Onondaga County
Masonry Contractors in Fayetteville: Both Eras, One Village
Fayetteville needs both masonry questions asked rather than one, and the village line is why. It is 20.7 percent pre-1940 and 26.8 percent from 1940 to 1959, roughly twice as prewar as Manlius village minutes away in the same town, with a 40 building historic district running up Genesee Street Hill.
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20.7 percent prewar, 26.8 percent from the lintel decades
The Town of Manlius has 14,524 housing units with a median year of construction of 1972, a pre-1940 share of 11.2 percent and 22.3 percent built between 1940 and 1959. Manlius village inside it has 2,070 units, a median of 1968, a pre-1940 share of 10.5 percent and 50.9 percent built in the 1960s and 1970s. Fayetteville village has 2,092 units, a median of 1961, a pre-1940 share of 20.7 percent, 26.8 percent built between 1940 and 1959 and 77.2 percent built before 1980.
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
The article states that the effects of corrosion on metal building components range from undesirable appearance to hazardous structural conditions, and that this is particularly the case for masonry buildings constructed in the early 1900s where unprotected structural steel is often in contact with exterior wall construction. It notes that both the masonry and the steel can be affected and that ongoing corrosion of the steel may be concealed within the wall. In masonry buildings, corrosion of steel is typically associated with water that migrates through the exterior cladding and reaches the embedded steel, which can affect beams, columns, lintels and anchorages that form part of the exterior wall assembly.
Source: Deborah Slaton and David S. Patterson, AIA, both of Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Expanding on structural steel, Failures column, The Construction Specifier, Construction Specifications Institute, December 7 2018, accessed 2026-09-10
Joints, window heads, or the chimney?
Send the address and say what you can see. Fayetteville is old enough and new enough that both answers are genuinely in play.
Why a Fayetteville house gets both inspections
Fayetteville is an incorporated village with its own counter, and it is the more interesting of the two villages in this town by some distance. Its 2,092 housing units have a median build year of 1961, a 20.7 percent pre-1940 share, 26.8 percent built between 1940 and 1959 and 77.2 percent before 1980. Manlius village, minutes away under the same town government, is 10.5 percent prewar. So Fayetteville is roughly twice as prewar as its neighbor and it also carries a larger share of the steel lintel decades, which is an unusual combination in this metro and means both inspections earn their keep on the same street. The lintel half is the one that hides: the steel doing the damage is normally invisible, sitting inside the wall with brick bearing on it, so the diagnosis is made from outside signs. A rust stain bleeding down from the top corner of an opening, a course that is no longer level, or a step crack running diagonally up from a window corner rather than up from the foundation. The mortar half is decided before the first joint is cut, by which type is specified. And the Genesee Street Hill and Limestone Plaza Historic District carries 40 contributing buildings, so an ordinary house on the wrong side of a street here can be a contributing building, which changes both the standard the work is held to and whether the state's 20 percent homeowner credit is available. Check the address against the boundary as a first step, not an afterthought.
Masonry we take on across Fayetteville
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 Fayetteville →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 Fayetteville →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 Fayetteville →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 Fayetteville →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 Fayetteville →Have your Fayetteville wall read properly
Describe the brick, the joints or the chimney with an address, and we will tell you which of the two problems you are looking at.