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 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.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Middleton - Johncox House 4th Annual 06/06/1964Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Middleton-Thayer Cobblestone House
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.