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Unique features: Greek Revival Vernacular *. A small utility building with a wood porch on front. Cobblestone Buildings in Onondaga County", 1992, Structure No. 18, compiled by Glenn Hinchey.
* Architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings.
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Location as shown with Google Earth is approximate; 43°06'41.11"N 76°22'12.94"W. No evidence of the structure was found with either Google Maps street level or satellite views.
Town of Van Buren and Onondaga County Maps.
Milk house, Harrington farm, Sheets road, Memphis, collapsed. Note from Permanent File of Cobblestone Structures, courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
This is the old cobblestone milk house on the Albert Howe farm on Sheet Road south of Hoag Road in the Town of Van Buren near Memphis. Richard Palmer blog. This was the Albert Howe Farm in 1889. Richard Palmer blog.
 1852 Onondaga Van-2 Map Excerpt.jpg ¹ |  Van-2 Milk House 1.jpg ² Children are Fred, Mary and Hannah Hoag. Women are unidentified. |  bicycle-built-for-two_orig.jpg ² Photographed at the same location with their "bicycle built for two" were, from left, Fred, Hanna and Emily Sears. |
¹ 1852 Onondaga County Map Excerpt courtesy Library of Congress.
² Photography courtesy Shacksboro Schoolhouse Museum collection.
