Building date: 1840's
Original use:
Corner structures: Red sandstone
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Types and uses of stones:
Types and choice of windows: Lintels brick, width vertical
Structures with similar masonry details:
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Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°17'13.94"N 78°11'23.99"W. Current owner of record, Williams 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 third paragraph on page 6.
"3 Homes, School Are Good Examples", Maurice Wilson 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 37, 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:
Maurice Wilson House 1st Annual 06/10/1961, 2nd Annual 06/9/1962
- "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
- Editor's Note: Four locations are Gai-20, Gai-21, Gai-24, Gai-26
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Proctor - Wilson House
- Page 127
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
