Building date: About 1830
Original use: Schoolhouse
Corner structures: Red sandstone
Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment. Vertical pyramids
Types and uses of stones:
Types and choice of windows: Lintels red stone solid
Structures with similar masonry details: LeR-1 Baron-Brown, Bar-1 Ernst, Gai-14 Stinson, Gai-25 School 5, She-3 Boyle
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°10'55.42"N 78°16'06.83"W. Current owner of record, Nesbitt as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Barre and Ontario County Maps
The Roudabush Survey states the street number as 4741 as of mid 1977. Since then the property has been appended to the adjoining property to the west with the street number 4764, and is not inhabited, currently without a postal address for the structure itself.
District School house No. 6 at 4757 Pine Hill Road, Barre, Orleans county, was built about 1830 of fieldstone cobbles and is remarkably well intact. Students attended classes in the winters. It was heated by a wood stove. It's one of the few such buildings with a cobblestone entry way. For years after it was closed it was cared for by Calvin Nesbitt who lived nearby and attended school there as a boy. Richard Palmer blog.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 13, by Delia Robinson, Edited by Evelyn Lyman and William Nestle. Jointly published by The Cobblestone Society and The Orleans County Historical Association, December 1996.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
Pine Hill District # 6 Schoolhouse, Tour of Cobblestone Homes 09/30/2017
Editor's Note: Street number stated as 4757.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Pinehill Schoolhouse District No. 6
- Page 118
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
