Building date: 1840's
Original use:
Corner structures: Red Limestone
Mortar application and content:
Types and uses of stones: Herringbone anywhere
Types and choice of windows: Lintels red stone solid
Structures with similar masonry details: Gai-4 Heard
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°20'36.89"N 78°13'01.87"W. Current owner of record, Ernst as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Carlton and Orleans County Maps
This house at 1402 Oak Orchard River Road has a full herringbone design on the front. The Second Empire mansard roof and the porch trim were added in the 1870s. 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. Reference paragraph one in page 10.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 19, by Delia Robinson, Edited by Evelyn Lyman and William Nestle. Jointly published by The Cobblestone Society and The Orleans County Historical Association, December 1996.
![]() Car-4 Brown 1.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41 | ![]() GP Orleans Barre Car-4 1-1 N.jpg ² August 1969 | ![]() GP Orleans Barre Car-4 2-2 N.jpg ² August 1969 | ![]() Car-4 Brown 3.jpg ¹ |
![]() Car-4 Brown 4.jpg ¹ | ![]() Car-4 Brown 5.jpg ¹ | ![]() Car_4_1.jpg | ![]() Car_4_2.jpg |
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![]() Car-4 Brown 5.jpg ¹ | ![]() Car-4 1402 Oak Orchard River Rd 1.jpg ³ | ![]() Car-4 1402 Oak Orchard River Rd 2.jpg ³ | ![]() Carlton - 1402 Oak Orchard River Road.jpg 4 |
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.