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Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment
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Unique features: Victorian house with mansard roof.
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°02'24.29"N 76°56'45.79"W. Current owner of record, Mitchell as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Galen and Wayne County Maps
790 Gansz Road, Lyons, east side Mansard roof added ca. 1875. Richard Palmer blog.
The Roudabush Survey states the address as 790 Ganz Rd., whereas the current address is 790 Gansz Rd.
"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, 1941. Reference the twelfth paragraph on page 29.
The Gansz House, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Gansz - McLeod House
- Page 158
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 153. Wayne County, Clots-Gansz-MacLeod. This structure is not included in the subsequent book "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978.
 Screen Shot 2019-10-15.jpg 4 Date unknown, thou appears to be early 1900s. Screen Shot, Richard Palmer blog. Attribution not provided. |  Gal-3 McLeod 1.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41 Negative was light fogged on right of image. |  GP Wayne Galen Gal-3 1-2 N.jpg ² 10/31/1971 |  Gal_3_1.jpg |
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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.
