Building date: Build date unknown. Destroyed by fire 7/10/1962. Ruins visible in photographs taken in the 1970s. Now assumed to be demolished.
Original use: Residence, abandoned (Circa 1977-78)
Corner structures: Quoins are gray limestone.
Mortar application and content: On the front wall, there is an area in which the original mortar is visible. The stones are surrounded by mortar having an uninterrupted horizontal, while the vertical is depressed at both the top and bottom where it meets the horizontal.
Types and uses of stones: Irregular rough. Varied color stones are irregular and rough and are laid three rows to the quoin.
Types and choice of windows: Window lintels are gray limestone.
Structures with similar masonry details: Gal-1 OBrien
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps.
Town of Galen and Wayne County Maps
Editor's Note: This area is well developed with little vegetation to obstruct Google Maps vertical satellite view or street level view. Nothing was observed that would suggest that the structure still stands or that the exact location can be determined.
On Lyons-Marengo Road, there is the ruins of a two story building. The quoins and window lintels are gray limestone. The varied color stones are irregular and rough and are laid three rows to the quoin. On the front wall, there is an area in which the original mortar is visible. The stones are surrounded by mortar having an uninterrupted horizontal, while the vertical is depressed at both the top and bottom where it meets the horizontal. The interior shows the holes into which the floor supports were inserted into the walls. Roudabush Survey page 113
"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 thirteenth paragraph on page 29.
History Sheet Jones-Strohm-Bastian House. From the personal research of cobblestone historian Karen Crandall.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Strohm - Hoffman House
- Page 159, Page 256
Editor's Note: It seems that Cole Rd. stated by Schmidt is the same as Lyons-Marengo Rd. and Cty Rd. 344; therefore, the ruins is probably the Strohm - Hoffman House.
 1858 Wayne County Gal-7 Ruins Excerpt Map.jpg ¹ |  Gal-7 Ruins 1.jpg ² Pease Collection 1940-41 |  Gal_7_1.jpg |  Gal_7_2.jpg |
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¹ 1858 Wayne County Map Gal-7 excerpt courtesy Library of Congress.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
