Onondaga County
Masonry Contractors in Baldwinsville: Two Villages in One
Two things settle a Baldwinsville job before anyone prices it: which decade the house is from, and which side of the district line it stands on. The village's median build year is 1975 with roughly 43 percent of it built in 1980 or later, and its Oswego-Oneida Streets Historic District carries 32 contributing buildings.
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The two questions a Baldwinsville address has to answer
Baldwinsville is an incorporated village with its own code enforcement counter, and it is the most internally mixed place in the metro. Its 3,784 housing units have a median build year of 1975, with 20.6 percent built in 1939 or earlier, 17.3 percent between 1940 and 1959 and 56.7 percent before 1980, which leaves roughly 43 percent from 1980 onward. Both of those age shares sit below the county's own, so this is not an old village with a modern fringe, it is a modern village with an old core. That is why the build decade is the first question here rather than a detail at the end: a fifth of the village is old enough that the mortar has to be softer than the brick, and two fifths is new enough that the question is flashing and drainage instead. The second question is the district. The Oswego-Oneida Streets Historic District carries 32 contributing buildings, and a contributing address changes both the standard the mortar should be matched to and the money. New York's Historic Homeownership Rehabilitation Tax Credit is worth 20 percent of qualified expenses, needs at least 5,000 dollars of them with a minimum of 5 percent on exterior work, which repointing clears without trying, and requires the owner to live in the house and the house to sit in a qualifying census tract. The clause that catches people is that every project has to be approved before work begins. There is no retrospective application, so the order is address, then approval, then mason.
Which decade, and which street?
Send the address with the build year if you know it. In Baldwinsville those two facts change the answer completely.
What we cover on both halves of Baldwinsville
Repointing and Mortar Joint Repair
Find out whether crumbling or missing mortar needs the joints raked out and refilled, and which mortar type belongs on the brick you actually have.
Repointing in Baldwinsville →Chimney Repair and Rebuilding
Work out whether a chimney needs its crown and top courses rebuilt, a rebuild from the roofline, or work at the footing, and what the state code requires either way.
Chimney Repair in Baldwinsville →Lintel Repair and Opening Repairs
Tell a rusting steel lintel apart from settlement, so the crack above your window, door or garage opening gets the trade it actually needs.
Lintel Repair in Baldwinsville →Brick and Stone Replacement
Understand why brick faces are flaking or popping off, which units have to be cut out and replaced, and what has to change so the new ones do not go the same way.
Brick Replacement in Baldwinsville →Retaining Walls, Steps and Foundation Masonry
Establish whether a leaning retaining wall, crumbling brick steps or a failing block or stone foundation wall needs rebuilding, and what has to change underneath so it stays put.
Retaining Walls and Steps in Baldwinsville →A 1975 median with a 32 building district inside it
Baldwinsville village has 3,784 housing units with a median year of construction of 1975, a pre-1940 share of 20.6 percent and 17.3 percent built between 1940 and 1959, so 56.7 percent of the village predates 1980. Marcellus village has 1,031 units, a median of 1952, a pre-1940 share of 38.4 percent and 81.5 percent built before 1980, and the Town of Marcellus around it has 2,789 units, a median of 1963 and a pre-1940 share of 31.8 percent.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, table B25034 Year Structure Built and table B25035 Median Year Structure Built, accessed 2026-09-10
The same National Park Service records list village historic districts across the metro: the Skaneateles Historic District with 59 contributing buildings, the Manlius Village Historic District with 50, the Genesee Street Hill and Limestone Plaza Historic District in Fayetteville with 40, and the Oswego-Oneida Streets Historic District in Baldwinsville with 32. Individual listings outside districts include the Lucius Gleason House in Liverpool, the Solvay Public Library, the Dan Bradley House and the Tefft-Steadman House in Marcellus, five listings at Camillus including the Wilcox Octagon House and the Camillus Union Free School, and the Stone Arabia School in Cicero.
Source: National Park Service, Cultural Resources geospatial data, National Register of Historic Places points and polygons map service, queried for Onondaga County, New York, accessed 2026-09-10
New York's State Historic Preservation Office runs a Historic Homeownership Rehabilitation Tax Credit Program offering a state income tax credit equal to 20 percent of qualified rehabilitation expenses on repair, maintenance and upgrades to historic homes. The applicant must own and live in the home; the home must be listed in the New York State and National Registers of Historic Places, either individually or as a contributing building in a listed historic district; and the home must be in a qualifying census tract. Total qualified expenses must be 5,000 dollars or more, with a minimum of 5 percent spent on exterior work. The office states that all projects must be approved before work begins, that replacing repairable historic material is never recommended, and that damaged historic material should be replaced in kind.
Source: New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, State Historic Preservation Office, Historic Homeownership Rehabilitation Tax Credit Program, accessed 2026-09-10
Get your Baldwinsville address placed first
Joints washing out, a stained window head, a chimney top breaking up: describe it with an address, no obligation.