Building date: 1845
Original use:
Corner structures: Red sandstone
Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Vertical pyramids
Types and uses of stones: Small, various colors
Types and choice of windows: Lintels red cut stone
Structures with similar masonry details: Ont-9 Peterson
Masons who worked on building: Clark
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°14'59.05"N 77°18'19.63"W. Current owner of record, Hillegeer as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Ontario and Wayne County Maps
"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 fourth paragraph on page 32.
Cobblestone structure excerpts pages 82 (photograph) and 83 "Gurnee - Hillegeer House" from the book "History of the Town of Ontario 1807-1971", Town of Ontario Historical Society, limited edition revision, September 1971. Reproduced with copyright permission provided by the Town of Ontario Historical Society and Heritage Square Museum.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Gurnee - Hillegeer House 4th Annual 06/06/1964Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Gurnee Cobblestone house
- "Cobblestone Architecture", 1944, Carl Schmidt
- Page 37, Page 49,
- Exterior Entrance, the Marvin Gurnee House, Ontario Center Rd., Ontario, N.Y., Page 93
- Exterior Entrance, the Marvin Gurnee House, Ontario Center Rd., Ontario, N.Y., Page 93
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Gurnee - Hillegeer House
- Page 172, Method of Laying Cobblestones and Striking the Joints Page 250
- Sections Thru Various Stone Courses, Page 255, Three Types of Cobblestone Work Page 262, Main Entrance Page 278
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
