Building date: 1834
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°19'41.80"N 77°59'58.68"W. Current owner of record, Giese as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Kendall and Orleans 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 eleventh paragraph on page 9.
Samuel Bates, the first pioneer to settle land in the Kendall Township, built his log cabin here in 1812. He was a veteran of the American Revolution where he had wintered with Washington at Valley Forge and had also participated in the Sullivan - Clinton Expedition into Western New York. His son Captain Henry Bares came to Kindall in 1814 and lived in his father's log cabin on this site until he built this cobblestone house about 1835. Both father and son are buried in the Morton Cemetery across the road.
Willard W. Bates, the third generation, gave his life in the Civil War. The Farm continued in the Bates family until the year 1900 when it was purchased by Sidney Strasenburg. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hume acquired the farm in 1960 from Mr. George Strasenburg.
Today the house stands in an excellent state of preservation and retains its original floors, moldings, etc. The Humes have restored the small window panes and the wooden shingles roof. Although modern conveniences have been added, there is no new wood in the house. Paneling in the modern kitchen was taken from the old pantry. Beams in the family room were saved from the remnants of the original 1812 barn. Floors, foods and moldings have all be refinished to the wooden surfaces. This, together with an outstanding collection of antique wooden furnishings, give the home a true country atmosphere. It is an operating 98 acre farm.
Hand written notes for the planned Seventh Annual Cobblestone Tour 06/10/1967, Eastern Orleans and Western Monroe Counties. This home was included in the tour, see below.
"Cobblestone in Morton", text and photographs by Talis Bergmanis, Upstate, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 12/8/1968.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 64, by Delia Robinson, Edited by Evelyn Lyman and William Nestle. Jointly published by The Cobblestone Society and The Orleans County Historical Association, December 1996.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Hume House 7th Annual 06/10/1967
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Bates - Hume House
- Page 131
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¹ 1860 Niagara Orleans Counties Map courtesy Library of Congress.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
