Building date:
Original use: Barn
Corner structures: Variable. Gray limestone of various sizes and shapes.
Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment. Vertical pyramids. Narrow pyramids of mortar occur between the stones.
Types and uses of stones: Scaffold holes in wall. The west side has three or four rows of stones per quoin. The bottom (about 7 feet) has irregularly laid large stones, not in the cobblestone fashion. The west side has 9 scaffold holes, sometimes built in high walls. In the front, next to the door, the stones are smooth, but of irregular shape, size and color.
Types and choice of windows: Lentils wood
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features: Scaffold holes in wall.
Courtesy Google Maps. Approximate location per Google Earth Pro; 43°12'15.17"N 77°01'38.51"W.
Town of Sodus and Wayne County Maps
Editor's Note: The actual street address is unconfirmed; however, since the barn has been demolished, the street address would be associated with the residence on the property, and the exact GPS coordinates of the former barn have yet to be determined.
Roudabush Survey states name of Hermenet whereas image label states Hermeinet. Hermenet is used, but not verified.
A large barn can be found at 7480 Sodus Center Rd.. The front, toward the road, has vines over much of the wall, but on the northwest corner, the quoins can be seen. They are gray limestone of various sizes and shapes. The west side has three or four rows of stones per quoin. The bottom (about 7 feet) has irregularly laid large stones, not in the cobblestone fashion. The west side has 9 scaffold holes, sometimes built in high walls. In the front, next to the door, the stones are smooth, but of irregular shape, size and color. Narrow pyramids of mortar occur between the stones. Roudabush Survey page 111
"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 ninth paragraph on page 39.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Barn in Sodus Center excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 269 and 270. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
Hermenet Barn history sheet. From the personal research of cobblestone historian Karen Crandall.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone barn
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¹ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
