Building date:
Original use: Schoolhouse
Corner structures: Red sandstone, variable
Mortar application and content: Vertical no embellishment
Types and uses of stones: Elongated horizontally stones. Thin long stones
Types and choice of windows: Wood lintels
Structures with similar masonry details: Ham-3 Williams-Bauer
Masons who worked on building:
Unique features: Elongated stones
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°19'16.50"N 77°57'53.50"W. Current owner of record, Moose as of the 2018 Tax Roll.
Town of Hamlin and Monroe 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 eighth paragraph on page 9.
"Cobblestone Architecture in the Rochester Area", by Gerda Peterich, 1953. Reference Morton Schoolhouse and figure 42. Editor's Note: This digitized version of the original typescript manuscript is reformatted for digital display, edited for errors, and includes blue tinted highlighted links to improve access within the document, to the appropriate structure pages in the Cobblestone Info Base, or to external resources on the internet. This document is one of two known typescript drafts, likely a thesis or essay bound as a book and apparently never published. One is available in the Cobblestone Museum Resource Center, the other in the University of Rochester Art and Music Library. A companion or precursor typed paper of the same title exists, perhaps used for a talk and/or photographic display of cobblestone structures.
Cobblestone Masonry in the Town of Hamlin, Hamlin School District # 12, compiled by Mary E. Smith.
Editor's Note: There is a contradiction between the school being in District # 8 stated by Carl Schmidt versus # 12 stated by Mary Smith.
- "Cobblestone Architecture of Upstate New York", by Gerda Peterich, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol 15, Issue 2 1956, Page 15. Referred to in article as "The cleavage of Medina sandstone leads to long, flat cobbles which in one case have been used in a ragstone technique (Morton School House)." By permission of the University of California Press, "The requested material is in the public domain and you are welcome to use it."
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, District School # 8
- Pages 49 - 50, Page 251, Page 315
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
4 Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
