Structure name; AKA: Sheldon-Clay; Sheldon Cobblestone House, Milton Sheldon House *. * Preferred name requested by Diane Ham, The Honeoye Falls - Town of Mendon Historical Society".
Building date: 1833
Original use:
Corner structures: Variable
Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment
Types and uses of stones:
Types and choice of windows:
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building: Sheldon
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°59'49.10"N 77°30'14.33"W. Current owner of record, Whitehorn 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 eighteenth paragraph on page 16.
Subject #33, page 25, "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.
Owner: Langdon F. Clay priori to 8/23/67, Mr. and Mrs Lincoln Aquadro 8/23/67. Cobblestone Museum survey, Pittsford - Mendon area, handwritten notes 10/13/1968
"Historic Mendon Cobblestone is for Sale" Dated ~ July 1998. Attribution not provided.
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National Register of Historic Places Registration
- "Cobblestone Architecture", 1944, Carl Schmidt
- Page 13, Page 41, Page 50, Page 51. On page 13 Sheldon is misspelled as Shelton.
- Front of the Sheldon House drawing, Entrance Door askew to right of straight on view. Carl Schmidt Collection of Two-Dimensional Drawings, online access to view, New York Heritage digital collections.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Sheldon House
- Pages 58 - 59, Interior Details of an Early Cobblestone House in Mendon Page 297
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
