Person:Alonzo Bradley (1)

!RESIDENCES: The cobblestone house at the corner of Culver Road and Main Street East in Rochester was built in 1839 by Alonzo Bradley for the Hendrick vanBrunt Schanck family on the family farm the on Schanck Ave. in Brighton, NY. Mr. Schanck was the 8th son of Capt. John Schanck of Monmouth Co., NJ, a soldier in the Revolutionary War. The house was built of stones gathered on the farm and the timbers were all oak, hand-hewn and fastened with wooden pegs and hand-forged nails. The cellar walls are three feet thick , to give support to massive superstructure. Both the original oak floors and the cobblestone walls are in perfect condition. The Schanck home was built in the center of the east line of the farm which extende North to the present lines of the Glen Haven Railroad and South nearly to the New York Central. Mr. Schanck made atrip to New Jersey in 1839 and brought back a wagon load of young peach trees, which were the first to be planted in this vicinity, and also planted a large cherry orchard. The last heir of the Schanck family to occupy the homestead was a grandson of Hendrick vanBrunt Schanck, Chester Dewey Urr Hobbie, who sold it. Mr. Alonzo Bradley married Mr. Schanck's oldest daughter Sarah on Dec 25, 1843. Of late the homestead has been sold for a filling station. (copied from a newspaper article by Kate Ward Reid in 1924.)