Building date: 1840
Original use:
Corner structures:
Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment
Types and uses of stones:
Types and choice of windows: Lintels brick, width vertical, second floor. Lentils wood [Mixed or discrepancy?]
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°12'39.58"N 76°58'43.56"W. Current owner of record, Buckley as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Sodus and Wayne County Maps
The Roudabush Survey states the address as 8522 Ridge Rd., whereas the current address is 8524 Ridge Rd.
"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 eleventh paragraph on page 39.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Collier House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 265 and 266. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
J. Collier 1840 inscribed on date stone. Town of Sodus Historical Society.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Collier family Cobblestone house in Alton, NY
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¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.