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English: The John Fogelsonger House, 219 Park Club Lane, Amherst, New York, November 2019. Erected in 1825, this traditional German-style stone house stood at the center of the Fogelsonger family's land holdings just past the western border of the village of Williamsville, fronting Main Street with Fogelsonger Road (now Park Club Lane) passing through it. Born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1799, John Fogelsonger was one of the founding fathers of the town, arriving in Amherst while still a very young man and purchasing this large parcel in 1818. For the first few years, Fogelsonger used the sulfur springs on the property to establish a cider and grist mill; however, by 1830, he had turned his attention to the high-quality outcroppings of limestone and flint he saw, opening the Williamsville Stone Quarry that year. His son Wendell took over the business in 1852. Though it was sold outside the family around 1900, the Fogelsonger Quarry, as it was also called, grew to be a major local supplier of limestone for building purposes - for instance, the Mennonite church that the Fogelsongers attended was built in 1834 with stone from the quarry. At its height, the 220-acre (88-hectare) complex included not only furnaces and other operational facilities, but also lodging for his sizable workforce. The late 1950s saw the former Fogelsonger property divided up for development, and the quarry itself, as well as the remaining buildings other than the stone house, were finally obliterated in 1962 when Exit 7 of Interstate 290 was constructed directly west of Park Club Lane. The home remains privately owned.