Sheldon Cobblestone House

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Sheldon Cobblestone House

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Sheldon Cobblestone House, December 2009
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Location 21 Mendon-Ionia Rd., S of jct. with NY 251, Mendon, New York
Coordinates 42°59′49″N77°30′16″W / 42.99694°N 77.50444°W / 42.99694; -77.50444 Coordinates: 42°59′49″N77°30′16″W / 42.99694°N 77.50444°W / 42.99694; -77.50444
Area 1.9 acres (0.77 ha)
Built 1833
Architect unknown
Architectural style Federal
MPS Cobblestone Architecture of New York State MPS
NRHP reference # 96001392 [1]
Added to NRHP November 29, 1996

Sheldon Cobblestone House is a historic home located at Mendon in Monroe County, New York. It is a Federal style cobblestone farmhouse built about 1833. It is constructed of medium-sized field cobbles and is one of only 10 surviving cobblestone buildings in Mendon. [2]

Mendon, New York Town in New York, United States

Mendon is a town in Monroe County, New York, United States, and has been ranked as one of the affluent suburbs of the city of Rochester as well as in all of Upstate New York. The population was estimated to be 9,308 according to the demographic data released by the Census Bureau in 2017.

Monroe County, New York county in New York, United States

Monroe County is a county in the western portion of the state of New York, in the United States. The county is along Lake Ontario's southern shore. As of 2017, Monroe County's population was 747,642. Its county seat is the city of Rochester. The county is named after James Monroe, the fifth President of the United States. Monroe County is part of the Rochester, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Federal architecture architectural style

Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the newly founded United States between c. 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815. This style shares its name with its era, the Federalist Era. The name Federal style is also used in association with furniture design in the United States of the same time period. The style broadly corresponds to the classicism of Biedermeier style in the German-speaking lands, Regency architecture in Britain and to the French Empire style.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. [1]

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