Building date: 1832
Original use:
Corner structures: Corner quoins are gray limestone blocks roughly squared with split surfaces, about 12 inches high, 19 inches long and seven inches thick.
Mortar application and content: Vertical, no embellishment
Types and uses of stones: In the left side wall the mason used larger sized field stones, varying from two and one-quarter to three inches in height and from three to eight inches in length, with similar jointing as in the front wall.
Types and choice of windows: Window openings have 10-inch high lintels and three-and-one-half-inch thick sills of the same material.
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°01'11.64"N 77°48'37.77"W. Current owner of record, Champion as of the 2018 Tax Roll.
Town of Wheatland and Monroe County Maps
Ariel Harmon built this house at 1911 North Road built in 1832. In the left side wall the mason used larger sized field stones, varying from two and one-quarter to three inches in height and from three to eight inches in length, with similar jointing as in the front wall. Corner quoins are gray limestone blocks roughly squared with split surfaces, about 12 inches high, 19 inches long and seven inches thick. In 1872 it was occupied by Harris Rogers. His sons operated a grocery business in Scottsville. Window openings have 10-inch high lintels and three-and-one-half-inch thick sills of the same material. Farm buildings were across the road. 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. Reference the eleventh paragraph on page 11.
For sale by owner 10/10/1988.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Muntz House 11th Annual 06/12/1971
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Harmon - Muntz House
- Page 75, Page 308
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¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
