Building date: 1840s
Original use:
Corner structures: Limestone quoins
Mortar application and content: Vertical slight embellishment
Types and uses of stones: Other fine, flat, dark yellow stone, evenly laid.
Types and choice of windows:
Structures with similar masonry details: Por-1 Beardsley
Two houses at Nunda and Oakland may have been constructed by the same builder. They both have limestone courses above the cellar windows which is an uncommon feature. The sizes and types of cobbles and quarried stone are similar. The house in Oakland appears to have been built earlier, but the mansard roof is much later. Neither appear to have their original windows. The house in Oakland has smaller windows. Richard Palmer blog.
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Street level view not available. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°34'51.65"N 77°56'12.88"W. Current owner of record, Link as of date (YMD) 190417.
Town of Nunda and Livingston County Maps
House at 45 East St., Nunda, built for Quartus Barron ca. 1840. He was said to have been a contractor and helped build the Genesee Valley Canal.Richard Palmer blog.
William Haldane, architect and builder...built the Cobblestone house for Quartus Barron - page 251. Ouartus Barron, married Sylvia Ashley, daughter of Judge Daniel Ashley of Xunda. Built cobble stone house on East Street and corner store on East and State Streets: died at Fox Lake - page 268. Ouartus Barron, played the bass viol [at the] old Baptist church before the days of the "Camps" and their pipe organs. In 1847 Dr. Warner and family came to reside in Nunda, purchased the cobblestone house on East Street and immediately won recognition as a scholar and as a skillful and successful physician and surgeon - page 622. 1808 and 1908 Centennial History of the Town of Nunda, edited by H. Wells Hand, Rochester Herald Press, 1908.
"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 complete paragraph on page 13.
"Cobblestone Architecture in the Rochester Area", by Gerda Peterich, 1953. Reference House of Frederic Short and figure 48. 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.
Historic Cobblestone, Nunda NY News, 9/20/1973. Photograph by Dick Lockwood. Courtesy Karen Crandall. Editor's Note: Although the copy of the text is poor, the build date stated seems to be 1850. Other researchers have stated 1831 and the 1840's.
Quartus Barron House. He is buried in Wisconsin, although the place of death is shown at Nunda, Livingston County NY. Link to Quartus Barron cemetery records: He was born 1810 (in VT), died 1890. So, he would have been 21 if he undertook to build this house in 1831 [as stated by Gerda Peterich]. Personally, I'd tend toward Carl F. Schmidt's 1840 date. From the personal research of cobblestone historian Karen Crandall.
Quartus Barron House history sheet. From the personal research of cobblestone historian Karen Crandall.
List of Cobblestone Structures, page 2, Township of Nunda, Item #1, in Livingston County dated 1961 (incomplete).
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Barron - Short House
- Page 35
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 14. Livingston County, Barron-Link House. This structure is not included in the subsequent book "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978.
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¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
