Building date: 1840 per Roudabush, 1845 per Palmer
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Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°56'57.15"N 77°01'16.57"W. Current owner of record, Pulvino as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Phelps and Ontario County Maps
The Greek Revival house at 928 Route 96 was built in 1845 for Jonathan Swift. It includes cobblestone barns. Structures are built of field stones. 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 fifth paragraph on page 19.
First floor plan by Carl Schmidt.
"Cobblestone Beauty at its Peak in Phelps 'Manor'", Photo by Fred Powers, Democrat and Chronicle, 12-5 (provided date is incomplete).
Historical Homestead Open House Sunday, Renovated Cobblestone, The Geneva Times, 5/12/1966.
Cobblestone House Draws Sightseers, The Geneva Times, 5/16/1966.
"The Geological Origin of Cobblestone Architecture", by Gerda Peterich. Specific reference to this structure on page 13.
"Cobblestone Architecture in the Rochester Area", by Gerda Peterich, 1953. Reference King Farm Buildings and figure 16. 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.
Realtor advertisement 9/5/1971. Attribution not provided.
The Swift House and Barn, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Swift - Gleason House
- Pages 106 - 107
- "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, King House
- Page 121
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 77. Ontario County, King-Gleason House.
 Phe-23 Pulvino 1.jpg¹ Charles Hopkins 8/20/1930 |  Phe-23 Pulvino 2.jpg¹ Charles Hopkins 1934 |  Phe-23 Pulvino 3.jpg¹ Pease Collection 1940-41 |  Phe-23 Pulvino 4.jpg² 1960 |
 3.jpg² 1960 |  GP Ontario Phelps Phe-23 1-2 N.jpg ³ |  GP Ontario Phelps Phe-23 2-1 N.jpg ³ |  Phe_23_1.jpg |
 Phe_23_2.jpg |  Phe_23_3.jpg |  Phe_23_4.jpg |  Phe_23_5.jpg |
 Phe-23 Pulvino 6.jpg¹ |  Phe-23 Pulvino 7.jpg¹ |  Phe-23 Pulvino 8.jpg¹ Wellhouse & several barns all interconnected. |  Phe-23 928 Rt 96 1.jpg 4 |
 Phe-23 928 Rt 96 2.jpg 4 |  Phe-23 928 Rt 96 3.jpg 4 |  Phe-23 928 Rt 96 4.jpg 4 |  Phe-23 928 Rt 96 6.jpg 4 |
 Phe-23 928 Rt 96 8.jpg 4 |  Phe-23 Pulvino 9.jpg¹ 1997 |  Phe-23 Pulvino 10.jpg¹ |  928 Route 96, Phelps.jpg 5 |
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.
