Building date: Demolished ~2006
Original use:
Corner structures: Red sandstone
Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment
Types and uses of stones: Herringbone anywhere
Types and choice of windows: Lintels red stone solid
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. The existence, location and address of this structure can not be confirmed. The address and map location provided by the Roudabush Survey do not match. The location can not be found with either Google maps or Google Earth Pro.
Editor's Note: The map location provided in the Roudabush Survey, noted as "3?" on the Town of Yates map, is incorrect. The Cobblestone Museum Permanent File of Cobblestone Structures, page 2 sketch, and the Cobblestone Structures in the Town of Yates document, Item 2, show the same approximate location noted as "3" on the Town of Yates map. The residence location of subsequent owner in 1859, Henry Davison, is shown in the 1860 Niagara Orleans Counties map (see below). These three independent sources agree; therefore, their stated approximate location is logically correct. Since the structure has been reported as demolished, an onsite visual confirmation of location is likely not possible.
Town of Yates and Orleans County Maps
This is the house I now remember. I tried to search out but has been demolished. I drove up and down the road and finally found someone who remembered it, and it has been gone for some time. Richard Palmer email 20SEP2019.
"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 five in page 10.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 94, by Delia Robinson, Edited by Evelyn Lyman and William Nestle. Jointly published by The Cobblestone Society and The Orleans County Historical Association, December 1996.
Permanent File of Cobblestone Structures.
Original and subsequent owners: James Mather, 1839 John Pratt, 1843 Whitney Hower, 1859 Henry Davison, 1883 Thomas Turner, 1886 Luna Turner, 1936 Carrie Turner, xxxx Unknown.
Editor's Note: The list is of property owners. The actual date the cobblestone house was built is unknown, perhaps between 1839 and 1859 as stated in the Permanent File of Cobblestone Structures. The handwritten information in this document is difficult to read; therefore, there may be spelling errors with the owners' names.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Turner House
- Page 145
¹ 1860 Niagara Orleans Counties Map courtesy Library of Congress.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Editor's Note: This photograph had been roughly handled and poorly stored resulting in a very significant number of surface damage artifacts which would require significant retouching and Photoshop adjustments to restore. There is a threshold where a lot of time and effort, if done, would result in marginal overall improvement with a photograph poorly captured by the photographer. The option chosen by me was to use harsh techniques that reduce, if not eliminate most of these artifacts, and to use aggressive Photoshop adjustments to attempt to optimize the image, followed by hand retouching to lessen or eliminate any remaining significant artifacts. Most side affects of these harsher restoration techniques are masked by the poor resolution and focus of that photograph. Ugly garbage in, better looking garbage out.
