Building date: 1839
Original use:
Corner structures:
Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment
Types and uses of stones: Herringbone anywhere
Types and choice of windows: Lintels gray cut stone
Structures with similar masonry details: Par-8 Thrall-Levine, Per-2 Palmer-Mott, Per-3 Conklin-Oliver
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°06'27.48"N 77°11'30.98"W. Current owner of record, Williams/Micciche as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Palmyra and Wayne County Maps
The William Luce House is situated at 2792 Shilling Road, Palmyra. It was built of lake stone with a large chimney at either end. A marble plate over the door reads "W. L. 1839". The alternate slanting of the lake stones is an exclusive feature of this house. The stones are very well graded, and the mason work is well done. 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 eighth paragraph on page 37.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" William Luce House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 212 and 213. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
The William Luce House, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Luce Cobblestone
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Luce - Hutt House
- Page 178
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
¹ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
