Building date:
Original use:
Corner structures: Gray limestone and red sandstone
Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment. Vertical pyramids
Types and uses of stones: Small red. Herringbone anywhere
Types and choice of windows: Lintels red cut stone
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°15'17.71"N 77°17'15.44"W. Current owner of record, Domalski 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 sixth paragraph on page 32.
Cobblestone structure excerpts pages 81 and 83 (photograph) "Gage - VerBurg" 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:
Gage - Verburg House 4th Annual 06/06/1964Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Gage-Verberg Cobblestone House
- "Cobblestone Architecture", 1944, Carl Schmidt
- Methods of Laying Cobblestone Walls, The Gage [- Verburg] House, Mill Street, Ontario Page 81
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Gage - Verburg House
- Page 171, Methods of Laying Cobblestone Walls Page 232
- Sections Thru Various Stone Courses, Page 255
Editor's Note: Schmidt's Mill Street reference is unknown. No cobblestone structure can be found on Mill St. in Ontario.
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
