Building date: 1848

Original use:

Corner structures: Tooled

Mortar application and content: Horizontal rounded. Vertical, slight embellishment. Vertical pyramids

Types and uses of stones: Decoration by arrangement

Types and choice of windows: Lintels none, first floor. Painted window frames.

Structures with similar masonry details: Sen-4 Tichenor, Sen-5 Banfield, Gor-1 LLoyd, Man-2 Logie

Masons who worked on building:

Unique features:

Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°57'00.35"N 77°01'30.24"W. Current owner of record, Zimmerman as of the 2019 Tax Roll.

Town of Phelps and Ontario County Maps

Name VanderLyke in Roudabush Survey differs from name Van Der Lyke on photograph set. VanderLyke was used.

This distinctive house at 9888 Route 96, east of Phelps, is of Gothic Cottage design. It was built by Benjamin F. Hawks in 1848. It was constructed off red, water-washed cobblestones brought from Sodus Point. This was a design of A.J. Downing, a noted architect of the day. The cobblestones are laid diagonally. The louvered shutters are original. Richard Palmer blog.

Original owner: Hawks. Subsequent owners: Mr. Frederick L. King - Rock Gables Farm, Mr. & Mrs. Calvin VanderLyke - 1975.

"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 fourth paragraph on page 19.

"The Geological Origin of Cobblestone Architecture", by Gerda Peterich. Specific reference to this structure on page 20.

"Cobblestone Architecture in the Rochester Area", by Gerda Peterich, 1953. Reference E. L. King House and figures 28, 32 and 43. Editor's Note: This digitized version of the original typescript manuscript is reformatted for digital display, edited for errors, and includes blue tinted highlighted links to improve access within the document, to the appropriate structure pages in the Cobblestone Info Base, or to external resources on the internet. This document is one of two known typescript drafts, likely a thesis or essay bound as a book and apparently never published. One is available in the Cobblestone Museum Resource Center, the other in the University of Rochester Art and Music Library. A companion or precursor typed paper of the same title exists, perhaps used for a talk and/or photographic display of cobblestone structures.

The A. Hawks House Phelps, NY, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.

The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:

Society offers Phelps tour of unique cobblestone structures, By Chris Scharf, The Geneva Times 6/3/1975.

Mr. & Mrs. Calvin Van Der Like House 15th Annual 06/07/1975
Editor's Note: Contradictions noted in owner's name spelling: Van Der Lyke, Van Der Like and VanderLyke (used).

"Cobblestone Architecture of Upstate New York", by Gerda Peterich, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol 15, Issue 2 1956, Page 16. By permission of the University of California Press, "The requested material is in the public domain and you are welcome to use it." Editor's Note: The date provided, 1842, is quoted as 1848 in the following references.

"Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Hawks - King House

Page 103, Page 256

"Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, Hawks House

Pages 118 - 120

"The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 82. Ontario County, Hawks-King House, and 184. Window: Hawks-King House.

"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 108

¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Image courtesy Ontario County Historical Society. Richard Palmer blog.
³ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
⁴ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
⁵ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.