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Corner structures: Red sandstone
Mortar application and content: Horizontal rounded. Vertical thin rounded. Mortar between the stones is raised slightly in ridges which are off vertical. These ridges slope from upper left to lower right.
Types and uses of stones: Small, various colors. The wall on the porch is constructed with multicolored rounded stones, with four rows of stones to a quoin. The other walls contain irregular, somewhat smoothed stones, set in a hexagonal pattern, typical of the Gaines region.
Types and choice of windows: Lintels red stone, solid
Structures with similar masonry details: Gai-9 Bacon-Neilans, Yat-1 Billingsley, Yat-4 Guemple, Yat-5 Sutton-Voelker
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°15'00.17"N 78°08'55.93"W. Current owner of record, Auberger as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Albion and Ontario County Maps
The house at 3449 Keitel Rd. has a 1½ story stone wing on to which has been added a wooden addition. A porch with two entry doors is located on the south side. The wall on the porch is constructed with multicolored rounded stones, with four rows of stones to a quoin. Mortar between the stones is raised slightly in ridges which are off vertical. These ridges slope from upper left to lower right. The other walls contain irregular, somewhat smoothed stones, set in a hexagonal pattern, typical of the Gaines region. Roudabush Survey page 95
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 4, by Delia Robinson, Edited by Evelyn Lyman and William Nestle. Jointly published by The Cobblestone Society and The Orleans County Historical Association, December 1996.
This house at 3449 Keitel Road was built by Eliphas Bidwell who came here in 1835 from Brunswick, N.Y. Richard Palmer blog.
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¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
