Building date: 1826 - 1887
Original use: County Clerk Office
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Town of Geneseo and Livingston County Highway 1976 Maps
From the best available records it appears that in 1826 a one story cobblestone clerk's office was erected on the court house grounds a few rods east of the court house. As originally built the floor was of brick; in the course of years these had become worn and the floor very uneven, and it was taken up and a wooden floor substituted. At the same time a heavy partition wall, also built of cobblestones with a fireplace on each side of it with a chimney running through the roof, was removed and replaced with a stove. The removal of the partition caused the walls to crack and rendered necessary iron rods, which were passed through the building. This building was torn down in March, 1887, when the new clerk's office was constructed.
History of Livingston County, New York, from its earliest traditions to the present, Lockwood R. Doty (1885-1937), c. 1905, page 340.
Re: County clerk's office is a 1-story cobblestone building, standing directly east of and adjacent to the court house. History of Livingston County, New York, James H. Smith, Assisted by Hume H. Cale, lD. Mason & Co. Syracuse, N. Y., p128.
 1852 Livingston County Gen-9 Excerpt Map.jpg ¹ |  Geneseo Clerks Office 1852.jpg c. 1852, one story building on right. ¹ |  Livingston Cty Bldgs Geneseo NY.jpg c. 1881 One story building on right. ² |
¹ 1852 Livingston County Map Gen-9 County Clerk Office excerpt courtesy Library of Congress.
² 1881 History of Livingston County Published by D. Mason & Co. Syracuse N. Y., courtesy Library of Congress.
