Phe-21, Lime Ridge Farms Smokehouse, 1117 Rt. 96

    Documentation

    Building date:

    Original use: Smokehouse

    Corner structures: Variable, irregular quoins

    Mortar application and content: Vertical, no embellishment. The mortar surrounds the stones with very few vertical separators, and thus it appears that the stones are stuck in a matrix of mortar with little attention to vertical and only slightly more attention to the horizontal mortar.

    Types and uses of stones: No regularity in the number of courses of stones.

    Types and choice of windows:

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    Masons who worked on building:

    Unique features: A stone in the wall over the door appears to be a grindstone.

    Map Location

    Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°57'02.01"N 77°02'00.32"W. Current owner of record, Coover as of the 2019 Tax Roll.

    Town of Phelps and Ontario County Maps

    Comments, Additional Information, References

    This smokehouse on RT. 96 has irregular quoins, and thus no regularity in the number of courses of stones. A stone over the door appears to be a grindstone. The mortar surrounds the stones with very few vertical separators, and thus it appears that the stones are stuck in a matrix of mortar with little attention to vertical and only slightly more attention to the horizontal mortar. Roudabush Survey page 88

    Photographs

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    ¹ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.

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