Wbl-1, Office Building, 9030 Routes 5 & 20

Documentation

Building date: 1844

Original use: Store

Corner structures: Vertical heavy

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Structures with similar masonry details:

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Map Location

Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°54'21.68"N 77°32'16.15"W. Current owner of record, Rittersbach as of the 2019 Tax Roll.

Town of West Bloomfield and Ontario County Maps

Comments, Additional Information, References

"Union Hall," 9030 Route 5 and 20, was built about 1844. It was used for many different commercial purposes, including a blacksmith shop, dance studio, feed store and automotive garage. Living quarters are upstairs. 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 thirteenth paragraph on page 17.

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"Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Two-Story Shop

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Photographs

Wbl-1 Office Building 1.jpg ¹ 1970 photograph by Clyde Maffin, Ontario County Historian 1968-81.	GP Ontario W Bloomfield Wbl-1 1-1 P.jpg ²	Wbl_1_1.jpg	Wbl_1_2.jpg
Wbl_1_3.jpg	Wbl_1_4.jpg	Wbl-1 Office Building 2.jpg ¹	Wbl-1 9030 Routes 5 & 20 1.jpg ³
Wbl-1 9030 Routes 5 & 20 2.jpg ³	Wbl-1 Office Building 3.jpg ¹	9030 Routes 5 & 20, West Bloomfield.jpg 4 Email 7/15/2017.	9030 Routes 5 & 10, West Bloomfield, Ontario County.jpg 4

¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
⁴ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.