Building date: About 1847. Editor's Note: Glenn Hinchey states 1852 - see "Unique features" below.
Original use:
Corner structures:
Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment
Types and uses of stones: Small, various colors
Types and choice of windows:
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building: According to 1976 owner, built by a mason named Chaplain or Chapman. Cobblestone Structures in Onondaga County, courtesy Glenn Hinchey.
Unique features: Greek Revival. 2 story with wing, all cobblestone, built 1852."Cobblestone Buildings in Onondaga County", 1992, Structure No. 9, compiled by Glenn Hinchey.
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°54'40.84"N 75°54'59.83"W. Current owner of record, Smith as of the 2018 Tax Roll.
Town of Pompey and Onondaga County Maps
The Greek Revival Alexander Hamilton Allen house, 2891 Oran-Delphi Road, Pompey, was built about 1847. Allen (1805-1875) lived there until 1866 when he moved to Syracuse. The Allen family owned the farm from 1793 to 1866. It is the only cobblestone house in the Town of Pompey. It presents an unusually high standing Greek Revival styling, with a recessed umbrage entrance located in the one-story wing, a feature found on some cobblestone houses. 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 sixth paragraph on page 41.
Excerpt from thesis "Nineteenth Century Cobblestone Structures in Madison County, New York", by Ruthanne Mills, 1972. Titled as Smith House.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Cooper House
- Page 90
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¹ Image courtesy J. Roy Dodge. Richard Palmer blog.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
