Building date: 1830s
Original use:
Corner structures: The quoins have been covered with paint, so that original colors are not apparent.
Mortar application and content: Vertical pyramids. The mortar between stones is embellished into pyramids, which usually are not expanded to the bottom.
Types and uses of stones: Stones are small and are in 5 rows per quoin. The stones have been covered with paint, so that original colors are not apparent.
Types and choice of windows: Lentils wood
Structures with similar masonry details:
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°03'50.45"N 77°13'47.35"W. Current owner of record, Burditt as of the 2019 Tax Roll. Classified as a row building.
Town of Palmyra and Wayne County Maps
Editor's Note: The Roudabush Survey stated the address as 105-107 Market St. with 105 first floor and 107 second floor, whereas currently the address appears to be 105 Market St. for the complete building. Note difference in photographs below.
At 105-107 Market St., Palmyra, there is a two and one-half story building which is the only cobblestone, to our knowledge, built in a row of houses. Only the front wall is visible. The quoins and stones have been covered with paint, so that original colors are not apparent. Stones are small and are in 5 rows per quoin. The mortar between stones is embellished into pyramids, which usually are not expanded to the bottom. Roudabush Survey page 114
This commercial building at 105 Market St., Palmyra, was built in the 1830s by Tilden, a local tinsmith. During the post-Civil War period it was occupied by L. D. Sellick & Company, basket-makers. It has a bracketed cornice. The facade consists of varied-sized lake cobblestones. Some discrete alterations have been made over the years. There are apartments upstairs. Richard Palmer blog.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house
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National Register of Historic Places Registration
 Pal-20 Tilden 1.jpg ¹ Left most structure is cobblestone. |  Pal_20_1.jpg |  Pal_20_2.jpg |  Pal-20 105-107 Market St 1.jpg ² |
 Pal-20 105-107 Market St 2.jpg ² |  105 Market St., Palmyra.jpg ³ |  Detail of stonework, 105 Market St., Palmyra.jpg ³ |  105 Market St., Palmyra 2.jpg ³ Rear of 105 Market St., facing west. |
¹ Illustration "History of Wayne County, New York", unnumbered illustration following page 144. Everts, Ensign & Everts, Philadelphia, 1877.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
