Building date: Demolished by owner demolition 1940's.
Original use: Residence
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Local stories tell of Walter Brown who owned a cobblestone house near Brockville in the Town of Murrey. Mr. Brown was disturbed about paying the taxes on the house and set a[n explosive] charge to eliminate his problem. The house was demolished in the 1940's and, as yet, no pictures of the structure have been found. "Chapter III Cobblestone Buildings", included in the Millville Blacksmith Shop text, by Delia Robinson, "Architecture Destroyed in Orleans County, New York", by C. W. Lattin, Orleans County Historian, November 1984. Published by the Cobblestone Society.
"Home Is A Rock Pile" by Chuck Lyons. "Upstate, Cobblestone Country", a unique form of architecture rose from the rock piles of the Rochester region. People, Places, Pleasures supplement, Sunday Democrat and Chronicle, November 27, 1988. Use this link to view the printable Cobblestone Country.
Walter Brown purchased this cobblestone home in 1910. "Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 77, by Delia Robinson, Edited by Evelyn Lyman and William Nestle. Jointly published by The Cobblestone Society and The Orleans County Historical Association, December 1996.
Walter Brown was the great great nephew of Sylvester Brown who built and lived decades before in the Mur-6 Applegate 1840 cobblestone house at 3827 Transit Road, Town of Murray. The two cobblestone homes were about 4 miles apart in a direct line. Cobblestone historian Delia Robinson researched the family genealogy in the the book "Ancestors of Florence Julia Brown and Some of Their Descendants" by Walter L. and M. T. Brown to determine their family relationship.
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