Warner, Oliver, Farmstead

Along Route 488 on the Phelps and Hopewell town line, this 203-acre farm centers on a cobblestone farmhouse dated 1840 on a stone in its front gable. Construction may have begun in the 1820s and continued over several years. The two-story main block and its side wing are faced with rounded stones laid in even horizontal courses with V-shaped mortar joints. The front door, framed by cut-stone Doric columns and a shell-like fanlight, is described as unique in Ontario County. Italianate porch and rear additions followed in the late 1860s or early 1870s under Daniel D. Tompkins Warner, son of Oliver Warner, who is credited with the house. A tripartite barn and a machine shed/wagon house survive from the nineteenth century. The acreage matches the holdings assembled by 1867 and was farmed for sheep, hogs, orchard fruit and field crops. The property stayed in the Warner family until 1947 and still operates as a dairy farm.