Building date: Abandoned (Circa 1977-1978)
Original use: Schoolhouse
Corner structures: Red sandstone
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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°16'36.70"N 78°14'31.82"W. Current owner of record, Bixler as of the 2018 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 tenth paragraph on page 6.
"Cobblestone Buildings of Orleans County, N. Y.", A Local History, page 47, 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 school house at 13592 Ridge Road, Town of Gaines (south side of Route 104) a couple of miles west of Childs owned by local developer Bill Bixler is being restored by mason Paul Briggs of Ithaca. Courtesy Richard Palmer 28APR2018.
"Historic Town of Gaines Early School Houses, Historic Childs: Early Education Vol. 2 No. 26, pages 3 and 4, by Doug Farley, Cobblestone Museum Director.
The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:
1st Cobblestone Tour 06/10/1961, Schoolhouse
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Schoolhouse
- Page 130
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
