Whitcomb Cobblestone Farmhouse is a historic home located at Mendon in

Monroe County, New York Monroe County is a county in the Finger Lakes region of the State of New York. The county is along Lake Ontario's southern shore. At the 2020 census, Monroe County's population was 759,443, an increase since the 2010 census. Its county seat an ...

. It is a vernacular

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

style

cobblestone Cobblestone is a natural building material based on cobble-sized stones, and is used for pavement roads, streets, and buildings. Setts, also called Belgian blocks, are often casually referred to as "cobbles", although a sett is distinct fro ...

farmhouse built about 1847. It is constructed of medium-sized field cobbles and is one of only 10 surviving cobblestone buildings in Mendon. ''See also:'' It was listed on the

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in 1996.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Cobblestone architecture Greek Revival houses in New York (state) Houses completed in 1847 Houses in Monroe County, New York 1847 establishments in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Monroe County, New York {{MonroeCountyNY-NRHP-stub