Greece School District No 9 Stone Schoolhouse History Notes

      Rochester was hardly more than a village in 1841 when the Rev. William Williams called a meeting in the stone schoolhouse in Greece [NY]. At the session the "Methodist Protestant Church of Greece" was organized. In 1866 the name was changed to the "Methodist Church." Services were held regularly, sometimes in the schoolhouse and sometimes in the Methodist Episcopal Church In North Greece.
      In 1867 the congregation, its number now increased, bought the old Christian Church at Greece Center. The substantial cobblestone structure had been built in 1844.
      As the community prospered and the congregation increased still further, the worshippers decided to construct a new edifice. The classlcally-simple white church on Maiden lane, within a atone's throw of Long Pond Road, is the result of their efforts. Excerpt from "A Century of Progress", by Mary Stewart, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 4/27/1941 Greece Methodist Celebration Booklet 1841-1977, pages 2 - 3

District No.9 Stone Schoolhouse Location: East side of Long Pond Road bordering Round Pond Creek between Mill Road and Maiden Lane. Two different schools stood on this site. The earlier schoolhouse was made of fieldstone (hence the name "Stone Schoolhouse") and stood just northwest of the wood-frame, two-room schoolhouse that stands today. The second school was built in 1914. Students were educated in that building for 30 years until it closed its doors around 1944. The structure has been a private residence since it was auctioned off by the Greece Central School District in 1949. Bill Sauers, Greece Historical Society and Museum, email 2/15/2021.

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Editor's Note: The Greece School District No. 9 is classified a stone structure. Due to the typically large, nonuniform size/shape, and the irregular placement of the stones, this structure is quite similar to, but not qualified as, a typical cobblestone structure c. 1820-1865 in North America. This does not detract from the architecture, construction and historical significance of the Greece School District No. 9 as a stone structure. It is included as a faux cobblestone structure in order to complete the historical record and timeline of the Greece Methodist Church. The stone structure was eventually demolished and replaced by a frame schoolhouse structure on the same location. Now the schoolhouse is a residence at 1048 Long Pond Road, Town of Greece, Monroe County.

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¹ Image courtesy Bill Sauers, Greece Historical Society and Museum.