Building date: 1844
Original use:
Corner structures: Gray limestone and red limestone
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids
Types and uses of stones: Small, various colors
Types and choice of windows: Lintels gray cut stone
Structures with similar masonry details: Sod-14 Lucieer, Wal-3 Whitcomb, Wil-10 Barnum, Wil-16 Allen
Masons who worked on building: Stokes, Richard
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Google Maps street level view is poor, blocked by dense vegetation. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°16'13.92"N 77°21'22.55"W. Current owner of record, Daddis as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Ontario and Wayne 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 tenth paragraph on page 31.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Middleton & Chapman House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 204 and 205. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
Cobblestone structure excerpts page 81 and 83 (photograph) "Middleton - Chapman - Johncox" 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.
Harriet Thayer Chapman Letter 10/10/1955, written to Gerda Peterich who was researching cobblestone structures.
"The Geological Origin of Cobblestone Architecture", by Gerda Peterich. Specific reference to this structure on page 9.
"Cobblestone Architecture in the Rochester Area", by Gerda Peterich, 1953. Reference Johncox House and figures 40 and 43. 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.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Middleton - Johncox House 4th Annual 06/06/1964Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Middleton-Thayer Cobblestone House
- "Cobblestone Architecture", 1944, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Middleton House
- Page 37
- Front of the Middleton-Chapman House drawing, Entrance Door 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, Middleton - Johncox House
- Page 173, Comparison of Cobblestones and Quoins Page 260, Main Entrance Page 276
 Ont-12 Johncox 3.jpg ¹ Charles Hopkins c. 1930 |  Ont-12 Johncox 2.jpg ¹ Charles Hopkins c. 1930 |  Ont-12 Johncox 4.jpg ¹ Charles Hopkins c. 1930 |  Ont-12 Johncox 1.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41 |
 GP Wayne Ontario Ont-12 1-1 P.jpg ² |  GP Wayne Ontario Ont-12 2-1 P.jpg ² |  GP Wayne Ontario Ont-12 3-1 P.jpg ² |  GP Wayne Ontario Ont-12 4-1 P.jpg ² |
 GP Wayne Ontario Ont-12 5-1 P.jpg ² |  Ont-12 Johncox 5.jpg ¹ |  Ont_12_1.jpg |  Ont_12_2.jpg |
 Ont_12_3.jpg |  Ont_12_4.jpg |  Ont_12_5.jpg |  Ont_12_6.jpg |
 Ont-12 Johncox 6.jpg ¹ |  Ont-12 487 Lake Rd 1.jpg ³ |  Ont-12 487 Lake Rd 2.jpg ³ |  487 Lake Road.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.
