Building date: 1838-1839
Original use:
Corner structures:
Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment
Types and uses of stones: Small, various colors
Types and choice of windows: Lintels gray cut stone
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building: Clark
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°12'40.13"N 77°16'52.76"W. Current owner of record, Frank 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 seventh paragraph on page 32.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Freeman House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 185 and 186. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
Cobblestone structure excerpts page 82 "Freeman House" 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.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Clark-Freeman Cobblestone House
The Historical Society and Women's Civic Club of Ontario Presents "A Tour of Homes". Home number 7.
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.