Sod-20, Smith, 6543 Lake Rd.

    Documentation

    Building date:

    Original use:

    Corner structures:

    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 Location

    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

    Comments, Additional Information, References

    "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 third paragraph on page 38.

    "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 06/06/1964
    Wayne 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

    Photographs

    Sod-20 Smith 1
    Sod-20 Smith 1.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41
    GP Wayne Sodus Sod-20 1-1 N
    GP Wayne Sodus Sod-20 1-1 N.jpg ² 11/3/1971
    GP Wayne Sodus Sod-20 2-1 N
    GP Wayne Sodus Sod-20 2-1 N.jpg ² 11/3/1971
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    Sod_20_2
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    Sod_20_3
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    Sod_20_5
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    Sod-20 Smith 2
    Sod-20 Smith 2.jpg ¹
    Sod-20 6543 Lake Rd 1
    Sod-20 6543 Lake Rd 1.jpg ³
    Sod-20 6543 Lake Rd 2
    Sod-20 6543 Lake Rd 2.jpg ³
    Sod-20 6543 Lake Rd 3
    Sod-20 6543 Lake Rd 3.jpg ³ 7/21/2002
    Sod-20 Smith 3
    Sod-20 Smith 3.jpg ¹
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    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.

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