Ros-4, Webber, 3833 Shepard Rd. just north of Meeham Rd. on West side of Shepard Rd.

    Documentation

    Building date: <1848, razed 1990's due to deterioration.

    Original use:

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    Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids

    Types and uses of stones: Decoration by stone color

    Types and choice of windows: Lentils wood

    Structures with similar masonry details:

    Masons who worked on building:

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    Map Location

    Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth estimated; 43°08'45.31"N 76°50'34.79"W. Current owner of record, Huron Evergreen LLC ? as of the 2019 Tax Roll.

    Town of Rose and Wayne County Maps

    Comments, Additional Information, References

    "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" Mr. & Mrs. Bittor House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 249 and 250. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.

    Asa Town House, Webber history sheet. From the personal research of cobblestone historian Karen Crandall.

    Editor's Note: The structure no longer exists. See 1853 Wayne County Map excerpt below for location owned by Mrs. Town.

    Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house

    Photographs

    1853 Wayne County Map Ros-4 Excerpt
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    Ros-4 N of Meeham W side Shepard Rds 1
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    Ros-4 N of Meeham W side Shepard Rds 2
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    Ros-4 N of Meeham W side Shepard Rds 4
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    ¹ 1853 Town of Rose, Wayne County map excerpt courtesy Library of Congress.
    ² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.

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