Per-4 Moss Dry House & Evaporator, ~640 Pittsford Victor Rd (Marathon Gas Station in 2022)

    Documentation

    Building date: Unknown, razed ~1960

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    Map Location

    Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°07'58.64"N 77°00'13.56"W.

    Town of Perinton and Monroe County 1978 Highway Maps

    Comments, Additional Information, References

    "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 third paragraph on page 24.

    Moss Dry House & Evaporator history sheet. From the personal research of cobblestone historian Karen Crandall.

    Photographs

    1858 Monroe County Per-4 Excerpt Map 161029_3N5A9102_21FullReswoCastSharp
    1858 Monroe County Per-4 Excerpt Map 161029_3N5A9102_21FullReswoCastSharp.jpg ¹
    Bushnell's Basin Warehouse 29A12BA5-A720-49E6-9305-9E59EC6EEB3B_1_105_c
    Bushnell's Basin Warehouse 29A12BA5-A720-49E6-9305-9E59EC6EEB3B_1_105_c.jpg ² Photograph taken at the time of the Erie Canal break in 1911 from a perspective such that the canal bank blocked part of the long side towards the rear of the building beyond the center doorway.

    ¹ High resolution digital imagery courtesy Gregory Lawrence Photography. Restored Monroe County map provided by Emily L. Knapp Museum and Library of Local History, Brockport NY. 1858 Wayne County Map also available courtesy Library of Congress.
    ² Photo provided by Paul Spiegel on 1/17/2012, former Pittsford Town Historian at that time. Courtesy Karen Crandall.

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