Gui-4, Receiving Vault, Prospect Hill Cemetery, 2167 Western Ave. [Alb-4]

Documentation

Building date: 1863

Original use: Cemetery receiving vault

Corner structures: Smooth ashlar quoins and a stone lintel above the door

Mortar application and content:

Types and uses of stones: Coursed cobblestones

Types and choice of windows:

Structures with similar masonry details:

Masons who worked on building: J. Zeh

Unique features:

Map Location

Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°41'57.70"N 73°53'55.48"W. Current owner of record, Prospect Hill Cemetery Association as of the 2019 Tax Roll.

Town of Guilderland and Albany County 1978 Highway Maps

Comments, Additional Information, References

Prospect Hill Cemetery Building is a historic burial [receiving] vault located in Prospect Hill Cemetery at Guilderland in Albany County, New York. It was built in 1863 and is a small one story cobblestone building. It has a slate covered gable roof. It is built of coursed cobblestones with smooth ashlar quoins and a stone lintel above the door.

Receiving vault at Prospect Hill Cemetery at 236 Main St., Guilderland. It is only a few feet from U.S. Route 10, at the base of the cemetery. The marble table above the door bears the inscription: Prospect Hill Cemetery, Chartered 1854. Receiving Vault, 1863. It has a slate covered gabled roof. It is built of course stones with smooth quoins and a stone lintel above the door.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Courtesy Richard Palmar.

Structure not included in original Roudabush Survey; however, a handwritten notation appears in the Roudabush Survey Cobblestone Structures list for Albany County. The structure ID Gui-4 was assigned during the production of this info base and structure documentation was obtained from other resources.

Historian Notes Three Periods of Cobblestone Architecture in N.Y. State, and in Local Area, by A. B. Gregg, Guilderland Town Historian, Altamont Enterprise, July 7, 1961

National Register of Historic Places Registration This property is listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places. Asset Detail National Register of Historic Places effective 11/10/1982. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form provides detailed information about cobblestone structure. Prospect Hill Cemetery Building Wikipedia article.

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"Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Cemetery Receiving Vault

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Photographs

Prospect Hill Cemetery Receiving Vault.jpg ¹	GP Albany Guilderland Gui-4_1 N.jpg ² 1971	GP Albany Guilderland Gui-4_4 N.jpg ² 1971	GP Albany Guilderland Gui-4_5 N.jpg ² 1971
Gui-4 2167 Western Ave 1.jpg ³	Gui-4 2167 Western Ave 2.jpg ³	Gui-4 2167 Western Ave 3.jpg ³	Gui-4 2167 Western Ave 4.jpg ³
Courtesy Wikipedia 4 Nov. 2008	IMG_3786 3.jpg 5	IMG_3785 2.jpg 5

¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum, A. B. Gregg, Guilderland Town Historian, Altamont Enterprise, July 7, 1961
² Image courtesy Gerda Peterich.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
⁴ Photography courtesy Doug Kerr, provided by Wikipedia.
⁵ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.