Building date: 1837
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Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°57'21.05"N 77°03'11.74"W. Current owner of record, Hussar as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Phelps and Ontario County Maps
The Roudabush Survey stated the street address number as 108 E. Main St.; however, the correct current street address number is 41 Main St. as stated by Richard Palmer.
41 Main St., Phelps, south side, built for D.E. Peck in 1837. 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 second paragraph on page 19.
The Peck House, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.
The house at 41 Main (Phe-20) has a date stone "D.E.Peck 1837". This Greek Revival appears more artistic in the workmanship-several courses' stones are set on a slant in various places giving a bit of finesse and pizazz. The half-moon ornament in the gable is also an attractive touch. It has a watertable on the two road-facing sides. Quite impressive for 1837. This kind of fancy entrance is a characteristic of Greek Revival houses. The John Nelson house (Phe-27, now gone) on 35 Ontario St. had a very nearly identical configuration. Its stonework and ornamentation would suggest the same mason.
The [right wing of the] house at 38 Main (Phe-19) was erected by "C Bannister 1840" - 3 years later. With the popularity of the fancy doorways by that time, its not too surprising this element was incorporated into the design. A closeup inspection of the entrances shows that the D.E.Peck 1937 doorway detail is more refined.
Editor's Note: The cobblestone structures at 38 Main St. and 41 Main St. are directly across the street from each other.
This arrangement of a 3-bay Greek Revival style is a standard arrangement of doors and windows. Rarely is the door in the middle as it distracts from the elegance of the style. The door typically is on either the right corner or the left corner. Because the door opening is wider to accommodate the sidelights and fancy woodwork, the windows flanking it are placed closer together to fit into the remaining tighter space and to accommodate their respective shutters. For continuity of style throughout the façade the non-equidistant spacing of windows on the upper level becomes more obvious. It's a byproduct of the design, not a design element in and by itself.
41 E Main St, Phelps--Entrance Closeup.jpg
Photograph courtesy Karen Crandall, 2016.
Owners according to the 1859, 1874, 1904 maps (the 1852 map shows the houses but they are unlabeled, and there's no inset for the Village of Phelps until 1859 map).
41 Main: 1859 "B F Hawks"; 1874 "E Stotenburg"; 1904 "E E Stotenberg"
Karen Crandall, email 9/3/2021.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Peck - Hatch House
- Page 105
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 83. Ontario County, Peck-Henderson. This structure is not included in the subsequent book "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978.
- Photographs
Phe-20 Henderson 1.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41
GP Ontario Phelps Phe-20 1-1 N.jpg ² August 1971
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Phe-20 Henderson 2.jpg ¹
Phe-20 41 Main St 1.jpg ³
Phe-20 41 Main St 2.jpg ³
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Peck date stone.jpg 4Date stone on Peck House¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
