Building date: 1845
Original use:
Corner structures: Tooled
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy
Types and uses of stones: Small, various colors
Types and choice of windows:
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features: Outstanding cut stone doorway with date stone.
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°59'03.90"N 76°58'00.10"W. Current owner of record, Santana/Grigg as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Phelps and Ontario County Maps
Editor's Note: Roudabush stated the owner's name as Branchto, whereas the correct spelling is Brancato.
The Greek Revival William Huffman house at 1064 Townline Road was built in 1845. Huffman purchased two parcels of land, one of 52 acres and the other of 60 acres in 1830 and 1831. In 1850 he and his wife, Harriet, had six children. He was a farmer. The property was sold to William Closs in 1866, after which it was resold several times. It was placed on the National Register in 2002. 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 29.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Brancato House 15th Annual 06/07/1975
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National Register of Historic Places Registration
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Hoffman - Sill House
- Pages 104 - 105 Editor's Note: Schmidt states name as Hoffman, whereas all other documentation states Huffman.
- "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, Hoffman House
- Pages 114 - 115
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 67 Hoffman-Sill House, and 166. Ontario County, Doorway: Hoffman-Sill House.
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 Cobblestone Museum archives photograph is displayed "as-is". The labels and adhesive residue, a crude method of documentation that is blocking important image detail, can not be removed without potentially damaging the photograph. The same and additional information is written on the back of the photograph, making the labels redundant. Typically the labels are cropped or retouched out of the final Cobblestone Info Base image.
