Building date: 1848-50
Original use:
Corner structures:
Mortar application and content:
Types and uses of stones: Vertical, practically no embellishment in mortar
Types and choice of windows: Peaked divided lintels over some windows
Structures with similar masonry details: Roy-6 Freeman
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°10'56.30"N 78°29'34.16"W. Current owner of record, Lembke as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Royalton and Niagara County Maps
There are peaked divided lintels over some windows. This appears to be a unique characteristic. Roudabush Survey page 74
"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 third paragraph on page 9.
This unique home, built about 1848-50, has a recessed porch and door with two unequal-sized gables on each side with interesting verge boards at the gables. The water table, quoins, lintels are of gray limestone. The entire house is built with multi-color flat water-washed stones, placed on edge. Very interesting are the peaked lintels over the windows and at least one window has a two-piece lintel with a sharp peak. Niagara County Cobblestone Tour Key, Cobblestone Museum archives.
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
Roy-5 Boudreau 1.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41
Roy-5 Boudreau 2.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41
Roy-5 Boudreau 3.jpg ¹ September 1961
Roy-5 Boudreau 4.jpg ¹
GP Niagara Royalton Roy-5_1 N.jpg ² Gothic Revival
GP Niagara Royalton Roy-5_3 N.jpg ²
Roy_5_1.jpg
Roy_5_2.jpg
Roy_5_3.jpg
Roy_5_4.jpg
Roy_5_5.jpg
Roy-5 4585 Griswold St 1.jpg ³
Roy-5 4585 Griswold St 2.jpg ³
Royalton 4585 Griswold Road.jpg 4
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
