Building date: 1849
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Mortar application and content: Horizontal and vertical similar, mortar looks square
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°46'43.03"N 77°43'22.41"W. Current owner of record, Gray as of 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Geneseo and Livingston County Maps
Carl Schmidt describes the mortar of the Wadsworth-Adair house (Gen-2) at 770 West Lake Road as being "made from a very coarse gravel". In addition, he describes the vertical joints as being unusually wide, 1¼-2 inches. The statement of mortar size must be in error, since the stones on the front and sides range from 1¼-2½ inches in height and thus the vertical mortar would be equal to the height of the rows. Photographs show the ratio of height of stone to width of mortar to be about 2:1. This is one of 3 structures with coarse gravel mortar which are all within a radius of about 5 miles from Geneseo. Roudabush Survey page 58.
"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 first paragraph on page 14.
Wadsworth house, 4907 West River Road, (Route 256), Geneseo, built 1849. Richard Palmer blog.
Editor's Note: This address is current instead of the 770 street address stated in the Roudabush Survey.
List of Cobblestone Structures, page 2, Township of Geneseo, Item #4, in Livingston County dated 1961 (incomplete).
Wadsworth House 4907 West Lake Road Geneseo, NY in Livingston County, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Wadsworth - Adair House
- Page 32, Page 316
- "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, Wadsworth House
- Page 96
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 12. Livingston County, Wadsworth-Adair House, 770 West Lake Rd. Editor's Note: Note address change above.
 Gen-2 Adair 1.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41 |  GP Livingston Geneseo Gen-2_2 N.jpg ² August 1969 |  GP Livingston Geneseo Gen-2_3 N.jpg ² August 1969 |  Gen_2_1.jpg |
 Gen_2_2.jpg |  Gen_2_3.jpg |  Gen_2_4.jpg |  Gen_2_5.jpg |
 Gen_2_6.jpg |  Gen-2 Adair 2.jpg ¹ |  Gen-2 4907 W Lake Rd 1.jpg ³ |  Gen-2 4907 W Lake Rd 2.jpg ³ |
 Gen-2 4907 W Lake Rd 3.jpg ³ |  Gen-2 Adair 3.jpg 4 | .jpg) 4907 West Lake Road, Geneseo (2).jpg 4 |
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
