Building date: 1821
Original use:
Corner structures: Brick, 2 bricks long, 5 high.
Mortar application and content: Horizontal mortar is rounded and not straight, but is wavy. The mortar between stones is broader than usual, which is a way of saying that the stones are set apart. Vertical, slight embellishment. There are practically no vertical embellishments. Mortar is grayer than that usually used.
Types and uses of stones: Stones are rough, irregular and of medium size.
Types and choice of windows: Lintels are solid gray limestone. Lentils wood (contradiction, or separate windows?)
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features: The quoin bricks are of two colors - a situation which appears to be unique.
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°04'48.62"N 77°01'44.78"W. Current owner of record, Spiegel as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Lyons and Wayne County Maps
At 961 Brandt Rd., the 2½ story cobblestone has quoins made of bricks. The bricks are of two colors - a situation which appears to be unique. Window lintels are solid gray limestone. Stones are rough, irregular and of medium size. Horizontal mortar is rounded and not straight, but is wavy. The mortar between stones is broader than usual, which is a way of saying that the stones are set apart. There are practically no vertical embellishments. Mortar is grayer than that usually used. Roudabush Survey page 108
"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 first paragraph on page 28.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" William House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 107 and 108. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
This Cobblestone home was built in 1821 by ... Van Wickle. When we moved here in 1972 the Cobblestone Society visited our home and determined, first they didn't know this existed and second, it was the oldest structure they were aware of in NYS (I believe the gentleman's name was Latta). The "oldest" decision was made by inspection of house corners made from brick instead of large quarried stone, as later Cobblestone structures were. Just thought you might find this of interest. Email 05/06/2020, Jacqueline Spiegel, Cobblestone Legacy Farm LLC.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Mr.& Mrs. G. J. Spiegel House 12th Annual 06/02/1973
¹ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
