Building date: 1840s
Original use:
Corner structures: Uniformly rectangular
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids. Vertical mortar is depressed below the top horizontal and cut off at the bottom.
Types and uses of stones: Rough and irregular with some smoothed slightly. The facing facade has four courses of stone per quoin while the south south has three courses per quoin.
Types and choice of windows:
Structures with similar masonry details: Can-1 Zeisler
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps, poor quality street level view SEP 2007. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°49'38.17"N 77°16'59.95"W. Current owner of record, Smith as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Canandaigua and Ontario County Maps
At 4100 West Lake Rd., there is another 1½ story house with uniformly rectangular quoins. It has a porch on the front and a wooden addition on the north end. The stones are rough and irregular with some smoothed slightly. Vertical mortar is depressed below the top horizontal and cut off at the bottom. Roudabush Survey page 84
The two-story home at 4100 West Lake Road has been extensively altered and remodeled over the years. The original house was built in the 1840s for Jonathan and Oliver Hawley. The facing facade has four courses of stone per quoin while the south south has three courses per quoin. Richard Palmer blog.
 4100 W. Lake Rd., Canandaigua.jpg ³ This is how the house looked originally before being heavily altered. |  Can-4 Moore 2.jpg ¹ Photograph by Clyde Maffin, Ontario County Historian 1968-81. |  Can_4_1.jpg |  Can_4_2.jpg |
 Can_4_3.jpg |  Can_4_4.jpg |  Can-4 Moore 1.jpg ¹ |  Can-4 4100 W Lake Rd 1.jpg ² |
 Can-4 4100 W Lake Rd 2.jpg ² |  IMG_1126.jpg ³ |  IMG_1127.jpg ³ One can readily detect the original roof line of this house. |  IMG_1125.jpg ³ Garage/guest house appears to be of new construction which incorporates the character of early cobblestone style. |
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
