Building date: 1844
Original use:
Corner structures: Red sandstone
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids
Types and uses of stones: Herringbone anywhere
Types and choice of windows: Lintels red stone solid, and brick, width vertical (Contradiction, or different windows?)
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°16'55.56"N 78°04'32.49"W. Current owner of record, Mills as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Murray and Orleans County Maps
"The Cobblestone Houses of Upstate New York", compiled by Dorothy Wells Pease. Research done in collaboration with Hazel B. Jeffery, supplemented with material furnished by Carl F. Schmidt. Reference the seventh paragraph on page 5.
Intricacies In Architecture Come Gradually, Cobblestones Along the Ridge, by William Aeberli, Brockport Post 4/14/1976. Collected by Roberta S. Anheier.
A Cobblestone Addendum, To The Editor, by Pearle Wilson, former Town of Murrey Historian, Brockport Post 5/5/1976 page 14. Collected by Roberta S. Anheier. Editors's Note: This is a corrected version of the original article. At the time this article was prepared for printing, the person doing the layout would have each column of text printed on a strip of paper that would be affixed to the layout page with a waxy adhesive. Apparently there were edits to the original layout and it really got mixed up. The version you see I have digitally corrected. Back in the early 1970s as a photojournalist I had a lot of experience with this layout process doing layouts for the 32 page alumni quarterly newspaper at a Midwestern College.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 73, by Delia Robinson, Edited by Evelyn Lyman and William Nestle. Jointly published by The Cobblestone Society and The Orleans County Historical Association, December 1996.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Bidwell - Herring House 2nd Annual 06/9/1962
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Bidwell - Herring House
- Page 134
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
