Building date: Roudabush 1832, Palmer 1840
Original use:
Corner structures:
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids
Types and uses of stones: Small red
Types and choice of windows: Lintels gray cut stone
Structures with similar masonry details: Wal-8 Esely, Wil-23 Unknown
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°07'14.54"N 77°12'14.36"W. Current owner of record, Villone/Sobolewski as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Palmyra and Wayne County Maps
Job Durfee house at 3175 Route 21 was built in 1840. Richard Palmer.
"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 second paragraph on page 26.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Harvey Thompson House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 217 and 218. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Durfee Cobblestone
![]() Pal-5 Root 1.jpg ¹ Pease Collection October 1940 | ![]() Pal-5 Root 3.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41 | ![]() GP Wayne Palmyra Pal-5 1-1 P.jpg ² 11/1/1971 | ![]() Pal_5_1.jpg |
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¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.