page_title: Cobblestone Farmhouse at 1229 Birdsey Road
section_title: House
hierarchical_section_title: Cobblestone Farmhouse at 1229 Birdsey Road / House
caption_attribution_description: English: Quoins on the Cobblestone Farhouse at 1229 Birdsey Road, Junius, Seneca County, NY This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 08000772
context_page_description: Cobblestone Farmhouse at 1229 Birdsey Road is a farmhouse in the town of Junius, New York, in Seneca County, New York. It is significant as a well-preserved example of cobblestone architecture, in a vernacular Greek Revival style. North of the house, there is also a large barn believed to date to the late 19th century. This property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 6, 2008. It is the sixth property listed as a featured property of the week in a program of the National Park Service that began in July, 2008.
context_section_description: The house is thought to have been built in the 1830s or 1840s.
  The walls of the two-story structure are made with rounded field stones between limestone quoins that both decorate and stabilize the walls. The multi-colored field cobbles are held in place with limestone mortared "V" joints, typical of cobblestone construction of the Middle Period. The quoins are twelve inches (305 mm) high, and there are three to four courses of cobblestones for each quoin. The house is laid out with two windows on either side of a central entrance. The one-story porch outside the front door has Victorian details under a hip roof. The Greek Revival features of the entrance include square pilasters and half side-lights. The builder and/or architect is not known.
caption: These are the quoins on southeast corner of house. Note the difference in workmanship between the wall on the left (south side) and the wall on the right (rear), showing that the better craftsmen worked on the more visible surfaces of the house.
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