Building date: 1834-35
Original use: Residence
Corner structures: Red sandstone
Mortar application and content: Horizontal rounded. Vertical, slight embellishment. Vertical pyramids
Types and uses of stones: Small, various colors
Types and choice of windows: Lintels red stone solid
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°19'59.72"N 78°02'08.15"W. Current owner of record, Behnke 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 twelveth paragraph on page 9.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 61, by Delia Robinson, Edited by Evelyn Lyman and William Nestle. Jointly published by The Cobblestone Society and The Orleans County Historical Association, December 1996.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Milford - Behnke House
- Pages 132 - 133
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Larry Warren, Councilman Town of Covington..
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
