Building date: 1841
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Mortar application and content: Vertical very heavy, bold
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Structures with similar masonry details: Sen-7 Hornbeck
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°59'26.74"N 76°59'38.84"W. Current owner of record, Uvegas as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Phelps and Ontario County Maps
Gilbert Parrish house at 921 Maryland Street. Date stone says 1841. Note the interesting design in the peak of the roof. Below is a picture of a cobblestone wall near the south side the house. Home of D. Brooks McKinney, Professor at Hobart-William Smith College in Geneva. Richard Palmer blog. He did a very fine paper on cobblestone construction. Richard Palmer email 8/13/2017.
"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 eighth paragraph on page 28.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Smith - Baker House
- Page 106
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 76. Ontario County, Smith-Baker House. This structure is not included in the subsequent book "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978.
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¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
