Building date: 1834
Original use:
Corner structures: Quoins are uniform
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids
Types and uses of stones: Stones are large, irregular and only slightly smoothed. Number of courses of stones per quoin are equal - 3 in front and both sides.
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°58'58.08"N 77°27'48.24"W. Current owner of record, Tovstukha as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Victor and Ontario County Maps
At 515 Willis Hill Rd., a 1½ story house has a full height cellar entrance with a window on each side of the door. A porch in front and a rear addition have been added to the original house. Quoins are uniform and the number of courses of stones per quoin are also equal - 3 in front and both sides. Stones are large, irregular and only slightly smoothed. Roudabush Survey page 89
Roudabush Survey states the address as 515 Willis Hill Rd.; however, the current location is 1135 Willis Hill Rd..
1135 Willis [Hill] Road, Victor, built by Seth and Charlotte Potter in 1834. 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 sixth paragraph on page 17.
A Driving Tour of Historic Victor, page 15, # 40
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
