Building date:
Original use: Concrete pilasters
Corner structures:
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids
Types and uses of stones: Small red
Types and choice of windows:
Structures with similar masonry details: Ont-8 Enderlin, Mar-5 Heberle, Wil-14 Meaker
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°16'22.98"N 77°17'54.46"W. Current owner of record, Wychmere Farms Inc as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Ontario and Wayne County Maps
The Roudabush Survey states the address as 1717 Lake Rd.; however, the current property address is 1683 Lake Rd. with a business street address of 1695 Lake Rd.
"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 second paragraph on page 32.
"The Geological Origin of Cobblestone Architecture", by Gerda Peterich. Specific references to this structure on pages 8, and 17.
"Cobblestone Architecture in the Rochester Area", by Gerda Peterich, 1953. Reference Wychmere House and figure 25. Editor's Note: This digitized version of the original typescript manuscript is reformatted for digital display, edited for errors, and includes blue tinted highlighted links to improve access within the document, to the appropriate structure pages in the Cobblestone Info Base, or to external resources on the internet. This document is one of two known typescript drafts, likely a thesis or essay bound as a book and apparently never published. One is available in the Cobblestone Museum Resource Center, the other in the University of Rochester Art and Music Library. A companion or precursor typed paper of the same title exists, perhaps used for a talk and/or photographic display of cobblestone structures.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Wychmere House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 202 and 203. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
Cobblestone structure excerpts pages 83-84 "Motley - Wilson" from the book "History of the Town of Ontario 1807-1971", Town of Ontario Historical Society, limited edition revision, September 1971. Reproduced with copyright permission provided by the Town of Ontario Historical Society and Heritage Square Museum.
The Brewer-Wilson House Ontario, NY, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Brewer - Wilson House 4th Annual 06/06/1964Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Brewer-Wilson Cobblestone
- "Cobblestone Architecture", 1944, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Wychmere Farm House
- Page 35
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Brewer - Wilson House
- Page 170
- "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, Bigsby House
- Pages 35 - 36
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 128. Wayne County, Bigsby-Wilson House.
 Ont-11 Wilson 4.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41 |  GP Wayne Ontario Ont-11 1-1 N.jpg ² 1964 |  GP Wayne Ontario Ont-11 2-1 N.jpg ² 1964 |  GP Wayne Ontario Ont-11 3-1 N.jpg ² 1964 |
 Ont_11_1.jpg |  Ont_11_2.jpg |  Ont_11_3.jpg |  Ont-11 Wilson 1.jpg ¹ |
 Ont-11 1695 Lake Rd 1.jpg ³ |  Ont-11 1695 Lake Rd 2.jpg ³ |  Ont-11 Wilson 2.jpg ¹ 5/7/2005 |  Ont-11 Wilson 3.jpg ¹ 5/7/2005 |
 1695 Lake Road Ontario.jpg 4 |
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
