Building date: 1840
Original use:
Corner structures: Red sandstone
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy
Types and uses of stones: Elongated horizontally
Types and choice of windows: Lintels oval stones
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building: "Built by N. Blodgett 1840" in date stone.
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°16'09.95"N 78°02'06.78"W. Current owner of record, Silpoch/Maier as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Murray and Orleans County Maps
Elisha Blodgett, was born in Middleburgh Vermont in 1787. Elisha Blodgett came from Vermont in 1810 and settled in Henrietta, Monroe County, [New York,] where he remained until 1822 when he came to the Town of Murray, and settling on the Ridge Road east of Sandy Creek. For many years he was industriously engaged in the stave business, buying and shipping large quantities by canal to eastern cities. Mr. Blodgett was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Holley. He married Lois Cowles, and to them were born three daughters and one son. Hiram Blodgett, the son, settled in Kendall and was a farmer. The daughters were: Caroline, who married Hosea Branson, Amanda, who married Harry Bradley, and Orpha, who married Bernard Sawyer. Elisha Blodgett died 1856. "Landmarks of Orleans County, New York", page 56. Edited by Hon. Issac Smith Signor, part 2-3, Syracuse, N.Y., D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1894.
"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. Reference the fourth paragraph on page 5.
"Cobblestone Architecture in the Rochester Area", by Gerda Peterich, 1953. Reference Blodgett-McCall House and figures 31 and 33. Editor's Note: This digitized version of the original typescript manuscript is reformatted for digital display, edited for errors, and includes blue tinted highlighted links to improve access within the document, to the appropriate structure pages in the Cobblestone Info Base, or to external resources on the internet. This document is one of two known typescript drafts, likely a thesis or essay bound as a book and apparently never published. One is available in the Cobblestone Museum Resource Center, the other in the University of Rochester Art and Music Library. A companion or precursor typed paper of the same title exists, perhaps used for a talk and/or photographic display of cobblestone structures.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 69, 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 Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, Blodget House
- Page 56
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Blodget - Zehler House
- Page 134
 Mur-14 Zehler 3.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41 |  Mur-14 Zehler 1.jpg ¹ Van Houten Collection 4/21/1942 |  GP Orleans Murray Mur-14 1-1 N.jpg ² April 1957 |  GP Orleans Murray Mur-14 2-1 N.jpg ² April 1957 |
 GP Orleans Murray Mur-14 3-1 N.jpg ² April 1957 |  Mur_14_1.jpg |  Mur_14_2.jpg |  Mur_14_3.jpg |
 Mur_14_4.jpg |  Mur_14_5.jpg |  Mur-14 Zehler 2.jpg ¹ |  Mur-14 16741 Ridge Rd 1.jpg ³ |
 Mur-14 16741 Ridge Rd 2.jpg ³ |  Mur-14 16741 Ridge Rd 3.jpg ³ |  16741 Route 104 Murray.jpg 4 |  Murray - 16741 Ridge Road - 1.jpg 5 |
 Murray - 16741 Ridge Road -3.jpg 5 |  Murray - 16741 Ridge Road -2.jpg 5 |
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Larry Warren.
5 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
