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Mortar application and content: Horizontal rounded. Vertical, slight embellishment. Vertical pyramids
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°48'35.59"N 77°06'07.79"W. Current owner of record, Hilton as of the 2019 Tax Roll. list of owners: Benedict 12/01/1992 and prior, Early 6/1/1999, Hilton 2/13/15.
Town of Seneca and Ontario 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 fourth paragraph on page 21.
"Cobblestone Curiosities", story and photos by Jewel H. Conover, Syracuse Herald-American, 7/10/1966
This farm is improved with a 125 year old cobblestone dwelling with 7 rooms and lavatory on the first floor and one room and a bath on the second floor. Neither exact date (circa 1968?) nor attribution provided.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Dr. Freeman McEwen House 5th Annual 06/12/1965Historic Structures Visited, 5th Annual Cobblestone Tour Brings 1,100 to City, by Mildred Jennings, The Geneva Times, page 6, 6/15/1965
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, McEwen House
- Page 109
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
