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Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids
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Types and choice of windows: Lintels gray cut stone
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building: Swales, William
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Google Maps street level view blocked by dense vegetation and is not available. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°16'14.71"N 77°04'37.39"W. Current owner of record, Mulroney as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Sodus and Wayne 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 38.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Swales House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 291 and 292. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
Structure was on the original William Swales I farm and was built by him. It was inherited by his son, William II. "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt, Page 190.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house
- "Cobblestone Architecture", 1944, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Swales House
- Page 37, Page 52
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Swales - Monar House
- Page 190, Window Lintels in Wayne County Page 269
¹ Image courtesy Richard Palmer blog. Attribution not provided.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
