Building date: Demolished 1976
Original use: Blacksmith Shop
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°14'43.97"N 78°31'02.74"W.
Town of Hartland and Niagara County Maps
"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 "small garage" icon in paragraph fifteen on page 10.
Located in a typical old cobblestone building on the east side of 9215 Ridge Road, this blacksmith shop existed well into the 20th century. Prior to 1910, Mr. Criss was able to serve residents who still needed work done to the equipment of an earlier day. After retiring from his business in the late 1930s he worked for a time as a bridge tender on the Erie Canal. Carl Goodnick purchased the old building and carried on a welding trade there for several years. Richard Palmer blog.
 1852 Niagara County Har-11 Excerpt Map.jpg BS (Blacksmith Shop) J Shippen highlighted ¹ |  CRISS BLACKSMITH.jpg ² |  CRISS BLACKSMITH 11.jpg ² Mike Costello, blacksmith, is shown at left, owner Will Criss, front, right. |  CRISS BLACKSMITH 4.jpg ² Destroyed by wind in 1976. |
¹ Photography courtesy Library of Congress.
² Photography courtesy Norman LaJoie, Hartland Town Historian. Richard Palmer blog.
