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Photograph of William Covert Cobblestone Farmhouse
Photograph by Wheelski, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

William Covert Cobblestone Farmhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“William Covert Cobblestone Farmhouse, also known as the Covert-Brodie-Pollok House, is a historic home located at Greece, New York. It is a Greek Revival style cobblestone farmhouse built about 1832.”

Wikipedia article William Covert Cobblestone Farmhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 233 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Listed as. Covert, William, Cobblestone Farmhouse - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 978 N. Greece Rd., Greece, 14626
  • When was it listed? November 1995
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Cobblestone Architecture of New York State MPS
  • Town. Greece town
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 95001280 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1895 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering William Covert Cobblestone Farmhouse, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering William Covert Cobblestone Farmhouse, surveyed 1895

Fires near this property

909 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 909 fires within 5 miles of William Covert Cobblestone Farmhouse between 2000 and 2020, burning about 504 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 176 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined466
Arson/incendiarism176
Smoking143
Natural45
Debris and open burning33
Misuse of fire by a minor16
Equipment and vehicle use13
Recreation and ceremony10
Power generation/transmission/distribution7

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
5 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of William Covert Cobblestone Farmhouse: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chester Peacock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Gp-9 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pease PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pinehill Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this property

25 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greece, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 17 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1996LightningGreece1 hurtno account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindGreece$35,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindGreece$25,000Thunderstorm winds knocked a tree onto a house on Tarwood Drive in Gates.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGreece$25,000no account filed
June 2005Flash FloodGreece$20,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindGreece$20,000no account filed
September 2009Thunderstorm WindGreece$15,000Law enforcement reported trees and wires down near Ridge Road West.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGreece$15,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindGreece$15,000no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindGreece$15,000no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindGreece$15,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindGreece$10,000Thunderstorm winds down trees on Pasadena Drive in Gates.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindGreece$10,000Law enforcement reported wires downed by thunderstorm winds.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindGreece$10,000Thunderstorms winds downed numerous trees and power lines.
April 2006HailGreece$8,000no account filed
May 2004LightningGreece$5,000no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindGreece$2,000Trees and wires downed.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindGreece$2,000Trees and wires were reported down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindGreece$2,000Trees and wires were reported down.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindGreece$1,000Tree down on wires in Greece.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindGreece-Three limbs downed on Maiden Road near NY-390.
August 2013HailGreece-no account filed
August 2011HailGreece-no account filed
September 2010HailGreece-no account filed
June 2009HailGreece-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe County

Maps showing this location

13 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Chase Cobblestone Farmhouse2.2 miles1995
Greece Memorial Hall2.3 miles1998
William A. Payne House3.4 miles2012
Koda-Vista Historic District3.7 miles2019
Our Mother of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church Complex3.9 miles1989
Spencerport Methodist Church4.4 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95001280 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Monroe CountyAll 233 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.