Building date: About 1840
Original use:
Corner structures:
Mortar application and content: Vertical, no embellishment
Types and uses of stones: Stones in the front are irregular and somewhat smoothed, with 4 rows per quoin. At the sides, the rows are 3 per quoin.
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Unique features: First floor covered with cement.
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°49'56.47"N 77°24'02.46"W. Current owner of record, Wallace as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Bristol and Ontario County Maps
At 4001 Bristol Valley Rd., there is a two-story cobblestone which has the walls of the first story covered with mortar or cement which is painted white. On the south side of the second floor, the wall is bulged, presumably from water leaking into the wall from the roof. Stones in the front are irregular and somewhat smoothed, with 4 rows per quoin. At the sides, the rows are 3 per quoin. The visible mortar between rows of stones opposite the bottom 3 quoins (second story) appears to have been rebuilt, since in this area the mortar protudes, while above the mortar is flat. Roudabush Survey page 84
The five-bay Munson Hitchcock House at 4001 Bristol Valley Road (Route 20A) was built about 1840. The first floor was stuccoed over many years ago. Richard Palmer blog.
"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, 1941. Reference the fourth paragraph on page 20.
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¹ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
² Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
