Building date: 1833
Original use:
Corner structures: Limestone quoins
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy, vertical pyramids
Types and uses of stones:
Types and choice of windows: Limestone lintels and sills.
Structures with similar masonry details:
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°01'08.60"N 77°52'31.54"W. Current owner of record, Zimber as of the 2018 Tax Roll.
Town of Wheatland and Monroe County Maps
"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 twelveth paragraph on page 11.
North Roads two cobblestone houses were built by brothers Ariel and Sylvester Harmon in 1832 and 1833. Their father, Deacon Rawson Harmon, Wheatland's earliest pioneer, settled here in 1811, after leaving New Marlboro Massachusetts. By 1820 the family had grown, prospered and Deacon would build a brick home. Two grown sons built their cobblestone homes on North Road in 1832 and 1833. Philip F. Hammond.
This exceptionally well-maintained Greek Revival house at 3314 North Road was built about 1833 by Sylvester Harmon. It has wide cornices with fable-end returns. A fan-shaped window with wood panel adorns the front gable end. It has limestone quoins, lintels and sills. The front entrance has a paneled door, rectangular transom and sidelights. The front porch has square posts. The wood-frame rear wing appears to be a 20th century addition. In later years, this was the home of Volney P. Brown, a prosperous farmer. He served as supervisor of the town of Wheatland in 1869 and as a member of the New York State Assembly in 1870 and 1871. Richard Palmer blog.
A Beautiful Cobblestone at the Corner of North Road and Riga-Mumford Road., courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.
Cobblestone home on 12 acres with a pond goes on the market
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
February 1, 2020
- Front of Harmon Lowe House drawing, Entrance Door straight on view. Carl Schmidt Collection of Two-Dimensional Drawings, online access to view, New York Heritage digital collections.
Editor's Note: There is a contradiction with the location specified for this drawing. Please refer to the email dated 210213.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Harmon - Hammond House
- Page 75, Main Entrance Page 285
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¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
