Building date: 1836
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Corner structures: Red sandstone
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Types and choice of windows: Lintels brick, width vertical
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°17'28.94"N 78°08'45.88"W. Current owner of record, Brown as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Gaines and Orleans County Maps
Cobblestone House of pleasing proportions built in 1820 by Wetherill for Lauren Billings. Attribution not provided. Editor's Note: There is a contradiction with the building date stated in the caption of the newspaper clipping. There have been claims of 1820; however, 1836 is stated as the official building date. No known cobblestone structure has been confirmed to have been built in the early 1820s.
"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 eleventh paragraph on page 5.
15071 Ridge Road, was built in 1836 for Lauren Billings and Roxanna (Rexford). He was Justice of the Peace in Gaines and served in the New York State Militia. Richard Palmer blog.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 26, 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:
Billings-Kidney House 2nd Annual 06/9/1962
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Billings - Kidney House
- Page 124
¹ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
² Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
