Building date: 1854
Original use:
Corner structures: Tooled
Mortar application and content: Horizontal rounded. Vertical, slight embellishment
Types and uses of stones: Small red. Decoration by arrangement
Types and choice of windows: Lintels none
Structures with similar masonry details: Sen-4 Tichenor, Gor-1 LLoyd, Man-2 Logie, Phe-22 VanderLyke
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features: Curved window frames
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°50'27.74"N 77°02'17.81"W. Current owner of record, Aldwinckle as of the 2019 Tax Roll. List of owners: Hemminger 5/1/1958, Uyemoto 1/1/1969, Aldwinckle 10/1/1977_2/1/1978_10/1/1996.
Town of Seneca and Ontario County Maps
Rippey-Banfield House at 1227 Leet Road was built in 1854 for John and Mary Rippey. It is of the "Gothic Cottage" design. Richard Palmer blog.
"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 seventh paragraph on page 21.
The Rippey-Banfield House, built in 1854, is located on the western side of Route 245 at the corner of Leet Road, and is now the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Banfield. The only house on the coming tour that is not Greek Revival in architectural style, it is cobblestone in the style of the Italian villa which was popular in the 1850s. It has another distinction of being one of the last homes to be built in the "cobblestone era."
The builder, J. Rippey Jr., used heavy eaves brackets with large acorn-shaped pendants. They are a distinguishing feature of the exterior. Viewers will find the entrance hall graced by a stairway of rare beauty, with walnut and mahogany railings curving up and continuing around the second floor hallway.
The Banfields remodeled the house. In the dining room, which has just been given its third ceiling, the Banfields removed 13 layers of wallpaper, and in some other areas of the house removed as many as 23 layers of wallpaper. The home furnishings include manny of Mrs. Banfield's pieces brought from Massachusetts, included a Victorian style bedroom set made of hand-grained wood over pine.
The kitchen combined the original wood work with modern conveniences and was decorated with a collection of antique utensils. The living room has the elaborate acorn molding that matches that of the exterior. Attribution not provided. See following original published article. Richard Palmer blog.
"Cobblestone One of Last To Be Built". By Mildred Jennings, Geneva Daily Times, 11/12/1954.
"A Tour: Geneva's Cobblestones" Partial article Rochester Democrat, page 10W Sunday. Attribution not complete.
"Cobblestone Curiosities", story and photos by Jewel H. Conover, Syracuse Herald-American, 7/10/1966
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Rippey - Banfield House 5th Annual 06/12/1965Historic Structures Visited, 5th Annual Cobblestone Tour Brings 1,100 to City, by Mildred Jennings, The Geneva Times, page 6, 6/15/1965
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National Register of Historic Places Registration
- "Cobblestone Architecture", 1944, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Rippley House ("Cobblestone Masonry" Schmidt, 1966, page 109 states Rippey-Banfield House)
- Page 25
- "Cobblestone Architecture of Upstate New York", by Gerda Peterich, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol 15, Issue 2 1956, Page 16. By permission of the University of California Press, "The requested material is in the public domain and you are welcome to use it." Editor's Note: Most sources state the spelling of the name as Rippey, not Rippley.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Rippey - Banfield House
- Page 109
- "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, Rippey House
- Pages 130 - 131
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 85. Ontario County, Rippey-Oyemoto House, 181. Bracketed Eaves: Rippey-Oyemoto House, and 182. Window: Rippey-Oyemoto House.
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 85. Ontario County, Rippey-Oyemoto House, 181. Bracketed Eaves: Rippey-Oyemoto House, and 182. Window: Rippey-Oyemoto House.
- "Geology and the Development of Upstate New York's Distinctive Cobblestone Architecture", D. Brooks McKinney Ph.D, Emeritus Professor of Geoscience, Department of Geoscience, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
- Page 106
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
