Building date: 1842, demolished 1964
Original use: Residence
Corner structures: Roughly squared gray limestone with split faces.
Mortar application and content:
Types and uses of stones: Fieldstones of different sizes, shapes and colors. Front wall stones laid four courses to a quoin height.
Types and choice of windows: Wood lintels
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°12'35.17"N 77°13'30.71"W.
Town of Williamson and Wayne 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, 1941. Reference the thirteenth paragraph on page 35.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Leon Beach House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 344 and 345. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
Verlyn Klahn (1955 Hoffman Essay) pictures a 2-story, 5-bay Federal style house whose long side faces the highway. Mr. Brusso, owner at the time, said the house was built in 1842 and Leon Beach was the 2nd owner.
Eddy Brusso (2014) lived there as a child and remembers the family demolishing it in 1964 in favor of a new, modern house. Karen Crandall email 5/23/2022.
History Sheet / Beach-Eddy-Brusso House. From the personal research of cobblestone historian Karen Crandall.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Eddy-Brusso House
- Page 196
Editor's Note: In Carl Schmidt's text for the Eddy-Brusso House he has written "Above the window openings the mason built flat arches using about ten split gray limestones set vertically". Other documentation states that the window lintels were wood. Karen Crandall comments "I think CFS is describing the masonry details of some other house. Beach-Eddy-Brusso house stones appear to be lake stone and fairly uniform in size and shape. Courses on the front wall appear to be 5/quoin, and there's not enough detail to discern from our photos the profile of the joints. There is nothing to substantiate CFS claim of arched lintels.
 1853 Wayne County Wil-28 Excerpt Map.jpg ¹ |  Wil-28 Eddy Brusso House 1.jpg ² Photography by Charles Hopkins c. 1930. |  50BC17BA-9EBB-4114-95C2-EC6B1C773E39_1_201_a.jpg ³ |  Verlyn Klahn pix of Eddy-Brusso House.jpg 4 c. 1955 |
¹ 1853 Wayne County Wil-28 Excerpt Map courtesy Library of Congress.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Image from Carl F. Schmidt archives at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library, courtesy Karen Crandall.
4 Poor xerography copy of Verlyn Klahn photograph, courtesy Karen Crandall.
