Home of Elias Durfee. This Federal style home has a wide frieze under the eaves. The main section has eight rooms with the addition having an additional eight. The rear wing was originally wooden but was replaced in the early 1900's with one made from concrete block.  The wooden wing was then moved just down the road and used as a hired man's house.  The Elias and Mercy Durfee moved to the land between 1828 and 1831. They originally built a log cabin just in front of the home while building the stone structure.  Local lore says there was a plank walkway between the two houses until the stone house was completed. The home is dated to 1830 and was possibly built using limestone taken from the quarry at the Hall farm at Hall Center. Oral tradition maintains that this was a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Elias Durfee was the son of Pardon Durfee of Palmyra, NY. Elias was the supervisor of the town of Marion for the years 1829-33, 1835, 1837-8, 1851, 1855-59.  He was also a member of the NYS Assembly, Second District, for Wayne County in 1847. He was Chairman of the Wayne County Board of Supervisors in 1857 and 1859.

He was also a well known local abolitionist and a vice-president of the first Wayne County Anti-Slavery Society which met for the first time in Palmyra in December 1837. Elias Durfee died in June of 1864 and his sermon was preached by well known Quaker Hicksite preacher Sunderland P. Gardner.