Building date: 1840 Roudabush, ca. 1835 Palmer, 1831 Town of Victor
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Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°01'06.40"N 77°23'58.27"W. Current owner of record, Vicwil Associates as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Victor and Ontario County Maps
Roudabush states the street address as 421 Co. Rd. 9; however, the correct address is 422 Victor-Egypt Road, Co. Rd. 9.
Listed as the Rowley-Keefe Homestead, the structure is included as an historic building, page 6 #13, in the "A Driving Tour of Historic Victor" publication, a 2010 reprint by Victor Town Historian, Babeffe Huber.
422 Victor-Egypt Road. Built for Andrew Rowley, ca. 1835. Owned by Keefe family for many years. Richard Palmer blog.
Additional online information: The Rowley-Keefe Homestead, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.
The structure is now part part of the large Cobblestone Creek Country Club complex, and is known as the Cobblestone House.
Carl Schmidt refers to the structure as the "Rowley-Leigh House" on page 112 of his book "Cobblestone Masonry" 1966.
The Rowley-Keefe Homestead, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Rowley - Leigh House
- Pages 112 - 113
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
