Building date: 1830
Original use: Store
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Mortar application and content: Vertical heavy
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Map views courtesy Google Maps 2012 and Google Maps 2018. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°52'16.49"N 77°53'08.88"W. Current owner of record, Stewart as of date (YMD) 190414.
Town of York and Livingston County Maps
"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 the "store in York" icon in the eighth paragraph on page 12.
Old store, 2682 Route 26, York. Richard Palmer blog.
Editor's Note: Roudabush listed the building with the descriptor "Apartment?" in his survey; however, the 2020 tax assessor roll states "1 Family Residence". "Apartment" was used for the name of this building because the overall naming convention was based on the Roudabush Survey. The traditional naming convention has been to use the original owner/current owner at the time, or just the current owner at the time the documentation was done. Since there typically are now many owners for cobblestone structures, the naming convention has created a lot of confusion. The most accurate descriptor a specific building is the location by state > county > Town[ship] > street address, and the GPS coordinates determined by Google Maps and Google Earth Pro.
The Ransdell Cobblestone Store York, NY Livingston County, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog. Editor's Note: Note contradictions of street address number and spelling of Ransdell vs. Ramsdell.
List of Cobblestone Structures, page 4, Township of Conesus, Item #4, in Livingston County dated 1961 (incomplete).
- "Cobblestone Architecture", 1944, Carl Schmidt
- Page 11, Page 59
- Three Types of Cobblestone Masonry, Store Building in York, N.Y., Page 77
- Three Types of Cobblestone Masonry, Store Building in York, N.Y., Page 77
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Store in York
- Page 37
- Three Types of Cobblestone Masonry, Store Building in York, N.Y., Page 231
- Three Types of Cobblestone Masonry, Store Building in York, N.Y., Page 231
- "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, Ramsdell Store
- Page 94
- "The Era of Cobblestone Architecture", unpublished manuscript 1972. To access the manuscript content about this structure, see 15. Livingston County, Ramsdell-Neale Store.
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¹ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
