Building date: 1836
Original use: Quaker meeting house
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Mortar application and content: Vertical, very heavy, bold
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Structure not visible from street level view. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°06'01.42"N 78°11'37.44"W based on satellite view. Current owner of record, Townsend as of date (YMD) 190322.
Town of Elba and Genesee County Maps.
The old Friends Meeting House at the corner of Quaker and Lockport Road - once known as Snoker Hill, has been used as a summer home for several years. Its entrances - one for women and one for men, as it was originally built in 1836, have been closed up with masonry. Only recently did it pass from the Staples family - descendants of one of the founding members, William Weeks. It is now owned by State Police Investigator Ronald A. Butterfield of Attica. Excerpt dated 23APR1966 from "Cobblestone Examples Noted in Genesee Recall Construction Over Century Ago
Religious organizations. - About 1820 there was a strong feeling in favor of a sect called "Friends" and those prevailed upon the Farmington quarterly meeting to a meeting for "preparation and worship" in the town of Elba. There were 48 members, heads of families, in this town, and more in adjoining towns. During January, 1821, the "Hartland monthly" was established, the members residing in Elba, Hartland, and Royalton. The visiting committee appointed by the quarterly meeting was: Elijah Pond, Ira Lapham, Jonathan Ramsdale, Joseph Jones, William Cromwell, and Abraham Gifford. The first house of worship was erected in 1820, of logs. The society prospered, obtained four acres of land of Joseph Ellicott, erected a substantial stone church, and numbered 138 members in 1838. The property of the organization is located about one mile north of Elba village and includes a cemetery. The society is still in a prosperous condition and has stated meetings. The present pastor is Charles W. Sweet. Transcribed excerpt from the "Gazetteer and Biographical Record of Genesee County, N.Y., 1788-1890", page 437, F.W. Beers. Vose & Co., Syracuse, N.Y.
"Permanent File of Cobblestone Structures", Quaker Meeting House Cobblestone Museum archive.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Quaker Meeting House
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¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
