Building date: 1830's
Original use:
Corner structures:
Mortar application and content: Vertical, very heavy, bold
Types and uses of stones:
Types and choice of windows: Wood, back
Structures with similar masonry details: Lim-3 Knop
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Street level view is not available. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°56'35.96"N 77°42'17.96"W. Current owner of record, Mulligan Farm LLC as of the 2018 Tax Roll.
Town of Rush and Monroe County Maps
Editor's Note: The address for the Barber-Mulligan Farm is 5403 Barber Road, Avon, Town of Avon, Livingston County; however, this cobblestone tenant house is located on a separate Barber-Mulligan Farm parcel located at 25 Hartwell Rd., Town of Rush, Monroe County.
Tax records state that the building date is 1826.
"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 seventh paragraph on page 15 (Count the continuation from page 14).
Subject #32, page 25, "Survey of Cobblestone Masonry in the Rush - Mendon Area", by Richard Burton Wood (1934-1992), May 18, 1955. Essay submitted to Dr. Hersey, Art 146, Class of 1956 University of Rochester.
The Roudabush Survey does not provide a street address number.
Permanent File of Cobblestone Structures 3/1/1961
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National Register of Historic Places Registration
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Barber - Mulligan House
- Page 69, Main Entrance Page 288, Page 307
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 44. Monroe County, Hartwell (Barber?)-Mulligan 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 Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Image courtesy Town of Henrietta Historian Office, Jenny Smith.
5 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
