Building date: 1847
Original use: Abandoned at time of Roudabush Survey - Now restored and inhabited.
Corner structures: Tooled
Mortar application and content: Horizontal rounded, vertical thin rounded
Types and uses of stones: Decoration by stone color
Types and choice of windows:
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features: Decorations colored stones. Seven rows of white cobblestones as a cornice on the two non-gable sides of the main structure. See photograph 957 County Route 6 Phelps 2.jpg below.
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°59'19.06"N 77°00'49.83"W. Current owner of record, Westfall & Westfall as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Phelps and Ontario County Maps
Roudabush Survey states the address as 947 County Road 6, obtained from 947 on telephone pole. Sheriff Notice posted on property, information ca. 8/25/77 - 6/23/78. The correct address is 957 County Road 6, confirmed by Richard Palmer blog.
This house is at 957 County Route 6, also called Pre-Emption Road. It is build of polished stones all of the same exact size and configuration from Lake Ontario. Note the decorative white stones next to the roof line. 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 sixth paragraph on page 28.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Van DeVort - Reppard House
- Page 107
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 78. Ontario County, Vandervoort-Reppard House. This structure is not included in the subsequent book "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978.
- "Geology and the Development of Upstate New York's Distinctive Cobblestone Architecture", D. Brooks McKinney Ph.D, Emeritus Professor of Geoscience, Department of Geoscience, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
- Page 109
 Phe-10 Van DeVort 1.jpg 1, 5 Pease Collection 1940-41 |  Phe-10 Van DeVort 2.jpg ¹ 2/6/1970 |  GP Ontario Phelps Phe-10 1-1 P.jpg ² 8/23/1971 |  GP Ontario Phelps Phe-10 2-1 P.jpg ² 8/23/1971 Vegetation blocks the view of the structure from the road. |
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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.
5 Editor's Note: This image is the earliest available image to-date and therefore is important to include. It is from a badly underexposed photographic print with numerous artifacts. "Best effort" Photoshop adjustments and retouching were applied to attempt to provide a viewable image.
