Building date: 1830
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Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids. Mortar between stones is raised slightly, and the raised portion is variable in slope varying with the shape of the adjacent stones.
Types and uses of stones: The front wall contains smoothed irregular stones of variable size set in four rows per quoin. The stones in the south wall are more variable in size and irregular in shape. At the top of the second floor windows, three rows of stones are set in herringbone pattern. The other walls have stones in a hexagonal pattern, although in some sections there appears to be irregular rows.
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°15'26.16"N 78°11'37.27"W. Current owner of record, Jakubowski/Sepik as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Gaines and Orleans County Maps
At 3278 Oak Orchard Rd. there is a 2½ story cobblestone house. The front wall contains smoothed irregular stones of variable size set in four rows per quoin. Mortar between stones is raised slightly, and the raised portion is variable in slope varying with the shape of the adjacent stones. The stones in the south wall are more variable in size and irregular in shape. At the top of the second floor windows, three rows of stones are set in herring-bone pattern. The other walls have stones in a hexagonal pattern, although in some sections there appears to be irregular rows. Roudabush Survey page 95
Samuel Hill who came Gaines in the spring of 1823, built this house at 3278 Oak Orchard Road (North Main Street in Albion) in the late 1830s. 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 sixth paragraph on page 7.
"Contents, Cobblestone Country", a unique form of architecture rose from the rock piles of the Rochester region. "Upstate", 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 30, 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:
Schriber House 12th Annual 06/10/1972, Gretchen Sepic and Walt Jakubowski, Virginia Kildoo - "The Tinkers Dam" Albion & Vacinity 06/03/1989, Cobblestone Society Tour 06/01/1991, Sepic - Jakubowski Tour of Historic Cobblestone Homes 10/17/2009
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Spalla House
- Pages 115 - 116
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¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
