Building date: 1830s
Original use:
Corner structures:
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids
Types and uses of stones: Small red, laid five courses to the quoin and those on the side, three courses to the quoin. The left and the rear are of fieldstone construction while the front and right are built entirely of lake washed sandstones.
Types and choice of windows: Lintels gray cut stone. The windows are narrow and deep set, giving evidence of early construction.
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°03'55.52"N 77°14'02.17"W. Current owner of record, Van Epps as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Palmyra and Wayne County Maps.
The McKechnie house at 151 Church St. is the only cobblestone home in the Village of Palmyra. It was built in the 1830s by Alexander McKechnie, a native of Scotland. There was once a brewery and malt house on the property. Robert McKecknie, 38, also born in Scotland; his wife and three children resided here in 1855. It has a two-story gable front with stones laid five courses to the quoin and those on the side, three courses to the quoin. The house is very plain. The windows are narrow and deep set, giving evidence of early construction. The left and the rear are of fieldstone construction while the front and right are built entirely of lake washed sandstones. There was a malt house in the rear. Richard Palmer blog.
"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 ninth paragraph on page 25.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Alexander McKachnie House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 236 and 237. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
The McKachnie House 151 Church St. Palmyra, NY, Wayne County, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory McKachnie Cobblestone
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, McKecknie - Hanagan House
- Page 178
Editor's Note: There is a contradiction of the spelling of the name McKecknie by Schmidt or McKacknie by Wayne Historians Organization.
 Pal-14 Hanagan 1.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41 |  GP Wayne Palmyra Pal-14 1-1 P.jpg ² 11/1/1971 |  Pal_14_1.jpg |  Pal_14_2.jpg |
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 Pal-14 Hanagan 2.jpg ¹ |  Pal-14 151 Church St 1.jpg ³ |  Pal-14 151 Church St 2.jpg ³ |  Pal-14 151 Church St 3.jpg ³ |
 Pal-14 Hanagan 3.jpg ¹ October 1996 |  151 Maple Ave., Palmyra.jpg 4 |  IMG_3414.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.
