Burlee Cobblestone House

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Burlee Cobblestone House

Historic Site #:	12-036 (Exists) Type: D,D1	Town:	Sodus
Site Name:	Burlee Cobblestone House	GPS Coordinates:	43.228676, -77.030841
Address:	7443 Old Ridge Rd. Sodus New York
Description:
Burlee House Cobblestone House


Photo by Edith Farrington (2019)	Photo from Hoffman Foundation Wayne County History Scholarship Essays (1955). Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County by Verlyn Edward Klahn. Courtesy of the Office of the Wayne County Historian.

Historic narrative:

From Hoffman Foundation Wayne County History Scholarship
Essays (1955). Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County by Verlyn Edward Klahn.
Courtesy of the Office of the Wayne County Historian.

BURLEE HOUSE ON RIDGE ROAD

L. E. Burlee now owns this home on the Ridge Road, east of Sodus. Will Cummings once lived here and the Kellys for whom a nearby road was named once lived here.

STONES: The red lakestones are 1 1/2 - 3 x 1 1/2 - 1 3/4 inches. Courses
are from 2 1/4 to 2 3/4 inches high.

JOINTS: The horizontal V is 1/2 to 3/4 inches. The vertical are V* s and pyramids.

MORTAR: The mortar is brown with some pebbles scattered through it.

QUOINS: The quoins are untooled sandstones.

LINTELS: The lintels are wooden.

References:

Hoffman Foundation Wayne County History Scholarship Essays (1955). Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County by Verlyn Edward Klahn.