Gai-20, Bernard-Andrews, 14407 Ridge Rd.

Documentation

Building date: 1840's

Original use:

Corner structures:

Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment

Types and uses of stones:

Types and choice of windows: Lintels red stone solid (conflicts with following?). Lintels brick, width vertical, first floor. Lintels wood, second floor

Structures with similar masonry details:

Masons who worked on building: Cyrus Witherell

Unique features:

Map Location

Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°17'14.05"N 78°11'23.09"W. Current owner of record, Robinson as of the 2019 Tax Roll.

Town of Gaines and Orleans County Maps

Comments, Additional Information, References

14407 Ridge Road, Childs, Town of Gaines. Built in the 1840s and extensively remodeled over the years. 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 second paragraph on page 6.

"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, page 36, by Delia Robinson, Edited by Evelyn Lyman and William Nestle. Jointly published by The Cobblestone Society and The Orleans County Historical Association, December 1996.

The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:

1st Cobblestone Tour 06/10/1961, Bernard Andrews House


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"Cobblestone Architecture", 1944, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, "In Childs, N. Y....number of houses with four inch high brick header courses"

Page 28

Editor's Note: Four locations are Gai-20, Gai-21, Gai-24, Gai-26

"Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Bernard - Andrews House

Page 123

Photographs

14407 Ridge Road, Gaines, Orleans Cty (3).jpg ¹ Before being extensively altered.	Gai-20 Bernard-Andrews 4.jpg ² Van Houten Collection 7/10/1945	Gai_20_1.jpg	Gai_20_2.jpg
Gai_20_3.jpg	Gai_20_4.jpg	Gai_20_5.jpg	Gai-20 Bernard-Andrews 1.jpg ²
Gai-20 Bernard-Andrews 2.jpg ²	Gai-20 Bernard-Andrews 3.jpg ² October 1995	14407 Ridge Road, Gaines, Orleans Cty (1).jpg p;	14407 Ridge Road, Gaines, Orleans Cty (2).jpg p;

¹ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer blog. Attribution not provided.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.