Structure name; AKA: Whitcomb-Hamlin; Roswell Whitcome House *. * Preferred name requested by Diane Ham, The Honeoye Falls - Town of Mendon Historical Society".
Building date: 1847
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Mortar application and content: Vertical, heavy, vertical pyramids
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°00'27.69"N 77°31'56.00"W. Current owner of record, Remley as of the 2018 Tax Roll.
Town of Mendon and Monroe County Maps
Roswell Whitcomb House, 437 Pond Road, built ca. 1847. It was placed on the National Register in 1997. 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 sixteenth paragraph on page 16.
Subject #40, pages 30 and 31, "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.
First floor plan from "Restoration & Preservation" by Carl F. Schmidt
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National Register of Historic Places Registration
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Whitcomb - Hamlin House
- Page 59 - 60
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
¹ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
