She-8 Smokehouse & Barn Foundation, 11380 Main St., Shelby Center

    Documentation

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    Original use: Smokehouse & Barn Foundation

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    Map Location

    Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°11'20.49"N 78°23'17.45"W. Current owner of record, 11380 Main St., LLC as of the 2019 Tax Roll.

    Town of Shelby and Orleans County Maps

    Comments, Additional Information, References

    The photograph She-8 11380 Main St 2.jpg below is a wooden frame building constructed over a former old carriage house which was on the farm of Andrew Ellicott who purchased from his uncle, Joseph Elliott, agent for the Holland Land Company, in 1825. Andrew died in 1839 and his wife in 1850.

    Site of Forrestel Girl's Camp.


    "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 113, 114. Orleans County, Hewes-Forrestel Smokehouse. This structure is not included in the subsequent book "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978.

    "Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 92, by Delia Robinson, Edited by Evelyn Lyman and William Nestle. Jointly published by The Cobblestone Society and The Orleans County Historical Association, December 1996.

    Photographs

    GP Orleans Shelby She-8 1-1 N
    GP Orleans Shelby She-8 1-1 N.jpg ¹ August 1969
    GP Orleans Shelby She-8 2-1 N
    GP Orleans Shelby She-8 2-1 N.jpg ¹ August 1969
    GP Orleans Shelby She-8 2-3 N
    GP Orleans Shelby She-8 2-3 N.jpg ¹ August 1969
    She-8 Smokehouse 1
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    She-8 Smokehouse 2
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    She-8 11380 Main St 1
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    She-8 11380 Main St 2
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    She-8 11380 Main St 3
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    ¹ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
    ¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
    ³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.

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