Building date: About 1843
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Corner structures: Square-cut limestone
Mortar application and content: Mortar has been handled with less finesse than many other houses, and gives the appearance of being crudely constructed.
Types and uses of stones: Stones are not rounded, but are irregular and smoothed as though from glacial action. The front wall has stones laid four rows to the quoin, while there are three rows to the quoin on the side walls.
Types and choice of windows: Lintels square-cut limestone
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Google Maps street level view is not available. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°33'02.78"N 76°58'20.51"W. Current owner of record, Schuler as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Starkey and Yates County Maps.
The so called Supplee-Green House at 4420 Himrod-Dundee Rd. (about one mile north of Dundee) is a two story house. The front wall has stones laid four rows to the quoin, while there are three rows to the quoin on the side walls. The quoins and lintels are square-cut limestone. Stones are not rounded, but are irregular and smoothed as though from glacial action. Mortar has been handled with less finesse than many other houses, and gives the appearance of being crudely constructed. Roudabush Survey page 123
The Daniel Supplee farmhouse is located at 4420 Dundee-Himrod Road near Dundee. The farmhouse was built about 1843 and remodeled prior to 1876. It began as a vernacular, "L"-shaped structure. It is of the late Federal or early Greek Revival style architecture and built of a variety of colored and irregularly shaped field cobbles. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. Richard Palmer blog.
Supplee house stands out as historic landmark, by Richard Palmer
The picturesque Daniel Supplee farmhouse at 4420 Dundee-Himrod-Himrod Road in the town of Starkey near Dundee is one of the finest reminders of elegant 19th century rural life. This house was built about 1843 by Daniel Supplee, a prosperous farmer.
It was originally of Greek Revival style but sometime prior to 1876 was remodeled to reflect the more stylish Victorian look. It was constructed from a variety of colored and irregularly shaped cobblestones hauled to the site from the shore of Lake Ontario near Sodus Point.
Supplee knew how to make crops grow. It was not uncommon for him to get a yield of 40 bushels of wheat to the acre. He helped organize and was treasurer of the Dundee Union Agricultural Society that was organized in 1856. For many years they held a fair in October in the days when farming was the life of the community. He was also involved in Democratic politics.
Supplee was born at Himrod on March 14, 1815 and died Oct. 26, 1888. In 1837 he married the former Mary Spink. She was the daughter of Silas and Mabra Spink and was born in 1819 on the family farm near Himrod. Her father was one of the earliest settlers in the town of Milo, having migrated there from Rhode Island in 1790. The Spinks were Quakers.
The Supplees had two daughters, Frances and Sabelin. So that they might have a musical education Mr. Supplee purchased from New York one of the first pianos to be owned in this area. As there was no music teacher to be had here he hired one from a nearby city and had her live with them at the farm to instruct his daughters.
Supplee was also a partner in the drygoods firm of C.P. McLean & Co. in the village of Dundee. He was a member of the local Methodist Episcopal Church.
After his death, Mrs. Supplee continued in the dry goods business with one of her daughters who had married C.P. McLean, for several years. That business failed in 1888.
Subsequent owners of the Supplee farm were George P. Lord, Hugh Hess and N.K. Doan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. Richard Palmer blog.
"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 fourth paragraph on page 23.
"Gateways To Cobblestone Houses of Yates County", by Crooked Lake Yorkers, Penn Yan Academy, page 12, 1967.
"A Brief History of Cobblestone Architecture in Yates County, New York", By Richard F. Palmer
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National Register of Historic Places Registration
¹ Old prints from Combination Atlas Map of Yates County, Compiled, Drawn and Published From Personal Examinations and Surveys, N.Y. Everts, Ensign & Everts, Philadelphia, Pa., 1876, p99.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
