Building date: 1846
Original use: Blacksmith and wagon shop. Demolished 1964.
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°03'59.78"N 78°16'16.66"W. Current owner of record, Crazy Cheap Cars as of date (YMD) 190317.
Town of Oakfield and Genesee County Maps
For more than a century Emanuel Isaac's blacksmith and wagon shop was located at the [southeast] corner of Water and Main streets in the village of Oakfield. It was razed in 1964. Richard Palmer blog. Currently the location is occupied by Crazy Cheap Cars.
Oakfield's oldest mercantile building, built in 1846, which successively housed a blacksmith shop, a laundry, pool parlor, garage, bicycle shop, and at the time of its razing in 1964, a shoe-repair shop, was another landmark now regretted. Excerpt from "Cobblestone Examples Noted in Genesee Recall Construction Over Century Ago
"New Owner Razes Oakfield Landmark", Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, December 4, 1964
OAKFIELD - An old Oakfield landmark, the cobblestone building at Main and Water Streets where Joseph DiFillipo conducted a shoe repair shop for 35 years, has disappeared from the village scene. The structure was razed by the new owner, Meiser Chevrolet Inc. for an expansion of its property. The structure was built in 1846. DiFillipo retired last October, but will continue to do some shoe repair work at is home, 1 Dodge St.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Oakfield Blacksmith Shop
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¹ Photography courtesy Darlene Warner, Oakville Town Historian.
