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Corner structures: Quoins are rough cut gray limestone
Mortar application and content: Vertical, no embellishment
Types and uses of stones: Small red. Only the front wall is made of cobblestones, the other walls being constructed of large field stones in a haphazard manner. Stones are small, lake washed red sandstones, laid four rows to the quoin.
Types and choice of windows: Lentils wood
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°15'50.45"N 77°01'45.48"W. Current owner of record, People of the State of NY, Office of Parks as of the 2019 Tax Roll. Managed by the Town of Sodus.
Town of Sodus and Wayne County Maps
On the entrance to Camp Beechwood, at Lake and Maxwell Rds., the small stone building has only the front wall made of cobblestones, the other walls being constructed of large field stones in a haphazard manner. Quoins are rough cut gray limestone. Stones are small, lake washed red sandstones, laid four rows to the quoin. Roudabush Survey page 112
"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 eighth paragraph on page 38.
Camp Beechwood Cobblestone Building
Abandoned Girl Scout Camp at Beechwood State Park, A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.
Whatever Happened to ... Camp Beechwood?, Alan Morrell, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Sept. 15, 2018
Beechwood State Park, former Girl Scout camp, undergoes improvement", 34 photos (including two of the cobblestone ruins), Tina MacIntyre-Yee, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Apr. 26, 2019
Beechwood State Park Assessment and Recommendations, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Syracuse, NY, May, 2011. This document included a 1960 Map of Camp Beachwood on page 36.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house - destroyed
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
4 Photograph courtesy Karen Crandall.
5 Map courtesy Beechwood State Park Assessment and Recommendations, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Syracuse, NY, May, 2011. Structure is listed as the Shop.
