Clover St. was built prior to 1840. The frame addition came about 1879. Luther Gates purchased the land in 1832 and is believed to have built the house. William Cornell, a Quaker, purchased it in 1842. His son, John, a noted Quaker preacher, inherited it in 1877. It was purchased by Fred Lord in 1896 who sold it to Livermore in 1920. Richard Palmer blog.
Sticky Note attached to plastic sleeve containing the Wolfish photographs for this structure: Mr. Livermore, of the KC Livermore Seed Co., Phd taught at Cornell University in the 1930,s. Henry Fonda was a student of his.
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National Register of Historic Places Registration
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Gates - Livermore House
- Page 57
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
