Wil-5, Mogray, 3424 Ridge Rd.

    Documentation

    Building date: 1839

    Original use: Church

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    Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy

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    Map Location

    Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°13'21.02"N 77°13'03.74"W. Current owner of record, Wilson as of the 2019 Tax Roll.

    Town of Williamson and Wayne County Maps.

    Comments, Additional Information, References

    3424 Ridge Road. Originally First Methodist Church of Williamson. Date stone: "Ridge Chapel 1839". 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, 1941. Reference the fourth paragraph on page 33.

    "Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Ridge Chapel House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 348 and 349. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.

    The Ridge Chapel 3424 Ridge Road Williamson, NY in Wayne County, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.

    The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:

    Ridge Chapel 4th Annual 06/06/1964
    Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house


    "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Ridge Chapel
    Pages 198 - 199

    Photographs

    Wil-5 Mogray 2
    Wil-5 Mogray 2.jpg ¹ Photograph by Charles Hopkins c. 1930
    Wil-5 Mogray 1
    Wil-5 Mogray 1.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41
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    ¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
    ² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
    ³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.

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