Building date: Roudabush states 1848, Palmer states 1840, Schmidt states 1840 in "Cobblestone Architecture" Page 52 1944, and 1844 in "Cobblestone Masonry" Page 128 1966
Original use:
Corner structures:
Mortar application and content: Vertical, thin rounded
Types and uses of stones: Herringbone anywhere
Types and choice of windows:
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building: One mason was Cyrus Witherell
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°16'36.12"N 78°16'12.35"W. Current owner of record, Baranowski as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Gaines and Orleans County Maps
This house at 13194 Ridge Road was built by Isaac V. Saunders in 1840. In the 1840s and 1850s it housed the West Gaines Post Office. 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 the thirteenth paragraph on page 6.
"3 Homes, School Are Good Examples", Saunders - Harmer House article on page 5, "Cobblestone Walls-Earmarks of History", special section of Medina Daily Journal-Register, 2/21/1964.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 54, by Delia Robinson, Edited by Evelyn Lyman and William Nestle. Jointly published by The Cobblestone Society and The Orleans County Historical Association, December 1996.
Ancestry of Isaac Saunders Family. page 4 is a poor quality Xerography copy of a page which includes an early landscape view of house and 2 portrait photographs, and a short portion of Lodi Office Stockton Record (Stockton California) Newspaper obituary for Egbert Saunders, son of Isaac Saunders.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
1st Cobblestone Tour 06/10/1961, Saunders-Harmer House
- "Cobblestone Architecture", 1944, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Saunders House
- Page 24, Page 52
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Saunders - Harmer House
- Page 128
- "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, Saunders House
- Page 66
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 104. Orleans County, Saunders-Harmer House, and 177. Doorway, Saunders-Harmer House.
 Gai-12 Law 4.jpg ¹ Charles Hopkins Collection c. 1930. |  Gai-12 Law 1.jpg ¹ Charles Hopkins Collection c. 1930. |  Gai-12 Law 2.jpg ¹ Charles Hopkins Collection c. 1930. |  Gai-12 Law 3.jpg ¹ Charles Hopkins Collection c. 1930. 6 |
 master-pnp-habshaer-ny-ny0600-ny0634-photos-121956pu.jpg ² 1940 East and north elevation. |  Gai-12 Law 10.jpg ¹ Newspaper clipping, circa 1940s? |  Gai-12 Law 5.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41. |  Gai-12 Law 6.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41. |
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¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Saunders House photograph courtesy Library of Congress. Data Page
³ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
4 Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
5 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
6 Editor's Note: Best effort restoration. The original photograph had areas of significant loss of detail and image content which could not be recovered when digitized in high resolution.
