Building date: 1832
Original use:
Corner structures: Variable
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids
Types and uses of stones:
Types and choice of windows: Lintels gray cut stone
Structures with similar masonry details: Pal-2 Edinger
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°07'09.37"N 77°13'53.60"W. Current owner of record, Pinkney as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Palmyra and Wayne County Maps
Bela Morgan House, 3134 Hanagan Road. This is believed be one of the oldest cobblestone houses in the town of Palmyra, built in 1832 or earlier. A later owner nicknamed it "Fiddlesticks Farm". It is built of field cobbles. 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 seventh paragraph on page 26.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" B. Morgan or Hanagan excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 214 and 215. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
"School Teacher Owns Cobblestone Built in 1832", by Cecila B. Jackson, Town of Arcadia Historian, Newark, N. Y., Courier-Gazette, February 19, 1976, Page B4. Courtesy Newark Public Library and NYS Historic Newspapers .
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Kraham House 10th Annual 06/06/1970
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Morgan - Kraham House
- Page 179
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
¹ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
