Building date: c. 1842, abandoned by 1950s, deteriorated thus razed ~1997.
Original use: House
Corner structures: Variable, gray limestone and red sandstone
Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment. Vertical pyramids
Types and uses of stones:
Types and choice of windows: Lentils wood
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building: Henry Robinson
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Status and location can not be confirmed and is approximated; 43°09'56.88"N 76°51'21.21"W. Current owner of record, MacDougall as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Rose and Wayne County Maps
The Roudabush Survey states the address as 1841 Wolcott Rd., whereas the Wayne Historians Organization states 11121 Wolcott Rd. North Rose NY. See 1853 Wayne County Map excerpt below for suggested location owned by J. Lee.
This now-gone house, once owned by Chester Haviland on the Rose-Wolcott Road, was a small, one-story structured with a narrow gable facing the highway. A portion of the front had been stuccoed over. The front was faced with lake stones and the sides with field stones. The house was roughly built. The quoins were an irregular red or white and had striped stones. The lintels were of wood. 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 fourth paragraph on page 40.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Chester Haviland House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 243 and 244. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
Ellingwood-Lee House history sheet. From the personal research of cobblestone historian Karen Crandall.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Haviland Cobblestone house abandoned
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Haviland House
- Pages 180 - 181, Window Lintels in Wayne County Page 269
¹ 1853 Town of Rose, Wayne County map excerpt courtesy Library of Congress.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer. Attribution not provided.
