Building date: Demolished 1964?
Original use:
Corner structures: Tooled. See Page 20 Errata.
Mortar application and content: The mortaris laid in very straight lines and protrudes past the stones, which do not cast a shadow in sunlight.
Types and uses of stones: stones appear to be squares cut with chipped surfaces.
Types and choice of windows:
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Any structure that once housed the Star Cleaner no longer exists in the location shown by Google Maps.
Town of Batavia and Genesee County Maps
The first floor of the Star Cleaners at Summit and Main St., Batavia, does not appear to be cobblestone. The mortar protrudes past the stones, which do not cast a shadow in sunlight. Mortar is laid in very straight lines and the stones appear to be squares cut with chipped surfaces. Roudabush Survey page 50.
"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 fourth paragraph on page 11.
...we recollect that the building that is now the Star Dry Cleaning establishment on East Main Street - once a huge home in Batavia's elite residential section - has lost its identity with the cobblestone era. The lower half built of cobblestones has been plastered over with stucco. Excerpt from "Cobblestone Examples Noted in Genesee Recall Construction Over Century Ago.
217 East Main St., last known as "Star Cleaners," demolished in 1964. Photo taken in 1941 when it was being used as a church. Richard Palmer blog.
The Star Cleaner business no longer exists in Batavia. Any structure stated to house the business at the northwest corner of East Main St. and Summit has been razed and the area redeveloped. In September 2016 a closed Key branch bank building occupied the 217-219 East Main St. address location.
The information and photographs provided with the timeline of 1941, 1964, 1966 and the Roudabush Survey 1975-80 do not clearly describe or show the Star Cleaner business in these structures. The Roudabush Survey photographs suggest that the building supposedly demolished in 1964 was still in existence.
 Bat-2 Star Cleaner.jpg ¹ 1941 |  Bat_2_1.jpg |  Bat_2_2.jpg |  Bat_2_3.jpg |
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum. Editor's Note: Richard Palmer quotes the date of the photograph as 1941. Notation on the reverse of the same Cobblestone Museum photograph shown here states circa 1945.
