Building date:
Original use: Smokehouse
Corner structures: Quoins are 2 bricks in length and 4 high. They are terra cotta color.
Mortar application and content: Vertical, no embellishment. Many of the rows lack vertical embellishments between stones, but an occasional row has raised thin columns.
Types and uses of stones: Small red. Herringbone anywhere. Three sides contain small lake-washed oval, red stones laid four courses to the quoin. The fourth wall is made of large stones laid in no particular pattern.
Types and choice of windows: Lentils wood
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°10'51.02"N 77°04'57.61"W. Current owner of record, Sliker as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Sodus and Wayne County Maps
Smokehouse has quoins 2 bricks in length and 4 high. They are terra cotta color. Roudabush Survey page 17
The smokehouse at 4917 Newark-Sodus Rd. has brick quoins. Three sides contain small lake-washed oval, red stones laid four courses to the quoin. The fourth wall is made of large stones laid in no particular pattern. Many of the rows lack vertical embellishments between stones, but an occasional row has raised thin columns. Roudabush Survey page 111
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" J. Van Plankenberg House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 255 and 256. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone outbulding/slate roof
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¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.