Gal-6, Thorn, 10297 Turnpike Rd.

Documentation

Building date:

Original use:

Corner structures: Gray limestone quoins

Mortar application and content: Vertical very heavy, bold. Vertical mortar is raised and originates below the surface. of the upper horizontal, and in most instances is cut off before it reaches the lower horizontal. In some rows, the vertical reaches and fuses with the lower horizontal.

Types and uses of stones: Stones are variable in size and are irregular, but many are somewhat smoothed.

Types and choice of windows: lintels on the front are also limestone, while those on the side appear to be made of wood.

Structures with similar masonry details: Gal-4 Thorn

Masons who worked on building:

Unique features:

Map Location

Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°01'34.79"N 76°53'39.93"W. Current owner of record, Thorn as of the 2019 Tax Roll.

Town of Galen and Wayne County Maps

Comments, Additional Information, References

At 10297 Turnpike Rd., the two story house has gray limestone quoins. The lintels on the front are also limestone, while those on the side appear to be made of wood. Stones are variable in size and are irregular, but many are somewhat smoothed. Vertical mortar is raised and originates below the surface. of the upper horizontal, and in most instances is cut off before it reaches the lower horizontal. In some rows, the vertical reaches and fuses with the lower horizontal. Both stones and mortar in this house and the house one-half mile west Gal-4 Thorn (GAL-4) make it appear that both houses were built by the same mason. Roudabush Survey page 108

Seven generations of the Thorn family have resided in this house at 10297 Turnpike Road, east of the hamlet of Marengo. 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, 1941. Reference the sixteenth paragraph on page 29.

A Pair of Cobblestones on Turnpike Road Clyde, NY, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.

Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house

Photographs

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¹ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
² Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.