1000 Whalen Rd., Penfield, New York. County/parish: Monroe.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 11, 1978. NRIS 78001862.
2 contributing buildings.
The Mud House is a historic home located at Penfield in Monroe County, New York. It is a 1+1⁄2-story, 24-by-38-foot (7.3 by 11.6 m) rectangular earthen building with gable roof. It was constructed about 1836 of clay, puddled with straw, and then rammed into forms above a fieldstone foundation and is a rare surviving example of rammed-earth construction and was part of the Brown Brothers Nursery owned by Don Brown.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318888