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Adsit Cobblestone Farmhouse is a historic home located at Mendon in Monroe County, New York.
It is a Federal style cobblestone farmhouse built about 1832. It served as an inn during the
mid-19th century and was a popular stopover for farmers delivering grain on the road from
Canandaigua to Rochester. It is constructed of medium sized field cobbles and is one of only 10
surviving cobblestone buildings in Mendon. It was listed on the National Register of Historic
Places in 1996.

Stone houses can be found in many parts of the world, but New York's cobblestone houses are unique.
Instead of larger rocks, builders used rounded or oblong cobblestones small enough to fit in the
palm of your hand. New York had an abundance of these stones because of the glacial deposits and
lake wave action of prehistoric Lake Iroquois and the more recent Lake Ontario. The majority of
them are found along the Erie Canal and were built before the Civil War. Like snowflakes, no two
cobblestone buildings were made exactly alike, though the homes were often done in Greek Revival or
Federal styles.

More information can be found at
Cobblestone Houses That No Wolf Could Blow Down,
Wikipedia,
Wikipedia (Adsit Cobblestone Farmhouse) and personal recollections.

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