Building date: 1845
Original use:
Corner structures:
Mortar application and content: Vertical pyramids, bottom of vertical expanded into a pyramid.
Types and uses of stones: Small red, water-rounded. Decoration by arrangement. Both left and right sides have 5 rows of stones per quoin.
Types and choice of windows:
Structures with similar masonry details:
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is GIS Database and Google Earth confirmed; 42°46'06.22"N 76°42'30.24"W. Current owner of record, Van Buskirt as of date (YMD) 190310.
Town of Ledyard and Cayuga County Maps
The correct address is 3100 Route 90, confirmed by a Google Maps image of the Mailbox number. The Roudabush Survey did not have a street address. The Landmark Society initially listed the street address as 3153, then 3190. Richard Palmer stated a street address of 3190.
NOTE
The Allen-Van Buskirk House, 3190 Route 90 just north of Aurora is an interesting example of the late "Gothic Cottage" cobblestone period, built ca. 1850 by a man named Allen. Built of red, water-rounded cobbles. Richard Palmer blog.
The Allen-Van Buskirk house, just north of Aurora and overlooking Cayuga Lake, was built sometime after 1845. It is an example of Victorian, or late cobblestone, with high gables. It was purchased by Dr. Michael Brown Van Buskirk, local physician and member of the Assembly, in the 1870s, and has been in the family since. It is occupied by Mrs. J. H. Van Buskirk and Mrs. Gregory Van Buskirk. Excerpt from "Cobblestone House Tour", Citizen-Advertiser, Auburn, N.Y., May 29, 1963. Richard Palmer blog.
"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 fifteenth paragraph on page 40, continued on first paragraph page 41.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Allen - Van Buskirk House 3nd Annual 06/1/1963Editor's Note: In the book "Cobblestone Masonry" page 19, Carl Schmidt states the name of the house as Allen - VanBuskirt; whereas, Palmer and the Tour Guide Pamphlet state Allen - Van Buskirk.
Aurora New York Cobblestone, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.
- "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, Allen House
- Page 136
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 3. Cayuga County, Allen-VanBuskirk House.
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 3. Cayuga County, Allen-VanBuskirk House.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Allen - VanBuskirt House
- Pages 19 - 20
- "Cayugas Cobblestones", by Ward O'Hara 1991
- Pages 39 - 41
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¹ The owner, Dr. M.D. Van Buskirk, at right, served in the Civil War. He resided here many years. Richard Palmer blog.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum,
³ Image courtesy Gerda Peterich.
4 Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
5 Photographs courtesy Richard Palmer.
6 Aerial Photographs by Bill Hecht courtesy Richard Palmer blog.
