Building date: 1837, razed by fire 1926. Small portion of basement wall incorporated into current structure on site.
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°15'46.66"N 78°15'08.82"W. Current owner of record, Gibbs 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 second paragraph on page 8.
In 1837 W. P. Collins and James Leighton built a flour mill in Eagle Harbor in the Town of Gaines. The mill, the largest cobblestone structure ever built in Orleans County, stood on the east side of the Waterport Road between the Canal and the Ridge near Otter Creek. The structure burned in 1839, but was rebuilt and subsequently owned by Ardel O'Hara, Charles A. Danolds & Sons, the Powell Brothers, and, finally, J. Ray Totten. In September 1926 fire once again claimed the building which was not rebuilt. Only a small portion of the basement wall remains, and that has been incorporated into a business building on the site. "Chapter III Cobblestone Buildings", by Delia Robinson, "Architecture Destroyed in Orleans County, New York", by C. W. Lattin, Orleans County Historian, November 1984. Published by the Cobblestone Society.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 57, by Delia Robinson, Edited by Evelyn Lyman and William Nestle. Jointly published by The Cobblestone Society and The Orleans County Historical Association, December 1996.
C.A. Danold and Sons' Custom Flouring Mill on the east side of Eagle Harbor Road was built in 1837 by W.F. Collins and James Heaton. It was the largest cobblestone building ever built in Orleans County. It burned in 1839 but was rebuilt. It burned again in 1926. A portion of the wall still remains. Richard Palmer blog.
A 2,585 sq. ft. garage was built in 1945 on this site. A portion of the original factory walls incorporated into the garage walls¹ can be seen from the Google Maps street level view (see above). The map excerpt from a 1860 Niagara and Orleans Counties Map provided below shows the gristmill and likely C.A. Danold's residence locations.
¹ According to my father, Bill Lattin, who knows more about Gaines history than anybody else, the large garage in question does indeed contain the remnants of Danold's mill. The Historical Album of Orleans County from 1879 includes an engraving of the mill on page 134. ... My father says that the building burned in 1926, and that there might possibly be a photograph of it in the county historian's office. He received his information from his father, who was in his 20's when the fire occurred. Email received from Adrienne Kirby, Town of Gains Historian dated 25SEP2019.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 57, by Delia Robinson, Edited by Evelyn Lyman and William Nestle. Jointly published by The Cobblestone Society and The Orleans County Historical Association, December 1996.
 Town of Gaines Map Excerpt Flouring Mill 160201_3N5A0429.jpg ¹ 1860 |  Danold flour mill.jpg ² This illustration is dated 1879. |  Danold flour mill 1.jpg ³ |  Danold flour mill 2.jpg ³ |
¹ Image courtesy Clarendon Historical Society. High resolution map reproduction courtesy Greg Lawrence
² Image courtesy "Historical Album of Orleans County, N.Y.", next page past page 134, Sanford & Co., New York, 1879.
³ "Chapter III Cobblestone Buildings", by Delia Robinson, "Architecture Destroyed in Orleans County, New York", by C. W. Lattin, Orleans County Historian, November 1984. Published by the Cobblestone Society.
