Building date: 1846
Original use:
Corner structures: Red sandstone
Mortar application and content: Horizontal rounded, space between stones scored vertically. Vertical thin rounded. A thin double edged tool was used, which scored two parallel lines, leaving the mortar between the lines appear to be raised.
Types and uses of stones: Small, various colors
Types and choice of windows: Lintels red stone, solid
Structures with similar masonry details: Car-1 Conslers, Cla-1 Grentzinger, Gai-5 Carr, Ken-5 Wilson, Mur-12 Phillips
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°14'50.76"N 78°09'56.39"W, 43.247433, -78.165664. Current owner of record, Hurd as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Albion and Ontario County Maps
Editor's Note: The location was incorrectly marked on the Roudabush Survey, placing the location just north of the Erie Canal, whereas the correct location is just south of the Erie Canal and just north of the intersection with East State Street. The map in the Cobblestone Info Base is correct.
This house at 3505 Butts Road was built for Nathaniel Lake in 1846, and was long referred to as the Lake Manse. It is trimmed in Medina sandstone. Richard Palmer blog.
Editor's Note: The cut, quarried stone for the residence and out buildings came from a quarry just south, adjacent to the property.
"Home Is A Rock Pile" by Chuck Lyons. "Upstate, Cobblestone Country", a unique form of architecture rose from the rock piles of the Rochester region. People, Places, Pleasures supplement, Sunday Democrat and Chronicle, November 27, 1988. Use this link to view the printable Cobblestone Country.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 2, by Delia Robinson, Edited by Evelyn Lyman and William Nestle. Jointly published by The Cobblestone Society and The Orleans County Historical Association, December 1996.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Hume House 12th Annual 06/10/1972, Tour of Cobblestone Homes, 09/28/2019. See photographs below from that event.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Lake - Shaffer House
- Page 115, Page 245
Editor's Note: The spelling of a name differs: page 115 has Shaffer and page 245 has Shaeffer.
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¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
¹ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
² Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
4 Photography courtesy Gregory Lawrence.
