{"nrhp_refnum":"05000635","name":"Blood, Jackson, Cobblestone House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"142 S. Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lyndonville","county":"Orleans County","state":"NY","lat":43.316869000000054,"lon":-78.38879499999996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-06-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Greek Revival cobblestone house at 142 South Main Street in the Village of Lyndonville, Orleans County, New York, completed in 1846 for Jackson and Mary Phelps Blood.","why_significant":"It is a largely intact, finely crafted example of a large high-style cobblestone residence and of late-period cobblestone construction in New York State. It is also a distinguished example of vernacular late Greek Revival architecture in Lyndonville. It is one of five cobblestone buildings in the Town of Yates and one of 90 in Orleans County.","narrative":"Built in 1846 for Jackson and Mary Phelps Blood, this cobblestone house on South Main Street in Lyndonville is a large Greek Revival residence in northwestern Orleans County. Its walls use small and medium-sized lake-washed cobblestones laid in horizontal rows with V-profile lime mortar beads, with cut limestone quoins, sills and lintels. A semi-elliptical stone arch in the front gable is an unusual feature. Local tradition holds that the Blood family gathered the cobbles from the Lake Ontario shore. Jackson Blood, born in 1795, came to Yates in 1815, served as an early school commissioner and owned large tracts of land near the village. Evidence in the attic shows that three of four original corner chimneys were decorative, and that the builder used heating stoves rather than fireplaces. The house was split into rental units by the mid-twentieth century and restored to a single residence in the 1950s. It is valued for its masonry craftsmanship and its integrity.","period_of_significance":"1846 - ca 1955","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single-family dwelling; it was divided into three rental units by the mid-twentieth century and returned to a single residence in the 1950s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.163427-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/05000635.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000635/bd9cec2c41-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000635/bd9cec2c41-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jackson_Blood_Cobblestone_House,_Lyndonville,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jackson_Blood_Cobblestone_House,_Lyndonville,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75314245","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Blood_Cobblestone_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6116960"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orleans-county/blood-jackson-cobblestone-house-05000635/"}