Building date:
Original use:
Corner structures: Quoin-less. Wood Philasters
Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment. Vertical pyramids. The front wall contains rows of vertical stones below the windows, while the stones above the bottom of the window are rounded.
Types and uses of stones: Vertical, decorations in small areas, practically no embellishment in mortar. The mortar between stones is not raised. The east wall contains smoothed stones, while the west wall contains rounded stones below and above the windows with vertical stones at the sides of the windows.
Types and choice of windows: Lintels wood
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Unique features: Back wall is wood plank.
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°16'46.36"N 78°17'37.61"W. Current owner of record, Plueckhahn as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Gaines and Orleans County Maps
At 12818 Ridge Rd., a 1½ story quoin-less cobblestone house has a wooden rear wall; the other three are stone. The front wall contains rows of vertical stones below the windows, while the stones above the bottom of the window are rounded. The mortar between stones is not raised. The east wall contains smoothed stones, while the west wall contains rounded stones below and above the windows with vertical stones at the sides of the windows. Roudabush Survey page 95
"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 7.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 51, 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, Lynn-Cliff House
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Lynn - Cliff House
- Page 139, Page 242
Editor's Note: Schmidt locates this structure in the Town of Ridgway when in fact it is in the Town of Gaines.
 Gai-28 Smith 4.jpg ² Charles Hopkins c. 1930 |  Gai-28 Smith 3.jpg ² Van Houten Collection 7/10/1945 |  Gai-28 Smith 2.jpg ² c. 1959 Photography by Wm. A. Monacelli |  GP Orleans Gaines Gai-28 1-1 N.jpg ² 2/7/1972 |
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¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
