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Mortar application and content: Vertical, no embellishment
Types and uses of stones: Small rounded red lake stones
Types and choice of windows: Lintels gray cut stone
Structures with similar masonry details: Sod-23 Gaylord
Masons who worked on building: Swales, William
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°16'06.92"N 77°04'19.06"W. Current owner of record, Gayk 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 Hazel B. Jeffery, supplemented with material furnished by Carl F. Schmidt, 1941. Reference the third paragraph on page 38.
"The Cobblestone Houses of Western New York" page 19 Figure 17, by Richard "Dick" H. Backus (1922-2012), January 1947. A paper written for a class in the Department of Art, Dartmouth College. A copy of the original paper was returned to Mr. Backus June 12, 1963 by Hugh Morrison of the Art Department. The paper was forwarded on March 16, 2026 to the Cobblestone Museum by Carol and Steve Mackintosh who had received it from an unnamed neighbor who was downsizing. The existence and location of the original paper is unknown.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Ellsworth House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 293 and 294. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Swales - Burns House 4th Annual 06/06/1964Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Swales-Burns Cobblestone
- "Cobblestone Architecture", 1944, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Ellsworth House
- Page 37, Page 52
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Swales - Ellsworth House
- Page 189
 Sod-20 Smith 1.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41 |  GP Wayne Sodus Sod-20 1-1 N.jpg ² 11/3/1971 |  GP Wayne Sodus Sod-20 2-1 N.jpg ² 11/3/1971 |  Sod_20_1.jpg |
 Sod_20_2.jpg |  Sod_20_3.jpg |  Sod_20_4.jpg |  Sod_20_5.jpg |
 Sod_20_6.jpg |  Sod-20 Smith 2.jpg ¹ |  Sod-20 6543 Lake Rd 1.jpg ³ |  Sod-20 6543 Lake Rd 2.jpg ³ |
 Sod-20 6543 Lake Rd 3.jpg ³ 7/21/2002 |  Sod-20 Smith 3.jpg ¹ |  IMG_0740.jpg 4 |
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
