Wil-14, Meaker, 7212 Fisher Rd.

    Documentation

    Building date: Circa 1847, destroyed by fire 8/25/2012, remains razed and taken away forthwith.

    Original use:

    Corner structures:

    Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids

    Types and uses of stones: Small, various colors

    Types and choice of windows:

    Structures with similar masonry details: Ont-8 Enderlin, Ont-11 Wilson, Mar-5 Heberle

    Masons who worked on building:

    Unique features:

    Map Location

    Map views courtesy Google Maps. Location can not be confirmed. No structure is visible at this address with Google Maps. Current owner of record, Swingly/Gauger as of the 2019 Tax Roll. Property data for 7212 Fisher Rd. lists 87.5 acres with no structures; however, vacant or agricultural land does not typically have an address, suggesting that there once was a structure.

    Town of Williamson and Wayne County Maps.

    Comments, Additional Information, References

    "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 second paragraph on page 33.

    I was told the house at 7212 Fisher Road, Williamson, burned down about 10 years ago. Richard Palmer email 10/21/2019.

    Norman Meaker House history sheet. From the personal research of cobblestone historian Karen Crandall.

    This structure is not listed in the Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Website


    "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Meeker House
    Page 197

    Editor's Note: Schmidt states name as Meeker, whereas Roudabush Survey correctly states Meaker.

    Photographs

    Wil-14 Meaker 1
    Wil-14 Meaker 1.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41
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    Wil-14 7212 Fisher Rd 1
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    IMG_6125.jpg ³ 4/5/2012
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    185550_4207234214359_2137551906_n.jpg ³ Destroyed by fire 8/25/2012

    ¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
    ² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
    ³ Photography/Image courtesy Karen Crandall.

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