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Corner structures: Red sandstone. Quoins are gray limestone [Mixed or discrepancy?]
Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment. Vertical mortar is in broad pyramids.
Types and uses of stones: Stones are moderately large, irregular in shape and only slightly smoothed. The stones are laid four to the quoin in the front (east) and north side, while on the west and south there are three rows per quoin.
Types and choice of windows: Lentils wood
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Unique features: Larger field stone on the bottom of walls and smaller lake stone on the top Town of Sodus Historial Society.
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°11'46.74"N 77°00'46.95"W. Current owner of record, Hershberger as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Sodus and Wayne County Maps
On the west side of South Geneva Rd., south of Brick Church Rd., a small house is located on a hill. A narrow road between sections of orchard leads to the house, which has one floor above ground level, and one below ground and exposed on the southeast corner. Stones are moderately large, irregular in shape and only slightly smoothed. The stones are laid four to the quoin in the front (east) and north side, while on the west and south there are three rows per quoin. Quoins are gray limestone, and the window lintels are wood. Vertical mortar is in broad pyramids. 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 thirteenth paragraph on page 39.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" W. C. Yandow House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 312 and 313. 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.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
