Wbl-2, Insurance Office, 9018 NY 5 [Rts 5 & 20 east of Rt 65]

Documentation

Building date: 1841

Original use: Office building

Corner structures:

Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy. Broad squared mortar.

Types and uses of stones:

Types and choice of windows:

Structures with similar masonry details: Bru-1, Ira-1, Cat-3

Masons who worked on building:

Unique features: Broad squared mortar.

Map Location

Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°54'21.79"N 77°32'13.51"W. Current owner of record, Campbell as of the 2019 Tax Roll.

Town of West Bloomfield and Ontario County Maps

Comments, Additional Information, References

Insurance office, 9018 Main St., Routes 5 and 20, West Bloomfield. Oval set into the gable reads "Ont. & Liv. Mutual Insurance Office, AD 1841." Built of rounded washed stones brought from Lake Ontario. 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 twelfth paragraph on page 17.

"The Geological Origin of Cobblestone Architecture", by Gerda Peterich. Specific reference to this structure on page 12.

"Cobblestone Architecture in the Rochester Area", by Gerda Peterich, 1953. Reference West Bloomfield Insurance Office and figure 15. Editor's Note: This digitized version of the original typescript manuscript is reformatted for digital display, edited for errors, and includes blue tinted highlighted links to improve access within the document, to the appropriate structure pages in the Cobblestone Info Base, or to external resources on the internet. This document is one of two known typescript drafts, likely a thesis or essay bound as a book and apparently never published. One is available in the Cobblestone Museum Resource Center, the other in the University of Rochester Art and Music Library. A companion or precursor typed paper of the same title exists, perhaps used for a talk and/or photographic display of cobblestone structures.

National Register of Historic Places Registration This property is listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places. Asset Detail National Register of Historic Places effective 11/21/2008. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form provides detailed information about cobblestone structure. Ontario and Livingston Mutual Insurance Office Wikipedia article.

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"Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Office Building

Page 114, Page 318

"Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, Insurance Office House

Page 108 - 109

"The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 71. Ontario County, Insurance Office.

Photographs

Wbl-2 Insurance Office 1.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41	Wbl-2 Insurance Office 2.jpg ¹ Pease Collection 1940-41	Wbl-2 Insurance Office 3.jpg ¹ 1970 photograph by Clyde Maffin, Ontario County Historian 1968-81.	GP Ontario W Bloomfield Wbl-2 1-1 N.jpg ² November 1971
GP Ontario W Bloomfield Wbl-2 3-1 P.jpg ² November 1971	GP Ontario W Bloomfield Wbl-2 2-1 N.jpg ² November 1971	GP Ontario W Bloomfield Wbl-2 3-2 P.jpg ² November 1971	GP Ontario W Bloomfield Wbl-2 3-3 P.jpg ² November 1971
Wbl_2_1.jpg	Wbl_2_2.jpg	Wbl_2_3.jpg	Wbl_2_4.jpg
Wbl_2_5.jpg	Wbl_2_6.jpg	Wbl_2_7.jpg	Wbl-2 Insurance Office 4.jpg ¹
Wbl-2 9018 NY 5 1.jpg ³	Wbl-2 9018 NY 5 2.jpg ³	Wbl-2 9018 NY 5 3.jpg ³	West Bloomfield 1.jpg 4
West Bloomfield 2.jpg 4	9018 Main St., 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.