Building date: 1841
Original use:
Corner structures: Tooled quoins
Mortar application and content: Grouted
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Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building: Same mason as Bat-1 Morris
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°04'14.54"N 78°09'18.53"W. Current owner of record, Ross as of date (YMD) 190322.
Town of Elba and Genesee County Maps
The Nathaniel Ford House at 4899 Ford Road, Elba It was built in 1841 and is located two miles east of Route 298. A one-story wing extension may have once served as a carriage house. Richard Palmer blog.
The old Ford home on the Ford Road (Route 262) two miles east of Route 98, is said to have probably been built by the same mason as the Underhill-Wiswall house because of the similarity of workmanship. It has recently been purchased and is slated for restoration. Excerpt dated 23APR1966 from "Cobblestone Examples Noted in Genesee Recall Construction Over Century Ago
I was in the Ford house on 262 in Elba a long time ago, when it had been abandoned a long time. I wish you were there, because the history was raw and right there for one to witness first hand. The inside had some serious damage, especially in the stairwell going upstairs, as lumber and lathe/plaster had caved down into it. But get this, on an end table, I still recall these old framed family photos still sitting there, untouched! They were of course B&W - looked Victorian or older. Why were they left? A personal recollection by Howard Petote, email 12/4/2019. The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Ford - Buchholtz House 14th Annual 06/01/1974
- "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, by Olaf William Shelgren, Jr., Cary Lattin, and Robert W. Frasch, Photographs by Gerda Peterich: Name reference, "Castleton" Ford House
- Page 91
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Ford House
- Page 26
 Elb-3 Ford House 1.jpg ¹ 10/4/1966 |  GP Genesee Elba Elb-3_1 N.jpg² 1969 |  GP Genesee Elba Elb-3_2 N.jpg ² Note cobblestone front walk. 1971 |  GP Genesee Elba Elb-3_4 P.jpg ² 1971 |
 Elb_3_1.jpg |  Elb_3_2.jpg |  Elb_3_3.jpg |  Elb_3_4.jpg |
 Elb_3_5.jpg |  Elb-3 Ford House 3.jpg 3 |  Elb-3 4899 Ford Rd 1.jpg 4 |  Elb-3 4899 Ford Rd 2.jpg 4 |
 Elb-3 4899 Ford Rd 3.jpg 4 |  4899 Ford Road, Elba, Genesee County.jpg 5 |
¹ Image courtesy Buffalo Courier-Express, Landmarks group arranges "A Tour Into the Past", by Bill Lamale and color photos by Frank Schifferle, page 9, 10/4/1966.
² Photograph courtesy Gerda Peterich. See "Cobblestone Landmarks of New York State", 1978, Page 91 above.
3 Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
4 Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
5 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
