Building date: 1838
Original use: Store
Corner structures:
Mortar application and content: The "V'd" horizontal joints are about four inches on centers. The mortar is made of a very coarse gravel.
Types and uses of stones: The cobblestones are of the fieldstone variety, of various shapes and colors, and laid in the "Early Period" manner. The cobblestones are about two and one-half to three inches high.
Types and choice of windows:
Structures with similar masonry details:
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Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°01'11.47"N 77°44'56.98"W. Current owner of record, FKA Enterprises LLC as of the 2018 Tax Roll.
Town of Wheatland and Monroe County Maps
Permanent File of Cobblestone Structures and two pages of notes.
The Roudabush Survey does not provide a street number, the later reference in the Richard Palmer blog states a street number of 16. The Google Maps street view shows a house number of 14 with 16 assigned to the attached brick building to the left of this row apartment complex.
In 1838 William H. Hanford he built this cobblestone store at 16 Main St., Scottsville, he same site that Hanford had built the first store in the village. William and John Keys purchased the store from William J. Cox in 1890 and continued to operate it until John closed its doors in 1944. The west brick section was built by Dr. Freeman Edson as his office about 1846. The stone piers on each side of the entrance were probably removed sometime in the 1870's and the cast iron pilasters and new display windows installed. The cobblestones are of the fieldstone variety, of various shapes and colors, and laid in the "Early Period" manner. The "V'd" horizontal joints are about four inches on centers and the cobblestones are about two and one-half to three inches high. The mortar is made of a very coarse gravel. Richard Palmer blog.
"The Geological Origin of Cobblestone Architecture", by Gerda Peterich. Specific reference to this structure on page 12.
"Cobblestone Architecture in the Rochester Area", by Gerda Peterich, 1953. Reference Scottsville Store. 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:
Cobblestone Store 11th Annual 06/12/1971
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Filer - Keyes House
- Page 74
¹ Image courtesy Richard Palmer blog. Sketch of store by Carl F. Schmidt.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
4 Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
5 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
