Building date:
Original use: Smokehouse
Corner structures: Variable, irregular quoins
Mortar application and content: Vertical, no embellishment. The mortar surrounds the stones with very few vertical separators, and thus it appears that the stones are stuck in a matrix of mortar with little attention to vertical and only slightly more attention to the horizontal mortar.
Types and uses of stones: No regularity in the number of courses of stones.
Types and choice of windows:
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features: A stone in the wall over the door appears to be a grindstone.
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°57'02.01"N 77°02'00.32"W. Current owner of record, Coover as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
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This smokehouse on RT. 96 has irregular quoins, and thus no regularity in the number of courses of stones. A stone over the door appears to be a grindstone. The mortar surrounds the stones with very few vertical separators, and thus it appears that the stones are stuck in a matrix of mortar with little attention to vertical and only slightly more attention to the horizontal mortar. Roudabush Survey page 88
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¹ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.