Building date: 1845.
Original use:
Corner structures:
Mortar application and content: V trowel
Types and uses of stones: mixed cobbles, about 4 courses to the quoin
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Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building: Builder Olmstead.
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°56'44.65"N 73°46'53.25"W. Current owner of record, xxxxx as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Malta and Saratoga County Maps.
Eastern-most cobblestone house in New York State is the "Olde Stone House Inn" at 545 Route 67 and the intersection with Knapp Road in Maltaville. It was built about 1845. This house was the Olmstead Homestead. Down through the years this home has served as a residence, boarding house, tourist home, and a bed and breakfast. The wall are built of fieldstones of varied sizes, shapes and colors. The quoins are limestone. 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 eighth paragraph on page 42.
Maltaville: Builder Olmstead. (Information from Mrs. Inez [sic] Clements, age 62 (Circa 1955)). Her grandmother (83 in 1912, born 1829) remembers when the house was built, perhaps 18 or 19 years old at the time house was built. Worked in woolen mill. (Seems to be too late from stylistic point of view.) Chatauqua meetings were held in that house. 2 story Greek detail, wide entrance with square transom and side lights. Handwritten notes by Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
New Topographical Atlas of Saratoga County, New York, Stone & Stewart Publ., Philadelphia, 1866
Access the Zillow Real Estate Website page for additional information and 25 exterior and interior photographs.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Olmsted - Clements House
- Page 147
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¹ Image courtesy Richard Palmer blog. Attribution not provided.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Image courtesy Richard Palmer.
