Building date: 1856, demolished 2011.
Original use:
Corner structures: Elongated horizontally gray limestone
Mortar application and content: Vertical pyramids
Types and uses of stones: Vary in size, shape and color, but are smooth
Types and choice of windows: Lintels gray limestone
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Street level view of current structure.
Town of Cicero and Onondaga County Maps
Demolished in June of 2011 after fire in October 2010.
The Bellewood Baptist Church on Church St., N. Syracuse, is an L-shaped cobblestone building with a brick addition on the long arm of the L. Quoins are gray limestone, and window lintels are the same. At the front of the building, to the left of the porch, stones are laid in 2 rows to the quoin, and the same number exists on the left side of the building. On the porch and on the right end, rows of stone are three per quoin, except for one or two quoins on the end of which are only two rows. Stones vary in size, shape and color, but are smooth. Elongated stones occur in some areas. Belly windows occur over the porch roof. Roudabush Survey page 79
The Isaac Randall cobblestone house at 445 Church Street in North Syracuse was built in 1856. Cobblestones were hauled from the shoreline of Lake Ontario to the site by oxcarts. H. Crofford and H. Sherwood were the builders according to the date stone. Bellwood Baptist Church eventually acquired the property and used the house for religious classes. It was demolished in 2011 following a fire and a new church was built on the site. Richard Palmer blog.
"Bellewood Baptist is new village church", North Syracuse Star, Cicero, N. Y. 7/28/1972
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Glenn Hinchey, Richard Palmer blog.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
