Building date: 1849
Original use:
Corner structures: Gray limestone. Roudabush incorrectly stated Red sandstone solid
Mortar application and content: Horizontal rounded. Vertical, slight embellishment
Types and uses of stones: Small various colors
Types and choice of windows: Lintels gray [red] stone solid
Structures with similar masonry details: Gai-5, Ken-5, Mur-12, Alb-2, Car-1
Masons who worked on building: Stone laid by James Thompson and William Steele, Town of Gaines. Cut stone work by Donaldus Reuben Bartlett, stone cutter of Clarendon. Woodwork done by Daniel F. St. John of Clarendon.
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Google Maps street level view is not available. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°11'09.94"N 78°01'02.60"W. Current owner of record, Bosch/Anheier as of the 2019 Tax Roll. List of owners (* includes ownership of multiple generations of same surname): Butterfield* 1830-1922, Mastrangelo 1922-1961, Green* 1961-1971, Spencer* 1971-2007, currently Bosch/Anheier.
Town of Clarendon and Orleans County Maps
Original owner was Orson and Lydia [James, incorrectly stated] Butterfield. Address at the time of Roudabush Study was 90 Bennett's Corner Rd.
Copeland's Clarendon, "History of Clarendon from 1810 to 1888", by David Sturges Copeland, The Courier Company Printers, Buffalo, 1889. Colonel Butterfield, pages 114-115.
Correspondence from Carol W. Brown to the Spencer Family June 26, 1979. Orson and Lydia Butterfield Family Register.
The Butterfield House at 4690 Bennett's Corners Road is one of 111 cobblestone structures in Orleans county. It was built in 1849 of lake cobblestones by Orson Butterfield who, with his wife Lydia, came from Rodman, Jefferson county about 1830. The original farm consisted of 100 acres. In 1852 Butterfield left home to try his luck in the California Gold Rush. Meanwhile the family ran the farm. He didn't return until 1870. After the death of Lydia in 1887, the house was bequeathed to two of his children. After 90 years in the same family it was subsequently sold and has had several owners since then. It was placed on the National Register in 2010. Richard Palmer blog.
"Home Is A Rock Pile" by Chuck Lyons. "Upstate, Cobblestone Country", a unique form of architecture rose from the rock piles of the Rochester region. People, Places, Pleasures supplement, Sunday Democrat and Chronicle, November 27, 1988. Use this link to view the printable Cobblestone Country.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, pages 21 to 23, 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 Houses in New York and Other States", By Jackie Craven
The Historic Preservation Awards were announced at the 2nd annual Orleans County Preservation Awards Banquet on October 25, 2024 at the White Birch Country Club banquet center, Lyndonville NY. Winning cobblestone structures are Gai-3, Dist. #2 School, 3286 Gaines Basin Rd. and Cla-1 Grentzinger, 4690 Bennetts Corners Road.
Editor's Note: Use the link for the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form below to access the very well documented details and history of this structure available throughout the Registration Form, especially pages 15 through 17.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Spencer Family House 19th Annual 06/09/1979, Edmond and Ruth Spencer 1993 Tour 06/05/1993, Butterfield Cobblestone Tour of Cobblestone Homes 09/30/2017, Tour of Cobblestone Homes 09/15/2018"To Be on Cobblestone Tour", Bethinking of Old Orleans, C.W. Lattin, [former Orleans] County Historian, Vol. 1 No. 21, Medina Journal-Register 6/4/1979.
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National Register of Historic Places Registration
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Butterield - Greene House
- Page 122
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Daniel Case.
