Building date: 1831
Original use:
Corner structures:
Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment
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Types and choice of windows: Gray cut stone lintels
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°02'38.44"N 77°41'46.32"W. Current owners of record, Guidarelli/Herrera as of the 2018 Tax Roll.
Town of Henrietta and Monroe 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, 1941. Reference the sixth paragraph on page 14.
Excerpt from a letter dated 2/18/1983 from the owner Scott Whyte:
For the past 2-1/2 years we have lived in the cobblestone house at 5015 E. River Road, West Henrietta, New York. Although the house was in poor repair when we bought it, the basic structure was sound and we have undertaken the long process of restoring/rehabilitating our home on a rather limited budget.
As you can see from the photographs and 1870's sketching many changes have been made most of which compromised the appearance and character of the house. We plan to restore the exterior to its original appearance (remove front porch, replace windows, add shutters, etc.) and renovate the interior in keeping with the period of the house.
The house was built by John Brininstool in 1831 and that date was engraved on the key stone above the second story center window. The etching ... is from The History Of Monroe County by W. H. Mc Intosh published in 1877. The house is believed to be the oldest dated cobblestone in upstate New York.
Editor's Note: Refer to the engraving (etching) and photographs in the "Photographs" section below.
Structure added to the Town of Henrietta Historic Sites on 12/16/1981.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Jurkovich House 9th Annual 06/07/1969
- "Cobblestone Architecture", 1944, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Brinstool House
- Page 20, Page 46. Brininstool was spelled Brinstool on both pages.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Brininstool - Smith House
- Page 51, Various Types of Cobblestone Walls Page 258
¹ Image courtesy History of Monroe County, page 250, W. H. Mc Intosh, Everts, Ensign & Everts, Philadelphia 1877 .
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
