Building date: Pre-1839, 1837 per tax roll.
Original use:
Corner structures: Dark red bricks laid 1½ bricks in length and 5 bricks high.
Mortar application and content: Scored
Types and uses of stones:
Types and choice of windows: Lintels brick long vertical
Structures with similar masonry details: Ont-4 Raymor, Wal-10 Gagliano
Masons who worked on building: Dean
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°12'43.01"N 77°26'02.51"W. Current owner of record, Prestige Services LLC as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Webster and Monroe County Maps
[The scored mortar is] similar to Wal-10 Gagliano and Ont-4 Raymor. The marks were made by a double edged tool used to score both horizontal and vertical lines. In each instance, the vertical scoring originates in the upper left and extends toward the lower right. Thus the scoring appears to have been done by a right-handed mason. According to Carl Schmidt's book "Cobblestone Masonry" (1966), the mason on Web - 3 was a man named Dean. It would appear that Ont-4 and Wal-10 were built by the same man. Both Web-3 and Wal-10 have brick quoins. The legs of a triangle drawn between these three houses are roughly 4, 5 and 7 miles. Roudabush Survey page 27
This is the Dean House at 93 West Main St., Webster. Lewis Stratton purchased an 84-acre plot of land from the Phelps an Gorham Tract in 1832. Olive Reynolds, a pioneer doctor and investor bought it in 1835. In 1839 the one-acre plot was purchased by Aaron VanWormer who it is believed built this house. In 1868 it was sold to Eugene and Eduah Dean, and it remained in that family for about 70 years. Dean's Spring was located just north of this property. It was a spring fed artificial pond that served as the water supply for a canning factory until the village water system was installed in 1909. It was used for swimming and ice skating. Porches are 20th century additions. 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 seventh paragraph on page 31.
"Cobblestone Architecture in the Rochester Area", by Gerda Peterich, 1953. Reference Dean Homestead and figure 21. Editor's Note: This digitized version of the original typescript manuscript is reformatted for digital display, edited for errors, and includes blue tinted highlighted links to improve access within the document, to the appropriate structure pages in the Cobblestone Info Base, or to external resources on the internet. This document is one of two known typescript drafts, likely a thesis or essay bound as a book and apparently never published. One is available in the Cobblestone Museum Resource Center, the other in the University of Rochester Art and Music Library. A companion or precursor typed paper of the same title exists, perhaps used for a talk and/or photographic display of cobblestone structures.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
James Heid House 4th Annual 06/06/1964
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, James Heid House
- Page 73
- "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, House
- Page 34
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 39. Monroe County, Dean (?) - Krenzer House.
 GP Monroe Webster Web-3 1_1 N.jpg ¹ 10/7/1957 |  Web_3_1.jpg |  Web_3_2.jpg |  Web_3_3.jpg |
 Web_3_4.jpg |  Web-3 James-Heid 1.jpg ² |  Web-3 James-Heid 2.jpg ³ |  Web-3 93 Main St 1.jpg 4 |
 Web-3 93 Main St 2.jpg 4 |  93 Main St. Webster.jpg 5 |  93 West Main St Webster Monroe county.jpg 5 |  IMG_2654.jpg 6 Rear view |
 IMG_2655.jpg 6 Front street view |  Web-3 IMG_4963.jpg 7 June 2025 |
¹ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
4 Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
5 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
6 Sharon Pratt Webster Museum and Historical Society.
7 Photography courtesy Gene Bavis
