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Corner structures: Tooled
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids. Pyramids appear on the vertical mortar between stones, and truncate at the bottom.
Types and uses of stones: Small red, rounded. Stones are arranged in five rows per quoin in the front, and four rows at the sides.
Types and choice of windows: Lintels are square cut, gray limestone.
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°06'24.61"N 77°14'30.57"W. Current owner of record, Kemp as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Palmyra and Wayne County Maps
Small, rounded, red sandstone cobbles were used on the one and one-half story house at 2775 Maple Ave. Quoins and window lintels are square cut, gray limestone. Stones are arranged in five rows per quoin in the front, and four rows at the sides. Pyramids appear on the vertical mortar between stones, and truncate at the bottom. Roudabush Survey page 110
"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 37.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Robin Hill excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 219 and 220. 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 Cobblestone house
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¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
