Wal-4, Zion Evangelical Church, 3960 West Walworth Rd.

    Documentation

    Building date: 1856

    Original use: Church

    Corner structures: Variable

    Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids

    Types and uses of stones:

    Types and choice of windows: Lintels red stone solid. Lintels red cut stone

    Structures with similar masonry details: Wil-9 Behs Texaco Station, Hur-1 Fowler, Hur-2 Klueber, Pal-12 Harris, Pal-16 Lyon

    Masons who worked on building:

    Unique features:

    Map Location

    Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°08'48.48"N 77°20'43.54"W. Current owner of record, West Walworth Methodist Church as of the 2019 Tax Roll.

    Town of Walworth and Wayne County Maps.

    Comments, Additional Information, References

    Evangelical United Brethren Church, 3960 West Walworth Road, built 1856. 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 thirteenth paragraph on page 34.

    Faith of Our Fathers, West Walworth's Zion Church", by Photographer Fred Powers and Historian Arch Merrill, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 6/16/1963.

    Zion United Methodist Church, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.

    Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Zion United Methodist Church (cobblestone)


    "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Zion Evangelical Church
    Page 193

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    ¹ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
    ² Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.

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