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Corner structures: Variable, rough cut gray limestone quoins
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Horizontal mortar is wavy and large pyramids are formed in the vertical mortar.
Types and uses of stones: Stones are large, irregular and smoothed, and varied in color.
Types and choice of windows: Lintels brick, width vertical. Lentils wood. Lintels apparently of gray limestone painted white. [mixed or discrepancy?]
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°12'44.66"N 77°02'30.30"W. Current owner of record, Lorriane as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Sodus and Wayne County Maps
A one and one-half story house at 5821 Buerman Rd. has rough cut gray limestone quoins and window lintels apparently of gray limestone painted white. Stones are large, irregular and smoothed, and varied in color. Horizontal mortar is wavy and large pyramids are formed in the vertical mortar. Roudabush Survey page 111
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Richard Boone House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 257 and 258. 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 house
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
¹ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
