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Original use: Schoolhouse
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Mortar application and content: Vertical, slight embellishment
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Types and choice of windows: Lintels brick, width vertical
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°17'07.44"N 78°12'59.03"W. Current owner of record, Ross as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Gaines and Orleans County Maps
"The Cobblestone Houses of Upstate New York", compiled by Dorothy Wells Pease. Research done in collaboration with Hazed B. Jeffery, supplemented with material furnished by Carl F. Schmidt. Reference the sixth paragraph on page 6.
"The Cobblestoner Newsletter", Winter 2024 Vol. 47 No. 1, page 9
"Glances at Cobblestone Education", by Virginia Lattin Morrison, page 9, "A Heritage of Cobblestone", a product of the Cobblestone Society, printed and published as a supplement to "The Orleans Republican American" circa 1966.
"Out of the Past", by Cary H. Lattin, [Former] Orleans County Historian, Albion Advertiser, Albion, N.Y. 8/30/1972.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, pages 44 and 45, by Delia Robinson, Edited by Evelyn Lyman and William Nestle. Jointly published by The Cobblestone Society and The Orleans County Historical Association, December 1996.
Cobblestone and Folklore", by Doreen Scanlan, a paper for class, Folklore 460, 12/11/1975.
"Historic Town of Gaines Early School Houses, Historic Childs: Early Education Vol. 2 No. 26, pages 7 and 8, by Doug Farley, Cobblestone Museum Director.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
1st Cobblestone Tour 06/10/1961, School at Gaines
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Cobblestone Schoolhouse
- Page 130
 1860 Niagara Orleans Counties Gai-17 Excerpt Map.jpg ¹ |  Gai-17 School 4 8.jpg ² |  Gai-17 School 4 7.jpg ² Photo postcard. |  Gai-17 School 4 4.jpg ² Van Houten Collection 7/10/1942 |
 Gai-17 School 4 3.jpg ² Deteriorated Polaroid print. |  Gai-17 School 4 6.jpg ² c. 1959 |  Gai-17 School 4 2.jpg ² August 1963 |  Gai-17 School 4 1.jpg ² August 1963 |
 Gai_17_1.jpg |  Gai_17_2.jpg |  Gai_17_3.jpg |  Gai-17 School 4 5.jpg ² |
 Gai-17 2728 Gaines-Waterport Rd 1.jpg ³ |  Gai-17 2728 Gaines-Waterport Rd 2.jpg ³ |  Gaines_2728 Gaines_Waterport Road, District 4 school.jpg 4 |
¹ 1860 Niagara Orleans Counties Map excerpt courtesy Library of Congress.
² Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
