Cobblestone Farmhouse at 1229 Birdsey Road

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“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.”
Wikipedia article Cobblestone Farmhouse at 1229 Birdsey Road, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Seneca County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 1229 Birdsey Rd., Junius, 13165
When was it listed? August 2008
Category. building
Also known as. Cobblestone Architecture of New York State MPS
Town. Junius town
National Register reference number. 08000772 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

86 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Cobblestone Farmhouse at 1229 Birdsey Road between 2000 and 2020, burning about 792 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 13 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	44
Arson/incendiarism	13
Debris and open burning	13
Natural	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
21 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
14 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
14 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
13 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
23 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
22 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Fire Department of New York	NA

Every fire recorded in Seneca County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cobblestone Farmhouse at 1229 Birdsey Road: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Devils Gulch Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Seneca County

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1902 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:62500 - 7 printings
1943 USGS Seneca Falls quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS Seneca Falls quadrangle1:31680
1950 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Seneca Falls quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1965 USGS Elmira quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
John Graves Cobblestone Farmhouse	0.9 miles	2008
Wesleyan Methodist Church	1.0 miles	1980
Cobblestone Farmhouse at 1111 Stone Church Roach	1.1 miles	2007
Cobblestone Farmhouse at 1027 Stone Church Rd.	1.2 miles	2007
United Methodist Church	4.2 miles	2004
James Russell Webster House	4.3 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000772 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Seneca County	All 40 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.