Building date: 1846
Original use:
Corner structures: Red sandstone
Mortar application and content: Horizontal rounded. Vertical, thin rounded
Types and uses of stones: Small, various colors
Types and choice of windows: Lintels red stone solid
Structures with similar masonry details: Yat-4 Guemple, Yat-5 Sutton-Voelker, Alb-3 Russell, Gai-9 Bacon-Neilans
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°19'00.64"N 78°23'20.75"W. Current owner of record, Thompson/Schroeder as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Yates and Orleans County Maps
Jackson Blood house at 142 South Main St., Lyndonville, built in 1846, is a fine example of Greek Revival architecture. It was placed on the National Register in 2005. Jackson and Mary Blood came from New Hampshire to Batavia by covered wagon pulled by oxen in 1817. Mary is said to have ridden in a chair suspended by ropes from the the top of the wagon like a swing. Later they moved to Lyndonville and built this house of stones gathered from the shore of Lake Ontario. An unusual decorative feature of the facade of the main block is a semi-elliptical stone arch in the gable which springs from the lintels of the outermost second-floor windows. Blood descendants recalled how family members spent days at the lake shore gathering the right size and color of stones and returning home with three or four bushels of evenly sized gray and red sandstones at a time. The quoins are squared limestone. Richard Palmer blog.
Jackson Blood, Notes made from papers kept by Lydia Blood Hunn. Courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
"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 paragraph nine in page 10.
"The Geological Origin of Cobblestone Architecture", by Gerda Peterich. Specific reference to this structure on page 8.
Bethinking of Old Orleans, "3/5 Greek Revival (1830-1860)", by C. W. Lattin, [former Orleans] County Historian, Vol. 1 No. 10, 3/14/1979. Attribution not provided.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 95, by Delia Robinson, Edited by Evelyn Lyman and William Nestle. Jointly published by The Cobblestone Society and The Orleans County Historical Association, December 1996.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Thompson House Tour of Historic Cobblestone Homes 09/14/2013
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National Register of Historic Places Registration
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Billingsley House
- Page 144
- "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, Blood House
- Pages 71 - 73
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 105. Orleans County, Blood-Billingsley House.
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¹ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
