Building date: 1838
Original use:
Corner structures: Red sandstone
Mortar application and content: Horizontal and vertical similar (Mortar looks square)
Types and uses of stones:
Types and choice of windows: Lintels red stone solid
Structures with similar masonry details: Bar-7 Batchellor
Masons who worked on building: Dalton
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°13'46.79"N 78°00'04.53"W. Current owner of record, Moyer as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Murray and Orleans County Maps
Cobblestone house on Gulf Road built by Seely Potter. Mr. Dalton, one leg stone mason, laid the walls. Seely Potter was all summer drawing the stone from Troutburg with a team of oxen. House built in 1834-1838. Editor's Note: Troutburg NY in the late 1800s was a popular resort destination and a summer hamlet of cottages on the shore of Lake Ontario north of Morton NY. Cobblestone Museum undated notes "Key To Cobblestone House Locations" states "It took him [Seeley Potter] two years to draw stone from Troutburg on Lake Ontario with oxen."
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 65, by Delia Robinson, Edited by Evelyn Lyman and William Nestle. Jointly published by The Cobblestone Society and The Orleans County Historical Association, December 1996.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Potter - Quaranto House
- Page 136
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 178. Orleans County, Potter-Quaranto House. This structure is not included in the subsequent book "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978.
¹ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
