Building date: 1837, demolished 1875
Original use: Schoolhouse
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Masons who worked on building: Wright Fields
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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 43°03'35.18"N 77°35'35.49"W. Location is known from 1852 map of Monroe County: NW corner of Lehigh Station and Pinnacle Roads.
Town of Henrietta and Monroe County Maps.
There was once a cobblestone school house known as District No. 2, on the northwest corner of Lehigh Station and Pinnacle Roads. It was built in 1837 by Wright Fields, near the present site of the Rush-Henrietta Central Junior High School, at a cost of between $250 and $300. The original District 2 school house was built in 1809 near Calkins Road and Pinnacle Road (then Wadsworth Road). It burned in 1814, replaced by a wooden frame structure; and in 1837 by the cobblestone building. In 1873 the trustees considered running three iron rods through the building to stabilize it, the rods to be made 3/4 inch thick with iron straps on the outside walls. But in 1875 it was demolished and replaced by a new wooden frame school house. Richard Palmer blog.
There was a cobblestone schoolhouse built in 1837 by Wright Fields near the site of the new Rush-Henrietta Central School Junior High. Cost - $250-$300. In 1873 they considered running three iron rods thru the schoolhouse to hold the walls together, said rods to be made 3/4 inch thick and to have iron straps on the outside of the walls. It was carried, but rescinded at a later meeting. In 1875 a new frame schoolhouse was built and the old schoolhouse torn down. Eleanor C. Kalsbeck, Town of Henrietta Historian letter dated 12/17/1961.
Editor's Note: The information provided in the 12/17/1961 letter is ambiguous as to the location of the schoolhouse. In the book "Henrietta Heritage" by Eleanor C. Kalsbeck, Henrietta Town Historian, 1977, pages 136 through 139, the cobblestone schoolhouse was in District No. 2. That information plus the 1852 Monroe County map shows the location of a school at the NW corner of Lehigh Station and Pinnacle Roads, suggesting that cobblestone school and the subsequent frame replacement in 1875 were on the same property, utilizing the cornerstones of the original cobblestone building. This property location is next to the Rush-Henrietta Central School District building, not near the current Roth Rush-Henrietta Central School Junior High. There is a frame building on the corner property, but has little resemblance to the original frame schoolhouse, either significantly modified or is not the same structure (opinion).
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¹ Excerpt of 1852 Monroe County Map courtesy Library of Congress.
