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Corner structures: Brick quoins 2 bricks in length and 5 bricks high. The width of the quoins is only the width of one brick. Roudabush Survey page 18 ¹
Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment. Vertical pyramids. Vertical mortar is in narrow pyramids which are cut off at the bottom.
Types and uses of stones: Stones are of various colors, smoothed and round, and are laid four rows to the quoin in the front wall and three rows on the sides.
Types and choice of windows: Lintels red cut stone. Lintels brick, length vertical [mixed or contradicting?]
Structures with similar masonry details:
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°13'53.62"N 77°09'56.51"W. Current owner of record, Breckenridge as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Williamson and Wayne County Maps.
¹ Note that in the section Brick Quoins (continued), Wal-12 on page 18 of the Roudabush Survey is in error and should be Wil-12. The information cited in Corner structures: above is correctly stated in other references in the Roudabush Survey.
At 4535 Ridge Rd., this one and one-half story house has brick quoins and window lintels. Stones are of various colors, smoothed and round, and are laid four rows to the quoin in the front wall and three rows on the sides. Vertical mortar is in narrow pyramids which are cut off at the bottom. Roudabush Survey page 112
"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 fourth paragraph on page 34.
"Cobblestone Structures of Wayne County" Gage House excerpt, 1955, Verlyn Edward Klahn, pages 364 and 365. Essay submitted for Hoffman Foundation, Wayne County History Scholarship, awarded 1955. Reprint permission granted by Wayne County Historian.
Wayne Historians Organization (WHO), Historic Sites Inventory Cobblestone house
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, DeCutter - Gage House
- Page 195, Brick Quoins Page 265
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
