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Corner structures: Red sandstone
Mortar application and content: Grouted
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Types and choice of windows: Lintels red stone solid
Structures with similar masonry details: Mur-1 Quaranto
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°09'22.09"N 78°09'22.05"W. Current owner of record, Batchellor as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Barre and Ontario County Maps
"Ogden Sears was a cooper by trade and worked at it some after leaving Connecticut, though in this town he was a farmer. His substantial stone residence was built may years ago, and for it he picked the stone on his own land, burned the lime used in erecting it, made the plaster and mortar and carried it to the workmen in a sap-bucket" according to the "Landmarks of Orleans County", Family Sketches page 8, Edited by Hon. Issac S. Signor, Syracuse, N.Y. D, Mason & Co., Publishers, 1894.
"The Cobblestone Houses of Upstate New York", compiled by Dorothy Wells Pease. Research done in collaboration with Hazed B. Jeffery, supplemented with material furnished by Carl F. Schmidt. Reference the fifth paragraph on page 8.
"Cobblestone Home Built by Family's Forefathers", by Cary Lattin, (former) Orleans County Historian, 4/7/1966. Attribution of published source not provided.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 9, by Delia Robinson, Edited by Evelyn Lyman and William Nestle. Jointly published by The Cobblestone Society and The Orleans County Historical Association, December 1996.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Sears - Batchellor House
- Pages 118 - 119
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
