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Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy
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Types and choice of windows: Lintels wood
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°16'22.51"N 78°20'06.84"W. Current owner of record, Mesler as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Ridgeway and Orleans County Maps
The Roudabush Survey stated the address as 12124 Ridge Road and owner as Messler. The correct address and name are 12184 Ridge Road and Mesler.
"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. Reference the fifth paragraph on page 7.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 83, by Delia Robinson, Edited by Evelyn Lyman and William Nestle. Jointly published by The Cobblestone Society and The Orleans County Historical Association, December 1996.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Rorick - Messler House
- Page 140
Editor's Note: Schmidt states the name as Messler, whereas the correct name is Mesler per tax records.
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
