Building date:
Original use:
Corner structures: Red sandstone
Mortar application and content: Horizontal rounded. Vertical, slight embellishment
Types and uses of stones: Vertical, decorations in small areas, practically no embellishment in mortar
Types and choice of windows: Lintels red stone solid
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building: Cyrus Wetherhill
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°17'09.29"N 78°11'52.35"W. Current owner of record, Ames as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Gaines and Orleans County Maps
"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 seventh paragraph on page 6.
"Cobblestone Architecture in the Rochester Area", by Gerda Peterich, 1953. Reference Cobblestone Textures,...fine Greek Revival house and figure 57. Editor's Note: This digitized version of the original typescript manuscript is reformatted for digital display, edited for errors, and includes blue tinted highlighted links to improve access within the document, to the appropriate structure pages in the Cobblestone Info Base, or to external resources on the internet. This document is one of two known typescript drafts, likely a thesis or essay bound as a book and apparently never published. One is available in the Cobblestone Museum Resource Center, the other in the University of Rochester Art and Music Library. A companion or precursor typed paper of the same title exists, perhaps used for a talk and/or photographic display of cobblestone structures.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 42, 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 Colonial Doorway of the Burgess house, another example of the fine workmanship of John Wetherill, a pioneer in the usage of cobblestones for building material. Attribution not provided.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Leon Janus House 1st Cobblestone Tour 06/10/1961, Ames House Tour of Historic Cobblestone Homes 10/17/2009, Tour of Historic Cobblestone Homes 09/14/2013, Burgess - Ames Tour of Cobblestone Homes 09/30/2017
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Leon - Janus House
- Pages 126 - 127
- "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, Hall House
- Pages 62 - 63 #22
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 103. Orleans County, Hall-Janus House.
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¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
