Building date:
Original use:
Corner structures: Brown sandstone, edge not straight. Surface chisels with dots.
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids. Fine mortar, sharp "V" joint with pyramids
Types and uses of stones: Lake washed, all colors, laid in a slant. 4 rows per quoin.
Types and choice of windows: Lentils wood
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building: James Robinson.
Unique features: Cobblestone border around gable fanlight. Plaster of paris ceilings, and all windows in house the same size.
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°09'40.08"N 76°52'43.03"W. Current owner of record, Durham as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Rose and Wayne County Maps
Editor's Note: There are spelling differences in the last name: Mirick, Merick, and Merrick. Also known as Frantz House.
"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 third paragraph on page 40.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Leon Franz House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 245 and 246. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Merrick - Bartlett House
- Page 181
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 134. Wayne County, Holtz House. This structure is not included in the subsequent book "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978.
¹ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
