Building date: 1831
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Corner structures: Variable
Mortar application and content: Horizontal and vertical similar, mortar looks square
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Types and choice of windows: Lentils wood
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°08'04.48"N 77°01'46.05"W. Current owner of record, Nadeau/Legge as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Lyons and Wayne County Maps
This house is at 3532 Layton Street Road. Inscription on date stone over door is "A.H.V.D.B. 1831," initials of original owner, Arthur Henry Van Der Bilt. It may be the oldest cobblestone house in Wayne County. It is quite attractive with wood lintels and rough quoins. The original cornice moldings are not visible under that aluminum but might be late neo classic. The windows were originally 6 or 9 panes per sash. The 2 over 2 panes there now date from just after the Civil War up to about the 1880's. I strongly suspect it had shutters like most - but not all. Also it is rare as the size of cobbles in front seem to be the same as the sides. They are close to about three cobbles per foot and were the fastest cobbles to build with. These are obviously not the original steps. Richard Palmer blog.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Michael Marsteiner House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 99 and 100. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Mr.& Mrs. Howard Blaisdell House 12th Annual 06/02/1973
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Vanderbilt - Blaisdell House
- Page 163
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¹ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
