Wil-7, Adams-Demyda, 6405 Salmon Creek Rd.

    Documentation

    Building date: 1850

    Original use:

    Corner structures: Tooled

    Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment

    Types and uses of stones: Small red. Herringbone anywhere

    Types and choice of windows:

    Structures with similar masonry details:

    Masons who worked on building:

    Unique features:

    Map Location

    Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°13'53.02"N 77°13'05.54"W. Current owner of record, DeMyda/Kuhn as of the 2019 Tax Roll.

    Town of Williamson and Wayne County Maps.

    Comments, Additional Information, References

    The Roudabush Survey states the address as 6403 Salmon Creek Rd., whereas the current address is 6405 Salmon Creek Rd.

    6405 Salmon Creek Road built by C.B. Adams, 1850. 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 sixth paragraph on page 33.

    "Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" C. B. Adams House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 354 and 355. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.

    The Adam[s]-Denyda House Williamson, NY, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.

    Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Adams-Demyda Cobblestone

    The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:

    Adams - Demyda House 4th Annual 06/06/1964
    "Cobblestone Architecture", 1944, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Adams House
    Page 24, Page 40

    Front of the Adams House drawing, Entrance Door askew to left straight on view. Carl Schmidt Collection of Two-Dimensional Drawings, online access to view, New York Heritage digital collections. There is a second drawing of the same view.

    "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Adams - Demyda House
    Page 193, Main Entrance Page 282

    Photographs

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    Wil-7 Adams-Demyda 4.jpg ¹ Charles Hopkins c. 1930
    Wil-7 Adams-Demyda 2
    Wil-7 Adams-Demyda 2.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41
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    Wil-7 Adams-Demyda 3.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41
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    ¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
    ² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
    ³ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
    4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.

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