Building date: 1840
Original use:
Corner structures: Chamferred
Mortar application and content: Vertical, heavy; Vertical pyramids
Types and uses of stones:
Types and choice of windows:
Structures with similar masonry details: Rig-2, Chi-2, Chi-3 Sheffer-Bean, Chi-4 Sibley-Stuart, Chi-5
Masons who worked on building: William Emmons, nephew of Betteridge [brothers,] family from England. *
Unique features: Names written in cellar of soldiers and companies. Perhaps billeted here. *
* Editor's Note: Written comment by Gertrude Marie Greene (Mrs. Marvin Hale Greene) in Permanent File of Cobblestone Structure. circa 1961.
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°04'01.97"N 77°49'40.49"W. Current owner of record, Lander as of the 2018 Tax Roll.
Town of Riga and Monroe County Maps
The Carl Schmidt book "Cobblestone Masonry" and the Roudabush Survey state surname Bettridge in the original owner name and street address; however, the correct spelling of Betteridge has been verified in both cases.
"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 seventh paragraph on page 11.
"It [the cobblestone house] is on what was known as 'Greene's Nursery', last 50 acre's of what use to be hundreds of acres. Mr. G[reene] who is 77 years old was born on his father's 'Charles Greene Nursery'. The house was built (1840) according to our information and in Greene Family approximately 65 years. We [Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Hale Greene] have lived here since 1934." Excerpt from letter written by Gertrude Marie Greene (Mrs. Marvin Hale Greene) August 12, 1961, attached to the Permanent File of Cobblestone Structure.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Mrs. Marvin Hale Green House 11th Annual 06/12/1971
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Betteridge - Stowe House
- Page 67
 Rig-1 Betteridge-Stowe 4.jpg ¹ Peterich Collection 1940-41 |  Rig-1 Betteridge-Stowe 7.jpg ¹ April 1971 |  Rig-1 Betteridge-Stowe 1.jpg ¹ April 1971 |  Rig-1 Betteridge-Stowe 8.jpg ¹ April 1971 |
 Rig-1 Betteridge-Stowe 2.jpg ¹ April 1971 |  Rig-1 Betteridge-Stowe 6.jpg ¹ April 1971 |  Rig-1 Betteridge-Stowe 3.jpg ¹ April 1971 |  Rig-1 Betteridge-Stowe 5.jpg ¹ April 1971 |
 Rig_1_1.jpg |  Rig_1_2.jpg |  Rig_1_3.jpg |  Rig_1_4.jpg |
 Rig_1_5.jpg |  Rig-1 Betteridge-Stowe 9.jpg ¹ |  280 Bettridge Road Riga.jpg ² |
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
