Randall Farm

Just south of the city of Cortland, this twelve-acre farm on Page Green Road preserves a nineteenth-century farmstead built around a cobblestone house. The Federal style farmhouse, raised between 1825 and 1840, has walls of even courses of round gray cobbles with sandstone quoins, a center-hall plan and a raised basement that holds the original cooking fireplace and oven. A frame cottage from the 1850s or 1860s is attached to it. Around the houses stand a circa 1890 dairy barn moved to its present site in 1943, a milk house now used as a garage, a chicken house and a playhouse. The drive, stone-lined creek banks and an apple orchard remain as landscape features. The farm was first tied to William Randall, a banker who came to Cortland about 1812. Miles Peck added a Colonial Revival porch and dormers around 1920. The farmhouse is believed to be one of only three cobblestone buildings in Cortland County, which is the main reason for its listing.