Building date: 1840
Original use:
Corner structures:
Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment
Types and uses of stones: Irregular rough
Types and choice of windows: Lintels gray cut stone
Structures with similar masonry details: Pal-4 Kraham
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°06'58.33"N 77°13'14.02"W. Current owner of record, Mauer as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Palmyra and Wayne County Maps
3049 Parker Road. Built by Caleb Avery in 1840 field stones. In later years it was nicknamed "Cobble Nob." 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 first paragraph on page 26.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Philip Miller House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 210 and 211. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
"Cooble Nob" was built in 1840 on land originally owned by Palmyra pioneer John Swift. The surrounding 95 acres are used by the Edingers for their hobby of raising beef cattle and feed for them. "Palmyra Garden Club Tenth Anniversary Tour of Homes", Canaltown Days, 9/16/1984.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Avery Cobblestone
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Avery - Musshafen House
- Page 175
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 144. Wayne County, Avery-Edinger House. This structure is not included in the subsequent book "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978.
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
