Building date: 1835 - Schmidt states 1842.
Original use:
Corner structures: Red sandstone
Mortar application and content: No embellishment in mortar
Types and uses of stones: Lake-washed cobblestones, small, various colors, vertical.
Types and choice of windows: Sills of gray sandstone
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°18'58.78"N 78°49'34.72"W. Current owner of record, Tordoff as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Wilson and Niagara County Maps
The Roudabush Survey lists the name in the survey as Penatale, and as DeNatale on the photograph label.
The Case homestead at 81 Lake St. in the village of Wilson was built about 1835 of lake-washed cobblestones of various sizes and colors. The quoins are of red sandstones and sills of gray sandstone. For some unknown reason, the front of the house has been stuccoed over, but the side walls have not been tampered with. 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. Reference paragraph twelve in page 10.
The Land of Cobblestones, by Donald W. Croop 1976, Case Homestead Page 19, A Publication of the Wilson Bicentennial Committee and Wilson Historical Society, Niagara County, Wilson, N.Y.
Edited publication excerpt about Case Homestead, "Cobblestone Homes and Legends Town of Wilson", by Wilson Historical Society.
Buffalo Evening News 4/11/1970 photo and caption of the house with owner Mrs. A. Richard DeNatale and children.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Parmalee Hall 6th Annual 06/06/1964
Editor's Note: Note house name spelling difference, Parmalee Hall versus Wilson - Parmale House, with Schmidt's "Cobblestone Masonry" book, Page 88
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Wilson - Parmale House
- Page 88
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¹ Image courtesy Wilson Historical Society collection.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
