Building date:
Original use: Schoolhouse
Corner structures: Fairly regular limestone quoins at the corners, windows and doors
Mortar application and content: Stones in flat mortar matrix
Types and uses of stones: Water-rounded variety found in the fields and gravel pits. The number of rows of stones per quoin varies with the size of the stones, which are smaller in the front than in the back.
Types and choice of windows: Stone sills and lintels. Quoin stones of alternating lengths are built into the side jambs of the windows.
Structures with similar masonry details: Gui-1, Gui-2
Masons who worked on building: R. E. Zeh
Unique features:
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°40'32.24"N 73°56'39.87"W. Current owner of record, Burckhard as of the 2019 Tax Roll.
Town of Guilderland and Albany County 1978 Highway Maps
In Guilderland, on Ostrander Rd., west of Grant Hill Rd., a schoolhouse has fairly regular limestone quoins at the corners, windows and doors. Stones and mortar are like Gui-1 [Alb-1] and Gui-2 [Alb-2], and this schoolhouse was no doubt constructed by R. E. Zeh. The number of rows of stones per quoin varies with the size of the stones, which are smaller in the front than in the back. Roudabush Survey page 42
The original address information was Ostrander Rd., W of Grant Hill Rd., Guilderland which was vague and did not define the actual location which was not on Ostrander Road. Structure originally identified as Schoolhouse.
Used as a private dwelling since the centralization of District 10, Town of Guilderland, with the Voorheesville Central School District effective 7/11/1941. When old-time residents of Guilderland or New Scotland referred to "the cobblestone schoolhouse" this was the one they meant. Used as a private dwelling since the centralization of the district with the Voorhees Central School District, it lies just outside the southern boundaries of the extensive U.S. Army Reservation. Somewhat larger, its general construction follows that of the Guilderland Center school Gui-1 [Alb-1] Schoolhouse Dist #6. Historian Notes excerpt.
The former schoolhouse of District 10 at 1064 West Townline Road, Town of Guilderland. It is a near duplicate of the Guilderland Center schoolhouse. When old-time residents of Guilderland or New Scotland referred to "the cobblestone schoolhouse" this was the one they meant. It is now a private dwelling since the centralization of the district with the Voorhees Central School District. Somewhat larger than the one at Guilderland Center, its general design is the same. But no record of date or builder has been found. It is similar to District #6 schoolhouse, a rectangular plan with the entrance in the center of one end flanked by single windows. The cobblestones are the water-rounded variety found in the fields and gravel pits, laid three courses to a quoin height. Window openings have stone sills and lintels. Quoin stones of alternating lengths are built into the side jambs of the windows. Courtesy Richard Palmar.
"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, 1941. Reference the ninth paragraph on page 42.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, District #10 Schoolhouse
- Page 16
Guilderland-
 Dist 10 School 4.jpg ¹ 1961 |  GP Albany Guilderland Gui-3_1 N.jpg ² 1971 |  GP Albany Guilderland Gui-3_2 N.jpg² 1971 Front and side corner right |  GP Albany Guilderland Gui-3_3 N.jpg² 1971 |
 GP Albany Guilderland Gui-3_4 N.jpg² 1971 Rear wall left of center |  Gui_3_1.jpg |  Gui_3_2.jpg |  Gui_3_3.jpg |
 Gui_3_4.jpg |  Gui_3_5.jpg |  Dist 10 School Bennett 1.jpg ³ |  Dist 10 School Bennett 2.jpg ³ |
 Dist 10 School Bennett 3.jpg ³ |  Dist 10 School Guilderland.jpg 4 |  Gui-3 1 Stone Road 4.jpg 4 |  Dist 10 School detail.jpg 4 1993 |
 Gui-3 1 Stone Road 1.jpg 5 |  Gui-3 1 Stone Road 2.jpg 5 |  Gui-3 1 Stone Road 3.jpg 5 |  IMG_3781.jpg 6 |
 IMG_3782.jpg 6 |
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum, A. B. Gregg, Guilderland Town Historian, Altamont Enterprise, July 7, 1961
² Image courtesy Gerda Peterich.
³ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum, photograph donated by Mrs. William D. Bennett.
4 Photography courtesy Glenn Hinchey.
5 Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
6 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
