Building date: 1826, not verified.
Original use:
Corner structures:
Mortar application and content: Vertical, heavy
Types and uses of stones:
Types and choice of windows: Lintels gray cut stone
Structures with similar masonry details:
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Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Street level view not available. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°58'36.34"N 77°41'48.09"W. Current owner of record, Martin as of the 2018 Tax Roll.
Town of Rush and Monroe County Maps
"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 eighth paragraph on page 15 (Count the continuation from page 14).
Subject #25, page 16, "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.
Cobblestone Structures in the Town of Rush. 3/1/1961
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Woods - Bender House
- Page 71
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 45. Monroe County, Woods(?)-
BenderLyke House. This structure is not included in the subsequent book "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978.
 Rus-6 Woods-Bender 4.jpg ¹ Location of structure c. 1885. |  Rus-6 Woods-Bender 5.jpg ¹ Location of structure c. Early 1900s. |  Rus-6 Woods-Bender 2.jpg ¹ |  GP Monroe Rush Rus-6_1 N.jpg ² 1971 |
 Rus-6 Woods-Bender 6.jpg ¹ 1972 |  Rus-6 Woods-Bender 7.jpg ¹ 1973 |  Rus_6_1.jpg |  Rus_6_2.jpg |
 Rus_6_3.jpg |  Rus_6_4.jpg |  Rus_6_5.jpg |  Rus_6_6.jpg |
 Rus-6 Woods-Bender 1.jpg ¹ |  Rus-6 42 Rush - W Rush Rd 1.jpg ³ |  Rus-6 42 Rush - W Rush Rd 2.jpg ³ |  Rus-6 42 Rush - W Rush Rd 3.jpg ³ |
 Rus-6 42 Rush - W Rush Rd 4.jpg ³ |  42 Rush West Rush Road Rush.jpg 4 |
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
¹ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
