Pal-5, Root, 3175 Palmyra-Marion Rd., Rt. 21 N

    Documentation

    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 Location

    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

    Comments, Additional Information, References

    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


    "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Durfee - Hill House
    Page 177

    Photographs

    Pal-5 Root 1
    Pal-5 Root 1.jpg ¹ Pease Collection October 1940
    Pal-5 Root 3
    Pal-5 Root 3.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41
    GP Wayne Palmyra Pal-5 1-1 P
    GP Wayne Palmyra Pal-5 1-1 P.jpg ² 11/1/1971
    Pal_5_1
    Pal_5_1.jpg
    Pal_5_2
    Pal_5_2.jpg
    Pal_5_3
    Pal_5_3.jpg
    Pal_5_4
    Pal_5_4.jpg
    Pal-5 Root 2
    Pal-5 Root 2.jpg ¹
    Pal-5 3175 Palmyra-Marion Rd 1
    Pal-5 3175 Palmyra-Marion Rd 1.jpg ³
    Pal-5 3175 Palmyra-Marion Rd 2
    Pal-5 3175 Palmyra-Marion Rd 2.jpg ³
    Pal-5 3175 Palmyra-Marion Rd 3
    Pal-5 3175 Palmyra-Marion Rd 3.jpg ³
    IMG_0972
    IMG_0972.jpg 4

    ¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
    ² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
    ³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
    4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.

    Home1 Icon CM0000