Building date: 1834
Original use:
Corner structures: Rough quoins.
Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment
Types and uses of stones: Yellow fieldstones
Types and choice of windows: Lintels gray cut stone
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features: Very large fireplace inside suggests early build date. Inside is supposed to resemble O'Connel House at Yellow Mills Rd. north of Rushmore Rd., Town of Farmington, Ontario County. Gerda Peterich c. 1950s.
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°03'44.73"N 77°16'38.38"W. Current owner of record, Elting as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Macedon and Wayne County Maps
Jordan House built in 1834, is at 1484 Alderman Road. 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 second paragraph on page 25.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Jordan Place excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 125 and 126. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
The Jordan House 1484 Alderman Road, Macedon, NY in Wayne County, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Riggs - Jordan House
- Page 164
- Erie Canal Legacy, Architectural Treasures of the Empire State, by Andy Olenick (photography) and Richard O. Reisem (text), page 141: Name reference, None provided, circa 1834. Published by the Landmark Society of Western New York, 2000.
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
